In Memory KAMAL BUMADHAJ was among the possibly
hundreds of people killed in Dili, East Timor, when the Indonesian army
opened fire on a crowd of mourners at a funeral march on November 12. Kamal,
aged 20, worked briefly as a translator for Multinational Monitor last
year. He had been translating for an Australian aid agency in Dili when
he was killed. Kamal was found in the street, bleeding from bullet wounds,
by a Red Cross representative. Indonesian police and soldiers prevented
the representatives from rushing Kamal to a hospital. Kamal's mother, Helen
Todd, was later told by a military doctor that he had died from loss of
blood and might have been saved if he had been treated more quickly. Kamal
was an exceptionally warm and generous person, who had decided to commit
himself to fighting the abuse of human rights. His work with the Monitor
was one small part of that commitment. We mourn his death, yet recognize
that he was just one of an estimated 200,000 people who have died in East
Timor since it was illegally occupied by Indonesia's military government
in 1975.