Six to be charged after Timor fracas<\/p>\n
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): Six members of a pro-Malaysian
\ngovernment youth group which disrupted a meeting on East Timor a
\nweek ago will be charged in court, the national Bernama news
\nagency reported.<\/p>\n
Quoting Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Megat Junid Megat Ayob,
\nBernama said police had completed their investigations on the six
\nmembers of the People's Action Front, which broke up the Asia
\nPacific Conference on East Timor II (APCET II).<\/p>\n
Megat Junid did not identify the six, detail the charges or
\nsay when they would appear in court. Seven demonstrators from the
\ngroup, which comprised members of Malaysia's ruling National
\nFront coalition, were briefly detained after the fracas at a
\nhotel in the capital in which furniture was overturned and
\nparticipants manhandled.<\/p>\n
About 100 members of the group entered the hotel and stormed
\nthe conference, set to run for three days. Earlier about 1,000
\nanti-APCET II demonstrators had gathered outside the hotel vowing
\nto disrupt proceedings.<\/p>\n
The Malaysian government had opposed the conference, fearing
\nit would harm ties with neighboring Indonesia. East Timor was
\nformerly a Portuguese colony which integrated Indonesia in 1976
\nin defiance of the United Nations.<\/p>",
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