Mark Dodd, Dili – Almost a year since voting to end Indonesian rule, East Timor is about to launch into open politicking about the shape of its…
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August 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - August 22, 2000
August 21, 2000
South China Morning Post - August 21, 2000
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The upsurge in fighting on the border between East and West Timor is the latest sign that the Indonesian military's…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 21, 2000
Mark Dodd, Aileu – Fighters from the former guerilla resistance force Falintil, in their first move out of forced cantonment since the United…
August 19, 2000
Agence France Presse - August 19, 2000
Jakarta – Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab on Saturday said some soldiers might have encouraged the pro-Jakarta militias in the border area…
August 17, 2000
The Australian - August 17, 2000
Andrew Perrin, Ainaro – Fearing UN peacekeepers cannot guarantee their safety, villagers in East Timor's mountainous central south-west have fled…
August 16, 2000
Lusa - August 16, 2000
A group of prominent East Timorese leaders, spanning the territory's historical political spectrum, are organizing a new center-right…
Green Left Weekly - August 16, 2000
Jon Land – Pro-Jakarta militia operating out of refugee camps and other bases in West Timor show no sign of scaling down their attacks upon…
August 15, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia yesterday denied responsibility for intensified attacks by militias on international forces inside East Timor…
August 14, 2000
Australian Financial Review - August 14, 2000
Brian Toohey – Well-trained soldiers dressed in Indonesian battle fatigues, and carrying Indonesian semi-automatic rifles, are trying extremely…
Reuters - August 14, 2000
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia conceded on Friday it could not fully control its border with East Timor where another UN soldier was killed…
South China Morning Post - August 14, 2000
Joanna Jolly, Dili – With its chrome chairs and international menu, the City Cafe could be in any modern capital around the world. But it is in…
August 13, 2000
Agence France Presse - August 13, 2000
Jakarta – Two UN agencies on Saturday pulled most of their foreign staff out of the West Timor border town of Atambua, a day after pro…
August 12, 2000
South China Morning Post - August 12, 2000
Joanna Jolly in Dili and Agencies – United Nations peacekeepers are gearing up for further trouble from pro-Jakarta militiamen as the anniversary…
Reuters - August 12, 2000
Dili – The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor has demanded that Indonesia arrest and disarm militia leaders responsible for an…
August 11, 2000
RTE - August 11, 2000
Dublin – UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, will start a three day visit to East Timor tomorrow to monitor developments there since…
August 9, 2000
Green Left Weekly - August 9, 2000
Jon Land – Despite the announcement on July 31 by Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid that refugee camps in West Timor controlled by the pro-…
August 5, 2000
South China Morning Post - August 5, 2000
Joanna Jolly, Dili – Ethnic-Chinese businessmen trying to re-establish East Timor's economy have become a target for hostility and extortion by…
August 4, 2000
Associated Press - August 4, 2000
Dili – UN peacekeepers in East Timor are now facing a well trained and disciplined anti-independence militia force that continues to use…
August 3, 2000
Energy Asia - August 3, 2000
The Timor Gap Treaty signed between Australia and Indonesia during the rule of former president Suharto is illegal, and is not recognised by…
August 2, 2000
Green Left Weekly - August 2, 2000
Jon Land – The confrontation on July 24 between pro-Jakarta militia forces from West Timor and a detachment of New Zealand soldiers from the…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 2, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United States Ambassador to Indonesia has condemned Jakarta's "lamentable and inexcusable" failure to disarm militias…
Agence France Presse - August 2, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities plan to register all East Timorese refugees still on Indonesian soil and make a last offer, to either stay or…
August 1, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Former guerilla fighter Mr Xanana Gusmao will become the first president of independent East Timor. After insisting for…
July 31, 2000
Australian Associated Press - July 31, 2000
Denis Peters and Linda McSweeny, Canberra – Australian unions and a prominent law firm have warned that workers rebuilding East Timor could be…
The Australian - July 31, 2000
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – The Harco Hotel in central Jakarta is a dreary resting place for people travelling on the cheap. For 100,000 rupiah ($20…
July 29, 2000
