Reports

This is a near verbatim transcript of a media briefing by Bernard Kerblat, UNHCR Chief of Operations, on the violence in West Timor. Dili, 8 September 2000 Good morning. Yesterday, 69 persons, including two international staff members, staff made up from…

This is a summary of what was said by Ron Redmond, Chief of UNHCR's Media Relations and Public Information Service, at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva UNHCR staff around the world are…

(New York, September 8, 2000) Human Rights Watch today backed the call from the Indonesian Human Rights Commission for an independent investigation, with U.N. participation, into the killings of aid workers in West Timor on September 6. The alternative is…

Analysis By Joe Cochrane, dpa Jakarta (dpa) - Perhaps the most surprising thing about the slaying of three U.N. aid workers in Indonesia's West Timor province this week was not the brutality of the murders, but that it took…

President Clinton said in a September 6 statement that he was "deeply saddened" to learn of the deaths of three employees of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) working on an international humanitarian effort in West Timor. "The…

Outrage over the murder of United Nations workers -- including one American -- in West Timor by Indonesian militias brought a call in Congress for continued suspension of U.S. military relations with the Indonesian military. There should be no U.S.…

Brussels, 7 September 2000 , 10913/00 (Presse 295) , P 124/00 The EU condemns with the utmost resolve the aggression perpetrated against a UNHCR team on 6 September in West Timor which resulted in the tragic deaths of three of…

Timor an Operational Success for UN, But Failure of International Will. WASHINGTON - The killings of four UN workers in West Timor today show the international community's failure of political will to back up the UN's good work, said international aid…

The JRS teams in Atambua and Betun are safe and awaiting possible evacuation following escalated militia violence which claimed the lives of three UNHCR expatriate staffers on 6 September. "Our staff in Atambua and Betun said in their last report…

Dili, 7 September 2000 ADDITIONAL STAFF EVACUATED FROM WEST TIMOR Sixty-nine people and the bodies of the three UNHCR staff members killed in yesterday's militia attack were evacuated to Dili from Atambua, West Timor, today. Another 70 personnel from UNHCR, UNTAET…