| November 6, 2004 | - Abilio Soares, the last Indonesian governor of East Timor, was acquitted on appeal of crimes against humanity.
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Agence France-Presse
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| December 3, 2002 | -
The Canadian official who called George W. Bush a moron was forced to resign, and the president, who tried very hard to prevent the creation of an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks, named Henry Kissinger to be the commission's chairman. Kissinger, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile, said he did not expect to discover any conflicts of interest between his work on the commission and his work as an agent for various undisclosed transnational corporations and foreign powers.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
Peter Melchett, the former head of Greenpeace UK and board member of Greenpeace International, took a job as a consultant with Burson-Marsteller, the largest PR firm in the world, a company whose clients have included Nigeria during the Biafran war, the Indonesian government after the massacres in East Timor, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, Union Carbide, and biotechnology companies such as Monsanto.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
East Timor charged an Indonesian army officer with crimes against humanity.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Refugees in West Timor, many of whom believe that United Nations peacekeeping forces will rape and kill them if they return to East Timor, were being held in virtual captivity by pro-Indonesia militias.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Pro-Indonesian militia members killed and mutilated a UN peacekeeper in East Timor.
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