31.   Moderate DPP members have long wrangled with independence supporters over China policy.

32.   Militias who want East Timor to remain part of Indonesia have been accused by observers and diplomats of waging a terror and intimidation campaign against independence supporters.

33.   Peace has returned to the islands of New Caledonia after years of sporadic violence between independence supporters trying to break away from colonial ruler France and pro-Parisian forces.

34.   Police Lt. Col. Hulman Gultom has been charged with allowing anti-independence militiamen and Indonesian soldiers to attack independence supporters in April and September in Dili.

35.   Pro-Indonesian militias have been blamed for violence against independence supporters in an effort to intimidate voters.

36.   Several independence supporters have called for a U.N. peacekeeping force but Alatas ruled out any foreign troops in the half-island territory before the ballot.

37.   Several truckloads of independence supporters drove past the dwindling number of Indonesian soldiers, jeering and making abusive gestures.

38.   Soldiers killed two of them, both identified as local officials and independence supporters, because they fired at security forces, according to Suratman.

39.   The Atlanta-based Carter Center said Indonesian backed militias had upped a terror and intimidation campaign against independence supporters.

40.   The duties will include helping to disarm the pro-Jakarta militants that have been terrorizing independence supporters in an underground war of murder and intimidation.