Precedence: bulk VOLUNTEER US DOCTOR ORDERED OUT OF EAST TIMOR DILI, East Timor, May 15 (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor working as a volunteer at a Catholic clinic in East Timor was ordered out of the troubled territory on Saturday because he was working on a tourist visa, immigration officials said. Doctor Dan Murphy was put aboard a Jakarta-bound commercial flight a day after pro-Jakarta groups issued a statement urging Indonesian authorities to deport him. Loyalist groups accuse Murphy of supporting the independence cause. Murphy has worked at Dili's Motael clinic for six months. Many victims of the recent campaign of terror waged by the loyalist militias have sought treatment at the clinic, which is the only real alternative to the Indonesian-run military hospital in Dili. Other foreigners, including an Australian doctor, also help at the clinic. Murphy would not comment as he arrived at Dili's Komoro airport, except to say he planned to renew his visa. It was not immediately clear if Murphy would have to leave Indonesia. Pro-Jakarta militias have killed dozens of civilians in a rising campaign of violence and intimidation since Jakarta said it would let East Timorese choose between independence and autonomy within Indonesia in a U.N.-run vote on August 8. Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese territory in 1975 and annexed it the following year. But its rule of the eastern half of Timor island has never been recognised by the United Nations or most of the international community. ---------- SiaR WEBSITE: http://apchr.murdoch.edu.au/minihub/siarlist/maillist.html
