Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Despite the decision of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) to drop from its agenda human rights abuses in…
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April 22, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 22, 2003
April 21, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 21, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The chance to bring justice to the victims of the 1999 human rights violations in East Timor has vanished, after the…
Lusa - April 21, 2003
Dili – The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) has already heard over 2,000 statements on human rights…
The Australian - April 21, 2003
Megan Saunders – Ami is only six, but she knows her family is at crisis point. "What have we done wrong?" the youngest of five children asked her…
April 17, 2003
Agence France Presse - April 17, 2003
The head of Indonesia's Supreme Court has hit out at Amnesty International for describing trials of suspects in the 1999 East Timor violence as "…
April 16, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - April 16, 2003
Three and half years after East Timor voted for independence, 1500 East Timorese asylum seekers are still in Australia. For many it is more than a…
Jakarta Post - April 16, 2003
Elcid Li, Kupang – The reunion took place in no-man's-land. Also called the tactical coordination line, a 300-meter-long strip of beach just…
Australian Financial Review - April 16, 2003
Mari Alkatiri – As the world watched events unfold in the Middle East, we heard talk of the territorial integrity of the nation of Iraq. The…
Agence France Presse - April 16, 2003
An investigation into allegations of unlawful killing and brutality by Australian special forces in East Timor led to a soldier being charged with…
April 15, 2003
Straits Times - April 15, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors yesterday demanded that a former military chief in East Timor be jailed for 10 years for failing to stop violence…
Agence France Presse - April 15, 2003
Amnesty International slammed Indonesia's trials of suspects in the 1999 East Timor violence as "not honest, truthful or fair" and urged the…
Jakarta Post - April 15, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – A human rights activist has expressed doubts that Indonesia and East Timor are serious about resolving the…
April 12, 2003
The Australian - April 12, 2003
Megan Saunders – Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock has rejected a plea by the East Timor President, Xanana Gusmao, to allow up to 1600 temporary…
April 11, 2003
Associated Press - April 11, 2003
Dili – Police in East Timor have launched a crackdown on prostitution, raiding two massage parlors in the past month and arresting four people, an…
April 10, 2003
Australian Braodcasting Corporation - April 10, 2003
The Federal Government has been accused of leaving East Timorese asylum seekers to starve by cutting off their welfare payments while…
April 9, 2003
Jakarta Post - April 9, 2003
Dili (Agencies) – Prosecutors in East Timor said on Wednesday they have indicted 16 people including eight Indonesian army officers for crimes…
The Age - April 9, 2003
William Birnbauer – A benign attitude to his country's tormentors is not widely understood, but East Timor's "Mandela" wants to move on. William…
Radio Australia - April 9, 2003
Human rights activists and legal experts in East Timor have condemned proposed moves to limit the freedom of foreigners. Under its controversial…
April 8, 2003
Radio Australia - April 8, 2003
As East Timor prepares to mark its first anniversary of independence, the nation's opposition parties have united to present a strong alternative…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 8, 2003
Cynthia Banham – Refugee groups are claiming the Federal Government is close to making a decision on the fate of East Timorese asylum seekers that…
April 7, 2003
Radio Australia - April 7, 2003
President Xanana Gusmao concedes security will be a concern when United Nations peacekeepers pull out of East Timor.
The troops are due to…
Lusa - April 7, 2003
Dili – Most of East Timor's opposition parties signed a so-called "national unity platform" Monday, bitterly criticizing Prime Minister Mari…
April 6, 2003
Washington Post - April 6, 2003
Ellen Nakashima, Jakarta – On a recent day in a weathered courthouse in Jakarta sat defendant Tono Suratman, an army brigadier general accused of…
April 5, 2003
Agence France Presse - April 5, 2003
Jakarta – United Nations peacekeepers have arrested two former East Timorese militiamen for alleged involvement in crimes against…
South China Morning Post - April 5, 2003
Reuters in Melbourne – Corruption poses the biggest risk to the future of East Timor, says its president, Xanana Gusmao.
