Dear Mr. Kofi A. Annan,
　　 Mr. Secretary-General George Robertson,
　 　Mr. Trent Lott,
　　 Mr. Denny Hastert,

Peaceful people without backing with weapons that they are no peace again. The major key of peacemaker focused over human rights, never hegemony.

People asked me "Would western human rights activist raise an international brigade to liberate Tibet? Will the United States rush to Taiwan's defense if it declares independence? Will the Taliban send guerrillas to China's Muslim-majority Xinjang province?" I returned that "people said I said, people want I want, people make decision", however, is to contain the political damage rather than to achieve referendum.

This is the just time when the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to send peacekeeping force to East Timor. The mission, which is endorsed by the United Nations but largely orchestrated by Australia is expected to move into the bloodied territory at the weekend.

Australia prime minister John Howard said on Friday (Sep. 17, 1999) his toughening stance towards Jakarta reflected a new assertive foreign policy profile for Australia in the Asia region.

DARWIN, Australia, Sept. 17 ---
Lucia Casella was born into a hell on earth. The houses of her homeland, East Timor, were burned, gunshots rang out and fighting raged outside as her mother struggled through hours of labor.

Eduarda Perriera Menezes, had no doctor, no midwife, no clean sheets, not even a private room when she gave birth to Lucia on Sept. 3. The baby was born in the compound of the U.N. mission sent to organize a referendum on whether East Timorese wanted to separate from Indonesia.

Indonesian-backed militia are blamed for a campaign of terror and intimidation before the Aug. 30 vote and widespread violence since U.N. officials announced Sept. 4 that East Timorese had overwhelmingly voted in favor of independence.

Menezes, 25, and her husband Albroa Mendonca, 31, were among more than 1,400 residents of East Timore's capital, Dill, who fled to the U.N. mission's headquarters after militia threatened to kill them.

From a canvas army tent, one of dozens pitched in a refugee camp on Darwin's outskirts, Mendonca and Menezes told how militiamen attacked their houses on the day before Lucia was born.

"Indonesian troops were shooting in the air, it was a signal for the militia to come inside the house," Mendonca said in an interview.

When militia armed with machetes came into the house, "we escaped through the back door," and sought sanctuary at the U.N. compound, he said.

Menezes went into labor the following night, three weeks early. Fighting was going on outside and three houses were on fire, said Mendonca. They could see the flames from inside the compound.

"I was sacred while the baby was being born," said Menezes as Lucia squirmed in her arms. "There was no doctor, no midwife."

She was helped by her aunt, Beartrice De Jesus.

More than two dozen babies born in the weeks surrounding the referendum were baptized at a crowded, noisy Mass at the small chapel in the refugee camp on Friday. Lucia was among them.

On the refugees' second day in the small tent city, many slept in army cots, or were fitted with clothes donated by residents of Darwin, a tropical city of some 95,000 people.

Elsewhere, children plucked mangoes from trees around the camp borders, set up in a spare lot beside a Timorese community center.

Military planes buzzed overhead. Darwin is the staging area for an international peacekeeping force which has been charged with restoring order in East Timor.

Officials feared some refugees would have typhoid or tuberculosis. But only one case of malaria has been diagnosed, said Dr. Vicki Krause, a health official.

On Thursday, Palmira Pereira, one of several pregnant women in the camp, gave birth to a boy. He is yet to be named.

This is what I said that handling the human rights and maintain peaceful way of democracy, it need weapon's support. Please give heavy applause to Australia, and appreciate the justice of U.N..