[lbo-talk] Union activist arrested by UN in E.Timor

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Tue Oct 7 04:44:49 PDT 2003


[I don't believe the occupying forces in Iraq have stooped this low...well not yet anyway.]

Australian unionist arrested by UN in Dili

October 7, 2003 - 2:14PM United Nations police have arrested an Australian union official in East Timor in what international unions describe as unprecedented and unjustified interference in industrial issues. Sydney union official Mick Killick was arrested and detained in Dili on Sunday after taking part in a peaceful community protest at the Dili Airport, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said. Mr Killick had travelled to East Timor to help establish a Maritime and Transport Union. "It was a sit-in protest at the airport to protest against the loss of jobs from an Australian-based company, Timor Aviation Services, and on the second day the United Nations police came through and only arrested Mick Killick," ITF Australian coordinator Dean Summers said. "It would seem they targeted him. "They took him to the Dili lock up where he has been ever since."

- AAP

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/07/1065292574454.html



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