East Timor became a fully independent republic on May 20, following approximately 2½ years under the authority of the U.N. Transitional…
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March 31, 2003
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - March 31, 2003
March 28, 2003
Associated Press - March 28, 2003
Jakarta – East Timor has formed a new border patrol unit to replace international peacekeepers, the UN said Friday – a sign that the military is…
March 26, 2003
The Australian - March 26, 2003
Nigel Wilson – The Timor Sea Treaty will formally come into effect next Tuesday with an exchange of notes between Australia and East Timor in Dili…
Radio Australia - March 26, 2003
East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation has been up and running for over three months now and has accepted over 100 minor…
Agence France Presse - March 26, 2003
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has urged Canberra to allow 1,600 of his compatriots who fled to Australia about a decade ago, in the bloody…
March 24, 2003
Time Magazine - March 24, 2003
Lisa Clausen – The young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace. He was a child in 1999 when, swept up in the…
March 20, 2003
Associated Press - March 20, 2003
Jakarta – Ex-president B.J. Habibie told a human rights court Thursday that the bloodshed which swept across East Timor after its independence…
Lusa - March 20, 2003
Dili – East Timorese leaders expressed their "extreme preoccupation" and "shock" Thursday over the launching of war by Washington and London…
Lusa - March 20, 2003
Geneva – The minister of the Foreign Affairs of Timor said Wednesday that a "better solution" for the problem of Iraq "would be that the United…
March 19, 2003
Litchfield Times (Darwin) - March 19, 2003
Rob Wesley-Smith – Much joy from NT government and business has accompanied the rushing of the Timor Sea Treaty (TST) through both houses of the…
March 18, 2003
The Jakarta Post - March 18, 2003
Jakarta (Agencies) – Military authorities in West Timor have arrested six pro-Jakarta militiamen for their alleged involvement in last…
March 17, 2003
Associated Press - March 17, 2003
Jakarta – Prosecutors plan to soon appeal a string of verdicts acquitting Indonesian police and military officers accused over the violence that…
Agence France Presse - March 17, 2003
A military commander overseeing Indonesian West Timor has ordered his men to shoot on sight any armed militiamen found trying to cross the border…
Radio Australia - March 17, 2003
An Australian Army inquiry, yet to be released, has cleared members of the elite SAS of torture claims in East Timor. But it's believed the…
March 13, 2003
Australian Financial Review - March 13, 2003
Andrew Burrell, Jakarta – A senior Indonesian military officer convicted yesterday over the bloodshed in East Timor in 1999 will remain free,…
Straits Times - March 13, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's human rights tribunal yesterday convicted Brigadier-General Noer Muis, a former military chief in then-East Timor…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – In the mist of East Timor's central mountains, Florindo Soares explains why he helped kill his neighbour's brother 25 years ago.…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – Small boys play on a rusting warship off Dili harbour, the detritus of war that has become their home. On the beach, men scavenge…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – It is only a rough map, but the message is clear. East Timor is shown surrounded by Falintil freedom fighters, with a huge cross…
March 12, 2003
Asia Times - March 12, 2003
Alan Boyd, Sydney – East Timor is preparing for next year's withdrawal of United Nations peacekeeping troops with a diplomatic offensive aimed at…
World Socialist Web Site - March 12, 2003
Rick Kelly – The long standing plan of the Australian government to maintain control of East Timor's oil and gas reserves reached its dinouement…
Agence France Presse - March 12, 2003
Australia promised East Timor millions of dollars in a secret aid deal that convinced the world's newest nation to give up claims to a huge…
Melbourne Age - March 12 2003
Larissa Dubecki – The State Government will give financial aid to about 1600 East Timorese refugees in Australia fighting to gain permanent…
March 11, 2003
Melboune Age - March 11 2003
Tim Colebatch – They fooled me. Perhaps they fooled you, too. These days the spin doctors are everywhere, and they know how to pull the wool over…
March 10, 2003
Interpress News Service - March 10, 2003
