Current Class UNCLASSIFIE CONFIDENTIAL Page Current Handling n a Document Number 1 Channel n a 1999JAKART02529 RELEASED IN PART B6 B I 1 4 B 1 4 D P'TQ502 CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO LOG-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 FBIE-00 L-01 NSAE-00 PM-00 STR-00 PRM-01 JAKART 02529 01 OF 04 240423Z ACQ-01 A-00 AMAD-01 AID-00 CTME-00 COME-00 SMEC-00 CIAE-00 EB-00 DS-00 SRPP-00 WHA-01 INSE-00 INR-00 TEDE-00 H-01 AC-01 M-00 MMP-00 ADS-00 OMB-01 OIC-02 OCS-03 NSCE-00 SCT-00 P-00 ACE-00 PRS-00 ASDS-01 USSS-00 USIE-00 TRSE-00 SAS-00 NFAT-00 G-00 DRL-02 240423 ------------------CC111A CA-02 DODE-00 EUR-01 IO-00 NRCE-00 OPIC-01 SP-00 PMB-00 022W 38 CCO-00 DOEE-00 FAAE-00 LAB-01 NRRC-00 PA-00 SSO-00 DSCC-00 O 240422Z MAY 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA 7906 TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE INFO AMEMBASSY LISBON USMISSION USUN NEW YORK AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY ROME AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM ASEAN COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY BONN USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI USMISSION GENEVA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY LONDON 1 CONFIDENTIAL 2404232 01 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 02 JAKARTA 002529 04 01 OF C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION ROME FOR THE VATICAN USCINCPAC FOR FPA TWINING DECL 05 23 06 E O 12958 ID PHUM MOPS PREF PTER PGOV PREL TAGS CLEANING POLITICAL FOR USED TERROR MILITIA SUBJECT I MCWILLIAMS REASON 1 5 U CLASSIFIED BY POLCOUNS ED 1 Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY CHARLES E LAHIGUERA CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL REASON 1 4 D DECLASSIFY AFTER 23 MAY 2024 DATE CASE ID 15 JUL 2004 200300722 Page UNCLAS SIFIE 1 Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNCLAS SIFIEP Page 2 Current Handling n a Channel n a 1999JAKART02529 Document Number D REVEALED MAY 21 TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF DILI 2 C SUMMARY MILITARYDISPLACED BY LARGE NUMBERS OF EAST TIMORESE TO THE WEST OF THE CIVILIANS ON BACKED MILITIAS' ATTACKS HAVE'DESCRIBED THE THE ICRC AND OTHER OBSERVERS CAPITAL THAT TARGETS PRO-i PROCESS AS POLITICAL CLEANSING OF THE AUGUST 8 ADVANCE INDEPENDENCE POPULATIONS IN MANY ARE WHILE AUTONOMY-OR-INDEPENDENCE BALLOT MANY MORE DISPLACED NOT SHELTERING WITH THOSE WHO WERE MILITARY-CONTROLLED AND MILITIA ARE REPORTEDLY LIVING IN TO BE UNHEALTHFUL AND SAID CONDITIONS CAMPS UNDER AND NGO ACCESS TO THOSE IN ABUSIVE INTERNATIONAL AGENCY BY HOSTILE MILITIA AND OUTSIDE CAMPS IS BLOCKED MEANWHILE MILITIA ATTACKS CHECKPOINTS AND ROAD BLOCKS MORE DISPLACED PERSONS ' ARE CONTINUING GENERATING NEEDS OF THESE DISPLACED MEETING URGENT HUMANITARIAN RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE INITHE PERSONS AND ASSURING THEIR BALLOT WILL BE A MAJOR AUGUST 8 AUTONOMY-OR-INDEPENDENCE AID AGENCIES AND CHALLENGE FOR THE UN INTERNATIONAL NUMBERS OF DISPLACED IN DILI NGOS THERE ARE SMALLER CONFIDENTIAL I 1 2404232 01 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 03 UNKNOWN NUMBER IN OTHER ITSELF IN WEST TIMOR AND AN THE REACH OF AID AGENCIES AND AREAS WHICH