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August 9, 2003
Australian Associated Press - August 9, 2003
August 8, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - August 8, 2003
Deborah Snow – The case against a former senior SAS soldier charged with kicking a militiaman's corpse in East Timor in October 1999 is set to…
Agence France Presse - August 8, 2003
United Nations – A UN official said today that an international tribunal to try Indonesian soldiers accused of massacring East Timor civilians is…
Antara - August 8, 2003
Atambua – Former Chief of the Integration Fighters Legion (PPI) Joao da Silva Tavares has called on all East Timorese people to continue…
Australian Financial Review - August 8, 2003
Rowan Callick – Australia's biggest investor in East Timor is reconsidering its role after losing a bizarre court battle against its former joint-…
August 7, 2003
Radio Australia - August 7, 2003
There are renewed calls for an international tribunal to re-investigate crimes committed in East Timor against independence supporters in 1999. A…
August 6, 2003
Agence France Presse - August 6, 2003
The United States said it was disappointed with the work of an Indonesian tribunal into atrocities in East Timor, after it jailed a convicted…
OneWorld US/IPS - August 6, 2003
Jim Lobe, Washington – International human rights groups have denounced as inadequate the three-year prison sentence announced Tuesday in Jakarta…
Jakarta Post - August 6, 2003
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Despite a prosecution request for the acquittal of Maj. Gen. Adam Damiri, the ad hoc human rights tribunal…
Melbourne Age - August 6, 2003
Jill Jolliffe and agencies, Jakarta – An army general was found guilty of crimes against humanity by an Indonesian court yesterday over bloodshed…
Melbourne Age - August 6, 2003
Dili – Australian banker Kirk McNamara has been cleared of petty theft charges. On Monday a Dili court dismissed accusations raised by…
August 5, 2003
Associated Press - August 5, 2003
Washington – US-based East Timor activists on Tuesday branded a three-year jail term handed to an Indonesian general convicted of human rights…
August 4, 2003
Radio Australia - August 4, 2003
An expert on the genocide in Cambodia has drawn parallels with Indonesia's policies in East Timor. History Professor Ben Kiernan says both…
August 3, 2003
Melbourne Age - August 3, 2003
Jill Jolliffe – An Australian businessman is facing six years' imprisonment in East Timor on petty theft charges laid after a complaint by the…
August 1, 2003
Radio Australia - August 1, 2003
East Timor's most senior judge has ruled the new nation's legal system should be based on Portuguese law, not Indonesian law. The controversial…
July 30, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - July 30, 2003
Dili – East Timorese police have evicted former governor Mario Carrascalao from his home of 22 years, in what he described as an act…
July 27, 2003
Antara - July 27, 2003
Atambua – The reconciliation meeting among East Timorese on the border between Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province and East Timor continues to…
July 26, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - July 26, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – A ruling by East Timor's only Supreme Court judge that national law should be based on Portuguese, not Indonesian, law…
July 24, 2003
Lusa - July 24, 2003
Dili – In a case observers say could have future impact on foreign investment in East Timor, an Australian construction company…
July 23, 2003
Green Left Weekly - July 23, 2003
Robyn Waite, Dili – More than a year after East Timor's labour code came into effect on May 1, 2002, three of the boards required to implement it…
July 17, 2003
Interpress News Service - July 17, 2003
Marwaan Macan-Markar, Bangkok – Ivete Oliveira refuses to let the past be buried, especially the past of women who were sexually abused by…
July 16, 2003
Associated Press - July 16, 2003
Dili – An East Timorese court Wednesday sentenced two pro-Indonesian militia leaders to eight and 12 years in prison for murdering five…
Australian Financial Review - July 16, 2003
James Eyers – East Timor's Foreign Affairs Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, has reassured investors that Timor is happy with the treaty on sharing the…
July 15, 2003
Melbourne Age - July 15, 2003
Liz Minchin – Australia and the United States should stop warning travellers that East Timor is a possible terrorist target because they are…
July 14, 2003
Melbourne Age - July 14, 2003
Brad Collis – When Sipriano Martins was in high school he had a code name to hide his identity. It was Saruntu, which means "fight like a crazy…
July 12, 2003
Melbourne Age - July 12, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Fatumaca – On a sentimental journey to an unusual former guerilla support base, East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao has paid…
