Self-Determination in East Timor: The United Nations, the Ballot, and International Intervention (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 158826033X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 171 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has also served as secretary general of Amnesty International and has worked for the UN and other international organizations in Haiti, Rwanda, and Bosnia. About the Author Ian Martin was special representative of the UN Secretary-General for the East Timor Popular Consultation and head of UNAMET.
A valuable perspective from one intimately involved A. Cheney Having been active in one of the 'constituencies of support' as Ian Martin calls them, I was eager to read the perspective of a senior UN official on the period between Habibie's June 1988 announcement that Indonesia would be willing to grant East Timor wide-ranging autonomy and the arrival on 20 September 1999 of
He has also served as secretary general of Amnesty International and has worked for the UN and other international organizations in Haiti, Rwanda, and Bosnia. . Ian Martin was special representative of the UN Secretary-General for the East Timor Popular Consultation and head of UNAMET
A unique inside account of events in East Timor from the lead-up to the 1999 elections to the reluctant acceptance of international intervention to check the violence that wracked the country following the overwhelming vote for independence from Indonesia.. His discussion of what followed - the activities of the UN mission (UNAMET) established to implement the election, in the face of violent efforts to coerce the East Timorese to reject independence; the election itself, with a historic 98.6% turnout and a 78.5% vote for independence; and the ensuing killing, destruction, and forced displacement - includes an analysis of the intense negotiations that led to the Indonesian government's reluctant a