Jakarta – A senior East Timor official said on Wednesday that the country would not prosecute the alleged human rights violations by Indonesian…
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September 13, 2001
Jakarta Post - September 13, 2001
Associated Press - September 13, 2001 (abridged)
Dili – Opposition leaders in East Timor criticized the United Nations on Thursday for favoring one political party and not creating the framework…
La'o Hamutuk - September 13, 2001
[The following is the officially certified list of East Timorese who were elected to the Constituent Assembly on the August 30 ballot. Some of…
September 12, 2001
South China Morning Post - September 12, 2001
Vaudine England – The barefoot children were scrambling up the bougainvillea bushes to gather fresh clusters of the flowers – the only bright spot…
Green Left Weekly - September 12, 2001
Jill Hickson – "Where are our missing children? We have nothing – no land, no houses, nothing to do, no materials to work with to make an income.…
Green Left Weekly - September 12, 2001
Jon Land – Fretilin, the party which declared East Timor independent in 1975 and which was the largest single force in the long fight against…
Green Left Weekly - September 12, 2001
Jana DK, Dili – In its first major mobilisation since the beginning of East Timor's election campaign, on August 25 some 5000 Timorese Socialist…
September 11, 2001
Jakarta Post - September 11, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Dili – The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) is planning to forge economic cooperation between…
September 10, 2001
South China Morning Post - September 10, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Pressure is building on Indonesia to return 124 East Timorese children taken from their parents in West Timor refugee…
September 8, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – What's in a word? Quite a bit if you are considering running for president of East Timor.
Ambiguous comments from Mr Mari…
Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – There is a palpable mood of relief in East Timor this week after the election in which the country voted overwhelmingly in…
September 7, 2001
September 7, 2001
- Total Votes Cast: 384,248
- Total Valid Votes: 363,501
- Invalid Votes: 20,747
National Ballot
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Sydney Morning Herald - September 7, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Fretilin, the party that led East Timor's 24-year struggle for independence from Indonesia, has won the fledgling nation's first…
September 6, 2001
Lusa - September 6, 2001
Results of last week's elections in East Timor indicate that the territory's new 88-seat Constituent Assembly will have a total of 24…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - September 6, 2001
Dili – The Chief Electoral Officer of the East Timor's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Carlos Valenzuela, today presented the full and…
Lusa - September 6, 2001
Despite its decision to contest the election process, East Timor's UDT party congratulated Thursday the Fretilin party for its victory in last…
September 5, 2001
Lusa - September 5, 2001
The leader of East Timor's ASDT party, Fransico Xavier do Amaral, told Lusa Wednesday in Dili that he would not be a future candidate for…
BBC Monitoring Service - September 5, 2001
For Fretilin [East Timor Revolutionary Front] – the party most likely to win the recent Timor Lorosae (TL) elections – there are three main things…
Timor Post - September 5, 2001
The Deputy President of the Dili District Court Rui Pereira dos Santoas stressed that the Timor Lorosae Judiciary will continue using…
September 4, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - September 4, 2001
Xanana's interview with Tempo magazine:
Tempo: At first you dithered on being nominated as president. But you changed your mind later. Why…
September 3, 2001
Canberra Times - September 3, 2001
Lincoln Wright – Two star witnesses behind the allegation that Defence knew beforehand of the murder of five Australian journalists at Balibo in…
Lusa - September 3, 2001
East Timor's Defense Force would be willing to accept Indonesian military aid if the offer was made by Jakarta, the force's commander…
Lusa - September 3, 2001
Jose Ramos Horta said Monday in Dili he was "profoundly sad" about the "unhappy", "lamentable" and "incendiary" criticism of the East Timorese…
Agence France Presse - September 3, 2001
Dili – The winners of last week's historic election in East Timor must listen to the people when drafting a constitution as a prelude to…
September 1, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - September 1, 2001
Presenter: Sergio Vieira de Mello, head of UNTAET, the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, has replied to the fraud accusations, made by…
August 31, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 31, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch in Liquica and agencies – East Timorese kept what the United Nations had called a date with democracy yesterday, voting in the…
August 30, 2001
The Independent - August 30, 2001
Richard Lloyd Parry – Two years to the day after the 1999 referendum on independence, the East Timorese people vote again on Thursday in the first…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 30, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Carlos first introduced himself as a driver. When none of Dili's dilapidated taxis could be found, he would always produce…
South China Morning Post - August 30, 2001
At the Toko Lay hardware store in central Dili, Charles Tan was checking a newly arrived generator to sell to the burgeoning construction industry…
Australian Financial Review - August 30, 2001
Rowan Callick – The emergence of democratic government in an independent East Timor is a miracle. The obstacles in its path, through erratic and…
Associated Press - August 30, 2001
Slobodan Lekic, Dili – Women nursed babies held in shoulder slings and people joked with UN monitors as they waited in long lines to vote Thursday…
Kyodo News - August 30, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Christine T. Tjandraningsih, Kupang – As hundreds of thousands of East Timorese went to the polls Thursday in the UN-administered territory's…
Agence France Presse - August 30, 2001
Jakarta – Feared ex-militia leader Eurico Guterres declared Thursday a "day of mourning for East Timor" and said its people could end up second-…
Financial Times - August 30, 2001
Woodside Petroleum, Australia's biggest independent oil and gas group, is to evaluate competing proposals from Royal Dutch/Shell and Phillips…
Lusa - August 30, 2001
Five people arrested Thursday in the East Timorese capital had various weapons in their possession, the UN civil police spokesman said…
August 29, 2001
Financial Times - August 29, 2001
Joe Leahy – Building a central bank from scratch in one of the world's poorest countries was never going to be easy.
But Fernando DePeralto…
Green Left Weekly - August 29, 2001
Jon Land – The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations…
The Australian - August 29, 2001
Don Greenlees – The Indonesian army has extended an olive branch to East Timor's fledgling defence force, by offering to train former Falintil…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 29, 2001
Joe Cochrane, Ermera – The farmers of Ermera are fiercely proud of their long tradition of growing East Timor's finest coffee, but these days that…
South China Morning Post - August 29, 2001
Vaudine England, Dili – East Timor's president-in-waiting, Xanana Gusmao, yesterday restated his belief that amnesties should be considered for…
Agence France Presse - August 29, 2001
Dili – Justice must come before amnesty for people guilty of human rights violations in East Timor, a lawyer working to establish a truth…
August 28, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Vamasae – In one of the thousands of charred and gutted buildings that still scar East Timor's landscape, 200 villagers squat before the man who…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Dili – East Timor's president in waiting, Xanana Gusmao, said Tuesday that amnesties must be considered for those who led the violence surrounding…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – He was East Timor's first president, the head of the short-lived Fretilin administration that unilaterally declared independence…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Belo has made a new appeal to the international community to establish a war crimes…
Lusa - August 28, 2001
The upcoming Constituent Assembly elections in East Timor serve "only to comply with the calendar and are neither free nor fair", the leader of…
Lusa - August 28, 2001
The leader of East Timor's Social Democratic Party (PSD) said Monday in Dili he hoped his party would obtain between 30 and 40 percent of the vote…
August 27, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - August 27, 2001
Fretilin Party Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri has guaranteed there would be no radical behaviour on the part of his party as Fretilin were no…
Lusa - August 27, 2001
Predicting his Fretilin party would win East Timor's first free elections by a landslide, Mari Alkatiri warned the territory's UN…
Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Baucau – In a good month Carlos Bovida makes 20 dollars selling sweet potatoes and bananas on a lonely road, winding through the…