July 10, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2003
Dili – Prosecutors in East Timor Thursday indicted 57 people, including 17 Indonesian military officers and four former pro-Jakarta militia…
July 8, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - July 8, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A new tactic by East Timorese prosecutors to bring war crimes suspects to trial has resulted in nine Interpol arrest…
July 3, 2003
Radio Australia - July 3, 2003
The new UN police chief in East Timor says one of her top priorities is to provide training to the local police force to take over policing of the…
July 2, 2003
Melbourne Age - July 2, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A United Nations official has confirmed that an investigation is under way in East Timor into prostitution and allegations…
Antara - July 2, 2003
Makassar – Hundreds of East Timorese, currently under the care of the Al Anshar Foundation here, and other refugees and students have…
July 1, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2003
An international rights group criticised East Timor's new police force for arbitrary detentions, beating some detainees and a trigger-happy…
Lusa - July 1, 2003
Dili – East Timor's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, criticized Tuesday the earlier pronouncement by Dili's Court of Appeal that a draft…
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2003
Jakarta – A general on trial before a human rights court on Tuesday rejected allegations that troops fuelled the 1999 atrocities in East Timor as…
June 28, 2003
Canberra Times - June 28, 2003
Nothing fades as fast as an international crisis that seems to be settled, as proved by the almost complete disappearance of East Timor from…
South China Morning Post - June 28, 2003
Marianne Kearney – One year after formal independence and almost four years after East Timorese voted in a United Nations-backed referendum to…
June 26, 2003
Green Left Weekly - June 26, 2003
Vannessa Hearman – On the eve of an official visit to Jakarta, Timorese PM Mari Alkatiri on May 30 called for an international tribunal in a "…
June 23, 2003
Australian Financial Review - June 23, 2003
East Timor won huge goodwill as it launched into independence. But Asia-Pacific editor Rowan Callick has discovered, in investigating a deeply…
Lusa - June 23, 2003
Macau – Dili's foreign minister, Josi Ramos Horta, said Monday that East Timor would likely be admitted to ASEAN's Regional Forum security…
June 20, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - June 20, 2003
Mark Baker, Phnom Penh – Australia has chided regional governments for stalling moves to admit East Timor to their annual security talks with the…
June 19, 2003
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - June 19, 2003
Sydney – Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday gave East Timor an open-ended commitment of military support. He said Australian…
June 18, 2003
Lusa - June 18, 2003
Dili – At least one person is dead and about 600 people are homeless after torrential rain lashed parts of East Timor at the weekend,…
ABC News - June 18, 2003
More than 600 people in East Timor have been made homeless by severe monsoonal flooding.
Anne Barker reports one person has died…
June 17, 2003
Australian Associated Press - June 17, 2003
East Timor is open for business, the world's newest nation said today. The nation was aiming to attract foreign investment in agriculture, fishing…
June 16, 2003
Agence France Presse - June 16, 2003
Lisbon – East Timor, one of the world's poorest countries, on Monday called on rich nations to boost international aid and reduce their trade…
June 15, 2003
Straits Times - June 15, 2003
Asad Latif – Indonesia has shown real statesmanship in its dealings with Timor Leste, the latter's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said during a…
June 13, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2003
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – East Timor has called on Indonesians to invest in the country, saying there are a number of business opportunities…
June 12, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 12, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – East Timor foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta reiterated here on Wednesday that his government did not intend to…
Lusa - June 12, 2003
Jakarta – East Timor's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, called Thursday for an amnesty for prisoners currently serving sentences in Timorese jails…
June 11, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - June 11, 2003
Jill Joliff – East Timor's prime minister drew fire from Jakarta yesterday after resuming his call for an international tribunal to…