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Global Timor Third World East Timorese youth lead new year's uprising

Liberation Spring 1995 · 427 words

• Paul Walker another uprising took place in East TH mor led by youth and students.

These riots followed the events of 12 November 1994 when East Timor was gripped by a mass insurrection against the 20 year indo nesian occuoation as East Timorese occupied the grounds of the US embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

Reports indicate that the latest incident, an insurrection in Bacau, a town of some 25,000 in120 miles east of Dili, capital Of East Timor. was snarked by the murder of an East Timorese youth by an Indonesian trader.

Hundreds of East Timorese youth responded to the murder by attacking police stations, markets, shops and houses owned by Indonesian transmigrants. Transmigration is the process whereby the Jakarta re gime moves Indonesians into East Timor by offering them the best business opportunities and jobs. The aim is to colonize the countrv and to eventually swamp the indigenous population. Any symbol of the Indo nesian occupation is thus seen as a legitimate target by the East. Timorese youth.

According to sources inside East Timor group of 500 youth re mained gathered in the centre of Bacau on 4 January and that security forces remainee. on stand by but away from the area.

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