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December 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2001
December 22, 2001
The Australian - December 22, 2001
John Phaceas – Development of a $1.5 billion gas pipeline to Phillips Petroleum's Bayu-Undan gasfield in the Timor Sea will go ahead after the US…
Townsville Bulletin - December 22, 2001
Max Blenkin, Dili – In two months in East Timor, the soldiers of the Townsville-based 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, have not fired a…
December 21, 2001
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 21, 2001
Constituent Assembly President Francisco "Lz-Olo" Guterres said today he expects the assembly to pass East Timor's first Constitution by the 25…
December 20, 2001
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 20, 2001
The Constituent Assembly today passed twelve articles of East Timor's draft Constitution dealing primarily with political and economic rights.…
Australian Associated Press - December 20, 2001
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – East Timor's best-known militia leader Eurico Guterres today said he was ready to face court for human rights…
December 19, 2001
Australian Associated Press - December 19, 2001
Sydney – The commonwealth is fighting a US company's bid to win compensation in the federal court for losing vast gas reserves in the Timor Sea.…
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 19, 2001
The Constituent Assembly today passed the fortieth article of East Timor's draft Constitution, approving eight articles relating to rights of the…
December 18, 2001
Jakarta Post - December 18, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The military says it has found evidence that a group on the Indonesian side of Timor island is striving for an…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - December 18, 2001
Dili – East Timor's Constituent Assembly appears to be gaining momentum in its deliberations, today passing 12 articles covering a wide range of…
December 17, 2001
Straits Times - December 17, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The Indonesian military is sounding the alarm over a separatist group that is aspiring to unite both halves of Timor…
Lusa - December 17, 2001
East Timor's interim foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, visited the Lisbon headquarters of the Community of Portuguese-speaking…
December 14, 2001
Lusa - December 14, 2001
Indonesia has extended its aid programs to some 70,000 East Timorese refugees by one month to the end of January, allowing them more…
Lusa - December 14, 2001
Debate continued Thursday in East Timor's parliament on the future constitution of the territory, due to become independent next May. Members of…
December 13, 2001
Lisa - December 13, 2001
Members of East Timor's Constituent Assembly approved a motion Thursday extending the period for debate and approval of the future…
Reuters - December 13, 2001
Oslo – Most of the 60,000 East Timorese refugees still abroad are likely to return by the end of 2002 and any linked to pro-Jakarta militias will…
December 12, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 12, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia was unlikely to arrest a military officer charged in the first trial of cases of crime against humanity arising from the…
December 11, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 11, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Jakarta – Ten members of a gang responsible for one of the worst massacres linked to East Timor's 1999 vote for independence were…
Agence France Presse - December 11, 2001
Dili – East Timor's fledgling lawmaking body on Tuesday adopted the tongues of both their native ancestors and Portuguese colonisers as the…
December 8, 2001
The Age - December 8, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – A former defence minister in the Whitlam government, Bill Morrison, has left open the possibility of an SAS operation to evacuate…
The Age - December 8, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – In 1996, I had been told about a man who claimed to have been at Balibo when the journalists died, as part of an Australian SAS…
December 7, 2001
Reuters - December 7, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesia said on Friday reports the United States gave former president Suharto the green light for the bloody 1975…
Associated Press - December 7, 2001 (abridged)
Joanna Jolly, Dili – Hundreds of people commemorated the anniversary Friday of Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, as speakers demanded…
Lusa - December 7, 2001
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao Friday downplayed the impact of newly released US documents showing that Washington…
December 6, 2001
National Security Archive - December 6, 2001
[Ford and Kissinger gave green light to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, 1975: New Documents Detail Conversations with Suharto. National…
Reuters - December 6, 2001
Jim Wolf, Washington – US President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave late Indonesian strongman Suharto the green light for…
Antara - December 6, 2001
Jakarta – Former deputy commander of the East Timorese pro-integration fighters (PPI), Eurico Guterres, on Thursday registered with the Central…
December 4, 2001
The Australian - December 4, 2001
Nigel Wilson – A new wave of confidence is emerging that East Timor and Australia within weeks will reach agreement on key aspects of future…
Los Angeles Times - December 4, 2001
Richard C. Paddock, Dili – The girl's nightmare began when she was 13 and a pro-Indonesia militia burned down her village. Her parents were away…
Lusa - December 4, 2001
East Timor4s chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, has expressed concern over mounting domestic violence against women, urging his people to…
December 1, 2001
The Age - December 1, 2001
Jill Jolliffem Dili – Just a block away from the imposing United Nations building that dominates the Dili waterfront, two East Timorese girls are…
November 30, 2001
Associated Press - November 30, 2001
Dili – The threat of violence from pro-Indonesian militias opposed to East Timor's independence has decreased significantly, raising hopes that…
November 29, 2001
The Australian - November 29, 2001
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Militia groups opposed to East Timor's separation from Indonesia are a spent force, incapable of presenting a military…
November 28, 2001
Antara - November 28, 2001 (abridged)
Canberra – Indonesia and Australia will set up a tripartite consultative forum to help East Timor solve problems that may arise in its…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - November 28, 2001
The Constituent Assembly today approved a motion recommending that East Timor's first presidential election be held in the first or…
Associated Press - November 28, 2001
Dili – With East Timor due to become the world's newest nation in six months, hundreds of people rallied Wednesday to mark the…
Jakarta Post - November 28, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Timor's charismatic leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao and former pro-Jakarta militia leader Joao Tavares agreed…
November 27, 2001
The Age - November 27, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Indonesian authorities say they do not regard last year's Memorandum of Understanding between East Timor and Indonesia on…
November 24, 2001
The Australian - November 24, 2001
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – United Nations prosecutors in East Timor have lodged an indictment against 21 people, including senior Indonesian…
November 23, 2001
Australian Associated Press - November 23, 2001
Paul Osborne Brisbane – The problems of East Timorese refugees in West Timor and the disarmament of militia should be resolved within three months…
Antara - November 23, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Kupang – A top military officer here said East Timorese refugees in East Nusa Tenggara province no longer feel they have leaders. The sentiment…
November 17, 2001
Australian Associated Press - November 17, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Melbourne – The interests of the people of East Timor would have been totally compromised had former Labor prime minister Paul…
November 15, 2001
The Australian - November 15, 2001
Nigel Wilson – Government-level talks in East Timor next week are seen as the last chance of early development of vast Timor Sea gas reserves.…
November 12, 2001
Associated Press - November 12, 2001
Joanna Jolly, Dili – Thousands of East Timorese gathered at the Santa Cruz cemetery on Monday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a brutal…
Melbourne Age - November 12, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Ten years after the massacre that shocked the world, memories are still raw in East Timor. When a short piece of theatre re-…
Antara - November 12, 2001
Atambua – A man lobbed a Korean-made grenade into the middle of a crowded East Timorese refugee camp in Manumutin village, Atambua, early Sunday…
November 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – As of January 2002, the government will no longer provide any financial or food assistance to East Timorese refugees in…
November 5, 2001
The Australian - November 5, 2001
Robert Garran – Indonesian troops attacking the East Timorese town of Balibo in October 1975 had good reason not to want five Australian-based…
November 3, 2001
The Age - November 3, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The news that Japan has authorised its troops to serve overseas, despite the country's pacifist constitution, sends shudders…
October 31, 2001
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
Jakarta – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday that it has helped repatriate 188,646 East Timorese refugees from Indonesia's…