The world's newest…
April 4, 2003
Associated Press - April 4, 2003
Dili – An East Timorese court on Saturday sentenced a senior militia leader to 12 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the…
April 3, 2003
Melbourne Age - April 3, 2003
David Rood – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao said yesterday he opposed Australia's involvement in the US-led war on Iraq.
…
April 2, 2003
Interpress News Service - April 2, 2003
Kalinga Seneviratne, Sydney – Australia's international profile, already hurt by criticism against its role in the US-led invasion of Iraq, is…
The Australian - April 2, 2003
Paul Kelly – Iraq is not the only humanitarian issue facing the Howard Government today. East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao made an urgent and…
Kyodo News - April 2, 2003
Dili – An East Timor-Australia treaty that serves as the basis for the development of the major oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea between the…
March 31, 2003
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - March 31, 2003
East Timor became a fully independent republic on May 20, following approximately 2½ years under the authority of the U.N. Transitional…
March 28, 2003
Associated Press - March 28, 2003
Jakarta – East Timor has formed a new border patrol unit to replace international peacekeepers, the UN said Friday – a sign that the military is…
March 26, 2003
Agence France Presse - March 26, 2003
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has urged Canberra to allow 1,600 of his compatriots who fled to Australia about a decade ago, in the bloody…
Radio Australia - March 26, 2003
East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation has been up and running for over three months now and has accepted over 100 minor…
The Australian - March 26, 2003
Nigel Wilson – The Timor Sea Treaty will formally come into effect next Tuesday with an exchange of notes between Australia and East Timor in Dili…
March 24, 2003
Time Magazine - March 24, 2003
Lisa Clausen – The young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace. He was a child in 1999 when, swept up in the…
March 20, 2003
Associated Press - March 20, 2003
Jakarta – Ex-president B.J. Habibie told a human rights court Thursday that the bloodshed which swept across East Timor after its independence…
Lusa - March 20, 2003
Geneva – The minister of the Foreign Affairs of Timor said Wednesday that a "better solution" for the problem of Iraq "would be that the United…
Lusa - March 20, 2003
Dili – East Timorese leaders expressed their "extreme preoccupation" and "shock" Thursday over the launching of war by Washington and London…
March 19, 2003
Litchfield Times (Darwin) - March 19, 2003
Rob Wesley-Smith – Much joy from NT government and business has accompanied the rushing of the Timor Sea Treaty (TST) through both houses of the…
March 18, 2003
The Jakarta Post - March 18, 2003
Jakarta (Agencies) – Military authorities in West Timor have arrested six pro-Jakarta militiamen for their alleged involvement in last…
March 17, 2003
Radio Australia - March 17, 2003
An Australian Army inquiry, yet to be released, has cleared members of the elite SAS of torture claims in East Timor. But it's believed the…
Associated Press - March 17, 2003
Jakarta – Prosecutors plan to soon appeal a string of verdicts acquitting Indonesian police and military officers accused over the violence that…
Agence France Presse - March 17, 2003
A military commander overseeing Indonesian West Timor has ordered his men to shoot on sight any armed militiamen found trying to cross the border…
March 13, 2003
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – In the mist of East Timor's central mountains, Florindo Soares explains why he helped kill his neighbour's brother 25 years ago.…
Australian Financial Review - March 13, 2003
Andrew Burrell, Jakarta – A senior Indonesian military officer convicted yesterday over the bloodshed in East Timor in 1999 will remain free,…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – Small boys play on a rusting warship off Dili harbour, the detritus of war that has become their home. On the beach, men scavenge…
Straits Times - March 13, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's human rights tribunal yesterday convicted Brigadier-General Noer Muis, a former military chief in then-East Timor…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2003
Chris McCall – It is only a rough map, but the message is clear. East Timor is shown surrounded by Falintil freedom fighters, with a huge cross…
March 12, 2003
Asia Times - March 12, 2003
Alan Boyd, Sydney – East Timor is preparing for next year's withdrawal of United Nations peacekeeping troops with a diplomatic offensive aimed at…