Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Denpasar – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao voiced disappointment over the court's issuance of dozens of indictments of…
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March 1, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2003
February 28, 2003
Reuters - February 28, 2003
Dili – East Timor prosecutors charged more than 50 people on Friday, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 28, 2003
Mark Baker, Singapore – East Timor has warned that hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues vital for the country's development could be lost…
Radio Australia - February 28, 2003
The drought may be finally breaking in Australia, but in East Timor continuing drought is causing severe problems. A number of children have…
February 27, 2003
Far Eastern Economic Review - February 27, 2003
Mark Dodd, Dili – In the laboratory of Cafi Cooperative Timor (CCT), senior adviser Alistair Laird, a "cupping" expert, is applying a final…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
The failure of Indonesia's rights tribunal to bow to international demands for the prosecution of the alleged perpetrators of human rights abuses…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
Nug Katjasungkana, Contributor, Dili – On Tuesday, the Dili-based Office of the Prosecutor General of Timor Leste issued an indictment of former…
February 26, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin and Tom Allard, Canberra – United Nations prosecutors have charged the former Indonesian defence chief General Wiranto with…
Agence France Presse - February 26, 2003
The international rights group Human Rights Watch called on Indonesia to turn over for trial its officials accused of organizing atrocities…
February 25, 2003
Radio Australia - February 25, 2003
The United Nations Serious Crimes Unit has indicted General Wiranto, the former governor of East Timor, Abilio Soares and six other senior…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Yemris Fointuna and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur – The military commander overseeing the West Timor province promised tighter…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Tuesday Indonesia would ignore UN indictments of former armed forces chief Gen.(ret)…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – The United Nations on Tuesday indictedthe former armed forces chief Gen. (ret) Wiranto, along with six other senior generals and East…
Agence France Presse - February 25, 2003
Dili – Some 200 East Timorese staged a rally in the new nation's capital Dili on Tuesday to demand compensation for their past…
Agence France Presse - February 25, 2003
Dili – East Timorese officials blamed anti-independence militias Tuesday for an attack that killed two people, injured four and heightened…
February 24, 2003
International Herald Tribune - February 24, 2003
Shepard Forman, New York – Even as the United Nations focuses like a laser on Iraq, it must not lose sight of its other commitments. The UN…
Agence France Presse - February 24, 2003
Dili – Unidentified gunmen killed one person and seriously injured two pregnant women in an attack Monday on a minibus in East Timor, officials…
Agence France Presse - February 24, 2003
Dili – Anti-independence militias have launched a "terrorist strategy" to undermine Timor Leste's government before the planned United Nations…
February 22, 2003
Associated Press - February 22, 2003
Kuala Lumpur – Saying the US government deserves more credit for its Iraq policy, East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta on Saturday…
February 21, 2003
Evening Standard (New Zealand) - February 21, 2003
East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta, in New Zealand this week on a private visit, once had 10 brothers and sisters. Now he has six.…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 21, 2003
Deborah Snow – Charges are understood to have been laid against a former senior soldier in the Special Air Service after a long investigation into…
February 19, 2003
Radio Australia - February 19, 2003
Australia's Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock has been asked to establish a special visa category in a bid to allow a group of East…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Noted religious leaders grouped in the National Moral Movement (GMN) called on the government to halt the East Timor…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Jakarta – Former foreign minister Ali Alatas said on Wednesday that the offer of secession from Indonesia to the East Timorese in the…
February 18, 2003
Melbourne Age Editorial - February 18, 2003
East Timorese asylum seekers have a special case to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Last month more than 1000 East Timorese asylum seekers…
February 17, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 17, 2003
Jakarta – A former Indonesian military chief for East Timor said Monday he tried to prevent massacres in East Timor in September 1999 and that…
February 15, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – West Timorese people have demanded the United Nations to revoke a security status imposed on the province after a mob…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will use the occasion of the annual meeting of the United Nations…
Melbourne Age - February 15, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A small group of East Timorese ex-prisoners listens, transfixed, to the text of the UN's 1987 Convention on Torture.
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February 14, 2003
The Australian - February 14, 2003
Paul Toohey – Critically needed containers of medical, health and school supplies have been stockpiled on Dili's wharf because of heavy smuggling…
February 13, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 13, 2003
Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief General Wiranto on Thursday defended his record over East Timor's bloody 1999 breakaway from Jakarta,…
February 12, 2003
Australian Associated Press - February 12, 2003
Royal Abbott, Melbourne – Five Melbourne mayors have joined the Victorian government in appealing to Canberra to halt plans to forcibly deport 1,…
Reuters - February 12, 2003
Canberra – The United Nations and Australia agreed it was too early to withdraw peacekeepers from East Timor after riots in December but its…
February 11, 2003
Catholic News Service - February 11, 2003
Stephen Steele, Washington – More than three years after East Timor voted for independence, access to adequate health care, education and basic…
February 7, 2003
Lusa - February 7, 2003
Dili – The commander of Australian UN peacekeepers in East Timor has dismissed reports that former anti-independence militiamen have infiltrated…
Wold Socialist Web Site - February 7, 2003
John Ward and Peter Symonds – The Australian government is deliberately delaying the signing of an agreement with East Timor, known as the Timor…
February 6, 2003
Radio Australia - February 6, 2003
The UN Special Crimes Unit in East Timor has charged former militia commander, Joao Tavares, and four Indonesian TNI, or military, officers for…
February 5, 2003
Green Left Weekly - February 5, 2003
Ralf Scharmann, Darwin – Traditional owners in several Top End communities have offered sanctuary to 84 Darwin-based East Timorese asylum seekers…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – United Nations investigators have indicted ageing militia chieftain Joao Tavares and two senior Indonesian officers for…
Reuters - February 5, 2003
Jakrta – Indonesian prosecutors demanded on Wednesday that the former military chief in East Timor be jailed for 10 years for failing to halt…
February 4, 2003
Radio Australia - February 4, 2003
To East Timor, where a reported militia insurgency has put a spotlight on Australia's peacekeeping efforts in properly securing the border. Local…
Associated Press - February 4, 2003
Jakarta – The UN on Tuesday indicted 32 people- including 15 Indonesian soldiers – for murdering and torturing East Timorese during the country's…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 4, 2003
Sarah Crichton – The Federal Court has ruled it cannot hear a US oil company's multi-billion dollar compensation claim against the Commonwealth…
February 3, 2003
Australian Associated Press - February 3, 2003
Karen Michelmore, Darwin – Players in the multi-billion dollar Timor Gas treaty are hopeful of an outcome within weeks, as negotiations drag on.…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 3, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Hatolia – The United Nations is in a quandary after insecure border villagers demanded that it extend a controversial military…
January 30, 2003
Melbourne Age - January 30, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The United Nations' police chief in East Timor is refusing to resign despite criticism from Fretilin government officials…
January 29, 2003
Agence France Presse - January 29, 2003
Lisbon – The Bishop of Dili called Wednesday for the creation of an independent body to oversee the exploitation of Timor Sea oil reserves, the…
Green Left Weekly - January 29, 2003
Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne – Fivo Freitas is 28 years old, he sought asylum in Australia after leaving East Timor in 1999. Now he is preparing…
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2003
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A human rights watchdog on Tuesday denounced the government for poorly handling the ad hoc tribunal for human rights…
January 27, 2003
The Guardian (UK) - January 27, 2003
David Fickling – The spectacle of someone large and powerful picking on a weak and desperate neighbour passes as bullying in the average…