Deborah Snow – Charges are understood to have been laid against a former senior soldier in the Special Air Service after a long investigation into…
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February 21, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - February 21, 2003
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
Jakarta – Former foreign minister Ali Alatas said on Wednesday that the offer of secession from Indonesia to the East Timorese in the…
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…
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
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will use the occasion of the annual meeting of the United Nations…
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…
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
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,…
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…
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
Lusa - February 7, 2003
Dili – The commander of Australian UN peacekeepers in East Timor has dismissed reports that former anti-independence militiamen have infiltrated…
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…
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…
February 5, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – United Nations investigators have indicted ageing militia chieftain Joao Tavares and two senior Indonesian officers for…
Green Left Weekly - February 5, 2003
Ralf Scharmann, Darwin – Traditional owners in several Top End communities have offered sanctuary to 84 Darwin-based East Timorese asylum seekers…
Reuters - February 5, 2003
Jakrta – Indonesian prosecutors demanded on Wednesday that the former military chief in East Timor be jailed for 10 years for failing to halt…
February 4, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - February 4, 2003
Sarah Crichton – The Federal Court has ruled it cannot hear a US oil company's multi-billion dollar compensation claim against the Commonwealth…
Radio Australia - February 4, 2003
To East Timor, where a reported militia insurgency has put a spotlight on Australia's peacekeeping efforts in properly securing the border. Local…
Associated Press - February 4, 2003
Jakarta – The UN on Tuesday indicted 32 people- including 15 Indonesian soldiers – for murdering and torturing East Timorese during the country's…
February 3, 2003
Australian Associated Press - February 3, 2003
Karen Michelmore, Darwin – Players in the multi-billion dollar Timor Gas treaty are hopeful of an outcome within weeks, as negotiations drag on.…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 3, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Hatolia – The United Nations is in a quandary after insecure border villagers demanded that it extend a controversial military…
January 30, 2003
Melbourne Age - January 30, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The United Nations' police chief in East Timor is refusing to resign despite criticism from Fretilin government officials…
January 29, 2003
Green Left Weekly - January 29, 2003
Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne – Fivo Freitas is 28 years old, he sought asylum in Australia after leaving East Timor in 1999. Now he is preparing…
Agence France Presse - January 29, 2003
Lisbon – The Bishop of Dili called Wednesday for the creation of an independent body to oversee the exploitation of Timor Sea oil reserves, the…
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2003
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A human rights watchdog on Tuesday denounced the government for poorly handling the ad hoc tribunal for human rights…
January 27, 2003
The Guardian (UK) - January 27, 2003
David Fickling – The spectacle of someone large and powerful picking on a weak and desperate neighbour passes as bullying in the average…
January 25, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - January 25, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Members of an armed militia group arrested here last week say they agreed to return as guerillas because Indonesian…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 25, 2003
John Martinkus – Almost three weeks after a series of militia incursions into East Timor from neighbouring Indonesia left five people dead, the…
January 24, 2003
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2003
Jakarta – Father Raphael dos Santos, an East Timorese priest, said on Thursday Indonesian Military soldiers and policemen were among the attackers…
January 23, 2003
Melbourne Age - January 23, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – President Xanana Gusmao has denied a report that East Timor is seeking increased Australian military involvement in the…
Agence France Presse - January 23, 2003
Jakarta – Timor Leste faces the worst threat to its stability since independence as security forces counter raids by armed gangs from…
The Australian - January 23, 2003
John Kerin and Terry Plane – East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta wants Australia's UN peacekeepers to be involved in joint operations…
January 22, 2003
Laksamana.Net - January 22, 2003
The Army's elite Special Forces (Kopassus) is reportedly behind recent incursions into East Timor by militia fighters.
A leaked United…
Radio Australia - January 22, 2003
East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, has warned that the United Nations peacekeepers stationed in the new nation are not managing to…
January 21, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - January 21, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Atsabe – The hamlet of Tiarlelo is only a few kilometres from Atsabe, itself 25 kilometres from the border with West Timor, but the…
Jakarta Post - January 21, 2003
Moch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Former Dili police chief Lt. Col. Hulman Gultom was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday by…
January 16, 2003
Lusa - January 16, 2003
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao said yesterday that it may be necessary to extend the mandate of the 5,000-soldier UN peacekeeping force in…
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 16, 2003
Mark Dodd, Darwin – Southeast Asia's poorest country, East Timor, could get its first royalty payments from the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea by…
Melbourne Age - January 16 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Some of the 28,000 East Timorese who remain in West Timor after fleeing the carnage that followed East Timor's 1999 vote…
Lusa - January 16, 2003
Dili – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is studying a possible restructuring of East Timor's government ministries to improve their functioning and…
January 14, 2003
Laksamana.Net - January 14, 2003
The Indonesian government made only half-hearted attempts during the year to hold accountable those responsible for TNI abuses in East Timor.…
Lusa - January 14, 2003
Dili – The atmosphere of instability looming over East Timor is leading to a deterioration of relations between national and UN security…
Lusa - January 14, 2003
Dili – A captured former anti-independence militiaman has told interrogators in Dili that at least seven armed groups infiltrated East Timor from…
January 11, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - January 11 2003
Tom Hyland – The accused sits with his seven lawyers in the listless heat of a Jakarta courtroom. He occasionally wipes his brow and shifts in his…
January 10, 2003
Radio Australia - January 10, 2003
Australia's foreign minister Alexander Downer has meet his East Timorese counterpart, Jose Ramos Horta, to discuss recent unrest in…
January 9, 2003
Associated Press - January 9, 2003
Dili – East Timor police said Thursday they arrested two former pro-Jakarta militiamen on weapons charges but declined to say if the men were…