Subject: ABRI killed, buried alive 150 after 1991
Dili massacre -press
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 18:01:18 GMT
From: tapol@gn.apc.org (TAPOL)>From Joyo:
Killing continued after 1991 East Timor cemetery massacre: press
LISBON, Nov 14 (AFP) - A Portuguese former governor of East Timor said Saturday that
the 1991 massacre by Indonesian troops at a Dili cemetery was followed days later with
more bloodshed, with 50 people shot dead and 100 buried alive.
Mario Carrascalao was governor of East Timor when Indonesian troops fired into a crowd
of peaceful pro-independence demonstrators at the Santa Cruz cemetery in November 1991,
killing around 50 people, according to official tolls.
He told the independent Portuguese weekly Expresso that after the massacre, around 100
people held in the cemetery by Indonesian forces were shuttled out in two army trucks and
buried alive in a rubbish tip on a road outside Dili.
Some 50 others were shot dead at approximately the same time, on the banks of the river
Bemos into which their bodies were thrown, the governor told Expresso.
Carrascalao, who is currently advisor to Indonesian President B.J. Habibie on East
Timor, said he remained silent over the killings, judging that it was "not the time
to open new inquiries" which could derail UN-sponsored talks between Lisbon and
Jakarta regarding the Timorese territory.
Indonesian troops invaded the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in 1975 and
declared it an Indonesian province the following year although the move has not been
recognized by the United Nations.
TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign 111 Northwood Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey
CR7 8HW, UK Phone: 0181 771-2904 Fax: 0181 653-0322 email: tapol@gn.apc.org Campaigning to
expose human rights violations in Indonesia, East Timor, West Papua and Aceh
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