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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

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…

Lusa - December 17, 2001

East Timor's interim foreign minister, Jose Ramos Horta, visited the Lisbon headquarters of the Community of Portuguese-speaking…

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

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…

Lusa - December 7, 2001

East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao Friday downplayed the impact of newly released US documents showing that Washington…

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

Reuters - December 6, 2001

Jim Wolf, Washington – US President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave late Indonesian strongman Suharto the green light for…

Antara - December 6, 2001

Jakarta – Former deputy commander of the East Timorese pro-integration fighters (PPI), Eurico Guterres, on Thursday registered with the Central…

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…

December 4, 2001

Lusa - December 4, 2001

East Timor4s chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, has expressed concern over mounting domestic violence against women, urging his people to…

Los Angeles Times - December 4, 2001

Richard C. Paddock, Dili – The girl's nightmare began when she was 13 and a pro-Indonesia militia burned down her village. Her parents were away…

The Australian - December 4, 2001

Nigel Wilson – A new wave of confidence is emerging that East Timor and Australia within weeks will reach agreement on key aspects of future…

December 1, 2001

The Age - December 1, 2001

Jill Jolliffem Dili – Just a block away from the imposing United Nations building that dominates the Dili waterfront, two East Timorese girls are…

November 30, 2001

Associated Press - November 30, 2001

Dili – The threat of violence from pro-Indonesian militias opposed to East Timor's independence has decreased significantly, raising hopes that…

November 29, 2001

The Australian - November 29, 2001

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Militia groups opposed to East Timor's separation from Indonesia are a spent force, incapable of presenting a military…

November 28, 2001

Antara - November 28, 2001 (abridged)

Canberra – Indonesia and Australia will set up a tripartite consultative forum to help East Timor solve problems that may arise in its…

Jakarta Post - November 28, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Timor's charismatic leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao and former pro-Jakarta militia leader Joao Tavares agreed…

Associated Press - November 28, 2001

Dili – With East Timor due to become the world's newest nation in six months, hundreds of people rallied Wednesday to mark the…

UNTAET Daily Briefing - November 28, 2001

The Constituent Assembly today approved a motion recommending that East Timor's first presidential election be held in the first or…

November 27, 2001

The Age - November 27, 2001

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Indonesian authorities say they do not regard last year's Memorandum of Understanding between East Timor and Indonesia on…

November 24, 2001

The Australian - November 24, 2001

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – United Nations prosecutors in East Timor have lodged an indictment against 21 people, including senior Indonesian…

November 23, 2001

Antara - November 23, 2001 (slightly abridged)

Kupang – A top military officer here said East Timorese refugees in East Nusa Tenggara province no longer feel they have leaders. The sentiment…

Australian Associated Press - November 23, 2001

Paul Osborne Brisbane – The problems of East Timorese refugees in West Timor and the disarmament of militia should be resolved within three months…

November 17, 2001

Australian Associated Press - November 17, 2001

Karen Polglaze, Melbourne – The interests of the people of East Timor would have been totally compromised had former Labor prime minister Paul…

November 15, 2001

The Australian - November 15, 2001

Nigel Wilson – Government-level talks in East Timor next week are seen as the last chance of early development of vast Timor Sea gas reserves.…

November 12, 2001

Associated Press - November 12, 2001

Joanna Jolly, Dili – Thousands of East Timorese gathered at the Santa Cruz cemetery on Monday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of a brutal…

Melbourne Age - November 12, 2001

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Ten years after the massacre that shocked the world, memories are still raw in East Timor. When a short piece of theatre re-…

Antara - November 12, 2001

Atambua – A man lobbed a Korean-made grenade into the middle of a crowded East Timorese refugee camp in Manumutin village, Atambua, early Sunday…

November 8, 2001

Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – As of January 2002, the government will no longer provide any financial or food assistance to East Timorese refugees in…

November 5, 2001

The Australian - November 5, 2001

Robert Garran – Indonesian troops attacking the East Timorese town of Balibo in October 1975 had good reason not to want five Australian-based…

November 3, 2001

The Age - November 3, 2001

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The news that Japan has authorised its troops to serve overseas, despite the country's pacifist constitution, sends shudders…

October 31, 2001

Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001

Jakarta – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday that it has helped repatriate 188,646 East Timorese refugees from Indonesia's…

Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001

Jakarta – Chief of the Udayana Military Command overseeing Bali, East and West Nusa Tenggara, Maj. Gen. Willem T. da Costa, said on Tuesday that…

Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – In line with the planned establishment of an independent East Timor early next year, Indonesia and East Timor have…

Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001

United Nations – The Security Council decided Wednesday that the UN-administered territory of East Timor should become independent on May 20 next…

October 30, 2001

Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001

Disparity between the lifestyles of UNTAET personnel and the people of Timor Lorosae is sowing the seeds of social envy.

The brothers Soares…

The Australian - October 30, 2001

Hong Kong – East Timor's future president Xanana Gusmao has recalled his fury when Australia refused to accept temporarily a handful of East…

Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001

Setiyardi, Timor Lorosae – Floating hotels are a symbol of high living, an irony in stark contrast to widespread poverty in Timor Lorosae.

October 29, 2001

Lusa - October 29, 2001

More than 3,200 East Timorese refugees returned home from Indonesia during October, the UN High Commission for Refugees said Monday in…

October 28, 2001

Agence France Presse - October 28,2001 (slightly abridged)

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has decided to halt humanitarian assitance to East Timorese refugees in West Timor at the end of…