Subject: LUSA: Indon reinforces police presence in
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:28:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>13 OUT 98 - 11:31 East
Timor/Australia: Indonesia reinforces police presence in occupied territory
Sydney, Oct. 13 (Lusa) - The Indonesian authorities announced on Monday the detachment
of four mobile police brigades (BRIMOV) in the occupied territory of East Timor, according
to Indonesia's national news agency, Antara.
According to a news dispatch received in Sydney on Monday, the four police brigades
will remain in East Timor for at least one year. The police commander of Bali, Major Y.
Suyatmo, was quoted as saying by Antara that the four brigades had reached East Timor by
sea.
Estanislau da Siva, a member of the central committee of FRETILIN, told LUSA in Sydney
on Monday the detachment was meant ''intimidate'' the population of East Timor and the
Timorese resistance movement. The brigades reportedly arrived in East Timor over the
weekend.-Lusa nnnn
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(Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1996).
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