[Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor By Naldo Rei University of Queensland Press, 338pp, $34.95. Review by Sian Powell.]
Naldo Rei was nine or 10 when he crept into the hills on his first clandestine mission for the East Timorese guerillas. His father had just been killed by the Indonesian military and the boy was furious and despairing.
Stephanie March, Dili – East Timor's police and military have been accused of beating and torturing citizens since a state of emergency began following the February 11 attacks that left President Jose Ramos Horta wounded and rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead.
Human rights groups are worried. The controversial Indonesia-East Timor "truth" commission into the violence surrounding East Timor's historic 1999 vote for independence will hand down its final report within weeks.
Katia Siberia Garcia, Havana – Cuban doctors who fulfilled an internationalist mission in Timor-Leste arrived in Cuba on Thursday night, March 13, after two years in that South East Asian island nation. They were welcomed at Jose Martm International Airport by Jose Ramsn Balaguer, member of the Political Bureau and minister of public health.
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta was almost killed by a banned soft-nosed bullet that expands when it hits, inflicting a large jagged wound. The "dum-dum" bullet is banned by the Geneva Convention.
Mr Ramos Horta suffered three holes in the right side of his back and another huge wound in the area of his ribs.
Paul Toohey – President Jose Ramos Horta is struggling to comprehend the betrayal involved in an attempt by former members of the Timorese military to kill him and the country's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao.
Although he is recovering well from bullet wounds in a Darwin hospital, Mr Ramos Horta was said yesterday to have been hurt in ways surgery could not mend.
Dili – In a ceremony presided over by the interim president of the Republic of Timor-Leste, Fernando Lasama de Araujo, and Deputy Prime Minister Jose L.
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 crisis.
The camp holding the rebel soldiers is being run with military precision The road into the camp looks like any other – a wide, dusty road dotted with scrub.
Bob Howarth – The independent daily Timor Post newspaper has had two formal apologies from senior government officials over violence against one of its editors during Dili's emergency curfew.
The curfew was imposed after assassination attempts against President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. Horta is recovering from bullet wounds in a Darwin hospital.
Following the attack on East Timor president Jose Ramos Hortes, Carole Reckinger and Sara Gonzalez Devant report on the complexities surrounding the current crisis.
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 wounded has surrendered.
Paul Toohey – The East Timorese rebel leader widely suspected of being the man who shot President Jose Ramos Horta has surrendered, handing in his gun as Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao looked on.
Henriette Sachse – The recent attacks on East Timor's president and prime minister are a severe setback on the path to democracy. They highlight the country's most urgent problems: poverty, high unemployment and an inadequate system of justice.
Dili – Interim President Fernando La Sama De Araujo of Timor Leste sent congratulations Friday to Raul Castro at his election as president of the Cuban State and Minister councils.
In his letter, La Sama de Araujo also said he wished good health to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
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 British-born newsmen in East Timor in 1975.
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A crime syndicate with links to former pro-Indonesian militias supplied drugs to youth gang members involved in violent attacks in East Timor.
From correspondents in London – Britain is being urged to order arrest warrants for two surviving former Indonesian military chiefs linked to the deliberate killing of the Balibo Five.
The British government is being called on to take action because two of the Australian-based newsmen killed in East Timor by Indonesian forces in 1975 were born in the UK.
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 series of incidents pointing to a crackdown on press freedom across the troubled country.
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 travelling to the location in Kaikoli, near Dili, where his daily is printed in order to help prepare the next issue. He was freed the next day.
Paul Toohey – Time reporter Rory Callinan has complained of heavy-handed treatment at the hands of Australian soldiers in East Timor after he and photographer John Wilson were detained for three hours at gunpoint outside of Dili.
Callinan says he and Wilson had driven up a steep, winding road aiming last week to get to the small village of Dare, just above Dili.
For Timor-Leste victims of the Japanese military's sexual slavery system – Restore their honor, give them their rights!
(Sixty-six years from the day of the Japanese invasion of Timor)
Tony Iltis – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta was rushed to Darwin to undergo emergency surgery after being shot three times in a February 11 attack on his residence by armed rebels. The apparent leader of the assailants, Major Alfredo Reinado, was killed in the incident.
