Kupang – The people of the western half of Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, must also enjoy their traditional rights as owners of the Timor Sea,…
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November 8, 2002
Antara - November 8, 2002
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2002
Jakarta – The government has agreed to hold a special repatriation program for East Timorese refugees who want to go home late this…
November 7, 2002
Lusa - November 7, 2002
Dili – The leadership of East Timor's ruling Fretilin party met Thursday with its deputies in the Dili parliament to discuss recent revelations of…
Agence France Presse - November 7, 2002
A former militia chief has denied he had committed human rights abuses in East Timor three years ago and said he was a victim of the Indonesian…
Reuters - November 7, 2002
Dean Yates, Jakarta – Investigators in East Timor have issued an indictment against two Indonesian military officers over the 1999 killing of a…
November 6, 2002
Associated Press - November 6, 2002
Jakarta – Two Indonesian soldiers were among seven people indicted Wednesday in East Timor for killing a Dutch journalist and 19 others during the…
Lusa - November 6, 2002
Dili – Defense force recruits attacked traffic police in the East Timorese capital Friday, in an apparent act of revenge, injuring at…
Lusa - November 6, 2002
East Timor's first Portuguese-language newspaper in more than a quarter century will be formally launched in Dili Thursday.
A 12…
November 5, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - November 5, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Atambua – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao has called on the United Nations to lower its security rating for West Timor, which…
Lusa - November 5, 2002
Dili – An average of 12 percent of lawmakers do not attend sittings of East Timor's parliament and only one in ten of these absentees offers a…
November 4, 2002
Melbourne Age - November 4 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Kupang – President Jose "Xanana" Gusmao has led a delegation of more than 100 East Timorese, including parliamentarians, cabinet…
Lusa - November 4, 2002
Dili – International donations were used to plug East Timor's USD 22 million budget deficit in the financial year 2001-2002, although…
November 2, 2002
Agence France Presse - November 2, 2002
Kupang – East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao told a sports stadium filled with East Timorese refugees Saturday that it was their decision…
Melbourne Age - November 2, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Lacluta – In the remote south coast town of Lacluta, nine villagers accused of violence against their neighbours during 1999…
November 1, 2002
Jakarta Post - November 1, 2002
Kupang – The president of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Alexander "Xanana" Gusmao, arrived here on Friday morning, amid tight security,…
October 31, 2002
Straits Times - October 31, 2002
Sydney – Portuguese intelligence has warned of terrorist attacks against Australian, Portuguese and US interests in East Timor, the Australian…
October 30, 2002
Agence France Presse - October 30, 2002
A court in East Timor has sentenced a former militia commander to five years in prison for crimes against humanity committed in 1999,…
Catholic News Service - October 30, 2002
Cindy Wooden, Vatican City – Catholics in East Timor held firmly to their faith during their struggle for independence, and now they must bring…
Lusa - October 30, 2002
Dili – The East Timorese government is to undertake a review of its state budget plans after a fall in government receipts and delays…
Catholic New Service - October 30, 2002
President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Francis Carroll, has written to the Minister for Immigration, Multicultural…
October 29, 2002
Melbourne Age - October 29 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – He didn't wear sack cloth, but Timorese President Xanana Gusmao sent a clear message on austerity when he unveiled a burnt-…
October 28, 2002
Jakarta Post - October 28, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Six Indonesians were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded at a traditional market in an East Timorese town near the…
Melbourne Age - October 28, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's President Jose "Xanana" Gusmao has repeated his opposition to trials for Indonesian officers accused of human…
October 25, 2002
Lusa - October 25, 2002
Lisbon – The World Bank is studying, with a view to financing, a Portuguese publishing firm's proposal to produce 50,000 school books…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2002
Jakarta – Suspected gross human rights violator in East Timor, Eurico Guterres, said he had felt neither guilt nor sorrow over what he did in the…
October 24, 2002
Radio Australia - October 24, 2002
East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta says his country is ready to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty and the Australian Government…
October 23, 2002
Lusa - October 23, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao defended Wednesday a dynamic of national reconciliation rather than the setting up of an international court to try human…
October 22, 2002
Jakarta Post - October 22, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hundreds of East Timorese refugees sheltering in Kupang and Belu regencies have refused to be repatriated, pending the…
October 21, 2002
Melbourne Age - October 21, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Balibo – The Victorian Government will establish a medical clinic in the East Timor house used by five Australian-based journalists…
October 16, 2002
Green Left Weekly - October 16, 2002
Sarah Stephen – The 168 East Timorese asylum seekers whose claims were rejected by the immigration department on September 25 are the first of…
October 11, 2002
Lusa - October 11, 2002
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a report on East Timor Thursday, stressing what he termed "the vital necessity" of…
October 10, 2002
Associated Press - October 10, 2002
Lisbon – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao says he would like to quit but will stay in the job to help his recently independent country grow. "…
October 9, 2002
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2002
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor agreed on Tuesday to convert Indonesian assets in East Timor, mostly corporate assets,…
October 8, 2002
Melbourne Age - October 8, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A leader of East Timor's parliamentary opposition has described an agreement regulating conditions for US troops in the…
Agence France Presse - October 8, 2002
An East Timorese man, wounded in an attack on a refugee-packed compound in Dili in April 1999, told a court here that Indonesian soldiers were…
Australian Associated Press - October 8, 2002
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – Australian ratification of the Timor Gap Treaty could increase the risk of political instability in East Timor, a…
Jakarta Post - October 8, 2002
Jakarta – Nearly 400 displaced East Timorese sheltering in West Timor have been forced to eat leaves for the past month as they cannot afford to…
Dr Tim Anderson, Aidwatch - October 8, 2002
The International Finance Institutions (the IMF, World Bank, the ADB) present a real threat to East Timorese economic independence. Slowly but…
October 7, 2002
Lusa - October 7, 2002
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao called Monday for Portugal to strengthen the "bridge" connecting his country and the European Union, adding…
Reuters - October 7, 2002
Jakarta – East Timor said on Monday it wants its land border with Indonesia to be gradually de-militarised and hopes all frontier disputes with…
October 5, 2002
Reuters - October 5, 2002
Yogyakarta – East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said on Saturday he doubted allegations Australian troops tortured pro-Jakarta…
The Boston Globe - October 5, 2002
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo – My native East Timor became the 191st member of the United Nations last week. We reached this milestone after a 24-…
Melbourne Age - October 5, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Bazartete – Ever since Lysistrata and her sisters refused sex to their warmongering husbands in ancient Greece, women have had a…
October 4, 2002
Melbourne Age - October 4, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timorese authorities are fighting an invasion by Indonesian prostitutes, who have swarmed into Dili since independence…
Australian Associated Press - October 4, 2002
Adam Morton, Melbourne – Australia will have to step in and "sort out" East Timorese politics within five years unless the Timor Sea Treaty is…
Australian Associated Press - October 4, 2002
Rod McGuirk – East Timorese private sector groups today urged the federal government not to ratify the new Timor Sea Treaty.
Leaders of the…
Agence France Presse - October 4, 2002
East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao appealed to business leaders in the former colonial power Portugal Friday to invest in his war-…
Melbourne Age - October 4, 2002
Mark Forbes and Jill Jolliffe – The Australian Defence Force has promised a vigorous investigation into allegations that SAS troops carried out…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 4, 2002
Tom Allard and Jill Jolliffe – The bodies of two militia fighters, one of them alleged to have been summarily executed by the…
October 3, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - October 3, 2002
The bodies of two Timorese militiamen shot dead in a gun battle with Australian soldiers in 1999 have been exhumed as part of an inquiry into…