AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-1999
NSW: Belo appeals to Australia to help avert civil war
SYDNEY, Feb 23 AAP - East Timorese church leader Carlos Belo today warned of a potential
civil war following independence next year and appealed to Australia to help avert it.
Archbishop Belo said that since Indonesia said it wanted East Timor to become independent
next year, Indonesian collaborators on the island were being armed.
"Elements of the Indonesian military are arming East Timorese collaborators who are in a
state of near-panic over the prospect on an Indonesian withdrawal from the territory," he told
a luncheon at the new South …
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