Wahid impeachment imminent

By Amit Baruah

JAKARTA, MAY 30. The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR), country's Lower House, voted tonight to convene a special session of the Upper House which will have the authority to impeach the President, Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid. The Upper House will be convened after a two- month period.

Ignoring thousands of supporters of the President who massed outside the DPR building, and at one stage managed to break into the Parliamentary complex, an overwhelming majority of the 500- strong House voted to censure Mr. Wahid yet again and call a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).

Late this evening, the activists began dispersing from Parliament and moving on to the presidential palace, residence of Mr. Wahid. Violence by the President's supporters continued in his stronghold of East Java in which one person was killed and the police fired in the air to disperse the agitators.

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