(14 Nov 1994) STORY: EAST TIMOR
LOCATION: DILI, EAST TIMOR/JAKARTA, INDONESIA
DATE: 13 NOVEMBER 1994
DURATION: 1.24
Timorese youths protest in Dili; Jakarta sit-in continues
East Timorese students defiantly stretched a sit-in on the grounds
of the US Embassy in Jakarta into a second night on Sunday
(13/11). The students were demanding US help to free their hero, a
jailed guerrilla leader. A student spokesman said the Americans
tried to get them to leave by not giving them food and suggesting
they move their protest elsewhere. The Embassy denied the claims
and said it offered the students rice and had not imposed any
departure deadline. US President Bill Clinton arrived in Jakarta
on Sunday night for a trade summit of Asian and Pacific leaders
starting on Tuesday. The student sit-in problem was complicated by
rioting in Dili, the capital of the East Timor province that
Indonesia invaded in 1975 after Portuguese colonial rulers left.
Hundreds of young people marched in Dili's central marketplace to
protest the killing of a Timorese by an Indonesian trader. The
funeral of the slain Timorese trader was planned for Monday at
Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery after a procession past the East Timor
governor's office. A similar procession to the cemetery on
12 November, 1991 led to the killing of up to 200 demonstrators by
the military, according to human rights groups. The Indonesian
army said 50 people were killed.
SHOWS:
(DILI, EAST TIMOR 13/11) Bishop Belos giving communion
during Mass at his residence to commemorate third anniversary of
Dili massacre. Youths with banners protesting in street. Riot
police running along street. Rioting youths running along street.
Police running. More rioting. Tyre burning in street.
(JAKARTA, INDONESIA 13/11) SOT Australian Foreign Minister Gareth
Evans: "Nobody pretends that all is well in East Timor. There's
still obviously tension and volatility, still unsatisfied
aspirations, still a need for a major exercise in reconciliation
so far as the Indonesian government is concerned." East Timorese
student protesters inside US Embassy compound. Student protester
holding up placard reading: "Free all East Timor political
prisoners". SOT student spokelsman Domingus Alves: "We want to
meet Mr. Christopher or Mr. Clinton as soon as possible, but we
are going to resist." Police putting barricades around Embassy to
keep journalists at a distance.

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