There was a big turnout for East Timor's first democratic election after centuries of foreign domination.
The Indonesian Government is convinced that autonomy is the best compromise solution for East Timor.
Some have found it easy to blame Indonesia for all the troubles in East Timor.
Even in such limited ways, then, the militias continue to hold East Timor hostage.
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In Maliana in western East Timor, returning locals claim that 45 people were killed there.
Its continued meanness to East Timor is a blot on its otherwise shining foreign-policy record.
Washington's relationship with Jakarta was first scaled back in the 1990s amid atrocities in East Timor.
And the general responsible for East Timor for many years was himself a Catholic.
In that sense, therefore, East Timor's independence ought not to be a precedent for anything.
The government desperately wants to draw the line at its capitulation over East Timor.
But it is clear that the army in East Timor is resisting Mr Habibie's plans.
Human rights, labour standards and, above all, East Timor make Indonesia a target for congressional criticism.
Small and impoverished East Timor may not be seen to be worth that cost.
This week Mr Habibie sent the commander of the armed forces, General Wiranto, to East Timor.
In East Timor, however, they became a political force, using terror tactics to pursue their aims.
They were driven out of East Timor after it gained its independence last year.
But the recent mayhem in East Timor made Mr Cohen's visit the most difficult yet.
Australia then became the only western country to recognise Indonesia's claim of sovereignty over East Timor.
Not unlike East Timor, some local people have found themselves disenfranchised in their own land.
He seems to believe that yielding on East Timor might open the way to separatism elsewhere.
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In East Timor the abuse there by the Indonesians over the last 20 years was absolutely outrageous.
Indonesia and Portugal seem to have achieved real progress in discussions over the fate of East Timor.
Although wrecked by the militias like the rest of East Timor, for Falintil it is a sanctuary.
Mr Cameron welcomed China's provision of troops for UN peacekeeping missions in Congo, East Timor and Lebanon.
Indonesia has a golden chance to cut its losses in East Timor, and to disengage with dignity.
The role played in East Timor's orchestrated chaos by General Wiranto, the armed forces' commander, is uncertain.
Panama, Ecuador, El Salvador, East Timor, the Federates States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islandss are dollarized.
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Habibie, Mr Suharto's little-liked and hand-picked successor, has said that East Timor could instead be granted independence.
After a 24-year Indonesian occupation, a referendum in East Timor had voted four-to-one in favour of independence.
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