THE CRISIS in East Timor penetrated the headlines of the U.S. media only after tens of thousands of people fled street violence in the capital of Dili and the government invited nearby Australia to ...

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 ...

Almost ten years ago, UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq. His earlier work deserves to be remembered. In 1999, the United Nations officially established a peacekeeping mission ...

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 ...

Timor-Leste, or East Timor, is marking the 25th anniversary of its vote to become independent from Indonesia. East Timor had been under Indonesian occupation since 1975. Indonesia killed more than a ...

To date, only 12 people have been tried before the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court for East Timor in Jakarta, and 10 have been acquitted. Of the 10, nine were Indonesian military and police personnel. The ...