REMAIN BEYOND THIS MAY 21 SURVEY END SUMMARY 1 TO EAST TIMOR POLCOUNS U DURING MAY 20-22 VISIT 3 DILI TO LIQUISA AND TRAVELED EAST FROM THE CAPITAL TO DARE SOUTH AND MAUBARRA WEST TO HERA 1 DISPLACED IN DILI ----------------MILITARY-BACKED MILITIA SBU FOR SEVERAL MONTHS 4 I WHO SUPPORT AN HAVE BEEN FORCING EAST TIMORESE SUSPECTED OF DOING SO FROM INDEPENDENT EAST TIMOR OR ARE OF THE PROIN DILI MANY SENIOR MEMBERS THEIR HOMES 1 SAFER TO OR ABROAD INDEPENDENCE CNRT HAVE FLED THE AT HOLED-UP ARE 68 A GROUP OF INDONESIAN SITES EMBOFF IN CAMORO WEST OF DILI COMPLEX COMMAND POLICE THEIR DISCUSSED AND AND 21 VISITED THAT GROUP ON MAY 20 D WITH THE EAST PLIGHT WITH SILAEN C TOLD TIMORESE POLICE COMMANDER COL FOOD BUT WAS STILL EMBOFF THAT THE GROUP HAD SUFFICIENT IN DILI RECEIVING THREATS FROM MILITIAS B E Page Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 2 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL Current Class Page Current Handling n a Document Number 3 Channel n a 1999JAKART02529 RIGHTS ACTIVISTIANCETO SBU HE COMPLAINED THAT HUMAN YAYASAN HAK HAD BEEN GUTERRES FROM THE RESPECTED NGO HIM EVEN WHEN HE APPEALED DENIED PERMISSION TO MEET WITH LSO COMPLAINED THAT SOME AS OUT OF THE GROUP AT ME n -- - ---- - - - ALLY PULLED HE NOTED THAT THEJGROUP NIGHT FOR POLICE INTERROGATION HEADQUARTERS TO ESCAPE THE APRIL HAD FLED TO THE POLICE CONFIDENTIAL 5 i 2404232 01 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 04 HAD THAN 12 OF THEIR ASSOCIATES 17 VIOLENCE IN WHICH MORE BE INTERROGATIONS HE SAID SHOULD BEEN KILLED WHO HAD BEEN THE ATTACKERS CONDUCTED AMONG THE MILITIAS NOT THEIR VICTIMS 1 SEVERAL NGOS EMBOFF RAISED 6 SBU AT THE REQUEST OF POLICE COMMANDER UNOFFICIALLY IN A DISCUSSION WITH PROVIDE ESCORT FOR TO POSSIBLE SILAEN WHETHER IT WOULD BE CLAIM E D1 THEY 0 THE HARBOR WHERE NGOS HAVE REPORTEDLY I FLORES ISLAND COULD ARRANGE TRANSPORT TO THERE FOR THE DOMICILE TEMPORARY THE NGOS HAVE ARRANGED ON AUTONOMY-ORGROUP UNTIL THE AUGUST S VOTE WAS AN EMBOFF EMPHASIZED TO SILAEN THIS INDEPENDENCE RAISED FOR DISCUSSION AND NOT A NGO PROPOSAL THAT HE HAD USG INITIATIVE MOVE WAS UNNECESSARY SBU SILAEN SAID THAT SUCH A 7 FOR THE GROUP TO RETURN TO AND THAT IN FACT IT WAS TIME GUARANTEE THEIR SAFETY THEIR HOMES IN DILI -- HE WOULD DURING MILITIA INACTION RECALLING POLICE AND MILITARY DILI JUSTI ONE IN CIVILIANS ATTACKS ON PRO-INDEPENDENCE ND NEUTRAL THAT MONTH EARLIER EMBOFF SUGGESTED THAN LESS GUARANTEES OBSERVERS MIGHT FIND THESE SAID THAT IN ANY EVENT THE SILAEN ASSURING COMPLETELY UNIT RESOURCES AND ITHAT GROUP'S PRESENCE WAS DRAWING ON HE OFFERED NO SPECIFIC THEY COULD NOT STAY FOREVER CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO LOG-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 FBIE-00 Current Class JAKART AID-00 CIAE-00 WHA-01 H-01 02529 02 OF 04 AMAD-01 SMEC-00 SRPP-00 TEDE-00 A-00 COME-00 DS-00 INR-00 PTQ503 240423Z ACQ-01 CTME-00 EB-00 INSE-00 CA-02 DODE-00 EUR-01 IO-00 CCO-00 DOEE-00 FAAE-00 LAB-01 Page CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 3 UNCLASSIFIED Page Current Class CONFIDENTIA Current Handling n a Document Number 1999JAKART02529 L-01 NSAE-00 PM-00 STR-00 DRL-02 4 Channel NRCE-00 AC-01 M-00 MMP-00 ADS-00 OPIC-01 OMB-01 OIC-02 