Temo - July 29, 2000
Lisbon – East Timorese youth rejected the foreign military base. It is one point of declaration of East Timorese Youth Congress that…
July 28, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 28, 2000
Mark Dodd in Suai and David Lague in Bangkok – A price has been put on the heads of Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers in East Timor, with…
July 27, 2000
Associated Press - July 27, 2000 (abridged)
Jakarta – Just hours after the UN Security Council called on Jakarta to crack down on anti-independence gangs conducting raids in East…
July 26, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 26, 2000
Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations had begun closed-door discussions with key diplomats to bring forward the withdrawal of peacekeepers…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 26, 2000
The killing and mutilation of a New Zealand peacekeeper in East Timor threatens further damage to Australia's fragile ties with Indonesia after…
Green Left Weekly - July 26, 2000
Jon Land – As East Timor moves towards full independence under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (…
Green Left Weekly - July 26, 2000
Vanja Tanaja, Dili – On July 19, an Indonesian investigation team arrived here to interview witnesses to the worst atrocities that took place from…
July 24, 2000
Dow Jones Newswires - July 24, 2000
Damian Milverton, Washington – The international effort to repair the devastation in East Timor is meeting with some success but at the same time…
Indonesian Observer - July 24, 2000
Jakarta – A respected legal aid activist says the government must guarantee the security of witnesses who are scheduled to testify later this year…
Lusa - July 24, 2000
East Timor – The United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced Friday that it has withdrawn its personnel from the Betun…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 24, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – An Indonesian judicial team in East Timor to investigate violence by Jakarta's military and its local allies last year faced a…
July 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 22, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations mission in East Timor yesterday said it had no plans to arrest notorious pro-Jakarta militia leader Eurico…
July 20, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 20, 2000
Justice John Dowd, Sydney – A royal commission is needed into why the Whitlam Government turned a blind eye to the Balibo killings, writes Justice…
Associated Press - July 20, 2000
Jakarta – At least 547 East Timorese refugees sheltering in squalid camps throughout Indonesian-controlled West Timor have died in the…
July 19, 2000
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin - July 19, 2000
Dili – The Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Rehabilitation Pillar recently released its three-part assessment of the Consolidated Appeal…
Green Left Weekly - July 19, 2000
Jon Land - Up to 120,000 East Timorese are still languishing in refugee camps throughout West Timor 10 months after the post-referendum rampage by…
July 18, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 18, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Violence by pro-Jakarta militia in West Timor camps has sabotaged plans by the United Nations High Commissioner for…
Associated Press - July 18, 2000
Daniel Cooney, Dili – No one knows who really owns the blackened, burned-out building where Canadian businessman Kirk MacManus is trying to set up…
July 15, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 15, 2000
Lisbon – East Timor's first transitional government was hailed yesterday as a crucial step forward by the pro-independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao…
July 14, 2000
Washington Post - July 14, 2000
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Dili – Lakan Feralafaek, one of a score of money changers who ply their trade on the sidewalk in front of East Timor's only…
July 13, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 13, 2000
Marian Wilkinson, Sydney – An Australian intelligence agency learned from an intercepted Indonesian Army radio message that Australian television…
July 12, 2000
Green Left Weekly - July 12, 2000
Max Lane – The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) has announced that it will be implementing measures to increase…
July 11, 2000
Indonesian Observer - July 11, 2000
Kupang – Peace has been restored to the West Timor town of Oesau following the July 1 mass riot in which remnants of the feared pro-Jakarta…
New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2000
Greg Ansley, Dili – New Zealand troops have broken a militia-linked extortion racket in a crackdown on organised crime in the western border…
Lusa - July 11, 2000
Dili – Militants of East Timor's newest political party have seized a building destined to serve as a police station in the eastern…