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…
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March 6, 2003
South China Morning Post - March 6, 2003
March 5, 2003
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…
Green Left Weekly - March 5, 2003
Kate Stockdale, Darwin – Local community organisations, politicians and activists – meeting regularly as the Refugee Action Network (RAN) – are…
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
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…
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
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.…
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…
March 1, 2003
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
February 25, 2003
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…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Yemris Fointuna and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur – The military commander overseeing the West Timor province promised tighter…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2003
Jakarta – Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Tuesday Indonesia would ignore UN indictments of former armed forces chief Gen.(ret)…
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 – 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…
February 24, 2003
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…
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…
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.…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 21, 2003
Deborah Snow – Charges are understood to have been laid against a former senior soldier in the Special Air Service after a long investigation into…
February 19, 2003
Radio Australia - February 19, 2003
Australia's Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock has been asked to establish a special visa category in a bid to allow a group of East…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Noted religious leaders grouped in the National Moral Movement (GMN) called on the government to halt the East Timor…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Jakarta – Former foreign minister Ali Alatas said on Wednesday that the offer of secession from Indonesia to the East Timorese in the…
February 18, 2003
Melbourne Age Editorial - February 18, 2003
East Timorese asylum seekers have a special case to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Last month more than 1000 East Timorese asylum seekers…
February 17, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 17, 2003
Jakarta – A former Indonesian military chief for East Timor said Monday he tried to prevent massacres in East Timor in September 1999 and that…
February 15, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – West Timorese people have demanded the United Nations to revoke a security status imposed on the province after a mob…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will use the occasion of the annual meeting of the United Nations…
Melbourne Age - February 15, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A small group of East Timorese ex-prisoners listens, transfixed, to the text of the UN's 1987 Convention on Torture.
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February 14, 2003
The Australian - February 14, 2003
Paul Toohey – Critically needed containers of medical, health and school supplies have been stockpiled on Dili's wharf because of heavy smuggling…
February 13, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 13, 2003
Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief General Wiranto on Thursday defended his record over East Timor's bloody 1999 breakaway from Jakarta,…
February 12, 2003
Reuters - February 12, 2003
Canberra – The United Nations and Australia agreed it was too early to withdraw peacekeepers from East Timor after riots in December but its…
Australian Associated Press - February 12, 2003
Royal Abbott, Melbourne – Five Melbourne mayors have joined the Victorian government in appealing to Canberra to halt plans to forcibly deport 1,…
February 11, 2003
Catholic News Service - February 11, 2003
Stephen Steele, Washington – More than three years after East Timor voted for independence, access to adequate health care, education and basic…
February 7, 2003
Wold Socialist Web Site - February 7, 2003
John Ward and Peter Symonds – The Australian government is deliberately delaying the signing of an agreement with East Timor, known as the Timor…
Lusa - February 7, 2003
Dili – The commander of Australian UN peacekeepers in East Timor has dismissed reports that former anti-independence militiamen have infiltrated…
February 6, 2003
Radio Australia - February 6, 2003
The UN Special Crimes Unit in East Timor has charged former militia commander, Joao Tavares, and four Indonesian TNI, or military, officers for…