Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Former East Timor independence leader Manuel Viegas Carrascalao told the Human Rights Tribunal on Monday that the…
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August 6, 2002
Jakarta Post - August 6, 2002
Associated Press - August 6, 2002
Dili – Students clashed with police Tuesday in East Timor over plans to increase fees at the new country's main university.
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Agence France Presse - August 6, 2002
Jakarta – The former mayor of the East Timor capital Dili denied Tuesday that pro-Jakarta militia groups during Indonesian rule received any aid…
August 5, 2002
The Australian - August 5, 2002
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Fifty-six Sri Lankan asylum-seekers who landed in East Timor en route to New Zealand in a 14 metre fishing boat will be…
Time Asia - August 5, 2002
Phil Zabriskie, Jakarta – For a man facing the death penalty, Eurico Guterres doesn't look anxious.
Sitting in a steamy Jakarta courthouse,…
August 2, 2002
The Guardian - August 2, 2002
John Aglionby – East Timor's president, Xanana Gusmao, has unexpectedly pleaded for a non-custodial sentence in the trial of the former Indonesian…
BBC Monitoring - August 2, 2002
Atambua – Communities on both sides, namely the people of Turiskain, Haekesak sub-district, Belu district, West Nusa Tenggara and the…
August 1, 2002
Melbourne Age - August 1, 2002
Craig Skehan, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei – East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri last night denied his government had tried to link…
SBS Insight - August 1, 2002
[Australia and East Timor are squaring off for their first serious disagreement, government-to-government. Over the next 30 years Australia…
July 31, 2002
Australian Financial Review - July 31, 2002
Tim Dodd, Bandar Seri Begawan – East Timor has asked Australia to take over part of its maritime security in a new treaty that would substantially…
Australian Financial Review - July 31, 2002
Bruce Hextall – East Timor's latest proposal in the sharing of the Timor Sea's vast oil and gas reserves could be viewed as a positive step in…
Jakarta Post - July 31, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – At least 5,700 East Timorese who have chosen to stay in Indonesia threatened on Tuesday to snub the 2004 general…
July 30, 2002
Associated Press - July 30, 2002
Jose Belo, Dili – Although it's one of Asia's poorest nations, East Timor is open to receiving 56 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers stranded on a boat in…
Associated Press - July 30, 2002
Jakarta – Five senior police and military officers charged with allowing a church massacre to take place in the former Indonesian province of East…
Associated Press - July 30, 2002
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has ruled out immediate membership for East Timor, the world's newest…
Inter Press Service - July 30, 2002
Mario Osava, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil will provide assistance in a wide range of areas to help rebuild East Timor, the world's newest nation and…
July 29, 2002
Radio Australia - July 29, 2002
Vietnam and East Timor have established diplomatic relations in a brief ceremony the eve of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
July 27, 2002
South China Morning Post - July 27, 2002
Peter Kammerer – Relations with Indonesia are progressing strongly, with issues such as the return of refugees to be settled within months,…
Melbourne Age - July 27 2002
The diplomat who nursed East Timor to nationhood is the new UN Human Rights Commissioner. Jill Jolliffe recalls his reign in Dili.
In…
Radio Australia - July 27, 2002
East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta says the legal framework needed to attract foreign investment will be established by…
Jakarta Post - July 27, 2002
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has again extended the deadline for the repatriation of East Timorese refugees living…
July 26, 2002
Lusa - July 26, 2002
The head of the UN mission in East Timor met Friday with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri for discussions aimed to "…
Lusa - July 26, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao vetoed the East Timorese government's tax-hiking fiscal bill Friday, in his second clash this month with Prime Minister…
July 25, 2002
Agence France Presse - July 25, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a prison sentence of more than 10 years for East Timor's former police chief, saying he did nothing…
Inter Press Service - July 25, 2002
Emad Mekay, Washington – Two very distinct welcomes have greeted the newest member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): free-market advice…
July 24, 2002
Agence France-Presse - July 24, 2002
A senior Indonesian military officer was accused of ignoring massacres of at least 39 civilians by army-backed pro-Jakarta militias following East…
Associated Press - July 24, 2002
Jakarta – An East Timorese farmer testified Wednesday that he saw Indonesian soldiers fire on a pro-independence leader's house during the…
Lusa - July 24, 2002
East Timor formally joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Tuesday, with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri describing the…
July 23, 2002
Agence France Presse - July 23, 2002
Jakarta – The exiled former commander of militias in East Timor said Tuesday he and his followers are prepared to face justice after they return…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 23, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – Three Australian soldiers are being investigated over an alleged assault on a United Nations employee outside…
Agence France Presse - July 23, 2002
Jakarta – East Timor's army on Tuesday replaced United Nations peacekeepers in one district of the new nation – the first step in a 20-month…
Jakarta Post - July 23, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Atambua – As many as 1,175 East Timorese refugees, or 335 families, including 35 Indonesian soldiers and civil servants, left…
Jesuit Refugee Service - July 23, 2002
On 22 July more than a thousand East Timor refugees set off on their journey to cross the border from West Timor and return home.
JRS in…
International Organisation for Migration - July 23, 2002
Jean Philippe Chauzy (Extract) – Yesterday some 1,100 East Timorese refugees returned home to East Timor from the towns of Soe and…
Lusa - July 23, 2002
The Indonesian commander of West Timor said Tuesday there were "one or two people" among his forces who "continued efforts" to derail…
July 22, 2002
Lusa - July 22, 2002
Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has rejected domestic and international criticism of a government amnesty and sentence reduction bill…
Agence France Presse - July 22, 2002
An Indonesian general admitted on Monday that some soldiers and civilians have been trying to discourage the tens of thousands of East Timorese…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - July 22, 2002
Washington – East Timor, the world's youngest nation, was due to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Tuesday, the lending…
July 20, 2002
BBC World Monitoring - July 20, 2002
Poor countries should spend less money on weapons and seek to resolve their internal differences or differences with their neighbours via dialogue…
July 19, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The British Government has told families of the two British journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 that it will…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hopes for East Timorese refugees to escape starvation went up in smoke in just 24 hours on Thursday as the East Nusa…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Berni K. Mustafa, Jakarta – Legal experts have welcomed the presence of the United Nations' special rapporteur on the Indonesian judicial system,…
Lusa - July 19, 2002
Dili and a Portugal Telecom-led consortium signed a 15-year concession Friday for the Lisbon-headquartered company to establish and…
UN News - July 19, 2002
East Timorese officials today told a United Nations meeting on children that the new nation was on the verge of adopting an international treaty…
Reuters - July 19, 2002
Jakarta – A UN legal investigator looking into Indonesia's judiciary added his voice on Friday to criticism of how the trials into East Timor…
July 18, 2002
Lusa - July 18, 2002
The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) assumes responsibility next week for all aspects of security in part of the new nation, and the…
Human Rights Watch Press Release - July 18, 2002
New York – A proposed amnesty law in East Timor could undermine due process and equal protection of the law and allow those responsible for some…
Reuters - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's last governor of East Timor said on Thursday his trial for crimes against humanity during the territory's independence vote…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – After two months of hearings by the East Timor ad hoc human rights trial, held in the absence of eyewitnesses…
The Guardian (UK) - July 18, 2002
John Aglionby – Since the fall of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia's reputation in the field of law enforcement has always been near the bottom of…