Two-thousand dead in Timor violence?

A United Nations team investigating the militia killings in East Timor believes as many as two-thousand people may have died during last year's violence in the territory.

One of the investigators, James Dunn, told Australian radio that bodies were still being recovered, and that the initial estimate of a-thousand deaths may be well below the actual figure.

Militia fighters opposed to separation from Indonesia began a large-scale campaign of violence after a vote in August 1999 in favour of independence.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service