JAKARTA, Indonesia — The last Indonesian governor of East Timor was convicted Wednesday of crimes against humanity for allowing government-backed militias to slaughter more than 100 people in 1999, ...

Following the bombing of Serbia beginning in April that year, September 1999 witnessed the launching of another neo-colonialist operation by the imperialist powers: the Australian-led and US-backed ...

After a long search, solutions have been found for nearly 4,500 children separated from their families during the upheaval in East Timor in 1999. Most have either been reunited with their families or ...

It is not easy to write with feigned calm and dispassion about the events that have been unfolding in East Timor. Horror and shame are compounded by the fact that the crimes are so familiar and could ...

On April 17, 1999, before his house was destroyed, before his eyes were permanently shaded by sorrow, Manuel Carrascalao stood in his driveway and said goodbye to his son. He was on his way to the ...

East Timor made steady progress toward self-government, with full independence scheduled for May 20, 2002. Under the auspices of the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), it held a ...

GENEVA, Dec. 30 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency today (Monday) said East Timorese who fled to West Timor amid the violence that followed the 1999 pro-independence referendum will formally cease to be ...

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