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January 16, 2002
Lusa - January 16, 2002
Associated Press - January 16, 2002 (abridged)
Dili – In a final step toward nationhood, East Timor will hold its first presidential election on April 14, the territory's UN…
January 12, 2002
Agence France Presse - January 12, 2002
United Nations – Rejecting "implicit suggestions of racism," the United Nations on Friday denied an accusation made by one of its officials that…
January 11, 2002
Lusa - January 11, 2002
East Timor's religious leader, Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, called Friday for the holding of legislative elections for the first post-…
Lusa - January 11, 2002
Lisbon is negotiating with the United Nations over the possibility of taking over command of the UN peacekeeping force in East Timor, it was…
January 10, 2002
UNTAET Daily Briefing - January 10, 2002
Dili – The Constituent Assembly today passed a further four articles of East Timor's 151-article draft Constitution. The articles, all passed by…
Straits Times - January 10, 2002
Cheah Chor Sooi, Koh Lay Chin and Shamini Darshni, Kuala Lumpur – Prominent personalities today came out in support of Datuk N. Parameswaran's…
South China Morning Post - January 10, 2002
Vaudine England – The chief of staff for the United Nations mission in East Timor has resigned, citing management failures and racism as reasons…
January 9, 2002
UN News Service - January 9, 2002
East Timor's General Prosecutor has issued more than 30 indictments in cases involving major incidents of mass killings and forced deportation,…
January 8, 2002
UNTAET Daily Briefing - January 8, 2002
Dili – The Constituent Assembly today passed a further seven articles of East Timor's 151-article draft Constitution. The articles were all passed…
Lusa - January 8, 2002
A former leading anti-idependence militia leader has canceled his planned return to East Timor. Cancio Lopes de Carvalho told the UN transition…
January 7, 2002
Australian Financial Review - January 7, 2002
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Three East Timorese men killed in an armed raid on their villages on Saturday night were former independence activists. Senior…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - January 7, 2002
Dili – The Constituent Assembly today passed a further five articles of East Timor's draft Constitution relating to the functions of the Council…
January 5, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - January 5, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – With the militia leader Eurico Guterres due to be charged with crimes against humanity next week, United Nations officials…
January 3, 2002
UNTAET Daily Briefing - January 3, 2002
The Constituent Assembly today returned from a three-day New Year's break to continue debate on East Timor's first draft Constitution, passing…
Media Indonesia - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – The safety of refugees is still guaranteed: Even though the government has abolished refugee status for the refugees from…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's military said Thursday it would cooperate with a special human rights court set up to try top commanders and militiamen…
Lusa - January 3, 2002
East Timor's chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, Thursday denounced an unexpected call for legislative elections as an attempt by opposition forces to…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have ceased providing food and cash for tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees stuck in squalid camps in…
January 2, 2002
Associated Press - January 2, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has assigned 17 judges to preside over the trials of Indonesian soldiers and militiamen accused of…
Lusa - January 2, 2002
Indonesian military authorities have said they have discovered evidence of a new movement aiming to achieve independence for the whole of Timor…
January 1, 2002
Human Rights Watch - January 2002
December 28, 2001
Canberra Times - December 28, 2001
East Timorese asylum seekers might find it hard to settle back in their homeland even though it was technically safe to return, the United Nations…
December 27, 2001
Lusa - December 27, 2001
East Timor's health ministry Thursday formally confirmed the territory's first cases of HIV/AIDS infection.
In a statement, the…
December 26, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - December 26, 2001
Louise Williams – East Timorese journalists are dismayed over an agreement which will probably leave their newly independent nation without an…
December 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2001
Sydnye – East Timor has finally reached agreement with US energy giant Phillips Petroleum on a plan to pipe gas to Australia that could ease the…
December 22, 2001
The Australian - December 22, 2001
John Phaceas – Development of a $1.5 billion gas pipeline to Phillips Petroleum's Bayu-Undan gasfield in the Timor Sea will go ahead after the US…
Townsville Bulletin - December 22, 2001
Max Blenkin, Dili – In two months in East Timor, the soldiers of the Townsville-based 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, have not fired a…
December 21, 2001
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 21, 2001
Constituent Assembly President Francisco "Lz-Olo" Guterres said today he expects the assembly to pass East Timor's first Constitution by the 25…
December 20, 2001
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 20, 2001
The Constituent Assembly today passed twelve articles of East Timor's draft Constitution dealing primarily with political and economic rights.…
Australian Associated Press - December 20, 2001
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – East Timor's best-known militia leader Eurico Guterres today said he was ready to face court for human rights…
December 19, 2001
Australian Associated Press - December 19, 2001
Sydney – The commonwealth is fighting a US company's bid to win compensation in the federal court for losing vast gas reserves in the Timor Sea.…
UNTAET Daily Briefings - December 19, 2001
The Constituent Assembly today passed the fortieth article of East Timor's draft Constitution, approving eight articles relating to rights of the…
December 18, 2001
Jakarta Post - December 18, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – The military says it has found evidence that a group on the Indonesian side of Timor island is striving for an…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - December 18, 2001
Dili – East Timor's Constituent Assembly appears to be gaining momentum in its deliberations, today passing 12 articles covering a wide range of…
December 17, 2001
Lusa - December 17, 2001
East Timor's interim foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, visited the Lisbon headquarters of the Community of Portuguese-speaking…
Straits Times - December 17, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The Indonesian military is sounding the alarm over a separatist group that is aspiring to unite both halves of Timor…
December 14, 2001
Lusa - December 14, 2001
Indonesia has extended its aid programs to some 70,000 East Timorese refugees by one month to the end of January, allowing them more…
Lusa - December 14, 2001
Debate continued Thursday in East Timor's parliament on the future constitution of the territory, due to become independent next May. Members of…
December 13, 2001
Reuters - December 13, 2001
Oslo – Most of the 60,000 East Timorese refugees still abroad are likely to return by the end of 2002 and any linked to pro-Jakarta militias will…
Lisa - December 13, 2001
Members of East Timor's Constituent Assembly approved a motion Thursday extending the period for debate and approval of the future…
December 12, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 12, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia was unlikely to arrest a military officer charged in the first trial of cases of crime against humanity arising from the…
December 11, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 11, 2001
Dili – East Timor's fledgling lawmaking body on Tuesday adopted the tongues of both their native ancestors and Portuguese colonisers as the…
Agence France Presse - December 11, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Jakarta – Ten members of a gang responsible for one of the worst massacres linked to East Timor's 1999 vote for independence were…
December 8, 2001
The Age - December 8, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – A former defence minister in the Whitlam government, Bill Morrison, has left open the possibility of an SAS operation to evacuate…
The Age - December 8, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – In 1996, I had been told about a man who claimed to have been at Balibo when the journalists died, as part of an Australian SAS…
December 7, 2001
Lusa - December 7, 2001
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao Friday downplayed the impact of newly released US documents showing that Washington…
Reuters - December 7, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesia said on Friday reports the United States gave former president Suharto the green light for the bloody 1975…
Associated Press - December 7, 2001 (abridged)
Joanna Jolly, Dili – Hundreds of people commemorated the anniversary Friday of Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, as speakers demanded…
December 6, 2001
National Security Archive - December 6, 2001
[Ford and Kissinger gave green light to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, 1975: New Documents Detail Conversations with Suharto. National…