Reliable sources have confirmed that four foreign aid workers sustained injuries after being stoned in the Nolebake refugee centre on 7 September. The male staff member had his throat cut with a machete. The female staff member was stabbed in the left rib-cage. On September 11, Australia's Minister for Defence, John Moore, estimated that 180,000 refugees had already arrived in West Timor. On September 12, another group of refugees arrived at Kupang airport from Lospalos, in the east of East Timor.
Refugees are without adequate food, and are extremely thin and demoralized.
Indonesian military, police and militia are patrolling both Kupang and Atambua, and are carrying out operations, particularly at night, where they search for East Timorese men, including independence supporters. It is feared that East Timorese men and independence supporters are being rounded up to for execution. There are unconfirmed reports that on September 10 morning all refugees in Atambua were forced to form a line and report their activities to Indonesian military and militia. An unconfirmed number of refugees were then taken to an unknown place using two trucks, where they were allegedly tortured and then killed. Massacres, forced disappearances, assaults and threats and, in general, human rights violations are on such a massive scale that currently it is impossible to provide a comprehensive report of the situation.