[The following summarises a report from Yayasan HAK which was circulated in Bahasa by Fortilos.]

1. With regard to the casualties at Manuel Carrascalao's house, we have spoken by phone to a neighbour who said that yesterday, 17/4, he was able to count eighteen corpses, but there could have been more as, besides men, women and children were also in the house. In a quivering voice – because his home was full of security officers – he said that after the house was attacked, the security forces came and blocked the road outside the house and prevented anyone from passing. That evening several army trucks arrived and took away the refugees who had survived and those who were injured to an unknown destination. He thought that the corpses were also removed. As yet, we have no information about where the victims and refugees are and there have been no burials reported in any of the known cemeteries or prayers said for the dead. It seems that it will be the same as what happened after Sanata Cruz in 1991 and Liquisa on 6 April 1999, that the bodies will be buried in concealed graves to eliminate all traces. Manuel Carrascalao himself is still taking refuge in the Bishop's house while his home is heavily guarded by the police.

2. At 10 am today, the pro-integration militia were active in Becora, where they killed two people and injured several others with gunfire. The incident began when local residents were startled by the appearance of a vehicle and a motor-bike both full of militia, driving from west to east. As they drove past Becora market, they started firing into the air. People in the vicinity panicked and fled in all directions for protection. Nothing is yet known about what exactly happened to result in the deaths and injuries.

3. On Sunday, 18/4, we were told by people who had just arrived from Maliana that about seventy people living in Cailako have been murdered or have disappeared. This came after an attack on a pro-integration leader from the Bobonaro district named Manuel Soares Gama on 13/4. As previously reported, Falintil made an attack on a vehicle on 13/4 in Cailaco sub-district, district of Bobonaro, killing Manuel Soares Gama and several of his followers. In response to this attack, troops from the local military command, Kodim, under the leadership of Kodim commander Lt-Colonel Burhanuddin, shot dead five local residents in the presence of local administration chiefs (Muspida). During the next few days, Kodim troops along with members of the Halilintar militia rounded up and killed a number of local residents who were suspected of collaborating with FALINTIL.