Larissa Dubecki – The State Government will give financial aid to about 1600 East Timorese refugees in Australia fighting to gain permanent…
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March 12, 2003
Melbourne Age - March 12 2003
Agence France Presse - March 12, 2003
Australia promised East Timor millions of dollars in a secret aid deal that convinced the world's newest nation to give up claims to a huge…
World Socialist Web Site - March 12, 2003
Rick Kelly – The long standing plan of the Australian government to maintain control of East Timor's oil and gas reserves reached its dinouement…
March 11, 2003
Melboune Age - March 11 2003
Tim Colebatch – They fooled me. Perhaps they fooled you, too. These days the spin doctors are everywhere, and they know how to pull the wool over…
March 10, 2003
Lusa - March 10, 2003
Dili – The East Timorese government defended today the imposition of restraints on the activities of foreigners in Timor-Leste and rejected…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2003
Aboeprijadi Santoso – Instead of expressing regret over Dili's indictment of Indonesian generals (as East Timor President Xanana Gusmao did) or…
Interpress News Service - March 10, 2003
Kalinga Seneviratne, Sydney – The Australian government is denying claims that it bullied the world's newest country, and one of its poorest –…
March 8, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - March 8 2003
Richard Woolcott – John Howard may regard intervention in East Timor as Australia's "most positive and noble act" in 20 years, but our most senior…
March 7, 2003
The Australian - March 7, 2003
Mark Phillips – Australian troops in East Timor have broken up an organised crime gang after a gun battle that left a gangster dead and another…
Australian Associated Press - March 7, 2003
Prime Minister John Howard denied yesterday bullying East Timor over a lucrative gas project as Parliament passed the crucial Timor Sea Treaty.…
The Australian - March 7, 2003
Steve Lewis and Nigel Wilson – Relations between Australia and East Timor have deteriorated even as they signed a breakthrough agreement yesterday…
March 6, 2003
Melbourne Age - March 6, 2003
Mark Baker – East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the signing of an agreement to clear…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
Cynthia Banham – The Howard Government is facing dissent from its backbenches over a decision to deport more than 1000 East Timorese refugees.…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
Mark Baker, Singapore and Mark Riley, Canberra – East Timor has bowed to intense political pressure from Australia and will today rush through the…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 6, 2003
The formal indictment of Indonesia's former armed forces chief, retired General Wiranto, and seven of his senior military officers for war crimes…
Associated Press - March 6, 2003
Jakarta – A top Indonesian Cabinet minister warned East Timor not to press ahead with the prosecutions of several Indonesian generals for alleged…
South China Morning Post - March 6, 2003
Chris McCall, Laivai – L7 is disgusted with East Timor's government. Its leaders ran away from war to save their skins, he said, and are now back…
Jakarta Post - March 6, 2003
Kurniawan Hari and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The recent indictment of several Indonesian military officers in East Timor shows that the…
March 5, 2003
Radio Australia - March 5, 2003
The Australian Parliament is expected to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty this week, ensuring a 20-billion dollar contract for natural gas can go ahead…
Lusa - March 5, 2003
Washington – A US rights group has urged Washington and the United Nations to press Jakarta to colaborate with East Timor in trying…
Radio Australia - March 5, 2003
United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan has recommended to the Security Council to slow the withdrawal of UN troops from East Timor. Citing…
Lusa - March 5, 2003
Dili – East Timor on Wednesday created a new post of vice-prime minister in a bid to boost government efficiency in the world's newest…
Green Left Weekly - March 5, 2003
Kate Stockdale, Darwin – Local community organisations, politicians and activists – meeting regularly as the Refugee Action Network (RAN) – are…
March 4, 2003
The Australian - March 4, 2003
Nigel Wilson – Last-minute negotiations are taking place on arrangements between Australia and East Timor that could result in legislation…
Melbourne Age - March 4, 2003
Reverend David Pargeter – In 1990 a large regional military power, Iraq, invaded a small neighbour, Kuwait, after accusing it of stealing oil from…
Posted on the ASAP News List - March 4, 2003
