Thursday, September 9, 1999, from Berkeley, California, USA The United States Information Agency (USIA) distributed the following digest of international media reports on the violence in East Timor. The digest is comprised of an overall summary followed by summaries of selected items. **** The rapidly unfolding situation in East Timor–where anti-independence militias continue to rampage […]
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The Crisis in East Timor: An Analysis
September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Dr Damien Kingsbury, Executive Officer of the Monash Asia Institute in Australia. Previously, Dr. Kingsbury was East Timor Coordinator of the Australia East Timor International Volunteer Project, the Australian NGO observer group […]
What To Do On, and In, East Timor
September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This is the draft of a forthcoming article in Indonesia Alert! by Agus Sari, Executive Director of Pelangi, an Indonesian non-governmental organization that focuses on environment and development. ———————————– What To Do On, and In, East […]
East Timor: An ASEAN-UN Solution
September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South. ———————————– Perspective Sept. 8, 1999 East Timor: An ASEAN-UN Solution By Walden Bello The world failed East Timor once, in 1975, when […]
Security Implications for an Independent East Timor
September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article was contributed by John B. Haseman, former US defense attache to Indonesia. It will be published in a forthcoming issue of Jane’s Defense Weekly. ———————————– Security Implications for an Independent East Timor John B. […]
Press Release by US Representative Benjamin Gilman, Republican-New York
September 7, 1999 This is the seventh in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. The following is a statement by US Representative Benjamin Gilman, Republican New York, chairman of the House International Relations Committee. ———————————————— Press Release by US Representative Benjamin Gilman, Republican-New York Statement on East Timor by Rep. […]
What Jakarta’s Papers Say About East Timor
September 7, 1999 This is the third in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Gerry van Klinken, editor of “Inside Indonesia” magazine in Australia. It appeared in The Age (Melbourne), on 8 September 1999. The article can also be found on the Inside Indonesia website at: […]
The East Timor Disaster: A Failure of Asian Security
September 7, 1999 The following is the first in a series of analyses on last Friday’s independence vote in East Timor, and the resulting violence by paramilitary groups. This article is by Richard Tanter, Professor of International Relations at Kyoto Seika University, Japan, who has written widely on Indonesian politics and East Timor. ——————————- I. […]
For East Timor, a Tough Transition to Independence
September 7, 1999 The is the second in a series of analyses on the current crisis in East Timor. This article is by Alan Dupont, director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at Australian National University’s Strategic and Defense Studies Center in Canberra. It originally appeared in the International Herald Tribune on Monday, September 6. ———————————————– […]
A Dark Scenario
September 7, 1999 This is the fourth in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Gerry van Klinken, editor of “Inside Indonesia” magazine in Australia. It appeared in The Courier Mail (Brisbane), 7 September 1999. The article can also be found on the Inside Indonesia website at: […]