Kalinga Seneviratne, Sydney – The Australian government is denying claims that it bullied the world's newest country, and one of its poorest –…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2003
Aboeprijadi Santoso – Instead of expressing regret over Dili's indictment of Indonesian generals (as East Timor President Xanana Gusmao did) or…
Lusa - March 10, 2003
Dili – The East Timorese government defended today the imposition of restraints on the activities of foreigners in Timor-Leste and rejected…
March 8, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - March 8 2003
Richard Woolcott – John Howard may regard intervention in East Timor as Australia's "most positive and noble act" in 20 years, but our most senior…
March 7, 2003
Australian Associated Press - March 7, 2003
Prime Minister John Howard denied yesterday bullying East Timor over a lucrative gas project as Parliament passed the crucial Timor Sea Treaty.…
The Australian - March 7, 2003
Steve Lewis and Nigel Wilson – Relations between Australia and East Timor have deteriorated even as they signed a breakthrough agreement yesterday…
The Australian - March 7, 2003
Mark Phillips – Australian troops in East Timor have broken up an organised crime gang after a gun battle that left a gangster dead and another…
March 6, 2003
South China Morning Post - March 6, 2003
Chris McCall, Laivai – L7 is disgusted with East Timor's government. Its leaders ran away from war to save their skins, he said, and are now back…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
Cynthia Banham – The Howard Government is facing dissent from its backbenches over a decision to deport more than 1000 East Timorese refugees.…
Melbourne Age - March 6, 2003
Mark Baker – East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the signing of an agreement to clear…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
Mark Baker, Singapore and Mark Riley, Canberra – East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the…
Jakarta Post - March 6, 2003
Kurniawan Hari and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The recent indictment of several Indonesian military officers in East Timor shows that the…
Associated Press - March 6, 2003
Jakarta – A top Indonesian Cabinet minister warned East Timor not to press ahead with the prosecutions of several Indonesian generals for alleged…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
The formal indictment of Indonesia's former armed forces chief, retired General Wiranto, and seven of his senior military officers for war crimes…
March 5, 2003
Lusa - March 5, 2003
Washington – A US rights group has urged Washington and the United Nations to press Jakarta to colaborate with East Timor in trying…
Radio Australia - March 5, 2003
United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan has recommended to the Security Council to slow the withdrawal of UN troops from East Timor. Citing…
Radio Australia - March 5, 2003
The Australian Parliament is expected to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty this week, ensuring a 20-billion dollar contract for natural gas can go ahead…
Lusa - March 5, 2003
Dili – East Timor on Wednesday created a new post of vice-prime minister in a bid to boost government efficiency in the world's newest…
Green Left Weekly - March 5, 2003
Kate Stockdale, Darwin – Local community organisations, politicians and activists – meeting regularly as the Refugee Action Network (RAN) – are…
March 4, 2003
The Australian - March 4, 2003
Nigel Wilson – Last-minute negotiations are taking place on arrangements between Australia and East Timor that could result in legislation…
Melbourne Age - March 4, 2003
Reverend David Pargeter – In 1990 a large regional military power, Iraq, invaded a small neighbour, Kuwait, after accusing it of stealing oil from…
Posted on the ASAP News List - March 4, 2003
Max Lane – The article by Jose Ramos Horta defending the "aggressive strategy" of the US administration of George W Bush towards Iraq is not a…
March 3, 2003
Reuters - March 3, 2003
Jakarta – The East Timor government on Monday sought to distance itself from indictments issued against a former Indonesian armed forces chief…
March 2, 2003
Melbourne Age - March 2, 2003
Larry Schwartz – The boys have been asking their father why they must leave family and friends in suburban Melbourne and go to another country.…
Agence France Presse - March 2, 2003
Dili – Sitting by the road on the Dili waterfront, Jose Belo Pereira ekes out a living selling coconuts to passers-by. His two-dollar-a-day profit…
March 1, 2003
Straits Times - March 1, 2003
Dili – Timor Leste prosecutors charged more than 50 people, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against humanity…