I MORI DocID 1054641 i CON Fes EN sAZ jI DOCUMENT_ID_ 183329411 DOCNO 002556 PRODUCER JAKARTA SOURCE STATE DOCTYPE IN DOR 19990524 TOR 063723 DOCPREC 0 ORIGDATE MHFNO 199905241033 99 5565487 DOCCLASS C HEADER 00 RUEAIIA ZNY CCCCC ZOC STATE ZZH MSI7006 00 RUEHZS RUEHC DE RUEHJA #2556 01 1441033 ZNY CCCCC ZZH 0 241033Z MAY 99 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO RUEHC SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7926 INFO RUCNDT USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1144 RUEHWI AMEMBASSY LISBON 1028 RUEHBY AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 5075 RUEHWL AMEMBASSY WELLINGTON 0213 RUEHKO AMEMBASSY TOKYO 3265 RUEHBR AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 0053 RUEHGV USMISSION GENEVA 2223 RUEHZS ASEAN COLLECTIVE RUEHOL AMEMBASSY BONN 1158 RUEHOT AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 0289 RUEHWO AMEMBASSY LONDON 0438 RUEHSM AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM 0061 RHHMUNA USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI Dept of State RPS IPSS Margaret P Grafeld Din Class' as Mr Extend as Downgrade to Datt Deelassifyon Reasou i P91 RUEHRO AMEMBASSY ROME 0369 BT Classifie y De rtment of State Lee R Lo an DAS A RPS Classify Reaso Date Declassify on Auth CONTROLS' C 0 N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 0 0 2 5 5 6 ROME FOR THE VATICAN USCINCPAC FOR FPA AMB TWINING E O 12958 DELL 05 24 06 TEXT TAGS PHUM MOPS COMBINE COMPLETE SUBJECT 1 1 5 U PREF PINS PIER PGOV PREL ID EAST TIMOR MAY 24 UPDATE CLASSIFIED BY POLCOUNS EDMUND MCWILLIAMS REASON D Dept of State RPSAPS Margaret P Grafeld Dir Release M Excise Deny Decl ssify 17 2 pEumption o% f o ' Date I rl Gi 1 I I I I rki COVE'MI J U91a 1 Page 1 I MORI DocID I jJ If 1054641 Ol F3DENT2 i l1P rI I l f _ 2 C SUMMARY 'MILITIAS ARE CONTINUING ASSAULTS ON CIVILIANS o IN FAST TIMOR AMID ONGOING REPORTS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MILITIA AND MILITARY UNITS MILITIA PERSONNEL ALSO ACCOSTED USAID-SUPPORTED COFFEE HARVESTERS MILITIA SPOKESMEN FOR THEIR PART HAVE CLAIMED PRO-INDEPENDENCE PEOPLE HAVE KILLED FOUR TNT SOLDIERS THESE CLAIMS ARE DISPUTED ALTHOUGH A UNAMET STATEMENT GAVE CREDENCE TO ONE CLAIM THEJ 'JIS NOT OPTIMISTIC THAT MILITIA ASSAULTS ARE OVER PROINDEPENDENCE EAST TIMORESE HAVE LITTLE CONFIDENCE vk ApZ 7 IN THE PEACE AND STABILITY COMMISSION EVIDENCE OF PROAUTONOMY PETITIONS WHICH EAST TIMORESE REPORTEDLY ARE PRESSED BY MILITIAS TO SIGN HAS SURFACED THERE REPORTEDLY IS MILITIA PRESSURE AGAINST A CHURCH CLINIC AND ITS STAFF IN DILI A WESTERN JOURNALIST HAS RECEIVED A TELEPHONIC THREAT FROM A MAJOR MILITIA LEADER END' SUMMARY MILITIAS CONTINUE ASSAULTS AGAINST CIVILIANS -------------------------------------------3 C REPORTING FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES INCLUDING SOME DERIVED