Subject: LUSA: Up to 1,000 refugees in Dili facing
food shortages
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:30:35 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>07 JAN 99 - 07:45 East Timor:
Up to 1,000 refugees in Dili facing food shortages
Sydney, Jan 7 (Lusa) - Up to 1,000 East Timorese have fled to the occupied territory's
capital, Dili, in the wake of increased activities by the Indonesian military in other
parts of the half-island. East Timorese sources told Lusa in Sydney by telephone from Dili
on Wednesday that most of the refugees were from the areas of Maubara, Maliana, Viqueque,
Alas, Same and Ainaro. Another source told Lusa that about 600 people had sought shelter
in a church in Viqueque because of Indonesian military activities in the region. A source
of the Timorese National Resistance Council (CNRT) told Lusa that the area of Ainaro
continued to be "completedly closed" by the Indonesian occupation forces. Manuel
Carrascalao, leader of the East Timor People's Movement for Unity and Reconciliation, told
Lusa that the refugees in Dili were facing severe food shortages. Carrascalao said that
over 100 people had sought shelter at his house in Dili. Other sources said that
pro-Indonesian militias were spreading terror among the civilian population in East
Timor's countryside.
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