1.   Another Quebec independence vote is expected within a year or two, and polls suggest that this time the separatists will succeed.

2.   A rogue militia has killed hundreds and displaced thousands since an independence vote last week.

3.   Indonesia wants to first ratify the independence vote, which it said would take two months.

4.   Marauding pro-Indonesia militiamen have murdered hundreds of East Timorese and forced thousands from their homes since the independence vote.

5.   Provincial Premier Lucien Bouchard, an ardent separatist, is expected to hold another independence vote before the end of the century.

6.   The council sent a delegation to East Timor a year ago when a massacre erupted after the independence vote.

7.   The militias appear motivated by what seems to be the unrealistic hope of reversing the independence vote or chopping off a chunk of East Timorese territory.

8.   There is no shortage of accusations about who is to blame for the catastrophe that followed the independence vote.

9.   There seems little possibility Bouchard will risk humiliation by calling for another independence vote next year, as he had pledged.

10.   A year after its historic independence vote, East Timor is literally rising from its ashes.