Wednesday, September 8. 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
World
East Timorese flee homeland in fear
The Associated Press
DILI, Indonesia — Driven by fear, killings and army gunfire, East Timorese jammed onto ships and into trucks yesterday as their homeland sank further into chaos behind them. With an estimated 30,000 people having fled the provincial capital in the past few days, the streets of the city were empty save for looters and smoldering fires.
The international lens focused more closely on the war-ravaged territory yesterday, with officials from the World Bank, White House and Vatican urging a halt to the shooting rampages and terror that erupted last week when East Timorese voted to break away from Indonesia.
While leaders from East Timor, Australia, New Zealand and other nations pushed harder for an international peacekeeping force to intervene, the U.N. Security Council said yesterday such talk was premature. Council members said first they wanted to hear back from five U.N. ambassadors sent to Indonesia to persuade President B.J. Habibie to rein in his military
— said by witnesses to be orchestrating the carnage along with anti-independence militias.
The group, led by Namibia's U.N.
"They're going to make their own assessment of the extent to which the Indonesians are willing and capable of living up to their... security commitments," said Canada's U.N. Ambassador Robert Fowler.
"People are being killed en masse," she said. "The U.S. can stop this in a minute if they applied serious pressure on Indonesia. Every hour they wait is more people killed."
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One election observer said she overheard Indonesia military officials on the radio as they ordered militias to set up roadblocks and pull U.N. observers out of their vehicles and execute them. Kristin Sundell of the East Timor Action Network said it was imperative that the United Nations send troops to East Timor.
The increasingly powerless Indonesian government imposed martial law, which includes the authority to search without warrants, a curfew to keep people off the streets and the shooting on sight of people who go against the curfew, said Foreign Minister Ali Alatas. The restrictions went into effect Tuesday.
Ambassador Martin Andjaba, was slated to arrive this morning.
Indonesia's Defense Minister
Gen. Wiranto rejected the possibility of allowing armed peacekeepers into East Timor.
In Geneva, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson urged the commission to consider holding a special session on East Timor. The commission has held three such sessions in the past, on the former Yugoslavia in 1992 and 1993 and on Rwanda in 1994.
Witnesses said the military was working in full cooperation with the militias, overseeing attacks and forcing thousands of people to march toward Dill's port and board boats bound for elsewhere in Indonesia. However, a spokesman for Indonesia's U.N. Mission in New York painted another picture.
"The fact is that many people would like to leave East Timor because of the situation and (the soldiers are) helping them," Tatang Razak said. "Now what is happening in East Timor is exodus. So I don't think the Indonesian military is forcing people to go out."
That wasn't the description from inside the U.N. compound, where more than 2,300 refugees and local workers were holed up without electricity or phones as gunshots crackled outside. People inside described being shot at by soldiers and police.
"There were thousands of people at the dock and more arriving in columns on foot with Indonesian soldiers forcing them at gunpoint and firing above their heads," said an East Timorese man, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The United Nations estimates that 150,000 to 200,000 people have become refugees in East Timor in the days since the election.
the day's since the establishment East Timor's spiritual leader, Bishop Carlos Belo, fled after militias aided by troops attacked his refugee-filled compound and burned his home in Dili on Monday.
Speaking in Darwin, Australia, Belo said his people were unable to fight the waves of violence. He said the international community should have acted immediately to protect the people and that the East Timorese felt that they were no longer safe.
Many of Indonesia's top generals are loathe to give up East Timor, whose people voted last week in a U.N. supervised referendum to separate from Indonesia. The Indonesian army invaded East Timor in 1975 as it was gaining independence from Portugal. Many generals fear other restive provinces may be encouraged to break away if East Timor goes free.
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