Dili – It was announced on 21 December 2004 that the governments of East Timor and Indonesia had agreed on the formation of a Truth and Friendship…
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January 14, 2005
JSMP Press Release - January 14, 2005
January 10, 2005
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2005
Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Indonesia has asked East Timor to initiate a joint-commission of truth and reconciliation to resolve the issue of…
January 7, 2005
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2005
Kupang – Atambua Bishop Anton Pain Ratu has called on the Timor Leste government to grant amnesty to former pro-Jakarta militia as…
January 4, 2005
Interpress News Service - January 4, 2005
Bob Burton, Canberra – Despite his reputation as a progressive social thinker, former Australian Labor Party prime minister Gough Whitlam –…
January 1, 2005
Human Rights Watch - January 2005
December 29, 2004
Human Rights Watch - December 29, 2004
A law regulating demonstrations and assemblies passed by East Timor's parliament violates basic rights to free expression and assembly, Human…
December 28, 2004
The Guardian (UK) - December 28, 2004
After 25 years of repression and persecution, the tiny country of East Timor is racked with poverty and in desperate need of rebuilding. John…
December 27, 2004
Joint Statement on the Truth and Friendship Commission - December 27, 2004
1. In response to the proposition for the establishment of a UN Commission of Experts, on Tuesday, December 21, 2004, the Governments of Indonesia…
December 24, 2004
Associated Press - December 24, 2004
Indonesia has rejected UN plans for a commission that would study Jakarta's resolve to punish those responsible for human rights abuses in East…
December 23, 2004
Radio Australia - December 23, 2004
There have been mixed reactions this week to a proposal by Indonesia and East Timor to set up a joint commission to investigate the violence in…
The Guardian - December 23, 2004
John Aglionby, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor have agreed to set up a truth and friendship commission to address the issues of 1,500 murders…
Financial Times (UK) - December 23, 2004
Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor announced this week they would establish a bilateral "truth and friendship commission" to heal…
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2004
The United States welcomed creation of a joint Indonesia-East Timor commission on the 1999 bloodshed in the former Portuguese colony, but made…
December 22, 2004
Reuters - December 22, 2004
Washington – US officials do not want a planned Indonesian-East Timorese commission on 1999 violence in East Timor to supplant UN efforts to…
Agence France Presse - December 22, 2004
Indonesia and East Timor announced plans for a historic joint commission to draw a line under past hostilities and resolve the 1999 bloodshed that…
December 21, 2004
Jakarta Post - December 21, 2004
Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Indonesia and its former province East Timor are set to reject an idea to establish a commission of experts to…
December 17, 2004
Agence France Presse - December 17, 2004
East Timor's cabinet has passed a landmark petroleum law that will open the door to foreign firms seeking oil and gas exploration…
Lusa - December 17, 2004
Dili – East Timor's Serious Crimes Unit (SCU) indicted 14 people Friday for war crimes committed in 1999, in what the joint Dili-…
December 16, 2004
Melbourne Age - December 16, 2004
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor have quietly agreed to discuss setting up a "truth and friendship commission"…
The World Today - December 16, 2004
Reporter: Anne Barker
Eleanor Hall: East Timor has upped the ante in its dispute with Australia over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea…
December 15, 2004
Green Left Weekly - December 15, 2004
[East Timor: Testimony. Elaine Briere. Between the Lines Books. 128 pages, 64 photographs, $56.95.]
Stephen Langford – For people involved…
December 14, 2004
Lusa - December 14, 2004
Dili – Dili understands the worries of investors over corruption in East Timor and the government is determined to crackdown on the…
December 11, 2004
The Guardian - December 11, 2004
John Vidal, Dili – The only way to reach the village of Fatuhei in East Timor is a four-hour hike over tropical mountains. You are then in one of…
Melbourne Age - December 11, 2004
Brendan Nicholson – Troops in East Timor were allegedly told to stop filing reports on Indonesia's role in the violence there.
