Indonesian raid report

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33963, 2 October 1975, Page 15

Indonesian raid report

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) JAKARTA, October 1. Indonesian troops have launched an attack on a Left-wing Fretilin base in Portuguese Timor, killing all the defenders except their leader, who was' captured, according to informed sources in Jakarta. A group of 30 Indonesian soldiers raided a Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor base in the Aditu district, near the border with Indonesian Timor, yesterday, the sources say. The Indonesians, who suffered no casualties, withdrew after the attack. This was the first attack

by Indonesian troops in Portuguese Timor since Fretilin forces last week shelled Indonesian West Timor, when, the sources say, seven civilians were killed. So far, 11 Fretilin soldiers have been captured by Indonesia near the border. A Foreign Office spokesman in Jakarta said today that Indonesia would not accept a Fretilin delegation in the Indonesian capital for talks, . Earlier, a senior Indonesian military commander had said that Jakarta would also reject a Fretilin proposal for a neutral peace-keeping force to supervise the border. The Malaysian Ambassador in Jakarta said today that Portugal should settle the civil war quickly or. if it could not, to allow Indonesia to do so. “The Portuguese Government bears responsibility for dragging on the civil war in

Portuguese Timor, which could harm stability in the region,” Mr Zainal Abidin Bin Sulong said in an interview with the official Indonesian news agency, Antara. Earlier, Malaysia had announced a willingness to participate in any joint authority intended to end the civil war.

In the East Timor capital, Dili, more than 300 people surged around the former police headquarters for more than three hours yesterday as a special commission began taking evidence of alleged war crimes by Fretilin-held prisoners. The political and military commission of inquiry has been created by the Fretilin’s central committee “to establish whether prima facie cases exist against the prisoners.” According to Fretilin spokesmen, about 600 people are in Fretilin prisons in various parts of East Timor.