| Subject: Lusa: Refugees Returning Home on
Their Own - UNHCR Official
East Timor: Refugees Returning Home on Their Own - UNHCR Official 31
Oct-19:05
A 121-strong group of East Timorese refugees returned home to the Oe
Cusse enclave Monday without outside help in the biggest unaided
repatriation since July, an UN official said Tuesday in Geneva.
Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees,
said returnees reported that anti-East Timor militias continued in control
of some refugee camps in West Timor, threatening people who wanted to go
home.
"Some refugees spoke of paying local officials in order to leave
the camps. Others paid drivers or other refugees to help transport their
belongings," Janowski said.
About 1,000 refugees, he added, had made their way home from Indonesian
West Timor on their own since Sept. 6, when the UNHCR suspended its
operations due to the killing of three of its workers by militias in the
West Timor town of Atambua.
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