TIMOR TODAY 10/11/99
PHOTOS
a)INTERFET soldiers carry an elderly East Timorese man at Batugede after he crossed the border from West Timor Monday,
Nov. 8, 1999. Over 100 East Timorese who fled militia violence following the August pro-independence vote returned to
East Timor after spending over three months as refugees in Atambua, West Timor. (AP Photo/Weda,Pool)
b)Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, right, is greeted by his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Duc Luong Tuesday, Nov.
9, 1999, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The future of East Timor has been a main topic of discussion during Wahid's whirlwind tour
of eight ASEAN nations. (AP Photo)
STORIES
1. Xanana wants fewer UN peacekeepers (10/11/99) DILI - (Lusa) - East Timor independence leader Xanana Gusmao would like
to see the eventual number of UN peacekeepers sent to East Timor reduced by two thirds from the planned 9,000, a source
close to Gusmao told Lusa Sunday. The president of the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) has already
informed the UN that he considers a force of 3,000 foreign soldiers enough to keep the peace, the source said.
2. Top E.Timor official says U.N. acting like dictator (10/11/99) LISBON, (Reuters) - A top East Timor leader accused
the United Nations on Tuesday of acting like a dictator in its handling of the former Portuguese colony’s move towards
statehood after 23 years of Indonesian rule. Mario Carrascalao, a vice-president of the National Council for Timorese
Resistance (CNRT), an umbrella political group, told Portugal’s TSF radio that the attitude of the world body towards
the East Timorese smacked of neo-colonialism.
3. IMF Takes Neutral Stance In East Timor Currency Debate (10/11/99) NEW YORK—The International Monetary Fund won’t
advocate a specific currency for East Timor during a transitional period of United Nations rule, the head of an IMF
fact-finding mission to the newly independent country said Sunday.
4. East Timorese militias scuttle transfer of refugees in West Timor (10/11/99) DILI, East Timor, (AFP) - Militiamen
prevented the transfer of refugees from camps in West Timor to a transit center in the main town of Kupang, the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday
5. Let’s further open up ASEAN (10/11/99) The Nation, Bangkok Over the weekend, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid
told Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai that he supported East Timor joining Asean. That is good news coming from a country
which had occupied the territory for the past 24 years and only recently let go of the troubled province. With Wahid’s
backing, there is no reason for other Asean members to obstruct the acceptance of the new independent country into the
grouping
6. Hun Sen: Some leaders do not want East Timor to join ASEAN (10/11/99) Indonesian Observer PHNOM PENH - President
Abdurrahman ‘Gus Dur’ Wahid arrived in Cambodia yesterday, latest stop in his whirlwind tour of Southeast Asian
neighbors. The president was given a red-carpet welcome at Phnom Penh airport by King Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister
Hun Sen and other top Cambodian officials.
7. First trickle of refugees return to East Timorese enclave of Oekussi (10/11/99) OEKUSSI, East Timor, (AFP) - The
first trickle of nearly 200 East Timorese refugees has crossed the border into the enclave of Oekussi but militia
intimidation in West Timor remains strong, an officer of the multinational forces said Tuesday
8. Timor troops may be monitored for fatigue in experimental measure (10/11/99) CANBERRA, (AFP) - Troops in East Timor
may have wrist monitors fitted in experiments to measure fatigue, a parliamentary inquiry heard Tuesday. An operational
safety team, the first to be deployed with Australian forces in an overseas conflict, was being sent to the territory to
examine this and other safety issues.
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