By Stephen to New York to seek an audience with the cardinal and to appeal for increased attention and humanitarian aid from tr of the November 1991 demonstration at a cemetery in Dili, in which 271 Timorese were killed when Indonesian soldiers opened fire on the unarmed crowd. The massacre thrust East Timor back into the international spotlight.
After 23 years of a military campaign against the East Timorese guerrilla separatist movement, Indonesia agreed in May to hnce will continue until more U.N. security units are brought in.