Asia Pulse - March 30, 2007
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Sydney - Medianet International-AsiaNet - Fretilin party representatives hinder Australian troops protecting both Fretilin motorcade and participants during rally.
Today the Fretilin party indicated it would lodge a protest against the role of the Australian Army in East Timor for the alleged treatment of a party representative travelling in a motorcade from a Fretilin rally in a high security zone.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the Fretilin party representatives were purposefully hindering Australian security forces, by not co-operating with them - a source was quoted as saying "the Australian military was only attempting to maintain order and security for both the motorcade and rally participants - which is what they were asked to come to Timor-Leste to do."
This protest by the Fretilin party is in stark contrast to their endorsement of the role of the Australian military in providing security services in Timor-Leste.
On May 25 2006 at the height of the crisis, both leaders of the Fretilin party, Fransisco Guterres "Lu olo" President of the Parliament and Mari Alkatiri, then Prime Minister, signed a letter with the President of the Republic, of request to the Australian Government seeking assistance from Prime Minister John Howard and the Australian Defence force to "stabilize and control current security crisis".
A further letter of agreement was also signed by both leaders of Fretilin authorising Australian Defence Forces "to assist Timor-Leste in the restoration, security, confidence and peace in Timor-Leste including assisting in re-establishing and maintaining order and assisting in the provision and security to persons".
Fretilin has been running a party election platform renouncing the peacekeeping mission of the Australian Defence Force, when, in fact, the engagement of the ADF was initiated, endorsed and welcomed by both leaders.
SOURCE: Alliance.org
For information contact:
Dionisio Babo Soares +679-7243952
Australian Contact: M Stephens +61-404-478-302
sábado, março 31, 2007
Fretilin Party Representatives Hinder Australian Troops
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Representantes da Fretilin atrapalham tropas Australianas
Asia Pulse - Março 30, 2007
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Sydney - Medianet International-AsiaNet – Representantes da Fretilin atrapalharam tropas Australianas que protegiam uma caravana da Fretilin e os participantes num comício.
Hoje a Fretilin indicou que apresentará um protesto contra o papel das Forças Armadas Australianas em Timor-Leste devido ao alegado tratamento a um representante do partido que viajava numa caravana de um comício da Fretilin numa zona de alta segurança.
Relatos não confirmados sugerem que os representantes da Fretilin estavam propositadamente a atrapalhar as forças de segurança Australianas, por não cooperarem com elas – foi citada uma fonte que disse "os militares Australianos estavam somente a tentar manter a lei e a segurança para a cravana e participantes do comício – que é o que lhes foi pedido para virem fazer em Timor-Leste."
Este protesto por parte da Fretilin está em forte contraste com o endosso do papel das forças militares Australianas para prestar serviços de segurança em Timor-Leste.
Em 25 de Maio de 2006 no pico da crise, ambos os líderes da Fretilin, Fransisco Guterres "Lu olo" Presidente do Parlamento e Mari Alkatiri, então Primeiro-Ministro, assinou uma carta juntamente com o Presidente da República, a solicitar ao Governo Australiano a assistência do Primeiro-Ministro John Howard e da força de Defesa Australiana para "estabilizar e controlar a corrente crise de segurança ".
Uma outra carta de acordo foi assinada por ambos os líderes da Fretilin autorizando as Forças de Defesa Australiana "a assistir Timor-Leste na restauração, segurança, confiança e paz em Timor-Leste incluindo no re-estabelecimento e manutenção da ordem e na assistência a providenciar segurança a pessoas ".
A Fretilin tem estado a conduzir uma campanha eleitoral numa plataforma de renúncia da missão da Força de Defesa Australiana quando, de facto, o engajamento da ADF foi iniciado, engajado e bem-recebido por ambos os líderes.
Fonte: Alliance.org
Contacto para informação:
Dionisio Babo Soares +679-7243952
Contacto Australiano: M Stephens +61-404-478-302
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Media Release
31 March 2007
Ramos–Horta campaign organiser breaks election code
A top organiser of the Ramos-Horta presidential campaign breached the election code of conduct when he issued a statement defending the assault of an East Timorese civilian by Australian soldiers.
The statement signed by Dionisio Babo Soares titled “Fretilin party representatives hinder Australian troops” was published in full by Indonesia’s Antara news agency on Friday 30 March (www.antara.co.id/arc/2007/3/30/ fretilin-party-representatives-hinder-Australian-troops)
Soares’ statement fails to disclose that he is Jose Ramos Horta’s official representative to the National Electoral Commission and interim secretary general of the “National Congress of Timorese Reconstruction” the new political party to be headed by outgoing president Xanana Gusmao.
Soares’ failure to identify his political posts is a breach of the election code of conduct under which all candidates and their official representatives pledged to act in a transparent manner, Filomeno Aleixo, member of Fretilin’s National Political Commission said today.
“It is misleading and deceptive for the official representative of a candidate to disguise his political position and pose as a neutral reporter of events,” Aleixo said.
He said Soares’ statement ignored the facts of the Australian troops’ unprovoked assault on Mr Agustino Ramos on March 26 and deliberately misrepresented Fretilin’s position on the Australian military presence in East Timor.
“The Ramos-Horta team should have sought to establish the facts of the incident and stood up for the human rights of an East Timor citizen rather than automatically leaping to the defence of Australian troops,” Mr Aleixo said.
Fretilin has protested to the commander of Australian forces in East Timor, Brigadier Mal Rerden over the assault which happened as a Fretilin convoy left Gleno in Ermera district after a peaceful mass rally in support of presidential candidate Francisco Guterres “Lu’Olo”.
An ADF vehicle attempted to push into the Fretilin convoy but was refused entry. An Australian soldier pointed a gun at the driver of a vehicle while another soldier pulled a passenger, Mr Ramos, from the vehicle, trod on him, and put a gun to his head.
Contact:
Filomeno Aleixo (+670) 724 3460 (Dili)
Jose Manuel Fernandes (official election representative of Francisco Guterres Lu Olo) : (+670) 734 2174 (Dili)
Arsenio Bano (+670) 723 0023 (Dili)
Sahe Da Silva (+670) 733 5060 (Dili)
Paulo Araujo (+61) 424 413 525 (Darwin, Australia)
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