The East Timorese have two tetchy, uncharitable neighbours in Indonesia and Australia, neither willing to lend a genuine hand to the nation, says…
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January 24, 2006
South China Morning Post - January 24, 2006
Lusa - January 24, 2006
Washington – East Timor needs a continued United Nations presence after the scheduled pullout of the UNOTIL mission in May, particularly to…
Associated Press - January 24, 2006
Guido Guilliart, Dili – An internationally funded report supports claims that Indonesian soldiers intentionally killed five foreign journalists…
January 23, 2006
Associated Press - January 23, 2006
Edith M. Lederer, United Nations – East Timor's president urged the UN Security Council on Monday to keep a small political office in the country…
The Australian - January 23, 2006
Sian Powell, Jakarta – Indonesia's own military films provide the proof that the Soviet equivalent of napalm, opalm, was used on the people of…
Melbourne Age - January 23, 2006
Scott Burchill – The report of the United Nations inquiry into Indonesia's brutal 24-year occupation of East Timor will come as no surprise to…
Washington Post - January 23, 2006
Colum Lynch, United Nations – An internal UN probe of the department that runs international peacekeeping operations has uncovered extensive…
January 22, 2006
Jakarta Post - January 22, 2006
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – A historian is urging the government to examine the reasons behind Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975 and any…
Sunday Telegraph - January 22, 2006
Jim Dickins – Police failed to investigate allegations an Australian public servant passed massive bribes to East Timor's Prime Minister.
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Associated Press - January 22, 2006
Jakarta – Indonesia's military chief on Sunday denied that the country's forces massacred or starved to death more than 180,000 civilians and used…
January 21, 2006
National Public Radio (NPR) - January 21, 2006
Debbie Elliott, host:
A leaked report charges that Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor led to the deaths of more than 100,000…
Washington Post - January 21, 2006
Colum Lynch and Ellen Nakashima, United Nations – Indonesian security forces and militias they supported killed at least 100,000 East Timorese…
Jakarta Post - January 21, 2006
Jakarta – The government played down Friday a report leaked to the Australian media alleging that Indonesia's 24-year-long occupation of East…
AsiaNews - January 21, 2006
Baucau – The people of East Timor are afraid that the names of the thousands of lives lost during Indonesia's occupation of the country will be…
January 20, 2006
International Center for Transitional Justice - January 20, 2006
New York – President Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão of Timor-Leste presented the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, with the final report of the…
Antara - January 20, 2006
New York – Indonesian politicians should not misunderstand the move of Timor Leste's independent commission to report its investigation results to…
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network - January 20, 2006
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on the United Nations to launch a broad and thorough discussion of the report of…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2006
Damien Murphy – Australia would be guided by East Timor's attitudes on how it wished to come to terms with human rights abuses that took place…
The Australian Editorial - January 20, 2006
Sian Powell's exclusive report on atrocities against the people of East Timor during the 24 years of Indonesian occupation, published in The…
Press Statement - January 20, 2006
New Zealand should lead the way by offering reparation to East Timor, Green MP Keith Locke said today after details of a damning United Nations…
NZPA - January 20, 2006
New Zealand should lead the way by offering reparation to East Timor, Green MP Keith Locke said today after details of a damning United Nations…
The Australian - January 20, 2006
Sian Powell – Former prime minister Gough Whitlam has been condemned for his tacit approval of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, his…
January 19, 2006
The Australian - January 19, 2006
Sian Powell, Jakarta – good relations with Indonesia have always been of prime importance to the independent nation of East Timor.
The half-…
Agence France Presse - January 19, 2006
Jakarta – The United Nations should publicise a report it was due to receive alleging that Indonesia's occupation of East Timor caused the deaths…
The Australian - January 19, 2006
Sian Powell – One of the most enduring horrors of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor was the "fence of legs" campaign in 1981, which rounded…
The Australian - January 19, 2006
Sian Powell, Jakarta – The Indonesian military used starvation as a weapon to exterminate the East Timorese, according to a UN report documenting…
January 19, 2006
His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
New York, NY USA
By fax to +1-212-963-7055
Dili, 19 January…
January 18, 2006
Human Rights Watch - January 18, 2006
January 16, 2006
Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - January 16, 2006
The welcome resolution of East Timor's dispute with Australia over oil and gas revenue from the Timor Sea means about $150,000 for every man,…
Agence France Presse - January 16, 2006
A deal signed last week between East Timor and Australia to share billions of dollars in revenue from Timor Sea oil and gas deposits has short-…
January 15, 2006
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) - January 15, 2006
The new treaty between the governments of Australia and Timor-Leste to share oil and gas resources from part of the Timor Sea temporarily resolves…
January 13, 2006
The Australian - January 13, 2006
Nigel Wilson – Maritime boundary negotiations between Australia and East Timor have been put on hold for 50 years under a deal to share the Timor…
New Zealand Herald - January 13, 2006
[Joseph Nevins: A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor. Cornell University Press. Reviewed by Maire Leadbeater.]
Will the…
ABC News Online - January 13, 2006
The Australian Government has been accused of bullying and short-changing East Timor.
Australia and East Timor have formally signed a treaty…
Committee to Protect Journalists - January 13, 2006
His Excellency Kay Rala Xanana Gusmco
President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
C/o The Embassy of the Democratic Republic of…
The Australian - January 13, 2006
Dan Box, John Kerin – East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has declared that the fledgling nation does not need Australia's help to deal with…
January 12, 2006
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2006
Semarang – A group of Timorese-Indonesians living in Central Java demanded on Wednesday a thorough investigation into an incident on…
Australian Associated Press - January 12, 2006
Canberra – Australia and East Timor today signed off on a deal to share revenue from the Timor Sea's lucrative energy reserves, resulting in a…
Australia East Timor Friendship Association (South Australia) Statement - January 12, 2006
"The Australia East Timor Friendship Association (SA) [AETFA SA) Inc joins the Timor Sea Justice Campaign and other NGOs in expressing concern…
Australian Associated Press - January 12, 2006
Woodside Petroleum on Thursday welcomed the Timor Sea gas agreement between Australia and East Timor but said the Greater Sunrise gas project…
Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release - January 12, 2006
With the Governments of Australia and East Timor today signing another interim resources sharing agreement for contested petroleum resources in…
January 11, 2006
Lusa - January 11, 2006
Dmli – The Timorese dioceses of Dmli and Baucau and 12 non-governmental organizations today criticized in Dmli the initiative of the…
Agence France Presse - January 11, 2006
Dili – East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Wednesday that his country's police force had acted in self defence when they shot dead three…
Lusa - January 11, 2006
Dili – Police in East Timor who shot dead three ex-militiamen trying to enter the country last week were acting in legitimate self-…
January 10, 2006
The Australian - January 10, 2006
Nigel Wilson – The Maritime Union of Australia is threatening an international industrial campaign to force oil giant ConocoPhillips to employ…
International Journalists' Network - January 10, 2006
Journalists and freedom of expression advocates in East Timor are calling for international opposition to a new law that would punish defamation…
Antara News - January 10, 2006
Jakarta – The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) on Wednesday denounced the shooting of three Indonesians by Timor Leste border…
January 9, 2006
Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release - January 9, 2006
The Australian lobby group that has been calling on the Australian Government to negotiate permanent maritime boundaries with East Timor, is now…
Agence France Presse - January 9, 2006
Atambua – Around 1,500 protesters burned pictures of East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao on Monday following the killing of three former pro-…
January 7, 2006
Associated Press - January 7, 2006
Dili – A UN-sanctioned panel investigating human rights violations during Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor found that as many as 183,…