INDONESIA: ONE MAN DIES AND ANOTHER INJURED AS PRO-JAKARTA FORCES CLASH WITH INDEPENDENCE SUPPORTERS IN EAST TIMOR'S CAPITAL DILI

Record ID: 585028

  • Title: INDONESIA: ONE MAN DIES AND ANOTHER INJURED AS PRO-JAKARTA FORCES CLASH WITH INDEPENDENCE SUPPORTERS IN EAST TIMOR'S CAPITAL DILI
  • Date: 9th May 1999
  • Summary: DILI, EAST TIMOR (MAY 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. TRACKING SHOT FROM CAR TO LOCATION 0.04 2. MCU/SV PRO-INDEPENDENCE SUPPORTERS CHANTING/SHOWING MACHETE TO THE CAMERA (2 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SV TYRES BURNING 0.25 4. SV PEOPLE CHANTING WITH SMOKE IN FOREGROUND 0.30 5. SLV MORE OF PEOPLE CHANTING/ HOLDING TRADITIONAL WEAPONS 0.35 6. MCU OF PROTESTERS 0.42 7. CU OF TYRES BURNING 0.47 8. SV PEOPLE SINGING 0.54 9. CU OF A MACHETE 1.04 10. LV OF STREET WITH PROTERSTER 1.09 11. CU PHOTOGRAPH OF REBEL LEADER XANANA GUSMAO 1.14 12. SLV POLICE WALKING, ORDERING JOURNALIST TO LEAVE 1.28 13. LV JOURNALISTS FLEEING SCENE 1.35 14. LV POLICE RUNNING 1.44 15. LV PEOPLE IN STREET (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) 1.49 16. SLV PEOPLE STANDING AT HOSPITAL CORRIDOR 1.53 17. CU/SLV OF WOMAN LOOKING AT DEAD BODY (2 SHOTS) 2.01 18. CU OF HANDS OF THE DEAD BODY 2.05 19. SLV DEAD BODY BEING COVERED IN SHEET 2.12 20. SV/CU INJURED MAN BEING TENDED TO BY HOSPITAL WORKERS (2 SHOTS) 2.23 21. CU OF INJURED MAN'S HANDS 2.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: DILI, EAST TIMOR
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2JPXXNHJJSQKVPVLP06DWRFOV
  • Story Text: One man has died and another has been critically
    injured as pro-Jakarta forces clashed with independence
    supporters in East Timor's capital Dili, witnesses said.

    Sunday's (May 9) clashes occurred in Dili's Mercado
    Lama market
    and are the latest in a series of clashes involving the two
    sides ahead of a vote on independence on August 8.

    Gunfire was heard and hospital sources said one man,
    identified as 26-year-old Eugeneo Antonio Fatima, had died
    with
    a gunshot wound to his left eye.

    Another man, a civil servant, remained in a critical
    condition, with a gunshot wound to the stomach.

    It was not clear who had shot the two men.

    Witnesses said the incident broke out after a dispute over
    gambling, a common Sunday pastime in the mainly Catholic
    territory.

    They said, however, that police on the scene fired warning
    shots
    to the air to disperse the feuding groups.

    The two disputing groups first fought one another unarmed
    but some later fought with machetes, a witness said.

    Military and police officials were not immediately
    available for comment.

    Tension has increased in the former Portuguese colony
    ahead
    of the August vote.

    Sunday's bloody incident occurred only a day after
    thousands of pro-Jakarta militias staged a rally vowing for
    peace and symbolically surrendering their arms.

    The militiamen's earlier campaign of terror and
    intimidation has led to the killing of dozens of
    pro-independence supporters in the troubled territory.

    The United Nations-brokered deal will allow East Timorese
    to choose between independence and enhanced autonomy within
    Indonesia in a U.N.-run ballot on August 8.

    The U.N.unanimously endorsed the agreements on Friday
    (May
    7), stressing the responsibility of the Indonesian government
    to maintain peace and security in the territory.

    Dili has become a loyalist stronghold, with independence
    leaders fleeing or in hiding and militias openly roaming the
    streets without interference from soldiers or police.

    But pro-independence groups have been emboldened by the
    U.N.accord, under which a United Nations force including
    unarmed police advisers will begin arriving soon to monitor
    security and prepare for the ballot.

    Several hundred foreign police officers are expected to
    arrive in East Timor later this month, under the U.N.

    agreements.Indonesia has agreed to their presence, but only
    as advisors.
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