OCS-03 NSCE-00 SP-00 SCT-00 P-00 ACE-00 PRS-00 DSCC-00 PMB-00 USSS-00 USIE-00 TRSE-00 021W SAS-00 NFAT-00 MR-00 G-00 38 240424 ------------------CC111F NRRC-00 PA-00 SSO-00 PRM-01 0 240422Z MAY 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA 7907 TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE LISBON INFO AMEMBASSY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY ROME AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM ASEAN COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY BONN USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI USMISSION GENEVA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY LONDON CONFIDENTIAL 2404232 02 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 02 JAKARTA 002529 04 OF 02 SECTION C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME FOR THE VATICAN USCINCPAC FOR FPA TWINING DELL 05 23 06 E O 12958 ID MOPS PREF PTER PGOV PREL PHUM TAGS CLEANSING POLITICAL MILITIA TERROR USED FOR SUBJECT EMBOFF'S PRESENCE RESPONSE TO THE NGO OFFER BUT IN IT WAS UNCLEAR TO CONVEYED THE IDEA TO HIS COMMANDER INTERRUPTED THE INTERVIEW WHOM HE WAS REFERRING WHO WITH A PHONE CALL I THE DISPLACED OUTSIDE DILI -------------------------LOCAL NGO OFFICIALS TOLD SBU UNAMET ICRC CARE AND 8 ROAD BLOCKS AND CHECK EMBOFF THAT BECAUSE OF MILITIA HAD BEEN UNABLE TOIMAKE POINTS OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL THEY LARGE NUMBERS OFI CONTACT WITH WHAT THEY KNEW TO BE OF THE UN OFFICIALS DILI DISPLACED PERSONS OUTSIDE Current'Class Page CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 4 Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED Page Current Handling n a Document Number Channel 1999JAKART02529 5 n a UNAMET SAID THAT THEY HAD ASSISTANCE TEAM IN EAST TIMOR INFORMATION TO RECOGNIZE RECEIVED SUFFICIENT ANECDOTAL THE ASSISTANCE TEAM'S PLAN OF THE PROBLEM AS SERIOUS LOCAL NGOS TO FOLLOW UP ON THE ACTION INVOLVED RELYING ON UNAMET COULD ONLY BEGIN TO INFORMATION IT WAS COMPILING OF UNFETTERED ACCESS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GUARANTEES UNAMET PERSONEL HAD ARRIVED ALL PARTS OF EAST TIMOR ONCE OLD EMBOFF THAT HE IN GRATER NUMBERS PERSONNEL OUT CLAIMING THEY WAS VERY WARY OF SENDING HIS CONFIDENTIAL 2404232 02 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 03 WORSE BY BOTH OR DETENTION WOULD FACE SERIOUS RISKS OF THE MILITIAS AND THE MILITARY EMBOFF HEADED WEST IN A SBU AT MID-DAY ON MAY 21 9 THROUGH LIQUICA AND REACH TAXI AND WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL HE WAS WAVED THROUGH MAUBARA 90 MINUTES WEST OF DILI BY AITARAK MILITIA APPROXIMATELY 15 CHECKPOINTS MANNED DILI AND LIQUISA AND BEST TO A POINT MIDWAY BETWEEN PERSONNEL ON TO MAUBARA MERAH PUTIH FROM THAT POINT WHOM WERE RELAXING IN THE AT THE CHECKPOINTS MOST OF MACHETES AND HOME-MADE MID-DAY HEAT WERE ARMED WITH I FIREARMS GROUPS OF TEN TO 100 WERE SBU DISPLACED PEOPLE'IN 10 IN MOST CASES SHELTERING IN EVIDENCE ALONG THE ROUTE I HAD ESCAPED ATTACK BY WITH FAMILIES WHOSE HOUSES HAD HOUSES PERCENT OF IN ALL APPROXIMATELY 25 MILITIAS THAT ALTHOUGH IN SOME AREAS BEEN BURNED OR DISMANTLED IN LIQUICA TOWN RATE WAS WELL OVER 50 PERCENT GROUPS THROUGH THE SMALL DISPLACED WERE SCATTERED IN BY THEIR DISHEVELED RECOGNIZABLE