Some of the 100, 000 refugees in West Timor feel terrorised by the presence of the militias.
That is indeed what anti-independence leaders threaten from their bases near the border in West Timor.
Once-boastful militia chiefs were reduced to wan bleating, threatening retribution from across the border in West Timor.
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In West Timor the anti-independence militias are a shadow of their former selves.
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After three United Nations workers were killed in West Timor in September, some donors threatened to hold back assistance.
In exchange, Indonesia repeated its pledges to reform its economy and to get tough with the militia groups operating in West Timor.
About one-third of the population fled across the border to West Timor, then as now part of Indonesia proper, to escape the devastation.
Often they dug up bodies and moved them to other places including Oecussi, a small East Timorese enclave inside the borders of neighbouring West Timor.
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Australian peacekeepers in East Timor shot dead an Indonesian policeman and wounded others during a skirmish along the ill-marked border with neighbouring West Timor.
Out of a population of around 800, 000, one-eighth had already been deported to camps just over the border in the Indonesian province of West Timor.
's Interfet force and used along the border with West Timor.
While anger toward pro-Jakarta militia, many of whom fled to Indonesian West Timor, remains wide-spread, Falintil recently met militia leaders in Singapore for talks on reconciliation.
Though some of the militia leaders are still at large in West Timor, where some 80, 000 refugees remain in camps, they have not managed serious disruption.
But reliable eyewitnesses speak of Indonesians loading up bodies into trucks and taking them to West Timor, and of corpses that have washed up on East Timor's shores.
Interfet is also only now beginning to get an idea of what might be transpiring in Oecussi, the East Timor enclave of some 91, 000 people which is actually within West Timor.
According to some estimates, as many as 200, 000 to 300, 000 East Timorese may still be hiding out in the mountains and jungles of the territory, while an additional 140, 000 may have fled to West Timor.
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By the end of the week, reports indicated that 500 militia members had gathered in the stronghold of Liquica, and that thousands more may have massed along the border with West Timor in preparation for an attack.
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The main object of the international force is to end the violence, by disarming militias on both sides and guarding against attacks from across the border in West Timor, where malcontents are reported to have been gathering.
In a flying visit on September 18th, the American defence secretary, William Cohen, warned him that Indonesia faced isolation if it did not act fast to disarm the militias in West Timor, where three United Nations workers were killed on September 6th.
Relocated along with other top leaders to Kupang, the capital of West Timor, militia spokesman Basilio Araujo warns that his foot soldiers have not all fled the territory: "We're encouraging our supporters to go back to their families, to go into the jungle, " he says.
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The United States has said that a restoration of its previous relations with Indonesia depends both on the armed forces cutting their links with the militias and on an improvement in West Timor, where more than 200, 000 East Timorese are thought to have been moved.
The militias, which are blamed for much of the violence in West and East Timor, were set up and backed by the Indonesian army.
This has even meant a resumption of training Indonesia's controversial special forces, accused of past human-rights abuses in East Timor, West Papua and Aceh.
Only the downfall last year of the long-lived regime of President Suharto turned East Timor from a foreign-policy irritation in the West to an issue that could be championed without risk.
The Indonesian parliament agreed unanimously to let the province of East Timor become independent, as thousands of refugees from the west of the island made their way back home.
Our more sophisticated competitors, Timor-Leste, Malawi, Republic of the Congo and the West Bank, grew in the 7% to 9% range.
For example, we were in a supporting role when West African ECOWAS forces intervened recently in Liberia and when Australian forces did their peace operations in East Timor.
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The conflict in West Kalimantan does not threaten the integrity of the state in the way that separatist movements do in East Timor (which will vote on autonomy proposals after the election), Irian Jaya and Aceh.
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