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UNITED NATIONS (Sept. 9) XINHUA Indonesia has rejected U.N. proposed military intervention in East Timor, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Thursday. "President B.J. Habibie today told the members of the Security Council mission visiting Jakarta that he will welcome any form…

EAST TIMOR/INDONESIA -- Some 200,000 East Timorese, one quarter of the population, have fled or been forcibly deported to West Timor amid pro-Indonesia militia violence in the wake of the East Timor vote for independence, August 30. Despite repeated…

Australia's leading aid agency, Community Aid Aboard, has today (September 9) called for the United Nations Security Council to immediately authorise an ad hoc War Crimes Tribunal for East Timor. Executive Director, Jeremy Hobbs, recently returned from East Timor said 'The…

New York, Sept. 9, 1999 -- With much of East Timor cut off from the outside world, churches in West Timor are providing some shelter, food and basic medical care to people fleeing there for safety. Action by Churches…

Council members had briefings on 9 September from the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and the Council President on the situation in East Timor and the progress of the Security Council mission in Jakarta; they expressed their gravest concern at…

The MSF teams that were expelled from East Timor are safe in Darwin, Australia and have made it clear they would like to return to East Timor as soon as possible. The only place for direct action, at the current…

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At first glance, the reasons behind the Acehnese struggle for independence and their assertion of refugee status are not self-evident. Aceh is, after all, overwhelmingly Muslim, like the rest of Indonesia, and the Acehnese make no claim to a…

CONTACT: Franne Van der Keilen (410) 625-2220, ext. 3505 fvander@catholicrelief.org Tom Price (410) 625-2220, ext. 3615 tprice@catholicrelief.org Baltimore, September 8, 1999 - Catholic Relief Services calls for an immediate end to the violence that has led to a humanitarian…

Members of the Security Council on Thursday lent their support to the beleaguered United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), calling on the Indonesian authorities to take urgent and effective steps to guarantee the Mission's safety and security. Council members…