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...people of East Timor have suffered horribly at the hands of the Indonesian military, a panel of activists said at Pound Hall last night...
Maria Teresa Fernades, an East Timorese woman living in Australia, showed photos of her aunts and cousins who were killed by soldiers of the Indonesian Army. They projected maps of the Island of Timor, followed by a brief history of the conflict...
East Timor declared its Independence from Portugal in 1975 and was invaded by Indonesia less than a month later. Since then, the activists and more than 200,000 East Timorese have been killed either by the Indonesian Army or by the resulting starvation...
...million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
Once again, Khmer Rouge forces seized and held United Nations peacekeeping troops. Initially 21, mostly Indonesian paratroopers, were held for two days in a hamlet 100 miles north of Phnom Penh by about 70 heavily armed guerrillas, who refuse to cooperate with the U.N. peace plan; 46 U.N. troops negotiating to free them were also briefly detained before all were released. In a separate incident, the Khmer Rouge were holding nine others from the U.N. under a threat of death at week's end. The episodes cast doubts on both the U.N.'s credibility and Cambodia's plans for elections...