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PHOTOS
a) Australian soldiers don their packs after reviewing their equipment during military exercises at a base in Darwin,
northern Australia. (AP Photo/Maya Vidon, Pool)
b) United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, right, meets with East Timor independence advocate and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Jose Ramos Horta at the U.N. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)
c) Standing beneath a banner depicting the violence in East Timor, Indonesian police officers with riot shields block
human rights activists from taking their protest to the United Nations office in Jakarta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
NEWS
1) U.N. approves peacekeeping force for East Timor 16/09/99 (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) The United Nations Security
Council Wednesday agreed to send a multi-national force to restore peace in East Timor, where a campaign of terror
against independence supporters has raged on unabated.
2) Australia on details of East Timor force agreement 16/09/99 (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) "We don’t want a repeat
of what happened some years ago in Bosnia, where the peacekeeping operation there had such a weak charter that, you
know, you ended up with peacekeepers chained to posts unable to do anything to defend themselves."
3) Horta: Indonesian presence in East Timor a bad joke. 16/09/99 (AAP) "It would be an affront to the people of East
Timor if the same criminals, the same rapists in the TNI who have been murdering thousands of people, who have committed
... atrocities, destroyed a whole country physically, would now pretend to be part of a multinational force."
4) US journalist captured by military in Dili 16/09/99 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) "The food situation is very
grave, for the refugees and the Aitarak, even for people in Dili city itself. Stores and warehouses have been burnt and
looted and destroyed. It’s probably worse than many other parts of the countryside."
5) Indon military may kill Aussies to salvage some self-respect 16/09/99 (The Australian Financial Review) For the
Indonesian military to salvage some self-respect from the mess it created in East Timor one thing is essential. The
peacekeeping force led by Australia must not have an easy time restoring security.
6) Indon students shot, beaten, in clashes over military atrocities 16/09/99 (AFP) JAKARTA - Protests erupted here
Wednesday as the UN approved sending troops to East Timor, with security forces opening fire outside the UN building at
students protesting Indonesian military atrocities.
7) Testimony by E Timorese Refugees 16/09/99 (Amnesty International) Amnesty International today released terrifying
testimony it has taken from two East Timorese refugees demonstrating how widespread the violence remains in East Timor.
8) East Timorese in West Timor to be transported across Indonesia 16/09/99 (Jakareta Post) Minister of Transmigration
A.M. Hendro Priyono said here that transmigration areas across the province would be allotted for the East Timorese, who
are being deported from their homeland following the Aug. 30 self-determination ballot.
9) Indon foreign ministry gave media training to militia 16/09/99 (AFP) HONG KONG - The Indonesian foreign ministry
organized and paid for leaders of the pro-Indonesian militia in East Timor to be trained in public relations ahead of
the recent election, the Far Eastern Economic Review said Wednesday.
PRESS RELEASES
10) Ireland’s Gerry Adams contacts Clinton and Blair over East Timor 16/09/99 (Sinn Féin) Sinn Féin President Gerry
Adams MP this afternoon wrote to An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and faxed messages to US President Bill Clinton and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair to seek their support for the immediate deployment of the UN Peace Keeping force which has
been agreed for East Timor.
11) Indonesian Unionists back East Timor freedom struggle 16/09/99 (FNPBI) "We call on the international community,
especially the workers to maintain pressure on the Indonesian government through strikes/industrial action, economic
sanctions and other forms of pressure."
OPINION
12) Now east timor, next West Papua 15/09/99 (OPM) East Timorese’s unanimous vote for independence is the beginning of
the road to freedom for indonesia’s "colonies." The events of 30 August 1999 will undoubtedly inspire others struggling
to disentangle themselves from the indonesian regime, in particular west papua (the western half of the island of new
guinea which the indonesians call irian jaya).
BACKGROUND UPDATE
Refugees fleeing and transported from Timor
Where abouts of pro-Independence East Timorese Leaders
Priests, nuns and leaders – dead or missing
List of Countries Planning Timor Peace Force
Pro Integration Personnel: which ones are war criminals?
Jakarta has accepted an international force in East Timor
Situation inside East Timor
The Final Solution
UNAMET closed down today – 14/9/99
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