Subject: LUSA: Portuguese PM urgest UN to do its
utmost
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:33:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>16 NOV 98 - 13:42 East
Timor/Portugal: Portuguese Prime Minister urges UN to do its utmost to stop
"nightmare" in East Timor
Porto, Nov. 16 (Lusa) - Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres said on Saturday the
United Nations should do its utmost to put an end to the "nightmare" in East
Timor. Speaking during a visit to Matosinhos on Saturday, Guterres said he was deeply
shocked at news of a "second massacre" in East Timor in November 1991, days
after the Santa Cruz cemetery massacre in that month. The prime minister made the
statement in reaction to statements by Manuel and Mario Carrascalão on the existence of a
"second massacre" in Dili in November 1991. Speaking in two separate interviews
with LUSA in Macau and Lisbon's Expresso weekly, the two prominent East Timorese political
leaders (who are brothers) said hundreds of people had been killed by Indonesian soldiers
in the two massacres. Manuel Carrascalão put the total number of victims at over 500.
Guterres said he had received the news with a feeling of "deep sorrow,"
describing the two reported massacres as "deeply shocking.-Lusa
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