Mark Dodd, Aileu – The Falintil guerilla force yesterday became the world's newest internationally recognised army – the East Timor Defence Force…
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February 2, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 2, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 2, 2001
Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations Security Council will consider withdrawing troops from East Timor in four months if the…
February 1, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – An argument over a traffic infringement sparked an ugly brawl between East Timorese university students and Portuguese riot…
January 30, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 30, 2001
Mark Dod, Maliana – A community radio station is being used to counter propaganda from pro-Indonesia militia groups and convince thousands of…
Christian Science Monitor - January 30, 2001
Dan Murphy, Dili – Almost trembling as he awaits a decision, Joao Fernandes, barely literate and desperately poor, looked nothing like the cold-…
January 29, 2001
Associated Press - January 29, 2001
Dili – Hundreds of UN workers in East Timor signed a petition Monday against cuts to their daily living allowances.
From February 1, the…
January 26, 2001
Associated Press - January 26, 2001
Dili – Human rights activists Friday welcomed the first successful prosecution of an East Timorese militiaman implicated in the 1999 post-…
January 25, 2001
Associated Press - January 25, 2001
Dili – In the first successful prosecution for the destruction of East Timor in 1999, an international court sentenced a pro-Indonesian…
January 24, 2001
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Robyn Marshall, Dili – Aurora Ximenes, the coordinator of the East Timor Women's Network, which comprises 15 grassroots organisations, is angry…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Jon Land – Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Peter Johnston, Darwin – "We expect over 50% of the first elected parliament – definitely", Estanislau da Silva reassured trade…
January 23, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's hope for national reconciliation will take a step towards realisation this year with the introduction of a…
January 20, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – His full name is said to be Ely Foho Rai Boot, which translates from the main Timorese language Tetum as something like…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Next month the legendary guerilla army Falintil, an acronym for Armed Forces of the Liberation of East Timor, will cease to…
January 17, 2001
Dow Jones Newswires - January 17, 2001
Jeremy Bowden, Singapore – East Timor is raising the stakes in talks on sharing offshore oil and natural gas revenues with Australia, according to…
January 15, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 15, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – The Australian Government is retreating from its tough opening stance on the oil revenue split in a new seabed boundary…
The Guardian - January 15, 2001
Maggie O'Kane – The discovery of the bodies of four women murdered with machetes in different parts of the country last summer passed almost…
January 13, 2001
Kyodo News - January 13, 2001
Jakarta – More than 150 East Timorese journalists, gathering at their inaugural congress in the East Timor capital of Dili, have agreed to build…
January 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2001
Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court began on Thursday the trial of six pro-integration East Timorese for the murder of three United Nation…
January 10, 2001
Australian Associated Press - January 10, 2001
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – An unlikely gathering of Indonesian rock stars, criminals and retired soldiers yesterday converged on a Jakarta…
South China Morning Post - January 10, 2001
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Sitting in jail waiting to hear his fate, feared East Timor militia chief Eurico Guterres is accusing his nemesis Xanana…
January 8, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 8, 2001
Denis Dragovic, Dili – For several months I have been watching the United Nations "rescuing" East Timor. The half-term report is not promising.…
January 5, 2001
The Australian - January 5, 2001
Robert Garran – Australia and East Timor remain far apart in crucial talks over revenue from the Timor Gap oil and gas fields that could become a…
January 4, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 4, 2001
Kupang – Following a clash between East Timorese refugees and local residents, hundreds of East Timorese refugees were returned to…
January 2, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 2, 2001
Jakarta – A notorious former East Timorese militia leader went on trial here Tuesday charged with inciting criminal activities against the state…
January 1, 2001
Human Rights Watch - January 2001
Pat Walsh - Australian Council for Overseas Aid April 2001
December 31, 2000
Dili - December 31, 2000
Compatriots! Timorese!
This is not intended to be an exclusive message; the time for exclusive leaders playing the ungrateful role of…
December 28, 2000
The Age - December 28, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Somewhere in Indonesian West Timor, in a camp controlled by some of the most notorious militia thugs who fled East Timor after…
Sydney Morning Herald - December 28, 2000
Louise Williams – Sydney, you can't rebuild East Timor with teddies and thongs. And you shouldn't even give a child a teddy to play with outside…
December 27, 2000
Christian Science Monitor - December 27, 2000
Dan Murphy, Jakarta – Shortly after Monitor contributor Sander Thoenes was killed in East Timor last year, it seemed as if justice would be served…
December 23, 2000
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2000
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has postponed the registration of some 100,000 East Timorese refugees still langishing in squalid camps in…
December 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - December 22, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Christmas brings out the best in the East Timorese. Last year, despite the misery and destruction inflicted by the militia and…
December 20, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - December 20, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Australia has with held from United Nations prosecutors hundreds of hours of secret communication intercepts, which…
Agence France Presse - December 20, 2000
Jakarta – Former pro-Indonesia militia leaders from East Timor's Baucau district are preparing for a one-day visit to their homeland to see…
December 19, 2000
Jakarta Post - December 19, 2000
Jakarta – East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres will open the new year unlike any other as he faces court proceedings against him…
December 18, 2000
The Age - December 18, 2000
Mark Dodd – East Timor independence leader Jose "Xanana" Gusmao has called for international support for a South African-style truth and…
December 15, 2000
Kyodo News - December 15, 2000
Jakarta – Eurico Guterres, a former pro-Jakarta East Timorese militia leader, has been charged in connection with the death of three…
December 14, 2000
Agence France Presse - December 14, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – Anger over an international probe into last year's atrocities in East Timor on Thursday prompted Indonesia's parliament to review its…
December 13, 2000
Christian Science Monitor - December 13, 2000
Dan Murphy – A United Nations prosecutor in East Timor indicted 11 men Monday for crimes against humanity in what promises to be a first step on a…
December 12, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - December 12, 2000
An Australian soldier was injured in a suspected militia attack in East Timor overnight, the East Timor Australian National Command…
Agence France Presse - December 12, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces chief on Tuesday threw his support behind lawyers who have rejected UN attempts to quiz officers accused of…
Agence France Presse - December 12, 2000
Jakarta – The UN administration in East Timor said on Tuesday it has called on the Indonesian government to punish the perpetrators of an "…
December 9, 2000
Associated Press - December 9, 2000
Dili – Four East Timor advisory Cabinet members who threatened to resign backed down Saturday after a meeting with the UN administration of the…
Jakarta Post - December 9, 2000
Jakarta – The Army has vowed not to let the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) question its soldiers over human rights abuses…
December 7, 2000
Jakarta Post - December 7, 2000
Jakarta – A joint investigation team, comprising of officials from the Attorney General's Office and the UN Transitional Administration in East…
December 6, 2000
Green Left Weekly - December 6, 2000
Jon Land – Australian domestic demand for natural gas is projected to steadily increase over the next decade, with the fields off the coast of…
December 4, 2000
South China Morning Post - December 4, 2000
Joanna Jolly, Dili – Arrest warrants could soon be issued for middle-ranking Indonesian military personnel suspected of involvement in crimes…
Indonesian Observer - December 4, 2000
Jakarta – The Investigative Commission for Human Rights Abuses in East Timor [KPP HAM] yesterday confirmed the existence and validity of the…