Independence Supporters Massacred at Suai, East Timor (1999)

The Suai Massacre (1999)
Up to 400 people perished in a brutal massacre at Suai. The yard where 1800 independence supporters cheered and yelled for independence is now a wasteland.

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“There’s blood everywhere, there’s blood on the walls, there’s blood on the scaffolding…” The towering half-built cathedral became the militia’s biggest weapon. “Bullets weren’t used to shoot people because they were probably expensive. So they’ve just literally herded these people up three flights of stairs and thrown them off.”
Still at the place where he fell are what appear to be the Suai priest’s glasses. There was no doubt that the militias viewed the defiantly pro-independence Suai a legitimate target. And here, as in the rest of Timor, it’s the Indonesian military that are labelled the real villains. “First when they burned the houses they were burnt by the militias, but the Indonesian military was standing behind them.”

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