CALL your senators and representatives. Urge them to call Secretary of State Madeline Albright, President Clinton, and Secretary of Defense William Cohen directly. CALL Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth. CALL Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Less than 24 hours after the UN announced that more than 78 percent of registered voters in East Timor voted to reject Indonesia's autonomy package, Indonesian military and paramilitary forces sharply escalated their campaign of terror.
Many children are among the dead.
The paramilitaries and TNI are systematically targeting buildings which house refugees. With the evacuation of UN staff and media from outlying towns, foreign observers are unable to confirm the extent of violence outside Dili, but it is believed to be severe. Hundreds of houses have been burned and dozens killed in Maliana alone. Reports have come in of mutilated bodies littering the road to West Timor. Thousands more East Timorese are now refugees, many of them forced onto trucks headed for unknown destinations.