EAST TIMOR - E Timor tells troops to end strike

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Timor tells troops to end strike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rights activists

say the rules guiding promotion are not clear

 

 

 

East

Timor's authorities have called on some 400 soldiers to return to barracks

after they went on strike last month over pay and conditions.

Military leaders have told the strikers to go back to work or

face dismissal.

The protest, which began on 8

February, involves around a quarter of East Timor's total number

of troops.

The East Timorese army was formed after the end of Indonesian

rule in 1999. Many of the troops are former independence fighters.

" We are striking because something is wrong... in the

process of recruitment and in the process of promotion. We also want good

conditions and a good atmosphere to do our duty as soldiers, " Gastao

Salsinha, a co-ordinator of the strike, told the Associated Press.

Colonel Lere Anan Timor, deputy chief of the

East Timor Defence Force, called on them to return to their barracks by

Wednesday or face penalties.

" We still consider them as soldiers, but if they do not

return... they are at risk of mass sacking, " he said.

The East Timorese president's security

advisor, Paulo Aziz, told the BBC that the soldiers' grievances

could not be properly investigated until they returned to base and spoke to

the authorities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4762704.stm

 

 

 

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on 8 February 2006.

 

 

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