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Timor link, no. 11, November 1987 This is the Published version of the following publication UNSPECIFIED (1987) Timor link, no. 11, November 1987. Timor link (11). pp. 1-8. The publisher’s official version can be found at Note that access to this version may require subscription. Downloaded from VU Research Repository https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25950/ November 1987 LINK ISSN 1010 1888 CONTENTS ./)ATAURO News from Inside by John f:astTunor (}MalJl'ftei.a WETAR STRAIT Taylor: New Appeal from Xanana New Maps from the War Human Rights Update Views from Lisbon: Portugal's Position by Jean-Pierre Catry The Cavaco Silva Government by Jill Jolliffe Review: The Uniting Church in Australia .report by Robert Archer , NEWS FROM INSIDE A substantial amount of information members of Batallion 745 for having 1981. They show how the area under has been received from East Timor in gone to his vegetable garden during a cultivation has fallen in the war zones the last few weeks. Much of it comes period of curfew. This took place on and how the population has been from Fretilin sources. Information has 5 .1. 87., at a place called Pupuhu.' concentrated around the strategic also been received from contacts in These examples are taken from a villages. Indonesian-held areas, especially Fretilin document produced in Timor Fretilin has also dispatched detailed student groups, and from refugees on June 20 1987. It is just one of many accounts of engagements with recently arrived in Lisbon. This which have recently arrived from the Indonesian troops in the last twelve month's commentary draws upon this territory. months. If confirmed, these would new material. show that Fretilin controls Military Documents considerable areas of territory in the Human Rights Among the most interesting documents central-eastern and eastern regions, Fretilin sources describe many cases of received recently are maps captured and that many of the Indonesian posts human rights abuses. Most appear to from Indonesian troops. These provide in all areas except the north-west and have occurred in the areas of Ainaro detailed analyses of the terrain and an border regions are subject to regular and Lospalos, where Fretilin clashed account of Fretilin positions. Fretilin attacks. frequently last year with Indonesian commanders have superimposed their It seems that the Indonesian military forces. The majority of those who own movements on these maps, and embarked on a new military campaign suffered appear to have been punished dispatched them to Lisbon. Like the at the end of June. Its primary aim was for travelling beyond the immediate maps and military manuals captured to locate and capture Fretilin President confines of their strategic villages. This and sent out some two years ago, they Xanana Gusmao. At the beginning of would indicate that local Indonesian provide us with invaluable information July, troop reinforcements were landed commanders remain anxious about on the course of the war. at Baucau. This coincided with the security. One case, for example, The new maps cover the regions of arrival of the new military commander concerned 'Vai Leve, 40 years old, Barike, Kiras, Vikeke and Ossu, and in East Timor, Colonel Soenato. The from Lospalos, who was killed by being are on a scale of 1150,000. They show centre of the new operation appears to beaten for ten hours by elements of the sites of resettlement villages. In this be the Lospalos area. Batallion 745 at a place called Mai Vari respect they are particularly for having been in his vegetable garden informative, because they reveal the Klalerek·Mutin without a surat jalan' (travel pass). extent to which local people have been Several of the documents describe Elsewhere the report cites the case of uprooted in areas that were subjected conditions in resettlement villages 'Florinda, 30 years old from Lospalos, to intense aerial bombardment in during the period from 1978 to the who was killed from blows given by 1978/79 and encirclement campaigns in present. Of particular interest is the 1 description of Klalrerek-Mutin, a School Protest village established following the On July 13, school pupils in Dili held a New Appeal infamous Kraras massacre in 1983, protest outside the governor's office when Indonesian troops shot many and that of the Indonesian government villagers after an alleged Fretilin party, Golkar. They were complaining from Xanana ambush in the area. of discrimination in favour of The document claims that 1,593 Indonesian students, and of high levels The latest documents arriving from people lived in Kraras/Klalrerek-Mutin of unemployment in post-school years. East Timor, reports Jill Jolliffe, contain in 1983, and that today there are just The demonstration was not reported in an appeal to the UN Secretary 570, amongst whom are 276 orphans. the Indonesian press, but was relayed General, Mr Perez