EAST TIMOR - Rebels kill unarmed police

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Timor: Rebels

kill unarmed police

International troops

begin arriving to quell rebellion

Thursday,

May 25, 2006; Posted: 8:46 p.m. EDT (00:46 GMT)

 

DILI, East Timor (CNN) -- East

Timorese soldiers attacked unarmed police in the capital of Dili Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said.

Stephane Dujarric said that Annan had dispatched Ian Martin --

formerly a U.N. special envoy to East Timor but currently head of the U.N. human rights mission in Nepal -- back to Dili " to

assess the situation firsthand. "

The U.N. Security Council may adopt a statement urging the East Timor government to take all

necessary steps to end the violence and calling on all parties to stop

fighting. The council is awaiting China's response to the statement

before bringing it to a vote.

An attack on the national police headquarters Thursday

lasted for an hour, Dujarric said, before U.N. police and military advisers

negotiated a cease-fire that required the police to leave their headquarters

unarmed.

" As the unarmed police were being escorted out, "

renegade army soldiers opened fire on them, " he said, resulting in the

nine dead and 27 wounded.

The latest unrest in one of the world's newest countries began

in March when the government fired 600 soldiers who had gone on strike against

alleged discrimination in the military.

It has prompted President Xanana Gusmao to request

international peacekeeping troops, some of whom arrived Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/25/timor/index.html

 

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