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The evening newspaper Terbit ran a photograph of charred bodies in a burnt-out truck in Dili with a caption saying they had been set alight by Australian troops, whereas the foreign media all reported that they were victims of militia terror.
The Sydney Morning Herald also prominently reported the murder, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, of 30-year-old Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes, who was the correspondent in Jakarta for the Financial Times of London and the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and who also wrote occasionally for the Christian Science Monitor . He was riding on the back of a motorcycle through the deserted Dili suburb of Becora when, according to his driver, who survived, six men in Indonesian army uniforms opened fire.
Still reporting from Dili, the SMH 's Murdoch said that East Timor might face a new wave of violence because of the collapse of Indonesia's military command structure.
The NYT and LAT say that 25,000 people in Dili have taken shelter and the former also reports that Australia is making plans to receive up to 100,000 refugees.
But, the coverage notes, despite what the WP calls a "scorched earth" situation in Dili, the U.S. is not ready to send in troops.