Reports

From WEEKLY NEWS 24/00 15 June 2000 Current high temperatures and little rainfall are making it difficult for nomadic Mongolian herdsmen and their livestock to recover from the worst winter weather in 30 years, locally called 'dzud'. According to the latest…

News Release No. 2000/419/S New Report Challenges Popular Notions about Origins of Civil Conflict WASHINGTON, June 15, 2000 - New World Bank research suggests that civil wars are more often fuelled by rebel groups competing with national governments…

(USDA says 50,000 tons of wheat to go to North Korea) The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced June 15 that it will donate 50,000 metric tons of wheat to the World Food Program's emergency feeding efforts in North Korea. Following is…

World Health Organization, Dili Office, East Timor, in collaboration with the Infectious Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Preparedness Unit of the Interim Health Authority, UNTAET (28/05/2000-03/06/2000) Important points: A laboratory confirmed case of typhoid, and cases of clinically suspected measles and meningitis reported…

Human Resources Development Project 15 March - 15 June 2000 1. Background The violence which followed the referendum in East Timor in September 1999 resulted in severe damage to the health care infrastructure and a loss of a large number of…

Based on a an UNDAC briefing. 1. Clinical sequelae: # persons Deaths: 90 Serious injuries (eg fractures): 788 Other injured: 1789 2. Activites of daily living have returned to Bengkulu. Search and rescue teams have left. Water and food supplies appear adequate. The…

JAKARTA (June 14) XINHUA - The Chinese Red Cross here Wednesday donated 20,000 U.S. dollars to quake victims in Indonesia's Bengkulu province. The donation ceremony was held at the Indonesian Red Cross in central Jakarta and attended by Chinese charge d'affairs…

Observations and Analysis of a Fact-Finding Mission to the East Timorese Refugee Camps in West Timor, by Karen Orenstein, East Timor Action NetworkI. INTRODUCTION A delegation of congressional staffers, human rights advocates, journalists, and a noted filmmaker…

Dili, 14 June 2000 BODIES OF UNAMET STAFF EXHUMED The bodies of two UNAMET personnel, killed in the violence last September, were exhumed in Ermera on 10 June. This is the first exhumation done in connection with investigations into the deaths…