Geoffrey York, Dili – Passengers arriving at East Timor's airport are greeted with an ominous sign posted by the authorities, warning of the roving gangs of child extortionists who threaten physical harm to anyone refusing their "baggage services."
Angela Macdonald-Smith, Sydney – Woodside Petroleum should delay plans to develop the Sunrise natural gas field in the Timor Sea for up to 10 years to extend the time East Timor will get royalties, an East Timor non-government group says.
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 two years, but the prospect of returning to her old neighbourhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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 Wednesday night to pay their last respects as their leader and his offsider, Leopoldino Exposto, lay in coffins awaiting burial the following day.
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 excavate a mass grave and identify up to 400 missing people.
Belinda Lopez – East Timor, a fragile young democracy rocked by assaults on its two top leaders last week, must work to overcome grinding poverty and a divisive politics to achieve stability, analysts say.
[Against calls to make Suharto a national hero, human rights activists want the world to remember his deadly legacy. Bella Galhos, who escaped to tell the world about the genocide in East Timor, says very little has changed.]
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 badly injured, raises a fundamental question: How was Reinado, a minor military figure, allowed to become and remain such a dangerous force in Timorese politics?
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 shooting of President Jose Ramos Horta Rudd had agreed immediately to Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's request for more troops and police, and announced he would visit Dili as soon as possible.
Mark Forbes – Relations between East Timor and Indonesia have leapt ahead, even as ambivalence remains in the tiny nation's ties with Australia.
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 in East Timor's rugged mountains. Alfredo Reinado was comfortable with the venue for his meeting with the country's President, Jose Ramos Horta.
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 revered statesmen.
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.
Alfredo Reinado 1966-2008
Jill Jolliffe – Alfredo Reinado became a hero to East Timor's disenchanted urban youth in May 2006 after the army major refused orders to fight 600 protesting fellow soldiers and fled to the mountains with a small band of armed followers.
Dili – Timor-Leste's prosecutor-general, Longuinhos Montiero, has now issued 12 arrest warrants for suspects in the 11 February assassination attempts against President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.
Montiero expects to issue five more in the immediate future, and one other warrant is pending, awaiting further investigation.
John Martinkus – Tonight on Al Jazeera, Xanana Gusmao will answer allegations that he was the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's puppet master in the 2006 violence that plunged East Timor into crisis
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 bearded face looked down defiantly from banners in a revolutionary pose that deliberately aped the portraits they used to hoist of Xanana Gusmao, the one-time guerrilla leader who is now prime minister.
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 and the pathway outside her tent home becomes a quagmire.
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Investigators believe that gangs of armed men led by East Timor's rebel leader Alfredo Reinado intended to kidnap, not assassinate, the country's two top political leaders during Monday's attacks in Dili.
They have been told that two separate groups of armed men attempted to kidnap the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, who managed to flee unharmed.
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 garden of his home here Thursday in a peaceful ceremony witnessed by hundreds of mourners.
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 against the government of President Jose Ramos-Horta.
Michael Leach – When I wrote on Monday that disarming the increasingly threatening and erratic Major Alfredo Reinado had become a critical priority for national unity in East Timor, there was little indication that these concerns could be so dramatically realised within hours.
Anthony Deutsch, Dili – The rebels jumped from two cars, firing machine guns as they stormed the compound of President Jose Ramos-Horta. "Traitor! Traitor!" they shouted, hunting for the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Donald Greenlees, Dili – Before President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot outside his home on Monday, the Nobel Peace laureate was not overly concerned about his personal security in a country with a history of sudden and unpredictable eruptions of violence.
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-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and the death of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado by acting on its mandate to further the cause of justice for serious crimes, say campaigners
Simon Montlake and Nick Squires, Bangkok/Sydney – A foiled dawn attack Monday by rebel soldiers on East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta, who was shot and seriously wounded, has roiled this fledgling Southeast Asian country. But it may also signal the end of a rebel movement that had plagued efforts to restore stability.
East Timor's maverick seemed desperate for martyrdom
Fabio Scarpello in Banda Aceh – When Alfredo Reinado died in a hail of gunfire outside the home of President Jose Ramos Horta yesterday, he was fulfilling a dream to either seize control of East Timor, or to go down in a blaze of glory trying.