West Timor, Former Refugees, and Separated Children
2009
Winston
Rondo: Putting one's heart into the refugees' plight
(December)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) -
Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in
2008 (May 2009)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) -
Timor-Leste:
IDPs returning home, but to ongoing poverty and lack of access to basic
services
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) -
Indonesia:
In search of durable solutions for all
2008
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) -
West Timor:
Displaced “new citizens” in need of better integration and livelihood
assistance
2006
Former East Timorese refugees still face difficulties
(10/2)
ICG:
Managing Tensions on the
Timor-Leste/Indonesia Border
(05/04)
Kompas- Fate of Timor refugees (3/21)
W Timor Bishop Wants
Governments To Arrange Lasting Solution For Former Refugees
(3/7)
Rights Activist Sarah
Lery Mboeik: Fighting Against State Hegemony (2/22)
Family will not give up hunt for daughter (2/12)
2005
UNHCR winds up West Timor operation (12/16)
UNHCR:
Solutions found for East Timor's separated children (12/14)
Ex-Militia Members Set Up Organization
(11/28)
East Timor
refugees left out in cash aid (10/21)
2004
Jesuit Refugee Service ends operation in West Timor
(12/7)
European Commission:
EUR 3 million for former refugees
(08/16)
Trapped by
Fear- E. Timor's Forgotten Refugees (06/14)
Refugees can no longer reclaim assets
(03/12)
Locals,
Ex East Timorese Refugees Abandon Resettlement Areas
(02/19)
East
Timor Refugee Aid Case Heats Up (01/15)
2003
Indonesian bishop rejects aid intended for East Timorese refugees
(12/09)
La'o Hamutuk:
East Timor’s Refugees in West Timor (November)
Indonesia:
Statement to UN on Refugees (11/05)
Asset
Registration for Refugees Up to March 2004
(07/30)
Organizations
Worldwide Urge Indonesian Action to Reunite East Timorese Children with
Their Families (release, letter)
(02/20)
2002
East
Timorese in Indonesia to Lose Refugee Status at New Year,
International Community Must Continue Efforts on Behalf of Vulnerable
Children & Adults (December 30)
Will the
Refugees Be Forgotten? (Winter 2002-2003)
Fate of East Timorese
Refugees in Indonesia Uncertain as Deadline Nears (08/30/02)
LH:
55,000 East Timorese Still Stuck in Indonesia
(May)
Backgrounder for May 20
Independence Day (05/06/02)
2001
Available from ETAN,
The Indonesian military occupation continues
for East Timor's refugees... 2 years after choosing independence 2001 $3
Rights Must Be Factor In Economic Assistance to Indonesia (IHRN/ETAN) (11/06/01)
NGOs Write UNHCR on Refugees (10/15/01)
Letter to La’o Hamutuk from SRSG Sergio Viera de Mello
and La’o Hamutuk Responds: Refugee Return Too Slow, Strategy Still Misguided
(08/16/02)
East Timor Action Network Urges New Indonesian President to Show Support for East Timor (07/23/01)
ETAN and NGO's Correspond with U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Regarding Refugee Registration (07/19/01)
House of
Representatives Write Powell on Refugees (7/16/01) and House
Committee leaders letter on Timorese refugees (7/11/01)
LHB
Editorial: U.N. & the Refugee Crisis (7/01) Three months later, LH published a
Letter from SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello in response to this
editorial, and
its response (10/01)
U.S. Responsibility in the West Timor Refugee Crisis
PDF (June)
Take Action to End the Refugee Crisis,
(June)
Senators
Write Powell on Refugees (06/25/01)
ETAN and CIS Urge UN to Reject Sham Refugee Registration in West Timor (06/07/01)
ETAN/NGO's Criticize Indonesia's Registration of E Timor Refugees
(06/01/01)
Aid Worker To Give First-Hand Account of East Timor’s Refugee Crisis as Indonesian Problematic Registration Moves Ahead
(05/28/01) Also: Background on Refugees.(5/25/01)
Aid Worker To Give First-Hand Account of
East Timor’s Refugee Crisis as Indonesian Problematic Registration
Moves Ahead (05/27/01)
Senators
Leahy & Kennedy on Economic Assistance for E Timor (05/22/01)
IHRN/ETAN: Rights
Groups Oppose Joint Training with Indonesian Military (05/16/01)
ETAN:
East Timor
Action Network Calls for Action on Refugee Crisis and International Tribunal on Anniversary of East Timor Vote Agreement
(05/04/01)
East
Timor Still Awaits Justice One Year After UN Inquiry Called for
International Tribunal (1/31/01)
2000
U.S. Congress Reaffirms
Support for East Timor in Foreign Operations Appropriations (Oct.
26, 2000)
Indonesia's Aid Donors Must Link Pledged Funds to Improvements In W Timor
(October 18, 2000) (see also additional
news and statements on CGI)
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Passes Ban on U.S. Military Ties to Indonesia
(September 27, 2000)
CNRT on Recent Events in West Timor;
Calls for International Tribunal, Postponement of CGI Meeting
(September 13, 2000)
CNRT Leaders on West Timor
Deaths (September 8, 2000)
ETAN Calls UN Deaths in West Timor Preventable
(September 6, 2000)
One Year Later, East Timor Still Needs
Justice and Security (August 29, 2000)
ETAN Chronology updating refugee
situation since delegation's return (July 18, 2000)
UN Briefing
on refugees by
John Sayles, Loren Ryter and John M. Miller (July 13, 2000)
Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! interviews Karen
Orenstein and East Timorese activist Aderito Soares. Hear the RealAudio.
Read the transcript.
(July 10, 2000)
A
Lesson From Timor: Don't Coddle the Indonesian Military, Op-ed in
International Herald Tribune by ETAN's Karen Orenstein. (July 5, 2000)
The Refugee Crisis and Accountability: Observations and Analysis of a Fact-Finding Mission to the East Timorese Refugee Camps in
West Timor - by Karen Orenstein, East Timor Action Network (June 9,
2000)
Returning
ETAN Delegation Calls for U.S. and Indonesia to End to East Timor Refugee Crisis
(May 11, 2000)
HRW:
East Timorese
Refugees Face New Threat (March 30)
1999
Amnesty International:
East Timor - The refugee crisis continues
(December 20)
HRW:
Forced Expulsions to West Timor and the Refugee Crisis (December)
TAPOL:
Report on East
Timorese Refugees in West Timor (November 11)
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