The Indonesian commander of West Timor said Tuesday there were "one or two people" among his forces who "continued efforts" to derail…
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July 23, 2002
Lusa - July 23, 2002
International Organisation for Migration - July 23, 2002
Jean Philippe Chauzy (Extract) – Yesterday some 1,100 East Timorese refugees returned home to East Timor from the towns of Soe and…
Jesuit Refugee Service - July 23, 2002
On 22 July more than a thousand East Timor refugees set off on their journey to cross the border from West Timor and return home.
JRS in…
Agence France Presse - July 23, 2002
Jakarta – East Timor's army on Tuesday replaced United Nations peacekeepers in one district of the new nation – the first step in a 20-month…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 23, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – Three Australian soldiers are being investigated over an alleged assault on a United Nations employee outside…
July 22, 2002
Deutsche Presse Agentur - July 22, 2002
Washington – East Timor, the world's youngest nation, was due to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Tuesday, the lending…
Agence France Presse - July 22, 2002
An Indonesian general admitted on Monday that some soldiers and civilians have been trying to discourage the tens of thousands of East Timorese…
Lusa - July 22, 2002
Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has rejected domestic and international criticism of a government amnesty and sentence reduction bill…
July 20, 2002
BBC World Monitoring - July 20, 2002
Poor countries should spend less money on weapons and seek to resolve their internal differences or differences with their neighbours via dialogue…
July 19, 2002
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Berni K. Mustafa, Jakarta – Legal experts have welcomed the presence of the United Nations' special rapporteur on the Indonesian judicial system,…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The British Government has told families of the two British journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 that it will…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hopes for East Timorese refugees to escape starvation went up in smoke in just 24 hours on Thursday as the East Nusa…
Lusa - July 19, 2002
Dili and a Portugal Telecom-led consortium signed a 15-year concession Friday for the Lisbon-headquartered company to establish and…
Reuters - July 19, 2002
Jakarta – A UN legal investigator looking into Indonesia's judiciary added his voice on Friday to criticism of how the trials into East Timor…
UN News - July 19, 2002
East Timorese officials today told a United Nations meeting on children that the new nation was on the verge of adopting an international treaty…
July 18, 2002
Human Rights Watch Press Release - July 18, 2002
New York – A proposed amnesty law in East Timor could undermine due process and equal protection of the law and allow those responsible for some…
The Guardian (UK) - July 18, 2002
John Aglionby – Since the fall of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia's reputation in the field of law enforcement has always been near the bottom of…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) assumes responsibility next week for all aspects of security in part of the new nation, and the…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao called Thursday to the nations of the North to grant debt relief to the countries in the South, who would, in…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – After two months of hearings by the East Timor ad hoc human rights trial, held in the absence of eyewitnesses…
Reuters - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's last governor of East Timor said on Thursday his trial for crimes against humanity during the territory's independence vote…
July 17, 2002
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
A survivor of a bloody attack on a refugee-filled church compound in East Timor in April 1999 said Wednesday he saw uniformed Indonesian soldiers…
Dow Jones Newswires - July 17, 2002
Andrew Trounson, Melbourne – East Timor is getting down to business. And that means playing tough, even with your friends.
The world's…
Australian Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights prosecutors today raised the prospect of dropping charges against some defendants facing trial…
Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors said Wednesday they would seek to reopen the investigation into the killing of a Dutch journalist in East Timor,…
Lusa - July 17, 2002
The Indonesian military, until recently occupiers of East Timor, may soon begin training officers for Dili's fledgling defense force,…
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – An investigation into the murder of a Dutch journalist in East Timor in 1999 is still open, a Dutch police officer said Wednesday after…
July 16, 2002
Associated Press - July 16, 2002
Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – The former commander of Indonesian troops in East Timor went on trial Tuesday on charges of crimes against humanity for…
Lusa - July 16, 2002
A draft bill on amnesty and pardoning of sentences has been criticized as being "unconstitutional", "too general" and open to "dangerous…
Lusa - July 16, 2002
After signing and approving East Timor's state budget Tuesday, President Xanana Gusmao called for revision of the measures within four months,…
July 15, 2002
Lusa - July 15, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao will address the East Timorese Tuesday in a nationally broadcast speech that an aide described Monday as…
July 13, 2002
The Australian - July 13, 2002
Nigel Wilson – East Timor's decision to pursue maritime boundaries that might include substantial Australian oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea…
July 12, 2002
Asia Times - July 12, 2002
Thalif Deen, United Nations – East Timor, the world's newest nation, will ask the United Nations to designate it a "least developed country" (LDC…
Melbourne Age - July 12, 2002
Jill Jolliffe – An argument over who is to be East Timor's first ambassador to Australia could lead to a showdown between President…
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation - July 12, 2002
[The following letter to the the Sydney Morning Herald editor was issued by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Nobel Peace Prize…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 12 2002
Two former top Indonesian ministers told a human rights trial yesterday that a savage outbreak of militia violence in East Timor in September 1999…
Associated Press - July 12 2002
Prosecutors yesterday demanded that East Timor's former Indonesian-appointed governor be sent to prison for 10 and a half years – just six months…
Radio Australia - July 12, 2002
[East Timor's fledgling parliament has made a key decision about the nation's borders which could be the first big test of its relations with…
July 11, 2002
Far Eastern Economic Review - July 11, 2002
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John Mcbeth – Only a week before the August 30, 1999, referendum…
Australian Associated Press - July 11, 2002
Rod McGuirk, Darwin – East Timor President and former freedom fighter Xanana Gusmao today said he did not want to see the Indonesian provinces of…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 11, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, has put pragmatism ahead of human rights in his first foreign policy…
Jakarta Post - July 11, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expects to see half of the remaining 50,000 East Timorese refugees…
July 10, 2002
Jakarta Post - July 10, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Dozens of people claiming to represent thousands of East Timorese refugees sheltering in camps in West Timor rallied at…
Suara Timor Lorosa'e - July 10, 2002
Thomas Freitas, Dili – Activists from the NGO La'o Hamutuk and others were disappointed by Manuel Carrascalao's statement in Tuesday's edition of…
July 9, 2002
UNMISET Media Briefing Notes - July 9, 2002
Dili – UN Police officials today announced they have seized two trucks loaded with sandalwood apparently destined for sale outside East Timor.…
Lusa - July 9, 2002
East Timor's parliament approved a draft bill Tuesday on maritime borders, paving the way for the ratification of the potentially lucrative Timor…
Lusa - July 9, 2002
The European Union is to give humanitarian aid worth nearly euros 2 million to East Timorese refugees still living in camps in…
July 8, 2002
Catholic News Service - July 8, 2002
Dili – Amnesty should not be offered to those responsible for crimes against humanity during the violence that surrounded East Timor's 1999 bid…
Lusa - July 8, 2002
East Timor's minister of health has said that his country has all the conditions necessary for the outbreak of an Aids epidemic and urgent measure…
July 7, 2002
Channel Nine Sunday Program - July 7, 2002
Reporter: Ross Coulthart
Producer: In collaboration with Max Stahl of Gillan Films
Ross Coulthart: It's early Sunday morning here in…