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September 24, 1999

Sydney Morning Herald - September 24, 1999

Bernard Lagan – Suspected supporters of East Timor's independence were executed on ships taking refugees from the territory and their bodies…

Agence France Presse - September 24, 1999

Sydney – A map smuggled out of West Timor purports to outline Indonesian plans to disperse 100,000 East Timorese across the archipelago,…

The Straits Times - September 24, 1999

Kalinga Seneviratne – Australia has taken the high moral ground in organising the rescue of the East Timorese people, perhaps 25 years too late.…

Washington Post - September 24, 1999 (abridged)

Doug Struck, Dili – As a large contingent of Indonesian troops marched to the port to withdraw from East Timor today, the international…

September 23, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 23, 1999

Jakarta – Indonesia on Thursday lifted martial law in East Timor and said it expected to hand over control of security in the territory to the UN-…

The Independent - September 23, 1999

At Least 100 members of the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) in East Timor have deserted and joined the pro-independence Falintil guerrilla movement…

September 21, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 21, 1999

Singapore – An American journalist and activist deported from Indonesia said Monday he was convinced armed forces chief General Wiranto was behind…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 21, 1999

Lauren Martin – East Timorese resistance leaders had "disappeared" from militia-guarded refugee camps across the border, and the mainly women and…

South China Morning Post - September 21, 1999

Anne-Marie Evans – Eurico Guterres, leader of the Aitarak anti-independence militia, was made the head of a clandestine military-funded…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 21, 1999

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – The thugs of Dili's streets disappeared quickly. When the first Australian soldiers arrived in full combat dress, their…

September 19, 1999

The Melbourne Age - September 19, 1999

Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – East Timorese independence guerrilla commanders warn that Indonesian forces are preparing to resist United Nations troops…

September 18, 1999

Reuters - September 18, 1999

Lewa Pardomuan, Dili – Nine warships of a multinational UN peace force sailed for East Timor on Saturday and the force commander was expected to…

South China Morning Post - September 18, 1999

Joanna Jolly in Darwin and Irwan Firdaus of Associated Press in Baucau – As international troops prepare to go into East Timor, fearful refugees…

September 17, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 17, 1999

Lisbon – Indonesian soldiers and militiamen are laying mines in Dili, the capital of East Timor, as they stream out of the province…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 17, 1999

Philip Cornford – An assistant to East Timor's spiritual leader, Bishop Carlos Belo, claimed yesterday that he saw the Indonesian intelligence…

September 16, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 16, 1999

Strasbourg – Deputies at the European parliament on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that the European Union (EU) and its member…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 16, 1999

Dennis Schulz and Louise Williams – Pro-Indonesian militias are fleeing East Timor ahead of the arrival of peacekeepers, some saying they fear…

The Melbourne Age - September 16, 1999

Bernard Lagan, Darwin – Two suspected East Timorese militia members and a suspected Indonesian soldier are being held by Australian authorities…

Agence France Presse - September 16, 1999

Sydney – Pro-Jakarta militia are harassing East Timorese refugees throughout the eastern islands of Indonesia, an Australian aid…

Agence France Presse - September 16, 1999

Jakarta – The deputy commander of East Timor's pro-Indonesia militia has warned that the militia will put eight of the territory's 13 districts…

South China Morning Post - September 16, 1999

Anne-Marie Evans, Macau – Rui Lopes could count former president Suharto's son-in-law, Prabowo Subianto, and General Gleny in Jakarta among his…

South China Morning Post - September 16, 1999

Anne-Marie Evans, Macau – The political cleansing of East Timor was planned as early as February, one of the militia leaders present at a meeting…

September 15, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 15, 1999

Hong Kong – The Indonesian foreign ministry organized and paid for leaders of the pro-Indonesian militia in East Timor to be trained…

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - September 15, 1999

Compere: Which brings us to the war crimes issue more generally. And fresh evidence is emerging of the Indonesian military's complicity in the…

National Public Radio - September 15, 1999

One of the few journalists remaining in East Timor is Allan Nairn, Who writes for The Nation. We caught up with him in Dili today and asked him…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 15, 1999

The UN forces in East Timor at first are likely to be involved more in fighting terrorism than keeping the peace, argues Hugh Smith.

