Virginia Marsh and Tom Mccawley – Australia and East Timor are edging towards agreement on a critical new treaty to govern the Timor Gap, paving…
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May 17, 2001
May 16, 2001
SBS Dateline - May 16, 2001
Mark Davis – In September 1999, the Australian Army stepped into the carnage of East Timor as the lead contributor in the international force…
Timor Post - May 16, 2001
The Concelho Nacional da Recistencia Timorense/Congresso Nasional (CNRT/CN) will be dissolved in early June 2001. Ex-members of CNRT…
New York Times - May 16, 2001
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – A strange red banner hangs over the gate of one of the middle-class villas on a quiet street in central Jakarta: "Am I…
Reuters - May 16, 2001
Jonathan Thatcher, Balibo – Maria Maia, her mouth stained scarlet from the juice of the betel nuts she chews, bursts out laughing as she fingers…
May 14, 2001
Australian Financial Review - May 14, 2001
Scott Burchill – Given advance notice that the street bully is about to beat up your neighbour, three courses of action are open to you. The first…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 14, 2001
The leader of the Catholic Church in Dili, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo urged academics at the National University of Timor Lorosae to…
Timor Post - May 14, 2001
Participants at a weekend discussion seminar, organized by the human rights NGO Yayasan Hak, expressed their frustration at UNTAET. Many said they…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 14, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The plight of a 15-year-old East Timorese girl kept as a sex slave for more than 18 months in a militia-controlled refugee camp…
South China Morning Post - May 14, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – Fed up with Indonesia's feeble attempts at administering justice to accused war criminals, the families of East Timor's dead…
May 11, 2001
Associated Press - May 11, 2001
Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 11, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor. To…
May 10, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 10, 2001
The Australian government knew about Indonesian military plans to massacre East Timor independence supporters in 1999 and thought clever diplomacy…
May 9, 2001
Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor…
SBS Dateline (Australia) - May 9, 2001
[In an extraordinary investigation, reporter Mark Davis returns to East Timor to disclose disturbing new revelations about Australia's secret…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
The General Co-ordinator of CPD-RDTL Antonio Aitahan Matak yesterday rejected allegations that the group was behind the threats…
South China Morning Post - May 9, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – Once branded a gang of dangerous left-wingers, Fretilin is out in the open and may be set to win through the ballot what it…
Melbourne Age - May 9, 2001
Jill Jollife, Dariwn – An Australian Army intelligence officer who served in East Timor has accused the Federal Government of concealing vital…
Lusa - May 9, 2001
A report by members of the Portuguese parliament criticizes the UN Transition Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as being "costly and not very…
May 7, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 7, 2001
Fifteen militia commanders on Saturday accepted the 30 August 1999 referendum result, because it was, as they said, the decision of…
Reuters - May 7, 2001
Melbourne – Tough negotiations over a Timor Sea oil and gas production treaty are likely to resume between Australia and East Timor later this…
May 5, 2001
South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta and Geneva – The United Nations and foreign diplomats yesterday condemned as a mockery jail terms imposed by a Jakarta court…
May 3, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Jakarta has dropped prosecutions against six people who have been under investigation over crimes against humanity in…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Negotiators for Australia and East Timor yesterday began a secrecy-shrouded meeting in Brisbane in the search for agreement on…
Melbourne Age - May 3, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – Indonesia has dropped prosecutions against six people who have been under investigation for more than 12 months over crimes…
May 2, 2001
Green Left Weekly - May 2, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Thousands of small traders at the Dili market (Mercado Lama) are being pressured to move to two refurbished markets in Comoro…
Timor Post - May 2, 2001
The labor sector must be allowed to participate in the political process because they too have rights, said the Secretary-General of…
Green Left Weekly - May 2, 2001
Jon Land – In the wake of the second round of negotiations between Australia and East Timor on the Timor Gap Treaty and the disputed seabed…
May 1, 2001
The Age - May 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations' Serious Crimes Unit, the taskforce gathering evidence to prosecute perpetrators of the violence that swept…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 1, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The notorious East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres will be free within weeks after a Jakarta court yesterday…
April 30, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - April 30, 2001
Craig Skehan – The Australian Government yesterday urged Indonesia to push ahead with the prosecution of all those involved in killings and other…
April 28, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - April 28, 2001
Hamish McDonald – A secret report for the Indonesian Government makes it clear that its military directed the militia violence against East Timor'…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 28, 2001
[The Timor massacres were planned in detail: the guns, the trucks, the burial sites. Hamish McDonald has Jakarta's secret report which details…
April 27, 2001
Straits Times - April 27, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Atambua – Weapons are valued treasures in this border town that has 63,000 East Timorese refugees, and there is always an…
Agence France Presse - April 27, 2001
Jakarta – All crimes committed in East Timor in 1999 and investigated by Indonesia's Human Rights Commission (Komnas Ham) will be tried here soon…
The Age - April 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Key people accused of complicity in the bloodshed in East Timor are set to escape prosecution because of the bungled…
Tempo - April 27, 2001
Jakarta – Some Indonesian NGOs – including Kontras (Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence), YLBHI (Foundation of the Indonesian…
April 26, 2001
AID/WATCH - April 26, 2001
Two AID/WATCH volunteers returned from East Timor yesterday and observed that, while East Timorese society has been heartened by the stability and…
Lusa - April 26, 2001
The East Timorese association of non-governmental organizations NGO Forum said Thursday it was "very worried" about the public stance…
Tapol - April 26, 2001
Following Indonesian President Wahid's decision on 23 April to limit the jurisdiction of a new human rights court for East Timor to crimes…
South China Morning Post - April 26, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – They used to supply bombs to Falintil resistance fighters. Now East Timor's Marxists are preparing for battle at the ballot…
The Melbourne Age - April 26, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dara Lata – Evidence is mounting against retired Indonesian Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto for his alleged role in atrocities…
April 25, 2001
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Sibylle Kaczorek – In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now…
Melbourne Age - April 25, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – About 300 East Timorese supporters of a pro-independence party protested outside the United Nations headquarters in…
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Tanya Vanaja, Dili – East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 25, 2001
The President of ASDT-Fretilin Francisco Xavier do Amaral said East Timorese from 12 districts were in Dili to deliver their…
April 24, 2001
Melbourne Age - April 24, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Viqueque – Madalena Soares fought back tears as she told how her 12-year-old daughter Cesaltina was stolen.
It was late…
Reuters - April 24, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Four thieves attacked and stabbed the Australian-born wife of East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao on Tuesday in the latest in a…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 24, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's de facto parliament was hit yesterday with the resignation of a second high-profile political leader in less than a…