21.   Speaking through an interpreter, Mouzinho told the court that militia gangs armed with knives and homemade guns first attacked her house then moved onto the church.

22.   The army is widely blamed for organizing pro-Indonesian militia gangs responsible for much of the violence that followed the independence vote.

23.   The militia gangs escaped from the province along with the withdrawing Indonesian troops.

24.   The U.N. has repeatedly complained that militia gangs use refugee camps in Indonesian-controlled West Timor as bases for border incursions.

25.   The U.N. aid operation has repeatedly been forced to shut down after attacks by militia gangs on its staff and buildings in past months.

26.   U.N. officers believe rogue elements of Kopassus are still active in West Timor, training and arming militia gangs that are now crossing the border to destabilize East Timor.

27.   Unemployment is chronic in East Timor after its devastation last year by militia gangs who opposed independence from Indonesia.