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SECOND GROUP OF POLICE GRADUATESUNTAET’s Office of Political Affairs will meet with East Timorese political parties and NGOs tomorrow, 14 October, to discuss the draft regulation on the Registration on Political Parties.
The second batch of 50 Timorese Police Officers graduated from Timor Lorosae Police Academy yesterday, 12 October.The graduates are now Police Recruit Agents and will be subject to three months of Field Training in the districts, like their 50 predecessors. On Monday, 16 October, a new batch of 50 cadets will start training.
Two officers from the first batch of cadets who graduated in July, have left the Force as they rated below average in the Field Training.
In other news from the Civilian Police, a six-week road safety program will be launched on Monday. In the first phase of the operation, police will stop international and Timorese traffic offenders and inform them about traffic rules and safety. Once the first phase is over, CivPol will start issuing fines in accordance with Indonesian traffic laws.
DISCUSSION ON POLITICAL PARTIES REGULATIO
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All ten existing parties in East Timor, as well as six NGOs, have been invited to participate.
DRAFT REGULATION ON RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
A draft regulation on a Peace and Reconciliation Commission will be presented in two weeks, following months of discussions and a workshop last Monday and Tuesday. The draft will subsequently be subject to thorough consultations, involving various interest groups.
Priscilla Hayner from the United States and Paul van Zyl from South Africa, renowned experts on truth and reconciliation commissions, left East Timor on Wednesday, 11 October. They visited East Timor for a week to assist the Steering Committee on Reconciliation, tasked to look into the possibility of setting up a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
BODIES OF VICTIMS OF OECUSSI MASSACRE BROUGH BACK
The remains of 61 persons killed in Oecussi during last year’s violence were brought back today from Dili, after having undergone forensic investigation.
The bodies were exhumed from a mass grave discovered in December last year in Passabe, some two kilometers from the southern border with West Timor, Indonesia.
Of the victims, 15 have been identified while 46 remain unidentified. They were killed in September last year by the Sakuna militia group in the villages of Tumin and Kiubis Elo, approximately 15 kilometers north of Passabe.
The remains will be buried in a cemetery in Tumin.
EAST TIMOR JOINS CAMPAIGN TO BEAT POLIO
East Timor has joined the global campaign “Race to Reach the Last Child: Countdown to a Polio-free World”. National Immunization Days have been planned for the next month with the aim to vaccinate over 100,000 children under the age of five, throughout the territory.
The campaign is organized by the Division of Health Services of East Timor Transitional Administration and is supported by national and community leaders, volunteers, humanitarian groups, international NGOs, UN Agencies and the Peacekeeping Force.
The national immunization days will start on 4 November in the districts of Dili, Liquica, Manatuto, Viqueque, Baucau and Lospalos. The children will receive a second dose on 2 December. In Bobonaro, Covalima, Ainaro, Aileu, Ermera and Manufahi, the first dose will be given on 11 November and the second on 9 December.
Approximately 600 immunization posts, mostly newly refurbished health centers and health posts, will be manned by two health workers each and assisted by at least three volunteers.
Polio, a highly infectious disease caused by a virus, can cripple or kill a child in bad cases.