Dili and Helsinki calmer already
I haven't been updating my blog properly for a while, so I haven't reported that it was not only Dili in turmoil, but we had some terrifying incidents here in Helsinki too. These things happened around 1st of May celebrations, which are a really big thing here, but I missed them this year because of an irritating deadline for a conference paper, set very untoughtfully to 1st of May (no cultural sensitivity there!).
Robin has been covering both Dili and Helsinki incidents in his blog, so look there. As he's promised to avoid copying and pasting any more press releases, I save him from that and put the latest press release regarding Dili situation here:
Robin has been covering both Dili and Helsinki incidents in his blog, so look there. As he's promised to avoid copying and pasting any more press releases, I save him from that and put the latest press release regarding Dili situation here:
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REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE TIMOR-LESTE
GABINETE DO PRIMEIRO-MINISTROPRESS RELEASE
High Level Commission starts the hearings with the ex-military
The High Level Commission will start in the next few days the hearings for the ex-military that of the “petitioners” group. The ex-military that will be heard by the members of the commission belong to a group of 51 people that is in Maliana.
At the same time, contacts are being maintained with the other ex-military that are in the districts of Aileu, Oe-Cusse and Ermera. O Government believes that soon these men and women can be heard in connection to the work that is being developed by the Commission which has representatives from the four sovereign bodies, the Catholic Church and civil society, and whose purpose is to find the truth behind the claims made by the “petitioners” regarding life within the F-FDTL.
Contact is also being maintained between the 20 members that are a part of the F-FDTL and the Timor-Leste National Police and their respective chiefs. The Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri, hopes that soon, these man can go back to their units. Until now, a harsher action against these men, forcing them to go back, has not yet been considered by the Government.
The Minister for Labour and Social Reinsertion, Arsénio Bano, delivered yesterday five tonnes of food the for the people that fled and are now in the Aileu district, and has also maintained contacts with the group of about 350 ex-military “petitioners” in order to debate over ways on how the proceed on the humanitarian and financial support that the Government intends to give to the ex-military, so as to integrate them in civil life.
Díli, May 11 2006
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