A first batch of around 300 protesters arrived in cars and were escorted by foreign peacekeepers in helicopters and armored vehicles. They had all been searched for weapons at a road block away from the town.
Hundreds of other others vehicles carrying members of Mari Alkatiri's ruling Fretilin party were visible on a road leading to Dili, but the convoy was moving very slowly and it was under heavy guards, the AP reports.
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