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When the government failed to fulfill promises to compensate investors, rioters pillaged the capital, Tirana, and battled government-organized militias.
Anti-independence militias in East Timor terrorized rural towns yesterday after voting showed that nearly 80 percent of East Timorese favor independence from Indonesia.
The Guardian front-paged the news that British Trade Secretary Stephen Byers overruled Treasury officials by allowing financial help to Indonesia only weeks before militias started massacring people in East Timor: A $1.
The LAT draws a connection between the arrival of Indonesian army troops, sent to "restore peace," and the imminent refugee crisis: It was the army that trained, paid, and supported the anti-independence militias who're leading the killing rampage.
USA Today runs the Senate results on Page 8, leading instead with the FBI's quiet efforts to warn local police about the possibility that anti-government militias and hate groups will become increasingly dangerous in the coming year because of the apocalyptic significance some of them attribute to the new millennium.