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EAST TIMOR: UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION: GURKHAS
Dili, East Timor - 26 September 1999
1. Various British Gurkha soldiers handing out rice rations to East Timorese
2. Various of field clinic and military doctors handing out medicine and treating people
3. British female soldier handing...
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Gunfire, foreign troops, FM comments on crisis
1. Wide of crowd in front of rice warehouse
2. Various of East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta amongst crowd
3. Cutaway of onlookers
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese Foreign Minister:
"Be orderly and we...
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BELGIUM: EAST TIMOR PROTESTS OUTSIDE EU HQ
Natural Sound
Hundreds of people have demonstrated outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, demanding urgent international intervention in East Timor.
Most protesters were members of the Portuguese community in Belgium.
As...
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ETIMOR: VIOLENCE DUE TO INDEPENDENCE VOTE
Indonesian/Nat
More violence has erupted in East Timor - despite angry U-N demands that Indonesian security forces rein in anti-independence militiamen ahead of the August 30 referendum.
U-N mission chief Ian Martin accused Indonesian...
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Gusmao presser, more reax
1. Gusmao and Sergio Vieira de Mello, East Timor's UN governor, leaving building smiling and shaking hands
2. Media inside building
3. Gusmao shaking hands with people as he walks to the press table
4. Wide shot of presser
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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EAST TIMOR: U-N-T-A-E-T TAKES OVER TERRITORY
English/Nat
International Forces in East Timor (INTERFET) have formally handed over the territory to the United Nations, five months after troops landed there to quell the violence.
The United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor...
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INDONESIA: EAST TIMOR: MORE POLICE TROOPS ARRIVE
Natural Sound
An estimated 500 Indonesian anti-riot police have taken up positions in East Timor replacing army troops.
The move comes before the August referendum on possible independence.
Another eight hundred officers are expected to...
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Elex Commission says Horta has won 70 percent of vote so far
1. Wide of news conference
2. Various cutaways of media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maria Sarmento, Spokeswoman for the Election Commission:
"For candidate Francisco Guterres "Lu-Olo" obtained one-thousand and ... one-thousand one-hundred...
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EAST TIMOR: GUSMAO BIDS FAREWELL TO INDONESIAN TROOPS
English/Nat
In an extraordinary farewell gesture, East Timor's top rebel leader clasped hands and talked intently with Indonesian military leaders in a lounge at the Dili airfield on Saturday.
Indonesian forces started leaving East Timor...
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THAILAND: PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT SAMPAIO VISIT
English/Nat
Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio was stricken with fever and a severely sore throat on Tuesday, forcing him to postpone a historic trip to his country's former colony, East Timor, for up to three months.
Sampaio had...
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INDONESIA: EAST TIMORESE SEPARATIST GUSMAO PRESS CONFERENCE (V)
Eng/Indonesian
VOICED BY: Tanya Sakzewski
Only a few hours after being released into house arrest, East Timorese separatist Jose Xanana Gusmao spoke to the media.
Gusmao said that the future of the negotiations depend on peace and...
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INDONESIA: EAST TIMOR - UPDATE
Eng/Indonesian
About 200 people from villages around East Timor's capital Dili were sheltering on Tuesday at the home of a pro-independence leader in the city.
They said they left their homes after being harassed by pro-Indonesian...
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EAST TIMOR: SITUATION LATEST: AID AGENCIES
English/Nat
Aid agencies in East Timor have been making a concerted effort to get food aid to some of those who need it most.
They have begun the first mass distribution of food in the devastated city of Dili on Tuesday, giving out some...
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President shot in gunattack, rebel killed, failed attack on PM
Dili - 14 December 2007
1. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and President Jose Ramos-Horta shaking hands, posing for photographs
2. Assembled media
3. Ramos-Horta and Ban at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Ramos-Horta, President of...
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EAST TIMOR: BISHOP CARLOS BELO RETURNS
Natural Sound
East Timor's Nobel Peace laureate and spiritual leader Bishop Carlos Belo has returned to his devastated homeland.
Nearly one month after he was forced to flee the violence by anti-independence militiamen, the bishop...
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East Timor/Indonesia - Protest & Jakarta Sit-In
Timorese youths protest in Dili; Jakarta sit-in continues
East Timorese students defiantly stretched a sit-in on the grounds
of the US Embassy in Jakarta into a second night on Sunday
(13/11). The students were demanding US help to free...
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SOUTH AFRICA: CALL TO RELEASE EAST TIMORESE LEADER XANANA GUSMAO
English/Nat
The government of Indonesia has reacted cautiously to a call by South African President Nelson Mandela to release East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao from jail.
President Mandela said on Wednesday he had written...
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EAST TIMOR: DILI: LOOTERS BREAK INTO COFFEE WAREHOUSE
English/Nat
Hundreds of East Timorese refugees have broken into a coffee warehouse in Dili and looted everything they could carry, with international peacekeepers apparently choosing not to interfere.
The main targets on Saturday were...
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INDONESIA: EAST TIMOR RIVAL FACTIONS PEACE TALKS UPDATE (2)
English/Nat
Talks between the rival factions in East Timor came to a close on Wednesday without a deal on the smooth passage of August's independence vote.
Pro-independence and pro-integration factions signed a declaration that merely...
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Aftermath of violence, Australian troops on rebel search
1. Various of damage inside the house of Dominggus Sousa
2. Dominggus Sousa inside his house
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Domingos Sousa, President Xanana Gusmao's brother in law:
"At the moment I feel psychologically better because I am not...
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INDONESIA: US SECRETARY OF STATE ALBRIGHT MEETS HABIBIE
English/Nat
The U-S Secretary of State has decided to stop in London on her way home from Asia in an effort to set up meetings with British officials to discuss Kosovo.
Madeleine Albright's stop-over is to coincide with former U-S...
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USA: WASHINGTON: RAMOS HORTA EAST TIMOR SPEECH
Washington, D.C., U-S 17 September 1999 XFA
1. Medium shot Jose Ramos Horta walking to podium
2. Cut away audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Ramos Horta, East Timorese Independence leader
4. Wide shot Ramos Horta
5. Cutaway audience
6....
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UN: NO DATE SET FOR EAST TIMOR REFERENDUM
English/Nat
U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan has refused to finalise a date for a vote on East Timor's future, saying security conditions in the territory are still inadequate, but has agreed to continue registration for the ballot.
In a...
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INDONESIA: PEACEKEEPERS FOR EAST TIMOR UPDATE
Indonesian/Nat
Indonesian parliamentary leaders have given their backing to President B-J Habibie's plan to allow foreign peacekeepers into East Timor.
But the Indonesian President warned the international community not to go to far in...