MILITIA MENACES U.N.'S COMPOUND IN EAST TIMOR.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 11, 1999 | Copyright information

Drunk on stolen beer, pro-Indonesian militiamen menaced the U.N. compound in East Timor yesterday, smashing and looting vehicles and brandishing grenades to threaten East Timorese still inside after most of the U.N. staff had evacuated.

As Indonesian troops fired guns to intimidate the 80 remaining U.N. workers as well as several journalists and hundreds of refugees, militia extremists outside the compound walls chanted for them to be burned out. Gunfire sent two elderly women scrambling over a wall into the compound, shredding their arms on barbed wire.

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