MOSTLY SHUTTERED TOWN BELLIES AND ALL DISTENDED HAD SOME CHILDREN APPEARANCE APPEARED DIRTY WITH RAGGED CLOTHING SAID THAT FOOD WAS SBU IN MAUBARA A SHOPKEEPER 11 AND THAT IN DISPLACED THE PRINCIPAL CONCERN FOR THE AS WELL RESIDENTS FACT IT WAS A CONCERN FOR LOCAL THE INCLUDING CLOSED WERE TRADE HAD STOPPED MARKETS FOUND BE COULD IT WHEN RICE LARGE MARKET IN LIQUISA AND EXPENSIVE MORE KG PER RUPIAH FOR SALE HAD RISEN TO 3700 DISPLACED HAD CONTRACTED THE OF MANY JAKARTA THAN IN CONFIDENTIAL 2404232 02 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 04 INCIDENCE HIGHER EXPERIENCING MALARIA AND RESIDENTS WERE AS BAD AS THINGS WERE SHE SAID OF THE DISEASE AS WELL Current Class Page CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 5 Current Class UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL Current Handling n a Document Number Page Channel 1999JAKART02529 6 n a AND MILITARY-CONTROLLED THE DIPLACED LIVING IN MILITIA IN CAMPS WERE IN WORSE SHAPE SOME OF THE DISPLACED FROM THESE CAMPS WITH GRIM MAUBARA SHE SAID HAD FLED OBSERVATIONS THAT SHE CORROBORATED EMBOFF'S STORIES CHILDREN ADDING AND WOMEN MOST OF THE DISPLACED WERE SHEI HILLS THE FLED TO THAT MOST OF THE MALES HAD SHELTER IN FOUND HAD DISPLACED ESTIMATED THAT HUNDREDS OF THE OUTSIDE WERE IN CAMPS MAUBARA BUT THAT THOUSANDS ROAD TO MAIN THE LEAVE EMBOFF'S DRIVER REFUSED TO TOWN BY THE DETAINED HE WOULD BE SEARCH FOR THE CAMPS FEARING MILITIA OR MILITARY 12 C TOLD EMBOFF THA THE LIQUISA AREA TO BEIIN THE DISPLACED POPULATION IN 40 000 AREA POPULATION EXCESS OF 20 000 OF THE ROUGHLY SAID HAD MADE THEIR WAYITO SOME OF THE DISPLACED HE HE DESCRIBED MILITIA BACKED DILI AND TO HIS CLINIC AS CONDUCTING POLITICAL BY THE INDONESIAN MILITARY VILLAGES SURROUNDING SEVEN CLEANSING SWEEPS IN THE TO ABANDON THEIR INHABITANTS LIQUISA FORCING ALMOST ALL THE SUBSEQUENTLY BURNED HOMES -- MANY OF WHICH WERE I CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO LOG-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 FBIE-00 L-01 NSAE-00 PM-00 STR-00 PRM-01 JAKART 02529 03 OF 04 PTQ5031 240423Z CA-02 ACQ-01 A-00 AMAD-01 AID-00 E - 00 DOD CTME-00 COME-00 SMEC-00 CIAE-00 EUR-01 EB-00 DS-00 SRPP-00 WHA-01 I0-00 INSE-00 INR-00 TEDE-00 H-01 0 NRCE-0 AC-01 M-00 MMP-00 ADS-00 OPIC-01 OMB-01 OIC-02 OCS-03 NSCE-00 SP-00 SCT-00 P-00 ACE-00 PRS-00 PMB-00 ASDS-01 USSS-00 USIE-00 TRSE-00 SAS-00 NFAT-00 MR-00 G-00 DRL-02 38 240424Z ------ ------------ CC1122 CCO-00 DOEE-00 FAAE-00 LAB-01 NRRC-00 PA-00 SSO-00 DSCC-00 022W O 240422Z MAY 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA 7908 TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE INFO AMEMBASSY LISBON USMISSION USUN NEW YORK AMEMBASSY CANBERRA Page Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 6 Current Class CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED Current Handling n a Document Number Page 7 Channel n a 1999JAKART02529 AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY ROME AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM ASEAN COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY BONN USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI USMISSION GENEVA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY LONDON CONFIDENTIAL 