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News Service: 184/99 AI INDEX: ASA 21/176/99 MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty International has today sent a Letter to UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, recommending certain criteria to ensure a thorough, independent and effective inquiry into serious human rights violations committed in East Timor in the…
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The Indonesian Government must ensure that the international humanitarian community has full and secure access to refugees and displaced people, according to Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Julia Taft. "Access to (refugee) camps by international organizations and…
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Resolution of the situation in East Timor must be a top priority for the international community, including governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations, according to Harold Hongju Koh, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. In September…
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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: New information is underlined. Overview Following an overwhelming UN-supported vote for independence from Indonesia, pro-integrationist militias in East Timor rampaged and plundered through several cities…
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BEIJING (Sept. 30) XINHUA - The China Red Cross Society ( CRCS) will send food and medicine valued at 100,000 U.S. dollars to East Timor, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue announced here today. In response to a reporter's question. Zhang…
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The remains of 10 East Timorese were discovered in the back of a pickup yesterday. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DILI, EAST TIMOR - As evidence mounts of grievous human-rights abuses in East Timor, it is…
Timor-Leste
By Nanette Braun From UNVNews #85 September 1999 On 30 August 1999, in a ballot conducted by the United Nations, the overwhelming majority of people in East Timor opted for independence. The former Portuguese colony had been invaded and subsequently annexed…
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Julia V. Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and MigrationTestimony, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights House International Relations Committee, Washington, DC, September 30, 1999 Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am particularly honored and pleased…
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September 1999 - February 2000Background In the aftermath of the announcement on 4 September of the result of 30 August ballot in East Timor, more than 500,000 people were displaced by violence in the region. Hundreds of…
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30 September -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to set up an international commission of inquiry on East Timor and to report the results by 31 December. The commission would…
