David Wimhurst
David Wimhurst
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Our mission was to verify that the voting centers the electoral council had selected physically existed. It had never been our job to determine the location of voting centers.
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There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines. People have ben waiting several hours now and in some cases they haven't even got inside.
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There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines.
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He has reported 10 minutes ago that he can hear shots being fired below him. People are screaming, and the Indonesian army is advancing up the mountain, slaughtering refugees. That is happening now, as we speak.
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It's like putting on a major performance without a rehearsal.
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From that we may be able to start to get a picture of who was involved.
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They did not injure anybody. Later, shots were fired by unidentified individuals in the same area. I can assure you no individuals were wounded by U.N. peacekeepers.
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This makes the identification of the dead bodies more difficult.
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All the mules have trotted down the mountains with their heavy loads. We're sending out helicopters to pick them up. We'll have a lot of material coming in today.
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People will see a lot of soldiers and a lot of police around to make sure people know the election is going to go smoothly.
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Obviously, we always hope that they will see their way to completing the Lusaka protocol and peace agreement, but all evidence to date suggests that this is not what they intend to do.
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But this is a long-term thing. There isn't going to be any short, quick answer to this one.
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Some polling workers didn't show up for work, so we're going to grab people from the crowd, give them some quick training and get them in there.
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It's not normal to have these ballots there.