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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

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…

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…

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…

Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001

Jakarta – Chief of the Udayana Military Command overseeing Bali, East and West Nusa Tenggara, Maj. Gen. Willem T. da Costa, said on Tuesday that…

Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – In line with the planned establishment of an independent East Timor early next year, Indonesia and East Timor have…

Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001

United Nations – The Security Council decided Wednesday that the UN-administered territory of East Timor should become independent on May 20 next…

October 30, 2001

The Australian - October 30, 2001

Hong Kong – East Timor's future president Xanana Gusmao has recalled his fury when Australia refused to accept temporarily a handful of East…

Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001

Setiyardi, Timor Lorosae – Floating hotels are a symbol of high living, an irony in stark contrast to widespread poverty in Timor Lorosae.

Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001

Disparity between the lifestyles of UNTAET personnel and the people of Timor Lorosae is sowing the seeds of social envy.

The brothers Soares…

October 29, 2001

Lusa - October 29, 2001

More than 3,200 East Timorese refugees returned home from Indonesia during October, the UN High Commission for Refugees said Monday in…

October 28, 2001

Agence France Presse - October 28,2001 (slightly abridged)

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has decided to halt humanitarian assitance to East Timorese refugees in West Timor at the end of…

October 27, 2001

BBC Monitoring Service - October 27, 2001

Presenter: The commemoration of East Timor's newly-gained independence has been scheduled for 20 May [2002], however, the chief minister of the…

October 24, 2001

Financial Times - October 24, 2001

Virginia Marsh – If all had gone to plan, divers would now be laying a pipeline along the seabed linking Darwin to the substantial gasfields off…

October 22, 2001

Reuters - October 22, 2001

Evelyn Leopold, United Nations – East Timor's newly elected constituent assembly asked the United Nations on Monday to grant it independence next…

October 20, 2001

Antara - October 20, 2001

Dili – Indonesia-East Timor trade relations have good prospects in future so that there is glimmer of hope that certain parts of their common…

Antara - October 20, 2001

Dili – Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, especially of the Rp 5000 to Rp 50000 denomination, is still legally accepted as a means of exchange in…

October 18, 2001

Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Atambua – At least 800 East Timorese refugees, formerly grouped under the Mahidi militia group from Ainaro regency, returned to…

UN News - October 18, 2001

Over 500 refugees crossed the border this morning in the second day of mass refugee returns from camps in Indonesian West Timor.

The…

October 17, 2001

Agence France Presse - October 17, 2001

Jakarta – East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta has supported the US-led air attacks on Afghanistan, saying his people have personal…

Green Left Weekly - October 17, 2001

Ramani de Silva, Dili – The Constituent Assembly elected in September had been in place for less than two weeks when on September 26 a…

October 14, 2001

Associated Press - October 14, 2001

Slobodan Lekic, Dili – When the Indonesian army helicopter suddenly appeared above a rebel camp hidden in East Timor's towering mountains,…

October 10, 2001

Christian Science Monitor - October 10, 2001

Simon Montlake, Jakarta – More than two years after Indonesia's bloody revenge on East Timor for a pro-independence vote, hopes of justice for…

Associated Press - October 10, 2001

Dili – In its first concrete step toward drafting a new constitution, East Timor's national assembly Wednesday set up four commissions tasked with…

October 9, 2001

Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Along with government aid for the 290,000 East Timorese remaining in Indonesia being discontinued at the end of December…

October 7, 2001

Cox News Service - October 7, 2001

Julie Chao, Dili – After Salvador Ferrera cast his ballot two years ago for independence for East Timor, he fled into the hills. When he came back…

October 6, 2001

Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001

Fabiola Desy Unidjaya, Jakarta – Former deputy Army chief of staff Gen. Johny Lumintang denied on Friday any responsibility over systematic human…

October 5, 2001

South China Morning Post - October 5, 2001

The Indonesian Government has shown new signs of its determination to rid itself of East Timorese refugees, and thousands of them are now likely…

UNTAET Daily Briefing - October 5, 2001

Dili-East Timor's newly elected Constituent Assembly today unanimously adopted a set of Rules and Procedures for the 88-member body…

October 4, 2001

Agence France Presse - October 4, 2001

Washington – A US judge has piled 66 million dollars in damages on a top Indonesian general, concluding after a civil lawsuit lodged in a US court…

Jakarta Post - October 4, 2001

Kupang – The government has said that, as of December this year, there will be no more humanitarian aid for around 290,000 East Timorese who opted…

October 3, 2001

Lusa - October 3, 2001

A former pro-Indonesian militia member has received a 16-year sentence from the Special Panel for Serious Crimes in Dili.

SBS Dateline - October 3, 2001

[East Timor is finally on the road to independence but there is still a long way to go. Following its first election, a constituent assembly is…

October 1, 2001

Lusa - October 1, 2001

Indonesian and East Timorese authorities have begun discussions on the removal of remains of Indonesian soldiers from various…

Melbourne Age - October 1, 2001

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – United Nations officials are challenging Indonesia's stand on East Timor war crimes. They are demanding the handover of 10…

Jane's Intelligence Review - October 1, 2001

Tom Fawthrop and Paul Harris – Formally recognising the continued security threats to East Timor, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on 26 July…

Jane's Intelligence Review - October 1, 2001

  • Total size: 3,000 soldiers – 1,500 regulars and 1,500 reservists.
  • Structure: four battalions of light infantry (two active,…

September 29, 2001

Melbourne Age - September 29, 2001

Ian Timberlake, Dili – Sister Erminia somehow survived the volley of rifle fire that tore into her van at a militia roadblock two years ago.

September 28, 2001

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2001

Kupang – Six people, including Adj. Brig. Imanuel, a member of the East Nusa Tenggara police Mobile Brigade, were shot on Wednesday…

September 26, 2001

Northern Territory News - September 26, 2001

Camden Smith – Closer ties can be forged between East Timor and the Territory because a Labor government is in power, East Timor's…

September 25, 2001

Agence France Presse - September 25, 2001

Jakarta – A man accused of murdering a New Zealand peacekeeping soldier in East Timor last year is to face trial in Jakarta, his…

September 22, 2001

Jakarta Post - September 22, 2001

Kupang – Of their own free will, hundreds of thousands of East Timorese who have been living in refugee camps in Indonesia's West Timor for the…