FROM MAY 20-22 POLCOUNS VISIT TO EAST TIMOR INDICATED CONTINUING ATTACKS ON THE CIVILIAN POPULATION BY THE MILITARY-BACKED MILITIAS INCIDENTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING -- NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED A WESTERN BUSINESSMAN REPORTS THAT ON MAY 21 MILITIA ACCOSTED PERSONNEL OF THE NCBA COFFEE FIRM 30 DEMANDING THAT THE GROUP SURRENDER ITS MOTORCYCLES WHICH THE MILITIA ALLEGED INCORRECTLY WERE BEING USED TO FERRY PRO-INDEPENDENCE YOUTHS INTO THE HILLS SIX MOBIL POLICE MOBILE BRIGADE OFFICIALS BRIMOB WHO WERE ACCOMPANYING THE COFFEE PERSONNEL TOOK NO ACTION TO PROTECT THE COFFEE PERSONNEL l A CORDING TO F TIMOR TWO PRO-INDEPENDENCE CNRT _6TAFF IN EAST STAFF PERSONNEL KAMA Page 2 MORI DocID ID'E 11 IAII - i LJ MOTAN AND HERIKERA WERE DETAINED BY POLICE IN -LIEU AND BROUGHT TO -THE PROVINCIAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN DILI ON OR ABOUT MAY'21 THE POLICE CLAIM NOT TO HAVE RECEIVED THE TWO NOR TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE -- THE MILITIA-BASED FORUM FOR UNITY DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE CLAIMS PRO-INDEPENDENCE PEOPLE AMBUSHED AND KILLED THREE EAST TIMORESE MEMBERS OF THE INDONESIAN ARMY AT LOLOTOE ON MAY 17 A MAY 21 STATEMENT BY UNAMET CLAIMS THE THREE WERE KILLED BY THE EAST TIMORESE ARMED RESISTANCE ICLAIMS TO HAVE SPOKEN TO A BROTHER OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS WHO REPORTEDLY BLAMED THE ATTACK ON MILITIA WHO WERE ANGERED THAT THE THREE HAD DEFENDED LOCAL EAST TIMORESE FROM A MILITIA ASSAULT THE TOLD POLCOUNS THAT IT BELIEVES THAT C SOME KILLINGS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL MAYBE BY OTHER MILITARY PERSONNEL OR MILITIA THECBELIEVES THAT JUST AS MANY CIVIL SERVANTS ARE PRO-INDEPENDENCE SO TOO ARE MANY EAST TIMORESE IN THE MILITARY THEY FACE THE SAME WEEDING OUT THAT CIVIL SERVANTS ARE UNDERGOING AT THE HANDS OF THE MILITIA AND THEIR MILITARY ALLIES NEARLY ALL THE MILITARY PERSONNEL KILLED IN RECENT MONTHS HAVE BEEN EAST -TIMORESE THE STATES L __Y -- THE MILITIA FORUM ALSO CLAIMED THAT PRO-INDEPENDENCE PEOPLE KILLED ANOTHER EAST TIMORESE SOLIDER IN TIRILOLO BAUCAU ON MAY 19 THERE WAS NO GOVERNMENT bR NGO CONFIRMATION OF THIS CLAIM NOT OPTIMISTIC THAT MILITIA VIOLENCE WILL END SOON - -----------------------------------------------4 C THE JIN EAST TIMOR TOLD VISITING POLCOUNS MA 21 THAT THE THREE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL DOCTORS WHO HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO ENTER EAST TIMOR HAVE STILL NOT BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO PRACTICE HE SAID THAT THE DECISION TO BRING IN THE THREE PHYSICIANS WAS NOT AIMED AT ADDRESSING THE TRICKLE OF CASES IN NORMAL TIMES BUT RATHER TO DEAL WITH THE EMERGENCY SURGES OF'PATIENTS WHICH HAVE BECOME ALMOST WEEKLY