Australia'S…
December 10, 2004
Kyodo News - December 10, 2004
East Timor wants the United Nations to extend its mission here for at least another year after its current mandate expires next May in order to…
December 9, 2004
Sunday Times (Australia) - December 9, 2004
An army whistleblower today found some backing for his claims after a government review found Australian troops in East Timor had been cut off…
December 3, 2004
The Australian - December 3, 2004
Nigel Wilson – John McCarthy, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Australian-led peacekeeping mission in 1999,…
Jakarta Post - December 3, 2004
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Over 270 people, who were deported from East Timor, were moved into a dormitory belonging to East Nusa Tenggara's…
December 2, 2004
ABC Radio - December 2, 2004
Reporter: Anne Barker
Mark Colvin: A court in East Timor has jailed a former pro-Indonesia militia leader to 15 years jail for murder and…
Lusa - December 2, 2004
Dili – East Timor's human rights court has sentenced a senior member of a pro-Jakarta militia to 15 years in prison for organizing an attack on…
December 1, 2004
Le Monde diplomatique - December 2004
Jean-Pierre Catry – Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, told the Security Council this year that: "Limited revenue and widespread…
Antara - December 1, 2004
Jakarta – The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) here Wednesday condemned the expulsion of 253 Moslems from East Timor, saying the action was a…
Jakarta Post - December 1, 2004
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – After five hours of immigration checks in Motaain, on the border of East Timor and Indonesia, 62 people were deported…
November 30, 2004
Sydney Morning Herald - November 30, 2004
Cynthia Banham – The East Timorese Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, has accused Australian officials of attempted blackmail during recent…
November 29, 2004
Courier Mail - November 29, 2004
Mark Dodd – An Australian businessman working in East Timor has been found guilty by the World Bank of corruption in connection with the…
Melbourne Age - November 29, 2004
Tom Noble, Dili – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao wants Australia to be fairer in negotiations over disputed oil and gas reserves, saying the…
Radio Australia PM - November 29, 2004
Reporter: Mark Colvin
Mark Colvin: East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, says the relationship between his country and Australia…
Agence France Presse - November 29, 2004
Eight former pro-Jakarta militiamen have been jailed in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in the mayhem surrounding a…
November 26, 2004
Kyodo News - November 26, 2004
East Timor President Xanana Gusmao warned Friday his emerging nation still faces the threat of incursions by armed militias, most likely from…
November 25, 2004
The Australian - November 25, 2004
Mark Dodd, Darwin – The chief investigator of the Bali bombings, Inspector-General Made Mangku Pastika, is himself under investigation for East…
November 22, 2004
Lusa - November 22, 2004
Dili – Eight East Timorese anti-independence militiamen have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to eight years for…
November 19, 2004
Canberra Times - November 19, 2004
Have successive Australian governments been lapdogs to the Indonesian military in their assessment of the impact of East Timorese independence on…
November 18, 2004
Associated Press - November 18, 2004
Rod Mcguirk, Canberra – A senior East Timorese official Thursday lamented the likely scrapping of a $5 billion natural gas project in the Timor…
November 17, 2004
Financial Times (UK) - November 17, 2004
Lachlan Colquhoun in Sydney and Shawn Donnan in Jakarta – Woodside Petroleum, Australia's biggest oil and gas producer, said on Wednesday it would…
November 16, 2004
Reuters - November 16, 2004
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The Security Council extended the life of a UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor for a final six months on Tuesday…
November 15, 2004
Associated Press - November 15, 2004
Canberra – Australia staked its claim Tuesday to its vast undersea continental shelf, asking the United Nations to grant it rights to minerals and…
November 11, 2004
Dow Jones Newswire - November 11, 2004
Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor's government must return to the negotiating table with more realistic expectations if a protracted maritime…
November 10, 2004
National Post (Canada) - November 10, 2004
Neither the current East Timor government nor the international community has made a particularly high priority of bringing to justice those…
Jakarta Post - November 10, 2004
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office is looking into the possibility of building new cases against the military officers…
Tempo Interactive - November 10, 2004
Jakarta – The former governor of East Timor, Abilio Jose Osorio Soares requested that the gross human rights abuse cases in East Timor be…