E/CN.4/2000/9 page 115 police station and the East Timor Central Police Headquarters (POLDA) before being released on 23 April 1999. 585. Roberto da Carmo, Gaspar Lopes, reportedly both members of Falintil, and Januario Andrade were arrested on 19 May 1999 by police in Aileu. They were reportedly detained at POLDA in Dili, where they were allegedly beaten and had their faces badly bruised. Januario Andrade was subsequently released. 586. By the same letter, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases transmitted in 1998 regarding which no replies had been received. Urgent appeals and replies received 587. On 11 February 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Syurki and Fadli, who were reportedly detained at Langsa Military Prison, and Ali Usuf, who was also reported to be in military custody. The three men and a fourth man whose name was unknown and who was under military guard at Malahayati Hospital in Medan, were allegedly held in incommunicado detention. All were arrested following a meeting held in the village of Matang Ulim, in East Aceh, on 3 February 1999. Soldiers from a military base (Koramil) at Idi Cut allegedly opened fire on people leaving this meeting, which, according to the military, was a meeting about the alleged "Free Aceh" separatist movement. 588. On 1 March 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of 11 men reportedly arrested on 22 February 1999 in Vatuvou village, Maubara sub-district, Liquica district, by a joint team of soldiers from the Indonesian Armed Forces and a pro-Indonesian armed paramilitary group, Besi Merah Putih. Along with seven others, they were reportedly taken to the police headquarters in Liquica. All 18 were allegedly denied food for the first days of their detention; seven persons who were reportedly ill-treated were reportedly released for medical treatment after human rights lawyers intervened. 589. On 7 April 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Alipiu Maya Moniz, who had reportedly been involved in passing on information about human rights violations in Suai to human rights monitors. He had reportedly been arrested by the ratih, a civilian militia, on 5 April 1999 in the south-western part of East Timor. This ratih was reportedly based at the Tilomar Sub-District Military Command (Koramil) headquarters, Suai sub-district, Kovalima district. In connection with his detention, it was reported that on 4 April, supporters of the independence of the territory of East Timor clashed with members of a paramilitary unit, Besi Mera Putih (BMP), in Dato, Liquica, after the BMP had attempted to arrest Felisberto do Santos. The following day, at least 17 people were killed by the BMP paramilitaries and the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) after another clash between BMP and pro-independence groups. 590. On 19 April 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Manuel Magalhaes, a member of Conselho Nacional da Resistencia Timorense and former Bobonaro Public Works District Head, and Rafael (no surname), who had reportedly been arrested in separate incidents on 12 April 1999. Manuel Magalhaes was arrested with seven other men during a joint action by ABRI and a paramilitary unit called "Halilintar" in Maliana sub-district, Bobonaro. The