Two AID/WATCH volunteers returned from East Timor yesterday and observed that, while East Timorese society has been heartened by the stability and…
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April 26, 2001
AID/WATCH - April 26, 2001
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…
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…
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…
Lusa - April 26, 2001
The East Timorese association of non-governmental organizations NGO Forum said Thursday it was "very worried" about the public stance…
April 25, 2001
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…
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…
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…
April 23, 2001
Timor Post - April 23, 2001
The President of CNRT, Xanana Gusmao said Satruday that the success of the general election this year was still the number one…
Straits Times - April 23, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Atambua – Tension is running high in this border town 2 1/2 years after the influx of over 200,000 East Timorese who fled the post-…
Associated Press - April 23, 2001
Sydney – Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor appealed Monday for an international tribunal to punish crimes against humanity in…
April 21, 2001
Sydney Monring Herald - April 21, 2001
Christiani Tumelap in Atambua and Lindsay Murdoch in Dili – A 16-year-old East Timorese girl allegedly kidnapped as a war prize has defended the…
Straits Times - April 21, 2001
Geraldine Goh, Jakarta – East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao said new blood is needed to lead his country towards self-rule.
The president of…
April 20, 2001
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao insisted on Thursday that overcoming the territory's complex social and economic…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 20, 2001
The head of TNI's Information Center, Air Marshall Graito Usodo said yesterday there was an elite group that was trying to revive…
Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – A former army commander Friday admitted excesses in the Indonesian military in its handling of separatist movements, and publicly…
Reuters - April 20, 2001
Geniva – The United Nations urged Indonesia on Friday to bring those responsible for bloodshed in East Timor to justice and rein in militias…
Associated Press - April 20, 2001
Dili – UN officials in East Timor Friday distanced themselves from a report that accuses senior Indonesian army generals of masterminding the wave…
Sydney Morning Herld - April 20, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – An investigation by a former Australian diplomat, Mr James Dunn, identifies a group of still-serving officers who secretly…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 20, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – As the East Timorese capital was being looted and burned on a stifling hot day in September 1999, an Indonesian Army…
April 19, 2001
Reuters - April 19, 2001
Jakarta – East Timor's economy has rebounded strongly after violence destroyed the tiny half-island territory nearly two years ago, with 15…
April 18, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 18, 2001
Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, one of the political leaders of East Timor, thinks that reconciliation among the people of East Timor must be carried out in…
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - April 18, 2001 (abridged)
Soe, Indonesia – Around 70 per cent of the tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees languishing in squalid camps in Indonesia want…
Sydeny Morning Herald - April 18, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor is set to receive a much larger slice of income from the rich oil reserves it shares with Australia.
Federal…
April 17, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 17, 2001
An ex-militia leader yesterday appealed for a general amnesty for those who committed human rights crimes in Timor Lorosae.
…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 17, 2001
UNTAET's Timorization process is not clearly visible within the Transitional administration. Also, the transitional administration…
Agence France Presse - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials believe East Timorese refugees they met during a visit last week to camps in West Timor were instructed to challenge the…
April 14, 2001
Canberra Times - April 14, 2001
Jenny Denton – At 11 o'clock on a Thursday morning, a handful of people are standing around outside the Anarchist Bookshop in Newtown, Sydney,…
April 12, 2001
Agence France Presse - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's government is delaying setting up a human rights court to try crimes committed in East Timor in 1999 because of military…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 12, 2001 (abridged)
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The United Nations will face renewed pressure to set up an East Timor war crimes tribunal after receiving a report…
April 11, 2001
Dow Jones Newswires - April 11, 2001
Canberra – Australia and East Timor representatives are scheduled to resume negotiations in May on a new treaty covering the share of economic…
Washington Post - April 11, 2001
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Jakarta – The 22 people suspected by the Indonesian government of orchestrating the wave of violence after East Timor voted…
April 9, 2001
Associated Press - April 9, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Dili – Manuel Carrascalao, a veteran of East Timor's 24-year struggle for freedom, was elected to head the territory's transitional…
Agence France Presse - April 9, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese refugees are dying from a rapidly spreading diarrhoea epidemic in fetid camps in Indonesian-ruled West Timor, a Catholic…
April 6, 2001
The Australian - April 6, 2001
Stephen Romei, New York – At the risk of exposing himself to political parody, Xanana Gusmao has a simple message for the international community…
South China Morning Post - April 6, 2001
Reuters in United Nations – Xanana Gusmao, the popular East Timorese resistance leader, said overnight he would not be a candidate for president…
April 5, 2001
UN News - April 5, 2001
Civil disturbances in East Timor, the forthcoming elections and the resignation of Xanana Gusmco as president of the National Council dominated…
Antara - April 5, 2001
New York – Asking the international community to try those involved in criminal actions in East Timor is not a priority to the East Timorese at…
Agence France Presse - April 5, 2001
Sydney – East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao will inevitably become his country's first president, even though he says he does not…
April 3, 2001
Associated Press - April 3, 2001
Dili – New violence broke out along East Timor's border with Indonesia when unidentified gunmen threw grenades and fired shots at UN peacekeepers…
Associated Press - April 3, 2001
Jakarta – Attorneys for East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres Tuesday demanded that weapons charges against him be dropped on the grounds…
April 2, 2001
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
Singapore – The United Nations' transitional government in East Timor is still struggling, leaving much to "sheer luck" despite 18 months in power…
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
Dili – An Australian member of the UN peacekeeping force in East Timor fired on two suspected militiamen near the border with…
Straits Times - April 2, 2001
Yeoh En Lai – Almost two years after the independence referendum in East Timor, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is…
April 1, 2001
Jakarta Post - April 1, 2001
Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – The rains finally poured in late December, too much in some areas for a good corn harvest. Emergency operations over the past…
Estafeta - April 2001
Charles Scheiner – Eighteen months have elapsed since the Indonesian military and its militia proxies devastated East Timor. A quarter century has…