Subject: East Timorese rounded up in Java, says
bishop
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 04:01:20 EDT
From: Joyo@aol.comEast Timorese rounded up in Java, says bishop
SYDNEY, Australia, Sept 9 (AFP) - Indonesian military were rounding up East Timorese on
the main Indonesian island of Java, one of Australia's leading pro-Timor activists said
Thursday.
Melbourne Bishop Hilton Deakin, chairman of the Catholic charity Caritas Australia and
the East Timor Human Rights Centre, said he had been told the Indonesian military was
making a concerted effort to target East Timorese in Java.
"The Indonesian military has started rounding up East Timorese, especially
pro-independence supporters, on Java," he said.
"They're being taken to camps, where they can cause less harm."
"It's exactly the same as what has happened in East Timor where thousands of
people have been forcibly deported," he added.
"You can't call it ethnic-cleansing but it's certainly dreadful," he added.
"It's concerted and it's obviously planned."
Bishop Deakin said the news was relayed to him Thursday by the National Council for
Timorese Resistance (CNRT) office in Jakarta.
He was unable to make an estimate of how many people were being rounded up.
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