Reports

(as held by Afia Ali, OCHA Information Officer, Darwin) Two flights facilitating the voluntary return of East Timorese Displaced Persons (DPs) from Kupang into Dili were conducted today. The flights, organised by UNHCR, transported approximately 200 East Timorese to Dili. The…

As international troops continue to restore peace in East Timor, some internally displaced East Timorese, who fled or were forcibly deported by anti-independence militias to West Timor, are finally returning to their homes. Rev. Arlindo Marcal, Moderator of the Christian Church…

GENERAL INTERFET continues to conduct operations aimed at improving the security situation in East Timor with forces continuing to build a presence in western areas near Balibo. INTERFET forces deployed in East Timor number about 4,800 of which there are more…

Ministère de la Défense - Délégation à l'Information et à la Communication de la Défense Paris, le 08 octobre 1999 ETAT-MAJOR DES ARMEES Alors que la frégate Vendémiaire, après avoir assuré l'escorte d'un bâtiment australien de l'INTERFET, patrouille au nord du…

The situation EAST TIMOR Dili remains relatively calm. However INTERFET still classifies Dili as security level 3 (high risk where causalities are likely). Some militia have been sighted in town, often in the vicinity of military bases. A general surrender of weapons…

Press Release WHO/57 The World Health Organization's (WHO) operations will come to a standstill in Timor if no new money is found, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today. That would mean an effective end to public health coordination in…

As airlifts to Dili begin, Amnesty International warned today that refugees in West Timor indicating their desire to return to East Timor could face intimidation and attacks by militia groups. "Without adequate protection in the camps from militia attacks, refugees…

Geneva, Friday 8 October 1999 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) airlifted 173 Timorese to East Timor today at the start of a program to return displaced people estimated to number 230,000 in squalid camps in West Timor. "Today,…

GA/9633 The important principle of national sovereignty must not be used as a curtain behind which human rights violations were carried out with impunity, the representative of Sweden said this afternoon as the General Assembly continued its consideration of the…

by USC staff in Indonesia and Canada Despite news reports over the past few days that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will begin to repatriate the refugees in West Timor to their homeland, USC continues to receive…