• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

01 September 1999

State Department Report, Wednesday, September 1, 1999

(Indonesia/ETimor, Iraqi oil/Turkey/earthquake victims)  (270)
State Department Acting Spokesman Philip Reeker briefed.
INDONESIAN MILITARY RESPONSE ON EAST TIMOR IS "SERIOUSLY INADEQUATE"
The response of the Indonesian military to renewed militia violence on
East Timor is "seriously inadequate" and not in keeping with its
agreement of May 5, Reeker said.
Although the August 30 balloting to determine whether East Timor will
become independent of Indonesia took place without major incident,
pro-integration militias resumed their violent activities almost
immediately after the voting ended, Reeker said. One UN worker was
killed in the post-election violence.
Reeker reported that the militias attacked offices of pro-independence
parties, impeded access to the port and airport and set up roadblocks
to restrict travel in parts of East Timor.
Reeker was unable to provide information about what relationship, if
any, the Indonesian military has with the militias that want East
Timor to stay within Indonesia. He also declined to comment on calls
from some quarters of the world community for an international
intervention.