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Events on Monday 20 September 1999 1
1999East Timor Independence Referendum and ViolenceVote for independence triggers militia violenceEast Timorese voters overwhelmingly chose independence from Indonesia in a UN-supervised referendum on August 30, 1999. Pro-Indonesian militias responded with a violent campaign that killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands. An Australian-led international peacekeeping force, INTERFET, was deployed in September to restore order.