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        "msgid": "protesters-want-us-to-help-solve-timor-issue-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-11-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Protesters want U.S. to help solve Timor issue",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Protesters want U.S. to help solve Timor issue JAKARTA (JP): Twenty-nine East Timorese students who have holed up at the U.S. embassy compound since Saturday said yesterday that they want the United States to take \"real action\" to help solve problems in East Timor. The spokesman for the students, Domingos Sarmeto Alvez, told reporters who waited outside the gate at the embassy that they are pleased with President Bill Clinton's remarks at a press conference Tuesday night.",
        "content": "<p>Protesters want U.S. to help solve Timor issue<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Twenty-nine East Timorese students who have<br>\nholed up at the U.S. embassy compound since Saturday said<br>\nyesterday that they want the United States to take \"real action\"<br>\nto help solve problems in East Timor.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the students, Domingos Sarmeto Alvez, told<br>\nreporters who waited outside the gate at the embassy that they<br>\nare pleased with President Bill Clinton's remarks at a press<br>\nconference Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\"We appreciate the statement made by President Clinton but the<br>\nUnited states should take real and concrete action to help solve<br>\nthe problems,\" Domingos said.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton told a news conference on Tuesday night that East<br>\nTimor people should have a greater say over their own affairs and<br>\nthat he intended to discuss this issue with President Soeharto<br>\nduring his state visit.<\/p>\n<p>The students have been occupying the U.S. embassy compound for<br>\nfive days. They said they intend to stay there until their<br>\ndemands are fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>The students have called for the release of guerrilla leader<br>\nXanana Gusmao, serving a 20-year sentence for subversion after<br>\nhis capture in late 1992. They also want him to be included in<br>\nbroad peace talks with Indonesia mediated by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, the spokesman of the Armed Forces, Brig. Gen. Syarwan<br>\nHamid, said earlier that it was impossible to fulfill the<br>\nprotesters' demand because Xanana was sentenced through a legal<br>\nprocedure.<\/p>\n<p>Syarwan added that the students' action discredits Indonesia's<br>\nreputation on the international scene.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the students also held up a banner demanding that<br>\nIndonesian government release their friends who were captured at<br>\nvarious places, such as the Senen railway station and in front of<br>\nthe U.S. embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The students also said that they are considering accepting<br>\nthe Portuguese government's offer of political asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese Prime Minister Anibal Cavaco Silva in Lisbon early<br>\nthis week that his country's foreign ministry was trying to<br>\narrange for the group to go to Portugal. (yns)<\/p>",
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