Timor protest against Sweden

DUBLIN - A protest outside the Swedish embassy in Dublin is to be held at lunchtime today by the East Timor Ireland Solidarity…

DUBLIN - A protest outside the Swedish embassy in Dublin is to be held at lunchtime today by the East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign over Sweden's decision to resume arms sales to Indonesia. Mr Tom Hyland, of the group, criticised Stockholm's lack of "moral difficulty in supplying weapons to the very people who are carrying out human rights violations in East Timor, a former Portuguese colony.