📅 11 June 1999
Security Council Resolution 1246 established UNAMET to organize and conduct the ballot. The mission made self-determination operational through registration and voting, while violence and intimidation...
📅 30 August 1999
Nearly 98 percent of registered voters participated; 78.5 percent rejected special autonomy within Indonesia. The result expressed a clear popular demand for a transition toward independence after...
📅 3 September 1999
The Secretary-General announced that 78.5 percent had voted against autonomy and said the UN would support the East Timorese choice. Pro-integration militias then escalated violence and forced...
