[Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor By Naldo Rei University of Queensland Press, 338pp, $34.95. Review by Sian Powell.]
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March 15, 2008
The Australian - March 15, 2008
Melbourne Age - March 15, 2008
Stephanie March, Dili – East Timor's police and military have been accused of beating and torturing citizens since a state of emergency began…
March 14, 2008
Australian Associated Press - March 14, 2008
Human rights groups are worried. The controversial Indonesia-East Timor "truth" commission into the violence surrounding East Timor's historic…
Granma International - March 14, 2008
Katia Siberia Garcia, Havana – Cuban doctors who fulfilled an internationalist mission in Timor-Leste arrived in Cuba on Thursday…
March 12, 2008
Melbourne Age - March 12, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta was almost killed by a banned soft-nosed bullet that expands when it hits,…
March 11, 2008
The Australian - March 11, 2008
Paul Toohey – President Jose Ramos Horta is struggling to comprehend the betrayal involved in an attempt by former members of the Timorese…
US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - March 11, 2008
Granma International - March 11, 2008
Dili – In a ceremony presided over by the interim president of the Republic of Timor-Leste, Fernando Lasama de Araujo, and Deputy Prime Minister…
March 10, 2008
BBC News - March 10, 2008
A month on from the shooting of East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, the BBC's Lucy Williamson reports on the government's handling of the…
March 6, 2008
The Australian - March 6, 2008
Bob Howarth – The independent daily Timor Post newspaper has had two formal apologies from senior government officials over violence…
March 5, 2008
Red Pepper - March 5, 2008
Following the attack on East Timor president Jose Ramos Hortes, Carole Reckinger and Sara Gonzalez Devant report on the complexities surrounding…
March 3, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - March 3, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A rebel commander who was at the home of East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, the morning he was shot and seriously…
The Australian - March 3, 2008
Paul Toohey – The East Timorese rebel leader widely suspected of being the man who shot President Jose Ramos Horta has surrendered, handing in his…
March 1, 2008
Asia Pacific Times - March 2008
Henriette Sachse – The recent attacks on East Timor's president and prime minister are a severe setback on the path to democracy. They highlight…
February 29, 2008
Prensa Latina - February 29, 2008
Dili – Interim President Fernando La Sama De Araujo of Timor Leste sent congratulations Friday to Raul Castro at his election as…
February 28, 2008
Australian Associated Press - February 28, 2008
The British government will consult with the families of two of the Balibo Five about what action, if any, it should take over the killings of the…
Melbourne Age - February 28, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A crime syndicate with links to former pro-Indonesian militias supplied drugs to youth gang members involved in violent…
February 27, 2008
The Australian - February 27, 2008
From correspondents in London – Britain is being urged to order arrest warrants for two surviving former Indonesian military chiefs linked to the…
February 26, 2008
The Australian - February 26, 2008
Michael Mckenna – A senior staff member of the East Timor Post newspaper was allegedly beaten and arrested at the weekend in the latest of a…
February 25, 2008
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans frontieres - February 25, 2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the action of the police in arresting and beating a Timor Post journalist on the night of 22 February as he was…
February 21, 2008
The Australian - February 21, 2008
Paul Toohey – Time reporter Rory Callinan has complained of heavy-handed treatment at the hands of Australian soldiers in East Timor after he and…
February 20, 2008
Japan East Timor Coalition - February 20, 2008
For Timor-Leste victims of the Japanese military's sexual slavery system – Restore their honor, give them their rights!
