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Subject: AN: Refugee children want schools in resettlement areas
EX-E TIMORESE REFUGEES' CHILDREN WANT SCHOOLS IN RESETTLEMENT AREAS
January 7, 2004 9:25pm Antara
Atambua, E Nusa Tenggara, Jan 7 (ANTARA) - Children of former East
Timorese refugees living in resettlement sites in Indonesia's East Nusa
Tenggara province expect the government to provide them schools within or
near their neighborhoods.
The children's expectation was echoed by chief of the Belu district
military command, Lt Col Ganip Warsito, here Tuesday.
He said the 12 resettlement sites the Indonesian government had built
for the former refugees are relatively far from schools.
The resettlement areas can accommodate a total of 1,050 families,
consisting of about 5,636 people.
The East Timorese refugees and their children fled to East Nusa
Tenggara to escape deadly rampages in East Timor, which broke out shortly
after the territory voted to secede from Indonesia in a United
Nations-sponsored ballot in August 1999.
They have refused to return to East Timor, which has become an
independent state, and opted to become Indonesian citizens.
(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
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