CONCERNS DUE TO THE MILITIA ASSAULTS ON CIVILIANS _ CONCLUDED THERE WILL BE MORE 11 PROBLEMS WITH THE PEACE AND JUSTICE COMMISSION -------------------------------------------- 5 C - C'ki j I NE'DEN 2 L Page 3 1054641 MORI DocID 1 j p I b r LJ I C 1 7EIDENTIAI CEASE-FIRE WITH THE TNI THAT WOULD ENABLE THEM TO MOVE ABOUT FREELY 6 C JALSO QUESTIONED THE FAIRNESS OF THE COMMISSION STRUCTURE WHICH WAS HE'CLAIMED HEAVILY WEIGHTED TO THE PRO-AUTONOMY SIDE A COMBINATION OF TWO REPRESENTATIVES EACH FROM THE MILITARY POLICE GOVERNMENT AND MILITIAS WOULD BE IN A POSITION TO OVERRULE THE PRO-INDEPENDENCE REPRESENTATIVES PRESSURE ON LOCAL CITIZENS TO SIGNUP FOR AUTONOMY ------------------------ ---------------------------7 U A FOREIGN JOURNALIST IN DILI MAY 21 SHOWED POLCOUNS A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY THE VILLAGE HEAD OF CAMENASA VILLAGE ON APRIL 20 WHICH ASSERTED THAT ALL 1 558 INHABITANTS OF THE VILLAGE INCLUDING CHILDREN ACCEPTED INTEGRATION WITH INDONESIA THE VILLAGE CHIEF THE SIGNATURE OF SILVINO TARAN AND A SEAL ATTESTED TO THE VALIDITY OF A STACK OF DOCUMENTS FROM INDIVIDUAL VILLAGERS THAT BORE SIGNATURES AND THUMB PRINTS COMMENT SIMILAR DOCUMENTS ARE REPORTEDLY BEING CIRCULATED BY THE MILITIA IN MANY PARTS OF EAST TIMOR THIS WAS THE FIRST ONE WE HAVE SEEN END COMMENT PRESSURES ON THE MOTAEL CHURCH CLINIC ------------------------------------d C C - CL INIC AND ITS STAFF WERE UNDER CONTINUING MILI TIA PRESSURE IN MID-MAY MILITIA BURNED THE FOUR-ROOM HOUSE OF HIS CHIEF NURSE AFTER RE-LOCATING HER TEN-MEMBER FAMILY SHE HAS RETURNED TO WORK AT THE HOSPITAL C BELIEVED THAT THE ASSAULT WAS A RESULT OF HER ASSOCIATION WITH THE CLINIC THAT PROVIDES FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT TO AMONG OTHERS VICTIMS OF MILITIA ASSAULTS - MILITIA THREATS IN JAKARTA -------------------------- 9 C F PROTECT TOLD POLCOUNS MAY 24 THAT ON MAY 21 HE RECEIVED A TELEPH NE CALL FROM MILITIA LEADER CANCIO CARVALLO WHO HAD INTERVIEWED CARVALLO IN DILI AFTER THE MILITIA ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS IN DILI AP L 17 RECOGNIZED CARVALLO'S VOICE ACCORDING TO CARVALLO IDENTIFIED HZSELF AND ASKED IF REMEMBERED HIM ASSURED THAT KNEW WHO HE WAS C VALLO SAID I AM HERE IN JAKARTA AND I AM GOING TO GET YOU CARVALLO THEN HUNG UP _jMILITARY ATTACHE IS IN CONTACT WITH GOI COUNTERPARTS TO INSIST THAT CARVALLO'S THREAT NOT BE CARRIED OUT NOTE I - CANCIO CARVALLO WAS ONE OF THE SIGNATORIES TO A THREAT NOTE AIMED AT AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMATS JOURNALISTS AND AID WORKERS WHICH Page 4 1054641 MORI DocID ga l i l ' H DF1NT II IlAI FIB WAS HAND DELIVERED TO AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNER END NOTE ROY ADMIN END OF MESSAGE CONFIDENTIAL Hll f' 11Uao14 3n4 tszA A 11 Page 5 1054641 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