What was the relationship between conflict-related mortality and conflict-related displacement?
The pattern of conflict-related displacement and conflict-related mortality (i.e. both famine-related deaths and political violence deaths) are positively correlated over time and space. On average, when conflict-related displacement increases (or decreases) at a particular time or in a particular region, conflict-related mortality also increases (or decreases). These phenomena are therefore likely to have a common cause. The pattern of rapid increase in killings and disappearances, deaths due to hunger and illness and displacement at the beginning of the Indonesian occupation is consistent with the claim that the occupation caused the increased mortality in Timor-Leste.
