insistence that the East Timorese supported integration, Indonesians were either shocked or disbelieved that the East Timorese had voted against being part of Indonesia.

Reprisals

Within hours paramilitary groups had begun attacking people and setting fires around the capital Dili. Foreign journalists and election observers fled, and tens of thousands of East Timorese took to the mountains. Islamic gangs attacked Dili's Catholic Diocese

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