JAKARTA: Former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie said yesterday that his government did not authorise the violence in East Timor in the run-up to the Aug 1999 vote on independence and described it as the work of criminals.
East Timorese voted four-to-one for independence rather than autonomy despite a savage intimidation campaign by pro-Jakarta militias.
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