| Subject: Lusa: UNHCR Withdraws From Betun
Camp in West Timor
East Timor: UNHCR Withdraws From Betun Camp in West Timor 21 Jul-18:26
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced Friday that
it has withdrawn its personnel from the Betun refugee camp in Indonesian
West Timor.
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told media in Geneva that the decision
followed violent incidents carried out by armed militias opposed to the
repatriation of East Timorese refugees.
In one recent case, militiamen beat one refugee from East Timor and
robbed several others, he said. A 70-strong Indonesian military detachment
witnessed the incident but did not intervene.
The UNHCR's repatriation and assistance program for the 125,000 East
Timorese refugees still in West Timor has thus been suspended.
The UN agency had on Thursday threatened to withdraw from the
Indonesian half of Timor island if the Jakarta government does not put an
end to the militia violence.
JBC -Lusa
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