How do you know that there are more conflict-related deaths than have been reported to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR, by its Portuguese acronym)?
Conflict-related mortality in Timor-Leste (East Timor) consists of two parts: (i) famine-related deaths (i.e. deaths due to illness and hunger in excess of the total that would be expected if the death rate due to hunger and illness had continued as it was in the pre-invasion peacetime period.), and (ii) political violence deaths (i.e. killings and disappearances). The CAVR did not document all famine-related deaths and political violence deaths, only some of them. The CAVR’s statement-taking process reflects the experience of 7,688 respondents, but approximately 940,000 other East Timorese did not give their testimonies. The CAVR’s Retrospective Mortality Survey (RMS) reflects the experiences reported in 1,396 households, but omits the experiences of nearly 190,000 households not sampled. Furthermore, the CAVR was not able to enumerate every gravestone in Timor-Leste (for example, Chinese graveyards, private burial plots and some public graveyards were omitted). However, even if the C
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