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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Timorese resistance fights on
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- /** reg.easttimor: 336.0 **/
- ** Topic: Timorese Resistance Fights On **
- ** Written 11:09 pm Dec 16, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- Subject: Timorese Resistance Fights On
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- /* Written 2:46 pm Dec 15, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
- /* ---------- "Timorese Resistance Fights On" ---------- */
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- According to a December 15 Reuter story datelined Sydney, Timorese
- guerrillas said on Tuesday they had ambushed an Indonesian patrol in
- East Timor, killing at least 30 soldiers, in the first attack since the
- capture of rebel leader Xanana Gusmao.
- Guerrillas made a surprise attack on two truck-borne reconnaissance
- patrols last week near Maubisse in the Same region of the
- Indonesian-ruled territory, guerrilla spokesman Jose Ramos Horta told
- Reuters on Tuesday.
- The two Hino military trucks were destroyed and all the Indonesian
- soldiers aboard were killed, he said, adding that there were no rebel
- casualties.
- Rebel organiser Alfredo Ferreira in Darwin confirmed the attack, the
- first major clash reported since November 20 when Indonesian troops took
- separatist Timorese guerrilla leader Gusmao prisoner.
- Rebels say Gusmao was tortured into saying what he does not believe
- and have challenged Jakarta to release him so he can speak his mind.
- "If he is now a supporter of Indonesia's views then let them bring
- Xanana to (the United Nations in) New York," Ramos Horta said.
- "There in neutral terrain let him speak," Horta said before leaving
- for New York to attend talks on December 17 between Indonesia and
- Portugal over the former Portuguese territory.
- The United Nations does not recognise the annexation and still
- considers Portugal the administrative power.
- An Indonesian army massacre of Timorese civilians in November 1991,
- captured on film by visiting Western journalists, bought the
- long-festering issue to a head and helped trigger this week's talks, to
- be chaired by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
- Indonesia has said the guerrilla movement Falantil (Armed Forces for
- the Liberation of East Timor), which includes members of Fretilin, had
- become a spent force since Gusmao's capture, and that 1,000 rebels had
- surrendered to Indonesian authorities.
- Rebel sources say many of those who surrendered were in fact
- ordinary villagers who had not been involved in the conflict.
- They said clashes between the lightly-armed guerrillas and
- Indonesian forces were continuing under Gusmao's replacement Antonio
- Gomes da Costa, known by his nom de guerre Ma'Huno.
- About 15,000 Timorese have lived in exile since the Indonesian
- invasion, mostly in Portugal or Australia, where Ramos Horta is based.
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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