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August 28, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – He was East Timor's first president, the head of the short-lived Fretilin administration that unilaterally declared independence…

Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001

Dili – East Timor's president in waiting, Xanana Gusmao, said Tuesday that amnesties must be considered for those who led the violence surrounding…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Belo has made a new appeal to the international community to establish a war crimes…

Lusa - August 28, 2001

The upcoming Constituent Assembly elections in East Timor serve "only to comply with the calendar and are neither free nor fair", the leader of…

Lusa - August 28, 2001

The leader of East Timor's Social Democratic Party (PSD) said Monday in Dili he hoped his party would obtain between 30 and 40 percent of the vote…

August 27, 2001

Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001

Bronwyn Curran, Baucau – In a good month Carlos Bovida makes 20 dollars selling sweet potatoes and bananas on a lonely road, winding through the…

Lusa - August 27, 2001

Predicting his Fretilin party would win East Timor's first free elections by a landslide, Mari Alkatiri warned the territory's UN…

BBC Monitoring Service - August 27, 2001

Fretilin Party Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri has guaranteed there would be no radical behaviour on the part of his party as Fretilin were no…

Canberra Times - August 27, 2001

James Fox – Parliamentary elections will be held in East Timor on Thursday, two years from the day when the East Timorese turned out en masse to…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – East Timor's leaders are planning an international campaign to pressure the Indonesian Government to allow Timorese…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – The East Timor independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has decided not to retire from politics to grow prize pumpkins…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001

[Speaking for the first time, former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie tells David Jenkins how and why he made the fatal decision to leave…

Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001

Lisbon – East Timor's UN administrator said in a newspaper interview Friday that a broad-based government will be named to govern the territory…

August 26, 2001

Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 26, 2001

Dili – It is easy to be optimistic about East Timor's future when you are sitting at the villa of its de facto king – UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de…

Los Angeles Times - August 26, 2001

David DeVoss – The East Timor branch of Portugal's Banco Nacional Ultramarino in Dili looks like a modern financial institution. It has a smiling…

August 25, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's Cabinet member for foreign affairs, Mr Jose Ramos Horta, has blasted the United Nations mission in Dili for…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001

Lindsay Murdoch, Dare Mulo – Some people wept. Others sang national songs they had rehearsed for days and stamped their bare feet in the dust.…

August 24, 2001

Associated Press - August 24, 2001

Dili – A US-based election monitoring group said Friday it was satisfied with conditions for East Timor's first free elections next…

Lusa - August 24, 2001

Some East Timorese political forces have set up security-style partisan groups in preparation for next week4s elections but have not…

August 23, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001

Jane Counsel – Delicate negotiations over a new Timor Gap revenue sharing agreement were further unhinged yesterday, after a small American group…

Agence France Presse - August 23, 2001

Bronwyn Curran, Dili – East Timorese voters are relishing their first-ever taste of democracy but some parties in next week's elections have tried…

The Age - August 23, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – The UN Serious Crimes Unit, charged with investigating human rights violations in East Timor in 1999, says it is investigating…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – An East Timorese anti-independence leader said yesterday he would tell refugees in camps in West Timor that the world's newest…

August 22, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 22, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – Those responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 are likely to escape prosecution by a special…

Lusa - August 22, 2001

The number two in East Timor's Fretilin party hierarchy, Mari Alkatiri, strongly critized Wednesday the territory's Independent Eletoral Mediation…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 22, 2001

An American Civpol officer stationed in Bobonaro District was stoned by a group of Timorese at the border area. The Indonesian…

Agence France Presse - August 22, 2001

Canberra – Australia is unable to dictate a solution to a dispute between East Timor and a US-based oil company that has stalled construction of a…

South China Morning Post - August 22, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The political party of East Timor's independence heroes, Fretilin, has been accused of using intimidation, threats and…

Australian Associated Press - August 22, 2001

The Senate has rejected a proposal for an international war crimes tribunal covering the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Instead, it backed…

August 21, 2001

Reuters - August 21, 2001

Canberra – Australia said on Tuesday it would urge Phillips Petroleum Co chairman and chief executive Jim Mulva to talk tough with East Timor over…

Lusa - August 21, 2001

East Timorese women's rights groups have gathered more than 10,000 signatures backing the inclusion of a "Women's Rights Charter" in…

August 20, 2001

Financial Times - August 20, 2001

Joe Leahy, Dili – Something resembling a commercial bustle has returned to Dili, East Timor's capital. Beaten-up taxis cruise streets frequented…

Lusa - August 20, 2001

East Timor's UN Transition Administration (UNTAET) praised Monday the weapons collection campaign conducted last week by the…

August 18, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 18, 2001

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Apocalyptic predictions are rife in East Timor as the territory approaches political freedom after centuries of Portuguese…

August 17, 2001

Lusa - August 17, 2001

United Nations civil police in the Suai region of East Timor have detained two people suspected of committing infractions of election…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 17, 2001

Mark Riley, New York – The Prime Minister has asked to meet with the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, as the UN comes under…

August 16, 2001

The Age - August 16, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – With an army of street kids recruited to plaster seafront coconut trees with stickers, and a UN vehicle pressed into service…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 16, 2001

Aout 200 ex-Falintil members on Tuesday staged a one-day sit-in at UNTAET headquarters to demand that the United Nations fulfill its…

August 15, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – A former member of the independence movement Fretilin, Dr Abilio Araujo, expelled for his links with Indonesia, has returned to…

August 14, 2001

Lusa - August 14, 2001

Unidentified assailants have thrown stones at a vehicle carrying Democratic Party (PD) supporters on a campaign tour of the Liquiga…

Financial Times - August 14, 2001

Joe Leahy – Antonio, a farmer in the arid highlands south of East Timor's capital Dili, points at a distant ridgeline. That is where his family's…

BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 14, 2001

[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese. Excerpt from report by Portuguese radio on 14 August]

Presenter Xanana Gusmao…

August 13, 2001

BBC Monitoring Service - August 13, 2001

[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese]

Presenter: The campaign for the parliamentary elections in East Timor, scheduled…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 13, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – His name is distinctive, and in coming months Australians may hear a lot more of the East Timorese independence leader LuOlo.…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001

Thousands of people made their way to Dili on Saturday to take part in the UDT mammoth campaign. UDT supporters in buses and trucks…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001

Certain political parties have resorted to door knocking campaigns forcing people to vote for them. This was brought up at a dialogue…

August 11, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - August 11, 2001

Mark Dodd – An Australian-funded program teaching East Timorese to reject corruption hopes to make an impact on political parties competing in…

August 10, 2001

The Australian - August 10, 2001

Nigel Wilson – For months there have been rumours of problems in the "co-operative" arrangement to develop more than 12 trillion cubic feet of gas…

Asiaweek - August 10, 2001

Warren Caragata, Dili – The big UN Land Rover that carries Xanana Gusmao and his bodyguards from event to event should have a bumper sticker that…

Washington Times - August 10, 2001

Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian military directed a militia campaign of killings, terror and forced deportation against East Timorese…