Karen Michelmore and Olivia Rondonuwu, Bali – Indonesia could not have anticipated the scale of violence that followed East Timor's historic 1999…

Reporter: Geoff Thompson

Mark Colvin: Indonesia's former Foreign Minister, Ali Alatas, has identified a letter from John Howard as the…

Hamish McDonald – When nominations close at the end of this month for East Timor's April 9 presidential election, expect to see the start of a…

Hamish McDonald – Indonesian special forces knew five Australian newsmen were in Balibo before they attacked the East Timor village 31 years ago,…

Hamish McDonald – A former Timorese partisan told a state coroner yesterday he had seen Indonesian soldiers attack two white men trying to…

David Nason, Mark Dodd – The riches from the Greater Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea are set to be unlocked with East Timor's parliament…

Lindsay Murdoch – The East Timorese Prime Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, has urged the United Nations to bolster security in his country as…

James Dunn – The current coronial enquiry into the death of Brian Peters at Balibo in October 1975 has brought back vivid memories of a crisis in…

New Zealand's shameful record over East Timor comes into focus again this week. A Sydney inquest is delving into the murder of five journalists,…

Anthony Hubbard – The New Zealand government didn't want to make a fuss about the death of Gary Cunningham. It privately supported the Indonesian…

In another day of testimony to a coroner's court in Glebe, Sydney, three former Timorese militiamen working for the Indonesian special forces…

Dili – Hundreds of people protested Thursday over the decision to clear former prime minister Mari Alkatiri of allegations that he formed a hit…

Reporter: Emma Alberici

Mark Colvin: A witness at the inquest into the death of the newsman Brian Peters in East Timor in 1975 wept today,…

Mark Dodd – Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has withdrawn plans to invoke a rarely used national-interest exemption clause to fast-…

Reporter: Emma Alberici

Mark Colvin: A witness to the deaths of five Australian journalists in Timor in 1975 told a court today that he'd…

Lindsay Murdoch – East Timor's former prime minister Mari Alkatiri intends to sue the ABC for defamation over an award-winning Four Corners…

Hamish McDonald – Former Indonesian information minister Yunus Yosfiah gunned down Channel Nine cameraman Brian Peters as he tried to surrender in…

Mark Dodd – Prosecutors have dropped an investigation into allegations that former East Timorese prime minister Mari Alkatiri ordered a hit squad…

Mark Forbes, Jakarta, and Hamish McDonald, Sydney – A former Indonesian military commander has denied ordering the killings of five Australian…

Sydney – An Indonesian military commander who later became a government minister opened fire on a group of Australian-based journalists killed in…

Ian McPhedran – At dawn on October 16, 1975, four young Australian-based journalists walked out of a house in Balibo, East Timor, with their arms…

Reporter: Geoff Thompson

Mark Colvin: The Coroner's Court in Sydney today was told that the former commander of the Indonesian Military,…

Reporter: Emma Alberici

Eleanor Hall: The NSW Coroner's Court has today begun investigating just what happened to Sydney journalist Brian…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor's rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado, has agreed to surrender and face charges, including attempted murder,…

Mark Dodd and Nigel Wilson – East Timor's ruling Fretilin Party has threatened to withdraw from parliamentary elections unless they are held…

Hamish McDonald – If Canberra's defence and foreign affairs establishment thought Maureen Tolfree was going to give up, this was another…

Tom Hyland – East Timor's Fretilin party, the dominant political force in one of the world's poorest nations, is pushing for lavish pensions and…

Lucy Bannerman and Richard Lloyd Parry – In the three decades since Brian Peters died during Indonesia's secret invasion of East Timor, his sister…

Jakarta – Forty-seven people have been arrested in East Timor in an operation against gang violence in the tiny territory, the United…

Canberra – Australian troops have participated in a major armed operation with the United Nations against warring gangs in Timor-Leste…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Timor Leste women activists called for more solidarity and cooperation from Indonesian women to help build their new…

East Timor Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said he would not run for the presidency later this year unless there were no other…

Dili – An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 East Timorese have rallied to the governing party, Fretilin, at the country's second city, Baucau, about 122…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's parliament is to vote on a conscription bill that aims to fill the ranks of the country's ethnically divided defence…

Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Indonesian troops were recorded by a previously unknown top secret Australian listening station discussing the execution of…

Dili – Two youths were hacked to death in Dili Sunday as violence involving disciples from rival martial art schools erupted, witnesses said.

Mark Dodd – Rebel army major Alfredo Reinado is in negotiations to give himself up to face murder charges over the deaths of five people during a…

Dili – East Timor and the US today launched an appeal for $US16.6 million ($21.13 million) to help resettle and reintegrate about 100,…

Mark Dodd – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao will not recontest presidential elections scheduled for April but is expected to run for…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The Commission for Truth and Friendship (KKP) will leave the granting of amnesties for human rights violators in…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – A joint Indonesian and East Timorese commission will recommend amnesty for people responsible for atrocities in East…

Tom Hyland – East Timor's fugitive rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, wanted for attempted murder and armed rebellion, has been photographed with a…

• Events of 2006
• Dili Violence
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Hundreds of supporters of former home affairs minister Rogerio Lobato rallied today in East Timor outside the court where he was due to go on…

Jakarta – Three women accused of being witches were killed and burned along with their house in East Timor. The three women, aged 70,…

Patrick Thronson – Americans lose part of the past in an obvious sense when a former president dies: A living link to our history is extinguished…

Tony Stephens – Just three months after Indonesia invaded East Timor 30 years ago, the Australian government of the prime minister, Malcolm Fraser…

Patrick Walters – Thirty years ago the Fraser government grappled with the consequences of the Indonesian takeover of East Timor.

The 1976…

Patrick Walters – The Fraser government refused visas to prominent East Timorese left-wingers forced into exile after the Indonesian…

Russell Skelton, Canberra – The Fraser cabinet was warned by a powerful committee of defence chiefs that a prolonged war of independence by…