2404232 03 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 02 JAKARTA 002529 04 OF 03 SECTION L C O N F I D E N T I A ROME FOR THE VATICAN USCINCPAC FOR FPA TWINING DECL 05 23 06 E O 12958 ID PHUM MOPS PREF PIER PGOV PREL TAGS CLEANSING POLITICAL FOR USED MILITIA TERROR SUBJECT I POLITICAL CLE A SING DESCRIBED THE MILITIAS' ACTIONS AS SAID THAT HE BELIEVED THE C 13 OCCURRED IN THREE LARGEST POPULATION DISPLACEMENT HAD LIQUICA BOBONARO WHERE VALLEYS WHICH JOIN AT THE POINT IS NEAR ATSABAE POINT THE AND ERMERA DISTRICTS MEET OF KILLING ALSO THE SITE OF THE MAY 16 MILITIA BEEN NOT HAS AREA THIS APPROXIMATELY 20 CIVILIANS BEGAN ATTACKS THE SURVEYED BY OUTSIDE OBSERVERS SINCE NUMBERS ESTIMATE TO WHILE NOT ABLE EARLIER THIS YEAR TAVARES RECALLED THAT MILITIA LEADER JOAO FROM FAMILIES 1 000 ILLY THAT HE HAD MOVED HAD bTWXzD CAILOCO TO MALIANA CAPITAL OF BOBONARO DISTRICT PROPURPORTEDLY TO PROTECT THEM FROM FALINITL INDEPENDENCE FORCES ATTACKS C TOLD EMBOFF 14 JUST AS THE COFFEE THAT THE DISPLACEMENT HAD TAKEN PLACE THERE WERE TWO UNDERWAY AND CORN HARVESTS WERE GETTING MUCH OF THE CORN AND PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF THIS TIMING LIKELY BE LOST EMBOFF SOME OF THE COFFEE HARVEST WOULD AND MILITARY HEARD CONSISTENT REPORTS THAT MILITIA CONFIDENTIAL 02529 PAGE 03 JAKART Current Class CONFIDENTIAL 03 OF 04 240423Z Page UNCLASSIFIE 7 UNCLASSIFIED Page Current Class CONFIDENTIAL Current Handling n a Document Number 1999JAKART02529 8 Channel n a ALLOW THE LUCRATIVE PERSONNEL WERE ACCEPTING BRIBES TO OTHER IMPACT WAS MORE THE COFFEE HARVEST TO GO FORWARD HARVEST IS WHEN THE THE PERIOD JUST BEFORE WORRYING VULNERABLE AS MOST AT ITS THIS SUBSISTENCE POPULATION IS DWINDLE OR ARE SUPPLIES FROM THE PREVIOUS HARVEST FOOD ASSISTANCE TO SOME COMMUNITIES EXHAUSTED HAD D UP UNTIL THE MILITIA ATTACKS WHICH HAD C THOSE FAMILIES ABLE TO BEGUN HAD IMPROVED PROSPECTS FOR OTHERS WOULD HAVE FLED TAKE THIS FOOD WITH THEM AS THEY FOOD TO TAKE WITH THEM BEEN FORCED TO FLEE WITH LITTLE B1 DISPLACED MILITIA ATTACKS STILL GENERATING EMBOFF THAT ON MAY 18 C A WESTERN JOURNALIST TOLD 15 THEM TO BE BESI BELIEVED HE HAD WITNESSED MILITIA HE WEST OF MAUBARA AREA THE MERAH PUTIH BURNING HOUSES IN IN TORCHED HOUSES 12-15 HE SAW ON THE ROAD TO ATSABAE FAMILIES THE SAW HE FRONT OF A NUMBER OF THE HOUSES CLUTCHING A FEW ARTICLES EACH BURNING THE BY DISPLACED WERE FORCED FROM THEIR THEY HAD GATHERED UP BEFORE THEY BY THE ROADSIDE HE DESCRIBED THEM AS SITTING HOMES THE MILITIA TO FOR CLUTCHING THEIR PLASTIC POTS WAITING TAKE THEM SOMEWHERE BASED ON REPORTS CORROBORATED THE JOURNALIST'S ACCOUNT SOURCES OF RECENT MILITIA HE HAD RECEIVED FROM NON-EXPAT ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS WEST OF MAUBARA B1 1 16 C CORROBORATED REPORTING BY A JAKARTA-BASED CONFIDENTIAL 1 B 2404232 03 OF 04 02529 JAKART PAGE 04 CONDITIONS IN REGARDING REFTEL WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCATE WHERE THEY SAID HEALTHTHE CAMPS FOR THE DISPLACED LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS THREATENING AND POSSIBLY CLAIMED WAS FOOD QUALITY-AND QUANTITY THEY OBTAIN WAS INO THERE UNCLEAN WAS WATER INADEQUATE AVAILABLE ABUSIVE SUFFERED DISPLACED THE ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE AND ASSISTANCE MILITARY WITH WHO TREATMENT BY THE MILITIAS LAIMED THAT THE RUN THE CAMPS ACED WITH A PRO- ___ C-RIN MILITIAS WERE INDOCTRINATING I AUTONOMY MESSAGE B DISPLACED OUTSIDE OF EAST TIMOR ------------------------------17 U TOLD EMBOFF THAT A KUPANG-BASED LOCAL JOURNALIST Current Class Page CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 8 JNCLASSIFIED Current Class CONFIDENTIA Current Handling n a Document Number 1999JAKART02529 Page 9 Channel n a EAST TIMORESE HAD APPROXIMATELY 1 500 PRO-INDEPENDENCE ESCAPING THE TIMOR WEST FLED JUST OVER THE BORDER INTO WEST HEADING BY MILITIA ATTACKS IN WESTERN BOBONARO BY A LOCAL FOR WELL'CARED THESE DISPLACED WERE RELATIVELY SEEMINGLY CHRISTIAN AND MILITARY COMMANDER WHO WAS A SEPARATELY AN EXPAT THE DISPLACED SYMPATHETIC TO DESCRIBED THE DISPLACED JOURNALIST WHO VISITED THE AREA SMALL 100-150 GROUPS UNDER IN THIS AREA AS LIVING IN AND OTHER LOCAL THATCHED-ROOF EXTENSIONS TO SCHOOLS FACILITIES CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 ACTION EAP-01 INFO LOG-00 CG-00 DOTE-00 FBIE-00 L-01 NSAE-00 PM-00 STR-00 P RM - 01 JAKART 02529 04 OF 04 PTQ502 240423Z CA-02 ACQ-01 A-00 AMAD-01 AID-00 DODE- 00 CTME-00 COME-00 SMEC-00 CIAE-00 EUR-01 EB-00 DS-00 SRPP-00 WHA-01 I 0-00 INSE-00 INR-00 TEDE-00 H-01 NRCE-00 AC-01 M-00 MMP-00 ADS-00 O PIC-01 OMB-01 OIC-02 OCS-03 NSCE-00 S P-00 SCT-00 P-00 ACE-00 PRS-00 PMB-00 ASDS-01 USSS-00 USIE-00 TRSE-00 022W SAS-00 NFAT-00 G-00 DRL-02 38 2404242 ------------------CC1129 CCO-00 DOEE-00 FAAE-00 LAB-01 NRRC-00 PA-00 SSO-00 D SCC-00 O 240422Z MAY 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA 7909 TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE LISBON INFO AMEMBASSY USMISSION USUN NEW-YORK AMEMBASSY CANBERRA AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY ROME AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM ASEAN COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY BONN USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI USMISSION GENEVA AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY LONDON CONFIDENTIAL 02529 PAGE 02 JAKART Current Class CONFIDENTIAL 04 OF 04 240423Z Page UNCLASSIFIED 9 Current Class UNCLASSIFIED Page CONFIDENTIA Current Handling n a Document Number 10 Channel n a 1999JAKART02529 04 JAKARTA 002529 C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 04 OF ROME FOR THE VATICAN USCINCPAC FOR FPA TWINING DELL 05 23 06 E O 12958 PREL ID TAGS - PHUM MOPS PREF PIER PGOV MILITIA TERROR USED FOR POLITICAL CLEANSING SUBJECT FOR THOSE WHOSE HOMES HAVE BEENI COMMENT C 18 ROTTED IN THE DESTROYED AND WHOSE CROPS HAVE EITHER THE MILITIAS A BY STOLEN OR FIELDS OR BEEN DESTROYED THE AUGUST 8 BEFORE PARTICULARLY NEAR-TERM RETURN HOME HUMANITARIAN URGENT MEETING BALLOT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE AGENCY NGO INTERNATIONAL ONCE NEEDS WILL BE A PRIORITY SECONDARY A AS POSSIBLE ACCESS TO THESE GROUPS IS IN THE CONCERN ASSURING THEIR FULL PARTICIPATION UNDER PARTICULARLY BALLOT CONSULTATION PROCESS AND THE PROBLEMATICCAMP CONDITIONS WILL BE 1 ROY CONFIDENTIAL END OF DOCUMENT Current Class Page CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED 10 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu