Sophie Douez, Canberra – The Federal Government yesterday denied refugee claims to 168 East Timorese who fled the then-Indonesian territory…
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September 26, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 26 2002
Asia Intelligence Wire - September 26, 2002
Robson Seth – "Kill the police" were the only words part-time soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hart, could understand, as he faced an angry mob of…
Sydney Morning Herald - September 26, 2002
Jane Counsel – A former top executive with US oil and gas group Unocal is set to reopen the debate about the Sunrise gasfield in the Timor Sea by…
Associated Press - September 26, 2002
New York – East Timor's fragile peace will only hold if the international community continues to provide assistance and not abandon the country,…
September 25, 2002
Dow Jones News - September 25, 2002
Ray Brindal Canberra – East Timor has been poorly dealt with by Australia and companies wanting to develop vast natural gas resources in the Timor…
September 23, 2002
Lusa - September 23, 2002
The leader of East Timor's Catholic community, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, appealed Monday to Portugal's people to give more help to…
September 22, 2002
Australian Associated Press - September 22, 2002
The Federal Defence Minister says Australian military commitment to peacekeeping in East Timor will be phased out over the next 18 months.
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September 21, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 21, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – New Zealand's Labour Government is the latest to reveal the skeletons in its closet over Indonesia's 1975 East Timor…
September 20, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 20, 2002
Ray Lilley, Wellington – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao has called on the international community not to forget his tiny new nation, which…
September 19, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 19, 2002
Jakarta – The Indonesian government and international agencies have agreed that as of December 31 this year, all East Timorese refugee…
September 18, 2002
Australian Financial Review - September 18, 2002
Geoffrey Barker – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao yesterday criticised the heavily armed Australian army presence in front of…
September 17, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 17, 2002
Munir, Jakarta – The first round of the ad hoc Human Rights Tribunal on the East Timor case ended in anticlimax as the suspects of crimes against…
Herald Sun - September 17, 2002
Keith Moor – East Timor is in danger of being infiltrated by crime gangs intent on using it as a stepping stone to Australia.
Australian…
September 16, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – Unsure about the outcome of reconciliation attempts by former pro-Indonesia fighters, leaders of East Timorese people in squalid camps…
Reuters - September 16, 2002
Canberra – Australia reopened its embassy in East Timor on Monday after it was closed following a threat against Australian interests in the…
The Mercury - September 16, 2002 (abridged)
Keith Moor – Victorian officers attached to the United Nations found the graves of 24 massacre victims and will this month start exhuming the…
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – The new government in East Timor would try to heal the psychological trauma suffered by many of its people in the 1999 violence when…
September 15, 2002
New Zealand Herald - September 15, 2002
Audrey Young – Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's Foreign Minister, is everything his country is not: highly educated, sophisticated and stylish.
…September 14, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - September 14, 2002
Nick O'malley – Fresh out of a Dili jail, Edit Horta, sister-in-law of East Timor's foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, island-hopped to Darwin in…
September 11, 2002
Lusa - September 11, 2002
A Dili court has sentenced a Timorese man who belonged to a pro-Indonesian militia to twenty years imprisonment for three murders that…
September 10, 2002
Australian Associated Press - September 10, 2002
Sharon Labi, Dili – They idolise Britney Spears, watch lots of TV and worry about what to wear to school. But one disturbing truth sets these…
Australian Associated Press - September 10, 2002
Sharon Labi, Fatuk-Hun – The red juice of the betel nut stains her teeth and runs down her chin, settling in the cracks of her lips and the…
Radio Australia - September 10, 2002
An Indonesian prosecutor has proposed that controversial human rights trials be moved to Dili, the capital of neighbouring East Timor.
