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Article: Abuse continues in East Timor.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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Since 1975, more than 200,000 East Timorese have been killed by Indonesians. Unwarranted arrests are constant. Torture and sexual abuse are common in prisons and concentration camps. These abuses began when Indonesia invaded the Portuguese colony in December 1975. While Indonesian authorities insist that East Timorese "integration" was a democratic decision, the people of East Timor disagree. Disapproval of the Indonesian occupation is reinforced by the United Nations' recognition of East Timor as a Portuguese colony.
Rev. Arlindo Marcal, an East Timorese minister, recently visited the Centre for Christian Living in Toronto to speak to a small group of church ...