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(25 Sep 1999) Voice and effects
Tensions remain high in East Timor where the Australian led peacekeeping force has continued to detain dozens of suspected militia members for questioning.
But the UN forces are far from in complete control of the capital Dili after a number of sniper attacks and house fires blamed on militia members on the run.
00.00 Cornered by an angry crowd, this man, they claimed, was a member of one of East Timor's hated and feared militia.
He is suspected of being one of those who carried out atrocities including house burnings and killings against East Timorese independence supporters.
00.12 Australian peacekeeping soldiers had to force back the crowd - taking the man into custody and searching him for weapons.
Fearing the mob might suddenly turn on the man, the soldiers tied his hands behind his back and took him away for questioning.
00.34 In another incident Australian peacekeepers were helping to supervise the loading of Indonesian army trucks when another crowd claimed militia men were on board one of the trucks.
The convoy was quickly stopped when an armoured personnel carrier blocked its path.
The Indonesian army driver was shocked by the peacekeepers' sudden intervention who searched the truck and the men on board, 00.59 finding a machete but little else.
Thinking that more militia men had been captured, the crowd cheered and danced, but their celebrations were short lived when none was arrested.
But there is still a large element of danger and the militia remains a force to be reckoned with.
01.19 This fire is believed to have been started by either retreating Indonesian forces or some the hundreds of militia still hiding in Dili, demonstrating that the UN troops are far from in complete control of the capital.
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