Jill Jolliffe, Dili – With the militia leader Eurico Guterres due to be charged with crimes against humanity next week, United Nations officials…
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January 5, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - January 5, 2002
January 3, 2002
UNTAET Daily Briefing - January 3, 2002
The Constituent Assembly today returned from a three-day New Year's break to continue debate on East Timor's first draft Constitution, passing…
Lusa - January 3, 2002
East Timor's chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, Thursday denounced an unexpected call for legislative elections as an attempt by opposition forces to…
Media Indonesia - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – The safety of refugees is still guaranteed: Even though the government has abolished refugee status for the refugees from…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's military said Thursday it would cooperate with a special human rights court set up to try top commanders and militiamen…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have ceased providing food and cash for tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees stuck in squalid camps in…
January 2, 2002
Associated Press - January 2, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has assigned 17 judges to preside over the trials of Indonesian soldiers and militiamen accused of…
Lusa - January 2, 2002
Indonesian military authorities have said they have discovered evidence of a new movement aiming to achieve independence for the whole of Timor…
January 1, 2002
Human Rights Watch - January 2002
December 28, 2001
Canberra Times - December 28, 2001
East Timorese asylum seekers might find it hard to settle back in their homeland even though it was technically safe to return, the United Nations…
December 27, 2001
Lusa - December 27, 2001
East Timor's health ministry Thursday formally confirmed the territory's first cases of HIV/AIDS infection.
In a statement, the…
December 26, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - December 26, 2001
Louise Williams – East Timorese journalists are dismayed over an agreement which will probably leave their newly independent nation without an…
December 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2001
Sydnye – East Timor has finally reached agreement with US energy giant Phillips Petroleum on a plan to pipe gas to Australia that could ease the…
December 22, 2001
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…
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…
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
Lusa - December 7, 2001
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao Friday downplayed the impact of newly released US documents showing that Washington…
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…
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…
December 6, 2001
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…
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…
December 4, 2001
Lusa - December 4, 2001
East Timor4s chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, has expressed concern over mounting domestic violence against women, urging his people to…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…