Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A leader of East Timor's parliamentary opposition has described an agreement regulating conditions for US troops in the…
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October 8, 2002
Melbourne Age - October 8, 2002
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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-…
Reuters - October 5, 2002
Yogyakarta – East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said on Saturday he doubted allegations Australian troops tortured pro-Jakarta…
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
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-…
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…
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…
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…
October 3, 2002
Lusa - October 3, 2002
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao prepared to head to Portugal Thursday after a "positive" round of meetings in Washington, including talks…
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…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 3, 2002
Rumours a captured pro-Indonesian militiaman was summarily executed by Australian troops in East Timor had floated around special forces circles…
October 2, 2002
Radio Australia - October 2, 2002
[The Australian government has begun four days of hearings into the Timor Sea Treaty it signed with East Timor on the day of that country's…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 2, 2002
Jane Counsel – The key players developing gas resources in the Timor Sea have urged the Federal Government to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty without…
October 1, 2002
Agence France Presse - October 1, 2002
Geneva – Newly-independent Timor -Leste, formerly East Timor, has just 47 doctors for its 850,000 citizens because of large-scale emigration, the…
World Press Review - October 1, 2002
Rachel S. Taylor – The day before his country was set to become the 191st member of the United Nations, East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao sat…
September 27, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires - September 27, 2002
Ray Brindal, Canberra – East Timor doesn't recognize a claim by PetroTimor Comphanhia de Petroleos SARL over energy-rich concessions in the Timor…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - September 27, 2002
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao on 27 September marked his country's admission as the UN's 191st member with a defence of the right to…
Reuters - September 27, 2002
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, the first country to be born in the 21st century, won a seat at the…
Reuters - September 27, 2002
Dili – East Timor becomes the 191st member of the United Nations on Friday, an historic day for the world's newest nation after a bloody…
Associated Press - September 27, 2002
New York – On the eve of East Timor's joining the United Nations, the president of the former Indonesian-held territory said he would not advise…
September 26, 2002
Associated Press - September 26, 2002
New York – East Timor's fragile peace will only hold if the international community continues to provide assistance and not abandon the country,…
Sydney Morning Herald - September 26, 2002
Jane Counsel – A former top executive with US oil and gas group Unocal is set to reopen the debate about the Sunrise gasfield in the Timor Sea by…
Melbourne Age - September 26 2002
Sophie Douez, Canberra – The Federal Government yesterday denied refugee claims to 168 East Timorese who fled the then-Indonesian territory…
Radio Australia - September 26, 2002
[Indonesia is moving to settle its maritime border issues with East Timor and is keen to see Australia do the same, according to a senior…
Kyodo News - September 26, 2002
Dili – East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has said that despite his country's 24-year struggle for freedom from Indonesian rule, it…
Asia Intelligence Wire - September 26, 2002
Robson Seth – "Kill the police" were the only words part-time soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hart, could understand, as he faced an angry mob of…
September 25, 2002
Dow Jones News - September 25, 2002
Ray Brindal Canberra – East Timor has been poorly dealt with by Australia and companies wanting to develop vast natural gas resources in the Timor…
September 23, 2002
Lusa - September 23, 2002
The leader of East Timor's Catholic community, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, appealed Monday to Portugal's people to give more help to…
September 22, 2002
Australian Associated Press - September 22, 2002
The Federal Defence Minister says Australian military commitment to peacekeeping in East Timor will be phased out over the next 18 months.
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September 21, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 21, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – New Zealand's Labour Government is the latest to reveal the skeletons in its closet over Indonesia's 1975 East Timor…
September 20, 2002
Melbourne Age - September 20, 2002
Ray Lilley, Wellington – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao has called on the international community not to forget his tiny new nation, which…
September 19, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 19, 2002
Jakarta – The Indonesian government and international agencies have agreed that as of December 31 this year, all East Timorese refugee…
September 18, 2002
Australian Financial Review - September 18, 2002
Geoffrey Barker – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao yesterday criticised the heavily armed Australian army presence in front of…
September 17, 2002
Herald Sun - September 17, 2002
Keith Moor – East Timor is in danger of being infiltrated by crime gangs intent on using it as a stepping stone to Australia.
Australian…
Jakarta Post - September 17, 2002
Munir, Jakarta – The first round of the ad hoc Human Rights Tribunal on the East Timor case ended in anticlimax as the suspects of crimes against…
September 16, 2002
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – The new government in East Timor would try to heal the psychological trauma suffered by many of its people in the 1999 violence when…
Jakarta Post - September 16, 2002
Jakarta – Unsure about the outcome of reconciliation attempts by former pro-Indonesia fighters, leaders of East Timorese people in squalid camps…
Reuters - September 16, 2002
Canberra – Australia reopened its embassy in East Timor on Monday after it was closed following a threat against Australian interests in the…
The Mercury - September 16, 2002 (abridged)
Keith Moor – Victorian officers attached to the United Nations found the graves of 24 massacre victims and will this month start exhuming the…
September 15, 2002
New Zealand Herald - September 15, 2002
Audrey Young – Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's Foreign Minister, is everything his country is not: highly educated, sophisticated and stylish.
…September 14, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - September 14, 2002
Nick O'malley – Fresh out of a Dili jail, Edit Horta, sister-in-law of East Timor's foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, island-hopped to Darwin in…
September 11, 2002
Lusa - September 11, 2002
A Dili court has sentenced a Timorese man who belonged to a pro-Indonesian militia to twenty years imprisonment for three murders that…