Police tightens security in Kupang

Police tightens security in Kupang

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Police have tightened security at
United Nations representative offices in East Nusa Tenggara
following rumors of possible assaults over the weekend, Antara
reported.

The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor's (UNTAET)
representative office in Kupang was the first to get special
police protection as a group of 13 refugees has been staging a
hunger strike outside the building since Friday.

The hunger strikers demanded that the UNTAET leave the
province arguing that East Nusa Tenggara was outside the UN
administration's jurisdiction.

Earlier last week several hundred pro-integration refugees
gathered outside the provincial council to air their demands.
Initially the protest was peaceful but it eventually turned
violent.

The news agency reported that previously demonstrators also
handed a parcel containing a set of women's underwear to the
UNTAET representative in Kupang to be delivered to UNTAET chief
Sergio Vierra de Melo in Dili in a mocking gesture.