Subject: Militias kill Xanana Gusmao's father
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:19:43 EDT
From: Joyo@aol.comMilitias kill E.Timor leader's father-agency
LISBON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The father of Xanana Gusmao, leader of the East Timor
independence movement, has been killed by pro-Jakarta militiamen, the Portuguese news
agency Lusa reported on Thursday.
But the charismatic resistance chief, who was released on Tuesday after six years in
Indonesian jails, has still not been told, Lusa said, quoting a resistance source.
In a report from Jakarta, the agency said that Manuel Gusmao, 82, was killed on
Wednesday in Dili where militias have run amok since the territory voted overwhelmingly
for independence in a United Nations-organised ballot last week.
``The father of Xanana Gusmao was found dead,'' the source was quoted as saying.
Lusa said that the U.N. mission in Dili, which is besieged by the militias, had been
seeking word of the whereabouts of the former teacher after he went missing six days ago.
Hundreds of people have died in violence since the U.N. announced last Saturday that
the territory had voted to break away from Indonesia after 23 years of often brutal rule.
Tens of thousands of others have sought refuge in the mountains of the former
Portuguese territory, annexed by Indonesia in 1976 in a move never recognised by the
international community.
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