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| Pro-Jakarta militias 'trying to undermine Timor Leste' |
| 2003-02-23 |
| Anti-independence militia have launched a 'terrorist strategy' to undermine Timor Leste's government before the planned United Nations withdrawal from the country next year, a top UN peacekeeper says. Brigadier-General Justin Kelly, deputy commander of the UN peacekeeping force in the world's newest nation, said the killing of five former pro-independence campaigners in a mountain region last month pointed to a new militia threat from Indonesian West Timor. Those bastards just don't give up, do they? He said a group of men recently arrested in the town of Liquica claimed that they and a group which carried out those killings were sent into Timor Leste in December from West Timor, along with five other groups. They named their sponsor as Master Sergeant Tome Diogo, a Timor Leste national working for the Indonesian military in the border town of Atambua. The men said they were among some 300 trained for a guerilla campaign against former pro-independence activists and Suco chiefs, the influential local chieftains. I won't be at all surprised when it comes out that these beauzeaux have Pak military advisors... Pro-Jakarta militias organised by elements of the Indonesian army organised a brutal intimidation campaign before Timor Leste's August 1999 vote to break away from Jakarta, and a revenge campaign afterwards. Gotta have that Dire Revenge™... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Muslims believe that any land taken in jihad, is god-given (inshallah). That is why al-Qaeda has been making claims on "andalusia" (Spain). |
| Posted by: Anon 2003-02-23 12:48:57 |