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February 5, 2003
Reuters - 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…
February 4, 2003
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…
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…
February 3, 2003
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…
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.…
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
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…
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…
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…
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
John Martinkus – Almost three weeks after a series of militia incursions into East Timor from neighbouring Indonesia left five people dead, the…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
January 14, 2003
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…
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…
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
Lusa - January 9, 2003
Dili – The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) is currently mounting counter-insurgency operations in an attempt to capture presumed anti-independence…
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…
January 8, 2003
Agence France Presse - January 8, 2003
Recent unrest in newly-independent East Timor which claimed five lives is a purely domestic problem and has nothing to do with former ruler…
January 7, 2003
Straits Times - January 7, 2003
Dili – East Timor's defence force is to send 180 soldiers to a district where attackers killed four villagers over the weekend, a defence source…
Canberra Times - January 7, 2003
James Dunn – It is hard to feel sanguine about the latest acquittal of the Indonesian Human Rights Tribunal, which has been hearing charges…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 7, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – United Nations officials and East Timorese government leaders are re-assessing security after a weekend border attack with…
January 6, 2003
Associated Press - January 6, 2003
Dili – Screaming "We are coming back for you", a gang armed with automatic rifles raided two villages in newly independent East Timor, killing…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 6, 2003
Xanana Gusmao's first new year's address as president of an independent East Timor encapsulated the fragility of his young nation. At the heart of…
January 3, 2003
Jakarta Post - January 3, 2003
Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Those East Timorese living in camps in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) whose refugee status ended on December 31 have…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2003
Jakarta – A former militia leader who is facing a jail term in Indonesia over atrocities in East Timor said Friday he plans to send a delegation…
January 1, 2003
Red Pepper (UK) - January 2003
Shravanti Reddy – What began as a peaceful student protest on December 4 in the East Timor capital city of Dili ended in the largest violent…
Human Rights Watch - January 2003
December 30, 2002
Associated Press - December 30, 2002
Jakarta – A court on Monday acquitted a military commander of crimes committed during East Timor's break from Indonesia, the ninth official to be…
Jakarta Post - December 30, 2002
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – The international community needs to bring pressure to bear on the ad hoc human rights trials being held in Indonesia…
Sydney Morning Herald - December 30, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's President, Xanana Gusmao, has appealed to his people to reject violence in 2003 – but has also renewed…
December 27, 2002
Associated Press - December 27, 2002
Jakarta – A court Friday sentenced a senior military commander to five years imprisonment for human rights violations during East Timor's break…
Associated Press - December 27, 2002
Dili – President Xanana Gusmao on Friday urged East Timorese to remain calm as the country attempts to solve a slew of problems heading into its…
December 26, 2002
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2002
Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Indonesia's landmark human rights trials of alleged gross human rights violators in the former province of East…