Max Lane – The article by Jose Ramos Horta defending the "aggressive strategy" of the US administration of George W Bush towards Iraq is not a…
March 3, 2003
Reuters - March 3, 2003
Jakarta – The East Timor government on Monday sought to distance itself from indictments issued against a former Indonesian armed forces chief…
March 2, 2003
Agence France Presse - March 2, 2003
Dili – Sitting by the road on the Dili waterfront, Jose Belo Pereira ekes out a living selling coconuts to passers-by. His two-dollar-a-day profit…
Melbourne Age - March 2, 2003
Larry Schwartz – The boys have been asking their father why they must leave family and friends in suburban Melbourne and go to another country.…
March 1, 2003
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2003
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Denpasar – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao voiced disappointment over the court's issuance of dozens of indictments of…
Straits Times - March 1, 2003
Dili – Timor Leste prosecutors charged more than 50 people, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against humanity…
February 28, 2003
Radio Australia - February 28, 2003
The drought may be finally breaking in Australia, but in East Timor continuing drought is causing severe problems. A number of children have…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 28, 2003
Mark Baker, Singapore – East Timor has warned that hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues vital for the country's development could be lost…
Reuters - February 28, 2003
Dili – East Timor prosecutors charged more than 50 people on Friday, including a former police chief and a militia boss, with crimes against…
February 27, 2003
Far Eastern Economic Review - February 27, 2003
Mark Dodd, Dili – In the laboratory of Cafi Cooperative Timor (CCT), senior adviser Alistair Laird, a "cupping" expert, is applying a final…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
Nug Katjasungkana, Contributor, Dili – On Tuesday, the Dili-based Office of the Prosecutor General of Timor Leste issued an indictment of former…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2003
The failure of Indonesia's rights tribunal to bow to international demands for the prosecution of the alleged perpetrators of human rights abuses…
February 26, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 26, 2003
The international rights group Human Rights Watch called on Indonesia to turn over for trial its officials accused of organizing atrocities…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin and Tom Allard, Canberra – United Nations prosecutors have charged the former Indonesian defence chief General Wiranto with…
February 25, 2003
Radio Australia - February 25, 2003
The United Nations Serious Crimes Unit has indicted General Wiranto, the former governor of East Timor, Abilio Soares and six other senior…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Tuesday Indonesia would ignore UN indictments of former armed forces chief Gen.(ret)…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – The United Nations on Tuesday indictedthe former armed forces chief Gen. (ret) Wiranto, along with six other senior generals and East…
Agence France Presse - February 25, 2003
Dili – Some 200 East Timorese staged a rally in the new nation's capital Dili on Tuesday to demand compensation for their past…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Yemris Fointuna and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur – The military commander overseeing the West Timor province promised tighter…
Agence France Presse - February 25, 2003
Dili – East Timorese officials blamed anti-independence militias Tuesday for an attack that killed two people, injured four and heightened…
February 24, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 24, 2003
Dili – Unidentified gunmen killed one person and seriously injured two pregnant women in an attack Monday on a minibus in East Timor, officials…
International Herald Tribune - February 24, 2003
Shepard Forman, New York – Even as the United Nations focuses like a laser on Iraq, it must not lose sight of its other commitments. The UN…
Agence France Presse - February 24, 2003
Dili – Anti-independence militias have launched a "terrorist strategy" to undermine Timor Leste's government before the planned United Nations…
February 22, 2003
Associated Press - February 22, 2003
Kuala Lumpur – Saying the US government deserves more credit for its Iraq policy, East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta on Saturday…
February 21, 2003
Evening Standard (New Zealand) - February 21, 2003
East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta, in New Zealand this week on a private visit, once had 10 brothers and sisters. Now he has six.…