1.   The following day police officers shot dead six independence supporters and two passersby during a clash in the southeastern town of Merauke.

2.   Amnesty International, after a fact-finding mission this year, said militias were being trained and armed by the military and were using military facilities to detain independence supporters.

3.   Chen has moderated his views on China by pledging not to declare independence unilaterally, but his party includes many independence supporters.

4.   I say that an important portion of his voters are independence supporters, and so he must feel this pressure on him.

5.   In a speech to the nation on Friday, he sternly warned independence supporters that security forces would not tolerate any efforts to secede from the union.

6.   One victim buried in the provincial capital Dili was an independence supporter.

7.   The run-up to the ballot was plagued by massacres of independence supporters and clashes between the two sides.

8.   The violence has driven many independence supporters and their leaders underground.

9.   This week, there was some grumbling from independence supporters within the leadership of the Democratic Progressives, as well as among partial allies like Koo.

10.   Two people were reported killed when the militias fired into rock-throwing crowds of independence supporters, and a third was shot dead by police.