de Cuellar, from Most of the original population were by UPI in Jakarta to Australia. Shortly Xanana Gusmao, Fretilin's military killed, according to the report, in the after this protest a fire devastated a Commander, on behalf of the wake of the alleged am bush by Fretilin , substantial section of the market in Conselho Revolucionario da but many reportedly also died of Dili. It particularly effected traders Resistencia N acional ( CRRN, starvation in the following two years. from Java and Sulawesi who have Fretilin 's ruling body). Today the village is surrounded by gradually taken over the 'middleman' The appeal reached Lisbon in two security fences. The first of these is role previously performed by Chinese September. Xanana requests the UN set two hundred metres from the village in the years before the Indonesian Secretary General to secure safe centre and controlled by 12 guard occupation. conduct passes for the Fretilin posts. The second ring contains ten 1 leadership so that they can travel to guard posts, set three hundred metres Carrascalao New York, if a UN mission to East apart. All Timorese men in the village On September 30, Mario Carrascalao Timor cannot be arranged. After talks, have to perform guard duty at night, was appointed to a second term as the delegation would return to East together with Indonesian soldiers. A governor of East Timor by both the Timor. platoon of troops is also installed in the Indonesian government and the The text of Xanana's appeal is as camp. If a Timorese fails to report parliament of East Timor. At his follows. After praising the improved contacts with Fretilin or attacks by swearing-in ceremony in Dili, stand of the Portuguese government, Fretilin troops, he or she is reportedly Carrascalao was praised by Indonesian Xanana says that the UN stand is executed. Home Affairs Minister Supardjo worrying: The same document provides details Rustam for his efforts to promote about the economic regime within the development, which - Supardjo Xanana's Appeal village. The whole population is added were 'internationally "In the name of the martyrised people involved in 'forced labour': both men recognised' (UCA News). Carrascalao, of East Timor, I appeal to your and women of all ages are mobilised who is reported to be popular, has been Excellency the UN Secretary daily to work on the rice-fields, most of governor since 1982. His new term will General . to revise the present stand which are owned by Indonesians or expire in 1992.• of the UN, recognising that the people local officials. The technique used is of East Timor are included in the spirit extremely primitive: fields are and letter of UN Resolution 17 /30 ... trampled by human labour rather than Human I appeal to Your Excellency and by buffaloes, as used to be the case. formulate anew . our invitation to The village population is also Rights come to Timor so that, at any place, reportedly forced to build houses for and with the representatives of the military, stand watch over rice Portugal and Indonesia, a meeting can fields, fetch water and wood and wash Update be held with the CRRN. If this is not the clothes of officials and care for their In October Amnesty International possible, I solicit Your Excellency to buffaloes. Fish caught in local streams issued a list of 24 political prisoners, use your good offices to guarantee the are donated free to the military. The released under Indonesian remission exit and return, in security, of a document emphasises that such forced procedures in August of this year. AI delegation of the CRRN for that labour means that people have little believes that all were convicted, in Dili purpose ... ' time to work their gardens and District Court, of conspiracy to commit No response from the United cultivate food for themselves: the rebellion 'after trials which Amnesty Nations Secretariat had been made document estimates that no more than International believes may not have public when this issue went to press.• two or three days per week remain met international standards for available to the people. fairness'. Most had served almost all their sentence. Transmigrants According to AI, the releases mean It seems that large numbers of that 136 people continued to be transmigrants are entering East Timor political detainees in Dili - of whom illegally from areas of Indonesia such as 63 were held in Becora prison, Atambua and Kupang in Indonesian including 11 women, and 73 in the Timor, Flores, Macassar, Ambon, Comarca prison. 62 detainees from the Bali , and even Jakarta. A document military or Hansip were also being held from Dili claims that there are in the Comarca, according to AI. currently over 20,000 illegal We understand that on October 5, 20 transmigrants in East Timor - as more prisoners were released. opposed to the two thousand or so who Further details, of those detained have entered under formal and those recently released, may be transmigration programmes.