Jakarta – The East Timor pro-independence movement on Thursday claimed that the Indonesian military had conducted attacks on bases of rebel forces in two districts, just a day after it committed itself to halt all violence in the troubled territory, a report said.

The head of the Region III command of the Falintil, the armed wing of the East Timorese pro-independence movement, Falur Ratelai, told the Solidarity for Peace in East Timor (Solidamor) that soldiers had attacked Falintil bases in the districts of Aileu and Manatuto.

He said the attacks were conducted by some 1,200 personnel from the army Batallion 301 that had been in the area since April 12

The soldiers were attacking bases in Remexio in Aileu district, and in Soibada, Barique and Laclubar in Manatuto district, as well as conducting house searches in local villages, Ratelai was quoted as saying in a Solidamor press release.

The report could not be immediately confirmed with the military in Dili, Aileu and Manatuto, with telephone communications to Aileu not functioning.

East Timor military commander, Colonel Tono Suratman, was signatory to a peace pact between the pro-Indonesia and pro-independence camp sealed in East Timor on Wednesday.

Each of the two camps were represented by two signatories. Representing the local authorities were Suratman, East Timor police chief Colonel Timbul Silaen and Jakarta-appointed Governor Jose Osorio Abilio Soares.

The signatories of the pact pledged to lay down their weapons and support efforts for peace and reconcialiation in the former Portugeuse colony which has been rocked by fractional violence in the past weeks.

Tension between pro-and anti-Indonesian groups has risen in East Timor following jakarta's announcement in January that it could let the territory go if the people there rejected autonomy under Indonesia in a poll to be held in July.