Mark Dodd, Dili – Campaigning for East Timor's first democratic elections began at the weekend, but hopes for a smooth start were marred by a…
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July 16, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 16, 2001
July 15, 2001
Green Left Weekly - July 15, 2001
Jon Land – The start of the formal election campaign period for East Timor's new Constituent Assembly began on July 15. Some 16 political parties…
July 13, 2001
Lusa - July 13, 2001
East Timor's Independent Electoral Commission Friday determined the order in which the territory's 16 political parties and five…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 13, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Two days before the start of East Timor's election campaign for a Constituent Assembly, the territory's United Nations…
July 11, 2001
Green Left Weekly - July 11, 2001
On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Australian…
UN News - July 11, 2001 (abridged)
With Wednesday passing as the final deadline for East Timorese to challenge the list of proposed candidates for the upcoming elections…
July 10, 2001
Lusa - July 10, 2001 (abridged)
Only 666 of the 1,250 East Timorese refugees Indonesian authorities said wanted to return to their homeland last month have been able…
Associated Press - July 10, 2001
Dili – As a UN security team toured refugee camps near Indonesian controlled West Timor's border with East Timor Tuesday, officials of…
Melbourne Age - July 10, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Indonesian security forces have arrested 23 hardcore militiamen including the notorious leader of the gang involved in the 1999…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials in East Timor raised concern Tuesday about the fate of refugees who chose to be repatriated from squalid camps in Indonesia…
July 7, 2001
The Age - July 7, 2001
The UN has its own investigation team in East Timor. Some prosecutions have started against minor players. But the power to investigate stops…
July 6, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Dili – East Timor's political parties have agreed to sign a non-violence pact to avoid bloodshed before and after historic elections…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Australia and East Timor signed a multi-billion dollar agreement Thursday on dividing royalties from oil and gas reserves in the Timor…
Source unknown - July 6, 2001
East Timor's big hope for independence was signed yesterday – a pact ensuring the soon-to-be nation has economic security through oil and gas…
July 5, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
Mark Dodd, Saburai village – After leaving the squalor of a refugee camp in West Timor, one of militia leader Victor Lopes's first acts on…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
The new Timor Gap agreement was signed today with the tensions of tough negotiations still apparent.
The document was signed by Foreign…
Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - July 5, 2001
The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, says it is "generous". The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Burke, calls it "extremely generous". The…
The Australian - July 5, 2001
Nigel Wilson – Billions of dollars in Timor Sea investment remain in doubt despite the signing in Dili today of a framework agreement on sharing…
July 4, 2001
Australian Financial Review - July 4, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – It will be the ironic fate of independent East Timor to have its key international economic and security relationships with…
Melbourne Age - July 4, 2001
[This is an exclusive extract from "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy", the second in the Quarterly Essay…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 4, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor will receive $7 billion over 20 years under a historic agreement with Australia on the sharing of oil and gas revenues…
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Liquica – Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the…
July 3, 2001
Lusa - July 3, 2001
East Timor's 16 parties and UN transition administration have completed the draft of a "National Unity Pact", which expresses support for the…
Lusa - July 3, 2001
The first major trial of atrocities committed in East Timor by Indonesian forces and proxy militias got underway in Dili Tuesday, with a three-…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 3, 2001
Ten political parties, out of the 16, registered with the Independent Electoral Commission are disappointed with the aid package made…
July 2, 2001
UN News - July 2, 2001
Approximately 93 per cent of the estimated population in East Timor have been registered in advance of upcoming elections, the United Nations…
Reuters - July 2, 2001
Wendy Pugh, Melbourne – In an upheaval of Australia's energy market, petroleum and pipeline companies are racing to nail down multi-billion-dollar…
June 29, 2001
Lusa - June 29, 2001
The UN administration in East Timor has prepared a package of wide-ranging logistical and material aid for 16 parties and independent…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 29, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations has told the people of East Timor they will be virtually self-governing from September 15 – but that the UN…
June 28, 2001
Lusa - June 28, 2001
A group of presumed anti-independence militiamen opened fire Thursday on a patrol of UN peacekeepers in the East Timorese district of…
Melbourne Age - June 28, 2001
Paula Doran – For half of his 30 years Domingos lived chained to a wooden bench behind his village home in the hills of East Timor. His family was…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - June 28, 2001
Atambua – Facing the prospect of resettling tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, an Indonesian government delegation on Thursday appealed…
UN Department of Public Information - June 28, 2001
The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today presented the first State of the Nation address to the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dill – The United Nations in East Timor will encourage staff to volunteer for HIV tests but cannot make them compulsory on…
Dow Jones Newswires - June 28, 2001
Ray Brindal, Canberra – Australian and East Timorese representatives have resolved many of their outstanding differences about a planned new…
June 27, 2001
UN News - June 27, 2001
Sixteen political parties have nominated candidates to run in the August elections for East Timor's Constituent Assembly, meeting the…
Green Left Weekly - June 27, 2001
A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees…
Australian Associated Press - June 27, 2001 (abridged)
Joanna Jolly – East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao said he supports pardons for militiamen who are found guilty of…
Lusa - June 27, 2001
A group of unidentified youths set fire Wednesday to a school in the East Timorese city of Baucau, 130 kms east of Dili, causing…
June 26, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - June 26, 2001
The civil registration process has been a success. Since the start of it on 24 February till its closing on 22 June, 777,989 Timorese…
Canberra Times - June 26, 2001
George Quinn – Personally I don't think Indonesia will break up, but we are talking here of probabilities, and there is an outside chance, but a…
Xinhua News - June 26, 2001
Maputo – Guterres, visiting president of the Timorese liberation movement (Fretilin), declared here on Tuesday that he is confident…
Australian Financial Review - June 26, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – A wizened brown man with black teeth squatted in the dusty Balibo roadside with eight 5-litre plastic jerry cans of kerosene he…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Jane Counsel – A United States company is stepping up efforts to settle a 25-year dispute over the oil and gas riches of the Timor Gap, announcing…
June 25, 2001
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – An armada of big, white four-wheel-drive vehicles cruises and clogs the dusty roads of Dili carrying the army of United Nations…
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – Sergio Vieira de Mello says emphatically, perhaps too emphatically, that he is convinced East Timor's coming constituent…
Australian Associated Press - June 25, 2001
A group of protesters has demonstrated outside the Indonesian consulate in Melbourne on the first day of Indonesian President…
June 22, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's de facto government, the National Council, has backed the formation of an international war crimes tribunal to…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Indonesian submarines and combat aircraft shadowed so closely ships carrying Australian and New Zealand troops into East Timor…
Lusa - June 22, 2001
Dili says it does not recognize claims by an American petroluem company that it obtained concession rights to exploit oil and natural gas in the…