Slobodan Lekic, Dili – Women nursed babies held in shoulder slings and people joked with UN monitors as they waited in long lines to vote Thursday…
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August 30, 2001
Associated Press - August 30, 2001
The Independent - August 30, 2001
Richard Lloyd Parry – Two years to the day after the 1999 referendum on independence, the East Timorese people vote again on Thursday in the first…
Australian Financial Review - August 30, 2001
Rowan Callick – The emergence of democratic government in an independent East Timor is a miracle. The obstacles in its path, through erratic and…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 30, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Carlos first introduced himself as a driver. When none of Dili's dilapidated taxis could be found, he would always produce…
South China Morning Post - August 30, 2001
At the Toko Lay hardware store in central Dili, Charles Tan was checking a newly arrived generator to sell to the burgeoning construction industry…
August 29, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 29, 2001
Dili – Justice must come before amnesty for people guilty of human rights violations in East Timor, a lawyer working to establish a truth…
Green Left Weekly - August 29, 2001
Jon Land – The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations…
The Australian - August 29, 2001
Don Greenlees – The Indonesian army has extended an olive branch to East Timor's fledgling defence force, by offering to train former Falintil…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 29, 2001
Joe Cochrane, Ermera – The farmers of Ermera are fiercely proud of their long tradition of growing East Timor's finest coffee, but these days that…
South China Morning Post - August 29, 2001
Vaudine England, Dili – East Timor's president-in-waiting, Xanana Gusmao, yesterday restated his belief that amnesties should be considered for…
Financial Times - August 29, 2001
Joe Leahy – Building a central bank from scratch in one of the world's poorest countries was never going to be easy.
But Fernando DePeralto…
August 28, 2001
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…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Vamasae – In one of the thousands of charred and gutted buildings that still scar East Timor's landscape, 200 villagers squat before the man who…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…