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 ...

East Timor was a further stage in the shift to the ... the population against the onslaught of the Indonesian-backed militia. The CNRT leaders instead used the civilian deaths to agitate for ...

Many East Timorese returning from West Timor were abused for alleged militia links by local officials of the National Council of East Timorese Resistance (CNRT), UNTAET's governing partner ...

After an Independence vote in East Timor, Pro-Indonesian militia kill over a thousand.