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INDONESIA: JAKARTA: ARRIVAL OF UNHCR CHIEF SADAKO OGATA
English/Nat
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, has arrived in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta to discuss the refugee crisis in East Timor with Indonesian officials.
Early on Saturday she met with UNHCR staff...
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INDONESIA: PROTESTERS TRASH AUSTRALIAN TRADE OFFICE
Natural Sound
Angry protesters have trashed an Australian trade office in Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya.
They were angered by Australia taking a leading role in demanding an international peacekeeping force in East...
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Ramos-Horta meets soldiers
1. Wide of military camp with barbeque
2. Timorese soldier seating and drinking
3. Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor Foreign and Defence Minister, walking with a plate of food
4. Horta sitting down and speaking to others
5. Australian, New...
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Preparations for independence celebrations
Dili
1. Wide of parade of UN peacekeepers
2. Parade and podium
3. Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN Administrator of East Timor, reviewing troops
4. Close up of de Mello
5. De Mello awarding service medals to UNTAET troops
6. Troops standing at...
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WRAP Voting begins in ETimor elex; Alkatiri, Horta, Gusmao voting, polls close, observers
1. Voters waiting in line to vote
2. Woman waiting to vote holding card
3. Wide of voting station and officials
4. Ruling Fretilin Party leader Mari Alkatiri walks out of polling station and casts his ballot, and dips finger in ink
5....
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INDONESIA: EAST TIMOR: DILI: VIOLENCE CLASHES (V)
Dili, East Timor, and Jakarta, Indonesia 1 September 1999
Dili, Day shots
00.00 Pro-independence supporters throwing rocks at militia and running
00.05 Pro-independence supporter pointing machete at militia
00.10 Anti-independence...
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Scattered arson attacks and continued looting in capital
1. Wide of people gathered outside FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) warehouse
2. Various of people looting warehouse, taking away bags of grains and seeds
3. Wide of smoke billowing
4. Various of houses on fire
5. Various of...
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EAST TIMOR: DILI: FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE
French/Nat
The first contingent of French troops arrived in East Timor on Saturday to join the international peacekeeping mission.
The group includes 100 soldiers, medical and security staff.
The Australian-led multinational force is...
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EAST TIMOR: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM: VOTING BEGINS
Indonesian/Nat
The people of East Timor have been casting their ballots in the colony's historic independence referendum.
Voters queued up as dawn broke eagerly awaiting the opportunity to cast their ballot.
The United Nations has said...
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INDONESIA: DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST UN PEACEKEEPING
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Demonstrators have marched through the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to protest against their government's acceptance of a U-N-backed peacekeeping force for East Timor.
The international community had urged the Indonesian...
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East Timor: Gusmao Assassination attempt: suspects court appearance
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Three members of the small Democratic Republic of East Timor Party appeared in court in Dili on charges of attempting to assassinate the independence leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao.
Gusmao is widely expected to become...
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INDONESIA: TWO THOUSAND PRO-INDEPENDENCE ACTIVISTS RALLY
Indonesian/Nat
About 2-thousand pro-independence activists rallied peacefully in East Timor on the 23rd anniversary of the territory's invasion by Indonesian troops.
Indonesia annexed East Timor in 1976 but the United Nations has never...
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East Timor FM and Annan comment on warship furore
18 May, 2002
Dili, East Timor
1. Pan of Indonesian navy warship in Dili harbour
2. Indonesian navy personnel at ship rail
3. Ship's communication mast
4. Helicopter on warship's landing pad
5. Wide of warship
6. UNTAET officials in...
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USA: PORTUGAL'S PRIME MINISTER ANTONIO GUETERRES CONTINUES VISIT
Portuguese/Nat
NATO expansion won approval Thursday from the Prime Minister of Portugal, who met with President Clinton to encourage his stance in U.S.-Russia talks on the alliance.
But the U-S President was not so forthcoming on...
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Prosecutors demand 10 years for fmr East Timor Governor
1. Judge enters courtroom
2. Close up of judge opening session
3. Abilio Soares, former Governor of East Timor, enters court
4. Various of Soares sitting in court
5. Cutaway people watching proceedings
6. Wide shot of defence lawyers
7....
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USA: REACTION TO GENERAL WIRANTO'S SUSPENSION
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The United States applauded the decision by Indonesia's president to suspend his powerful security chief on Monday.
President Abdurrahman Wahid suspended General Wiranto, who is suspected of committing human rights abuses in...
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USA: INDONESIAN SEPARATISTS MAY RECIEVE GREATER AUTONOMY
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Indonesia's central government will not tolerate separatists who are fighting for independence in Aceh and other regions but is ready to discuss giving them greater autonomy, Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab said in Washington on...
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EAST TIMOR: GURKHAS LEAD SUPPLY CONVOY
Dare and Dili, East Timor, 28 September 1999 XFA
Dare
1. WS Makeshift hospital compound in Dare
2. WS U-N vehicle being pushed up a hill
3. U-N convoy arriving
4. Compound with aid workers
5. British Gurkhas
6. British Gurkhas...
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EAST TIMOR: DILI: AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ARREST MILITIAMEN (2)
Natural Sound
The Australian-led peacekeeping force has tightened its grip on Dili, detaining suspected militia members for questioning.
But it's still not in complete control of the East Timorese capital.
Militiamen and Indonesian...
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EAST TIMOR: SITUATION UPDATE (V)
Voice and effects
East Timorese leader, Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao, has called for a peaceful reconciliation between the divided peoples of the half-island territory.
The popular leader has been touring his homeland, visiting...
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NETHERLANDS: THE HAGUE: WORLD COURT DECISION
English/Nat
The World Court in the Hague has refused to invalidate an Australian-Indonesian oil exploration treaty.
The decision dashes the hopes of the East Timorese independence movement.
Despite the World Court's ruling not to...
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EAST TIMOR: DILI: ARRIVAL OF PEACEKEEPING TROOPS (2)
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Dozens of heavily armed combat troops from Australia, New Zealand and Britain fanned out across Dili airport early on Monday, in the first waves of multinational peacekeeping troops flooding into East Timor.
Amongst them were...
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Ramos-Horta says rebel leader must face trial for attack
1. Exterior of parliament building
2. Various of legislators standing up inside parliament building during East Timor's national anthem
3. Mid shot of East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao standing for national anthem
4. Mid shot...
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EAST TIMOR: INDONESIAN SOLDIERS CONTINUE TO LEAVE
Indonesian/Nat
Indonesian soldiers continued to leave East Timor on Saturday.
Responsibility for the province will be formally handed over to the multinational peacekeeping force on Monday, one week after it started to deploy to the...