(Sixty-six…
Green Left Weekly - February 20, 2008
Tony Iltis – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta was rushed to Darwin to undergo emergency surgery after being shot three times in a February…
Globe and Mail (Toronto) - February 20, 2008
Geoffrey York, Dili – Passengers arriving at East Timor's airport are greeted with an ominous sign posted by the authorities, warning of the…
February 19, 2008
Bloomberg News - February 19, 2008
Angela Macdonald-Smith, Sydney – Woodside Petroleum should delay plans to develop the Sunrise natural gas field in the Timor Sea for up to 10…
Reuters - February 19, 2008
Ahmad Pathoni, Dili – Delvina da Costa complained of squalid conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she has lived for almost…
February 18, 2008
The Australian - February 18, 2008
Paul Toohey, Dili – Some 90 of Alfredo Reinado's rebels, most of them armed, broke the East Timor-wide 8pm curfew and entered Dili late on…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 18, 2008
Susan Wellings – One of East Timor's most bloody massacres is finally to be investigated by a team of Australian forensic scientists who plan to…
Agence France Presse - February 18, 2008
Belinda Lopez – East Timor, a fragile young democracy rocked by assaults on its two top leaders last week, must work to overcome grinding poverty…
February 17, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen - February 17, 2008
[Against calls to make Suharto a national hero, human rights activists want the world to remember his deadly legacy. Bella Galhos, who escaped to…
February 16, 2008
The Australian - February 16, 2008
Bob Boughton – The mayhem in Dili last Monday, in which rebel soldier Alfredo Reinado was shot dead and East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta…
Canberra Times - February 16, 2008
Kevin Rudd's mission to East Timor yesterday was as much about fact-finding as it was about bolstering a government in crisis. On Monday after the…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 16, 2008
Mark Forbes – Relations between East Timor and Indonesia have leapt ahead, even as ambivalence remains in the tiny nation's ties with Australia.…
Melbourne Age - February 16, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A chill breeze was blowing across the ruins of the old Portuguese fort on a hill overlooking the small town of Maubisse…
The Australian - February 16, 2008
Paul Toohey, Dili – East Timor is a changed land, with what remained of its simple innocence lost the moment gunmen opened fire on its most…
Australian Associated Press - February 16, 2008
The man who claims to be the new leader of East Timor's fugitive rebels says he's heavily armed and will not surrender without a fight.
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February 15, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - February 15, 2008
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Jill Jolliffe – Alfredo Reinado became a hero to East Timor's disenchanted urban youth in May 2006 after the army…
IRIN News - February 15, 2008
Dili – Timor-Leste's prosecutor-general, Longuinhos Montiero, has now issued 12 arrest warrants for suspects in the 11 February assassination…
New Matilida - February 15, 2008
John Martinkus – Tonight on Al Jazeera, Xanana Gusmao will answer allegations that he was the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's puppet master in…
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Jonathan Head, Dili – They gave Alfredo Reinado a hero's burial, his coffin draped in the red, black and yellow flag of East Timor.
His…
International Herald Tribune - February 15, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – When the rain-laden clouds open up, as they frequently do this time of year, the tarpaulin over Alicia Pinto's bed leaks…
February 14, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - February 14, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Investigators believe that gangs of armed men led by East Timor's rebel leader Alfredo Reinado intended to kidnap, not…
International Herald Tribune - February 14, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – The body of the slain army mutineer who led attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor was buried in the…
Inter Press Service - February 14, 2008
Setyo Budi, Dili – Hundreds of people gathered Thursday for the funeral of Alfredo Reinado, the rebel soldier who was slain in an alleged coup bid…
February 13, 2008
Canberra Times - February 13, 2008
Michael Leach – When I wrote on Monday that disarming the increasingly threatening and erratic Major Alfredo Reinado had become a critical…
Associated Press - February 13, 2008
Anthony Deutsch, Dili – The rebels jumped from two cars, firing machine guns as they stormed the compound of President Jose Ramos-Horta. "Traitor…
International Herald Tribune - February 13, 2008
Donald Greenlees, Dili – Before President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot outside his home on Monday, the Nobel Peace laureate was not overly concerned…
TAPOL/Progressio Press release - February 13, 2008
The UN must play a part in ending the lawlessness that culminated in this week's attempted assassinations of Timor-Leste's President José Ramos-…
February 12, 2008
Christian Science Monitor - February 12, 2008
Simon Montlake and Nick Squires, Bangkok/Sydney – A foiled dawn attack Monday by rebel soldiers on East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, who…
South China Morning Post - February 12, 2008
East Timor's maverick seemed desperate for martyrdom
Fabio Scarpello in Banda Aceh – When Alfredo Reinado died in a hail of gunfire outside…