Lusa - September 15, 1999

Macau – A former pro-Jakarta militiaman has claimed that Indonesian forces eliminated more than 2,000 East Timorese by dumping them in…

Green Left Weekly - September 15, 1999

Doug Lorimer – The Democratic Socialist Party has called on supporters of democracy in Australia to mobilise to demand that the UN and/or the…

September 14, 1999

Tapol - September 14, 1999

[Dita Sari, the workers leader who was released from prison in July this year after serving three years of a five-year sentence, is now in the…

Straits Times - September 14, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces (TNI) appears to have organised the mass bloodshed that hit East Timor, after it voted…

September 13, 1999

Sydney Maorning Herald - September 13, 1999

Indonesian soldiers used rape as a secret weapon, but their "orphans: bear silent witness. Louise Williams and Leonie Lamont report.

Sister…

Agence France Presse - September 13, 1999

Darwin – An East Timorese support group claimed here Monday to have received reports that tens of thousands of people had died in a deliberate…

The Melbourne Age - September 13, 1999

Doug Struck, Kupang – A human rights organisation has documented atrocities in East Timor that implicate the Indonesian military and militias in…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 1999

By Michelle Grattan, Hamish McDonald, Bernard Lagan and Peter Cole-Adams.

Indonesia buckled last night and invited a United Nations…

The Times (London) - September 13, 1999

Max Stahl, Dare – This once peaceful hill station overlooking Dili was turned into a death site at the weekend as Indonesian forces surrounded and…

Agence France Presse - September 13, 1999

Kupang – A terror campaign by pro-Indonesian militia that started in East Timor has moved across the border to West Timor, where more than 100,000…

September 12, 1999

Agence France Presse - September 12, 1999

Darwin – Indonesian troops and pro-Jakarta militiamen were Sunday attacking thousands of refugees massed in the East Timorese town of Dare, a…

The Melbourne Age - September 12, 1999

John Pilger – It had been a long night of waiting for the Indonesian troop convoy to pass.

Two of us then crossed the border into East Timor…

International Herald Tribune - September 12, 1999

A. Lin Neumann, Bangkok – When machete-wielding thugs set upon journalists in East Timor after the territory's August 30 vote for independence, it…

September 11, 1999

The Independent (London) - September 11, 1999

Richard Lloyd Parry – It is a very long drive up the palm-lined, four-lane avenue to the monolithic headquarters of the Indonesia military just…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 11, 1999

Lindsay Murdoch who arrived in Darwin from Dili – The destruction of the capital is greater than anybody could imagine. Hundreds of houses are…

The Melbourne Age - September 11, 1999

Lindsay Murdoch Dili and Craig Skehan Kupang – Piles of bodies have been seen stacked in cells at the police headquarters in Dili, while East…

The Melbourne Age - September 11, 1999

John Aglionby, Kupang – When Ano Loy saw five Indonesian soldiers walking towards his home in Dili on Monday he was sure they were going to kill…

The Melbourne Age - September 11, 1999

Brendan Nicholson, Canberra – The United Nations and Australia encouraged the Timorese to vote even though intelligence services had warned that…

South China Morning Post - September 11, 1999

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists has issued an "urgent action" statement listing several Indonesian…

South China Morning Post - September 11, 1999

Most of the East Timorese killed in the violence that has swept the capital, Dili, were left to die where they fell on the street, a French doctor…

South China Morning Post - September 11, 1999

Barry Porter, Auckland – Resistance leader and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta said yesterday he had received reports that pro-Jakarta…

Reuters - September 11, 1999

Vorasit Satienlerk, Dili – A UN Security Council team toured the ruined capital of East Timor on Saturday as the world community drew up plans for…

International Herald Tribune - September 11, 1999

Kupang, West Timor – The Reverend Dewanto was the first to die, said Sister Mary Barudero. The militiamen had lined up outside the old wooden…

The Melbourne Age - September 11, 1999

Craig Skehan Kupang and Greg Roberts Brisbane – Aid and church groups are concerned that thousands of East Timorese refugees in camps in West…