Response to starving refugees<\/p>\n
Commenting on the article Refugees die of starvation (The
\nJakarta Post, July 27, 2000, page 2) we would like to give our
\nexplanation based on the results of monitoring carried out in the
\nrefugee camps and statements made to the service office concerned
\nby the Ministry of Health's South Sulawesi provincial office as
\nfollows:
\n 1. According to Satkorlak's June 2000 data of the province of
\nSouth Sulawesi, the total number of refugees is 1,067 not 8,500.
\n 2. The name of Xantos Norvaju Ximenes is not found in the sources
\nof the news.
\n 3. The correct number of deaths are five, consisting of two at
\nthe refugee on Jl. Racing Centre and three in Kasih Ibu
\norphanage.
\n 4. The cause of death is not starvation; three died of a chronic
\ndisease and two died during childbirth (a mother and child).
\n 5. Food aid was given on July 25, 2000, consisting of two tons of
\nrice: one ton at the Jl. Racing Centre camp and one ton at Kasih
\nIbu orphanage.
\n 6. The existing refugees are ready for departure to
\ntransmigration resettlement areas.<\/p>\n
M. DWIDJO SUSONO<\/p>\n
Head of Law and Public Relations Bureau<\/p>\n
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