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Christian Science Monitor - September 10, 2002
Dan Murphy, Wonosobo – Maya Friera's letter home is filled with re-assurances for her parents. The 8-year-old promises she's studying hard and…
Radio Australia - September 10, 2002
East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos-Horta says the country's fledgling judicial and prison systems are frail because there are…
September 9, 2002
The Mercury - September 9, 2002
Jamie Walker – According to the army, it began as a Melbourne Cup day joke. Hot and bored, a group of Australian soldiers spotted two Timorese…
Agence France Presse - September 9, 2002
A special fund to compensate former Indonesian government employees and pensioners in East Timor expects to make its first payments next month, a…
September 7, 2002
One News - September 7, 2002
Phil Goff – The Foreign Minister Phil Goff says it is a matter of shame that New Zealand, Australia and the United States did not…
September 5, 2002
Xinhua - September 5, 2002
Jakarta – The Indonesian government will host the 55th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for South-East Asia…
September 4, 2002
Green Left Weekly - September 4, 2002
Vannessa Hearman – On August 15 an Indonesian court convicted Abilio Soares, the former Jakarta-appointed governor of East Timor, of failing to…
SBS Dateline - September 4, 2002
[It's three years since the violence that accompanied East Timor's vote for independence. Then, thousands of men, women and children fled at…
September 3, 2002
Lusa - September 3, 2002
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo has called to East Timor's political leaders and the international community to begin moves to establish an…
September 2, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - September 2, 2002
[Kirsty Sword was a resistance fighter who became the First Lady. Now comes the hard part. Susan Wyndham profiles the wife of the East Timorese…
CNN - September 2, 2002
Dili – The fledgling nation of East Timor risks being exploited by organized crime and developing institutionalized corruption, because of its…
Australian Financial Review - September 2, 2002
Mari Alkatiri – It is a truism of the developing world that the blessing of petroleum wealth can be a curse. Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela…
Lusa - September 2, 2002
East Timor's religious leader has said that the Timorese people are "disenchanted" after three months of independence.
Bishop…
September 1, 2002
Australian Book Review - September 2002
[The following review of Don Greenlees and Robert Garran, "Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom" (Allen & Unwin…
August 31, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - August 31, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Gugleur – Gugleur has little to recommend it. Its people are subsistence farmers and the maize crop has failed this year. The dust…
August 30, 2002
Agence France Presse - August 30, 2002
East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao took stock of his new nation on Friday in a speech marking 100 days of independence, calling for greater…
Associated Press - August 30, 2002
Dili – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao on Friday asked his critics for more time to solve the vast problems facing the newly independent…
Reuters - August 30, 2002
Jakarta – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao urged his people on Friday to focus on the task of nation-building as the territory marked its…
August 29, 2002
World Socialist Web Site - August 29, 2002
Peter Symonds – The outcome of the first trials by an Indonesian court over the massacres in East Timor in 1999, prior to and following the UN-…
Far Eastern Economic Review - August 29, 2002
Stewart Taggart in Dili and Lor – Times have changed for Commandante Elias Falour. Once he was a leader in the East Timorese guerrilla resistance…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 29, 2002
Jill Joliffe, Dili – East Timor's Government is likely to ask the United Nations to set up an international tribunal to hear war crimes cases…
Guardian Weekly (UK) - August 29, 2002
John Aglionby – For anyone who is not in Indonesia's military it must be hard to understand why Colonel Herman Sedyono is not in jail. There are…
August 27, 2002
Lusa - August 27, 2002
Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Tuesday that East Timor's judges and court officials are to be trained in Portuguese and rejected a reported…
Washington Post - August 27, 2002
Ian Martin – The trials before an ad hoc human rights tribunal in Jakarta of officials implicated in the 1999 crimes in East Timor are not only…
Tempo - August 27, 2002
Alexandre Assis, Dili – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao was very angry when he heard the verdict of the Central Jakarta Ad Hoc Human Rights…
ETAN Statement - August 27, 2002
East Timor Action Network/US (ETAN) said today that it was "deeply disturbed" by East Timor's decision to give US troops in the new nation…
August 26, 2002
Melbourne Age - August 26, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Suai – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson rode into the eye of East Timor's human rights storm at the weekend when…