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March 27, 2008

Melbourne Age - March 27, 2008

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's chief prosecutor has asserted that rebel soldier Alfredo Reinado planned to assassinate four, not two, leaders in the attack last month that wounded P

March 26, 2008

Jakarta Post - March 26, 2008

Jakarta – The Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission on Truth and Friendship (CTF) has had its mandate further extended due to internal disputes over its final report.

Melbourne Age - March 26, 2008

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Alfredo Reinado, the rebel leader who led last month's attacks in Dili, turned up at a television studio in Jakarta while Australian soldiers were hunting him

March 21, 2008

Cuban News Agency - March 21, 2008

The coordinator of the Luta Hamutuk non-governmental organization in East Timor, Mericio Akara, said on Thursday that Cuba is an example for the Third World in the field of cooperation.

March 20, 2008

Australian Associated Press - March 20, 2008

Belinda Tasker – Britain could launch legal action against two surviving former Indonesian military chiefs linked to the deaths of the Balibo Five if Australia fails to pursue the men.

IRIN - March 20, 2008

Dili – A month after the attacks in Timor-Leste that left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead and President Jose Ramos Horta wounded, some of the 30,000 internally displaced people (IDPs)

March 18, 2008

The Australian - March 18, 2008

Paul Toohey – A large amount of cash was allegedly found on the body of rebel soldier Alfredo Reinado after he was shot dead in President Jose Ramos Horta's compound in East Timor last

March 17, 2008

Canberra Times - March 17, 2008

Steven Sengstock – A month has passed since the death of Alfredo Reinado in a fire-fight at the home of East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta.

Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2008

Julia May, London – A former head of defence intelligence in East Timor has criticised the British and Australian governments for failing to extradite two former Indonesian military lea

March 16, 2008

Sun Herald (Sydney) - March 16, 2008

Lindsay Murdoch and Tom Hyland – One of East Timor's most influential politicians has called for the inquiry into the recent attacks on the nation's leaders to be widened to include the

March 15, 2008

The Australian - March 15, 2008

[Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor By Naldo Rei University of Queensland Press, 338pp, $34.95. Review by Sian Powell.]

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 following the February 11 attacks that left

March 14, 2008

Granma International - March 14, 2008

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 Asi

Australian Associated Press - March 14, 2008

Human rights groups are worried.

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, inflicting a large jagged wound.

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 military to kill him and the country's Prime M

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 Jose L.

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 crisis.

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 against one of its editors during Dili's emergency c

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 the current crisis.

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 wounded has surrendered.

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 gun as Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao lo

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.

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 president of the Cuban State and Minister councils.

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 British-born newsmen in East Timor in

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 attacks in East Timor.

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 deliberate killing of the Balibo Five.

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 series of incidents pointing to a crackdown

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 travelling to the location in Kaikoli,

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 photographer John Wilson were detained

February 20, 2008

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 11 attack on his residence by armed re

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!

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 roving gangs of child extortionists who thre

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 years to extend the time East Timor will ge

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 two years, but the prospect of returnin

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 Wednesday night to pay their last respects as

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 excavate a mass grave and identify up 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 and a divisive politics to achieve stab

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.

February 16, 2008

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.

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.

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 badly injured, raises a fundamental quest

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 revered statesmen.

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.

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 in East Timor's rugged mountains.

February 15, 2008

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 the 2006 violence that plunged East Ti

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 attempts against President Jose Ramos-Horta

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 and the pathway outside her tent home b