Mark Dodd, Dili – A former member of the independence movement Fretilin, Dr Abilio Araujo, expelled for his links with Indonesia, has returned to…
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August 15, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2001
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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
Washington Times - August 10, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian military directed a militia campaign of killings, terror and forced deportation against East Timorese…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 10, 2001
Mark Dodd in Dili and Craig Skehan in Canberra – An East Timorese militia leader who served in the Indonesian Army's special forces and is on…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Dili – It's the road from nowhere, but it's surprisingly busy. Mafalda Florindo and Isabella Antonine walk along it, smiling…
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…
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…
August 9, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 9, 2001
The Indonesian government has rejected a United Nations proposal for a land link between East Timor and its Oecussi enclave in West Timor, a…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Maliana – Every day a group of women meet at the shop called Nove Nove (Nine Nine) in bustling Maliana market. They share a chilling…
Lusa - August 9, 2001
Electoral officials in Dili said Thursday that final voters' lists for East Timor's August 30 constituent assembly elections contained…
August 8, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 8, 2001
Mark Dodd – A court holding the territory's first war crimes trial heard graphic evidence yesterday about the torture and murder of a pro-…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Kupang – Police forcibly evacuated some 500 former prointegration militiamen from East Timor on Tuesday. Grouped under the Indonesian Veterans…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Jon Land – With elections to the country's first post-occupation Constituent Assembly due on August 30, East Timor's socialists are building up…
August 7, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 7, 2001
Vaudine England – Aid groups may be reluctant to return to refugee camps in West Timor with as many personnel as before, despite the UN giving the…
August 6, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 6, 2001
[Excerpt from report by Asih Nurhayati by Indonesian Satunet news web site on 6 August.]
An East Timorese Jose Amaral (29) caught…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 6, 2001
Mark Dodd – East Timorese officials have hailed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's decision to expand the terms of an Indonesian…
August 3, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 3, 2001
[Source: Kompas Cyber Media web site, Jakarta, Auguse 3]
Denpasar – If civilians refuse to surrender their weapons as…
Financial Times - August 3, 2001
The United Nations is to reduce its presence in East Timor in spite of Security Council members' reservations about the new administration in…
August 2, 2001
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 2, 2001
East Timor's transitional government on Thursday moved forward with a controversial plan to adopt Portuguese as the country's official…
August 1, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001
An Indonesian military commander has ordered his troops to arrest East Timorese militiamen who are still operating from refugee camps in…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – In a surprise move, American company Phillips Petroleum and its joint venture partners have deferred indefinitely plans to build…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
About 19,800 coffee farmers in Timor Lorosae have to swallow the bitter pill because of sharp falls in worldwide coffee prices. On 10 May the…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Jon Land – As campaigning for the Constituent Assembly elections slowly gathers momentum across East Timor, the installation of Megawati…
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
On 6 and 7 June, the Indonesian government went ahead with controversial plans to register East Timorese refugees in West Timor and determine…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
The United Nations Security Council yesterday decided to extend the presence of UNTAET in Timor Lorosae till early 2002. However,…
July 30, 2001
Lusa - July 30, 2001
Ongoing corrections to preliminary voters lists in East Timor have included an additional 18,000 names and will bring the total…
Lusa - July 30, 2001
UN transition administration officials acknowledged Monday that issues of justice and human rights in East Timor remain a problem but…
July 29, 2001
Tapol Press release - July 29, 2001
Tapol today expressed dismay at a controversial decision on Wednesday by the Dili District Court to release Dr Sergio Lobo – a surgeon at the Dili…
July 28, 2001
Reuters - July 28, 2001
Sydney – Justice and human rights in East Timor are still not guaranteed even though a UN administration in the former Indonesian territory will…
July 27, 2001
Lusa - July 27, 2001
Four groups of international observers and eight East Timorese organizations have already registered with Dili electoral officials to monitor the…
Melbourne Age - July 27, 2001
Mark Dodd, Kupang – In what will probably be the last refugee repatriation voyage, 179 East Timorese boarded the Patricia Anne Hotung this week…
July 26, 2001
Lusa - July 26, 2001
Negotiations between East Timor, Australia and oil companies working Timor Gap offshore fields have bogged down over tax issues…
July 25, 2001
Reuters - July 25, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The United Nations said on Wednesday it would reduce its presence in East Timor after the tiny territory gained its…
July 24, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 24, 2001
Mark Dodd – The Nobel laureate Bishop Carlos Belo has indicated support for a Fretilin victory at the election for a Constituent…
Lusa - July 24, 2001
East Timor's official television and radio station's have begun broadcasting the second round of campaign messages allotted political parties and…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 24, 2001
A joint campaign by seven political parties to hit the hustings in Lospalos Monday was called off because transportation promised by…
July 21, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 21, 2001
Mark Dodd, Aileu – When it came time to harvest new varieties of sweet potato in an agriculture project in Aileu, an East Timor mountain town, the…
July 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2001
Yogyakarta – Some fifty members from East Timorese prointegration groups held a modest ceremony on Tuesday at Yogyakarta's East Timor…
Timor Post - July 19, 2001
Avelinho Coelho, the secretary-general of the Timor Socialist Party (PST) said the Constituent Assembly to be formed after the 30…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19, 2001
Mark Dodd, Viqueque – East Timorese voters have sent their political leaders a strong message to end violence and work towards improving living…
July 18, 2001
Lusa - July 18, 2001
A team dispatched to verify rumors of planned election violence in East Timor reported Wednesday they had found the territory's "most…
Lusa - July 18, 2001
East Timorese electoral officials Wednesday acknowledged "systematic failures" in the preparation of voters' lists for the August 30…
The Australian - July 18, 2001
A Defensive Alexander Downer undoubtedly has his eyes on the history books with the publication of the Government's apologia for its handling of…