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August 22, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 22, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 22, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The political party of East Timor's independence heroes, Fretilin, has been accused of using intimidation, threats and…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Those responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 are likely to escape prosecution by a special…
Agence France Presse - August 22, 2001
Canberra – Australia is unable to dictate a solution to a dispute between East Timor and a US-based oil company that has stalled construction of a…
August 21, 2001
Reuters - August 21, 2001
Canberra – Australia said on Tuesday it would urge Phillips Petroleum Co chairman and chief executive Jim Mulva to talk tough with East Timor over…
Lusa - August 21, 2001
East Timorese women's rights groups have gathered more than 10,000 signatures backing the inclusion of a "Women's Rights Charter" in…
August 20, 2001
Financial Times - August 20, 2001
Joe Leahy, Dili – Something resembling a commercial bustle has returned to Dili, East Timor's capital. Beaten-up taxis cruise streets frequented…
Lusa - August 20, 2001
East Timor's UN Transition Administration (UNTAET) praised Monday the weapons collection campaign conducted last week by the…
August 18, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 18, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Apocalyptic predictions are rife in East Timor as the territory approaches political freedom after centuries of Portuguese…
August 17, 2001
Lusa - August 17, 2001
United Nations civil police in the Suai region of East Timor have detained two people suspected of committing infractions of election…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 17, 2001
Mark Riley, New York – The Prime Minister has asked to meet with the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, as the UN comes under…
August 16, 2001
The Age - August 16, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – With an army of street kids recruited to plaster seafront coconut trees with stickers, and a UN vehicle pressed into service…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 16, 2001
Aout 200 ex-Falintil members on Tuesday staged a one-day sit-in at UNTAET headquarters to demand that the United Nations fulfill its…
August 15, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A former member of the independence movement Fretilin, Dr Abilio Araujo, expelled for his links with Indonesia, has returned to…
August 14, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 14, 2001
[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese. Excerpt from report by Portuguese radio on 14 August]
Presenter Xanana Gusmao…
Financial Times - August 14, 2001
Joe Leahy – Antonio, a farmer in the arid highlands south of East Timor's capital Dili, points at a distant ridgeline. That is where his family's…
Lusa - August 14, 2001
Unidentified assailants have thrown stones at a vehicle carrying Democratic Party (PD) supporters on a campaign tour of the Liquiga…
August 13, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - August 13, 2001
[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese]
Presenter: The campaign for the parliamentary elections in East Timor, scheduled…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001
Certain political parties have resorted to door knocking campaigns forcing people to vote for them. This was brought up at a dialogue…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 13, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – His name is distinctive, and in coming months Australians may hear a lot more of the East Timorese independence leader LuOlo.…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001
Thousands of people made their way to Dili on Saturday to take part in the UDT mammoth campaign. UDT supporters in buses and trucks…
August 11, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 11, 2001
Mark Dodd – An Australian-funded program teaching East Timorese to reject corruption hopes to make an impact on political parties competing in…
August 10, 2001
The Australian - August 10, 2001
Nigel Wilson – For months there have been rumours of problems in the "co-operative" arrangement to develop more than 12 trillion cubic feet of gas…
Washington Times - August 10, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian military directed a militia campaign of killings, terror and forced deportation against East Timorese…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Dili – It's the road from nowhere, but it's surprisingly busy. Mafalda Florindo and Isabella Antonine walk along it, smiling…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Dili – The big UN Land Rover that carries Xanana Gusmao and his bodyguards from event to event should have a bumper sticker that…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 10, 2001
Mark Dodd in Dili and Craig Skehan in Canberra – An East Timorese militia leader who served in the Indonesian Army's special forces and is on…
August 9, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Maliana – Every day a group of women meet at the shop called Nove Nove (Nine Nine) in bustling Maliana market. They share a chilling…
Agence France Presse - August 9, 2001
The Indonesian government has rejected a United Nations proposal for a land link between East Timor and its Oecussi enclave in West Timor, a…
Lusa - August 9, 2001
Electoral officials in Dili said Thursday that final voters' lists for East Timor's August 30 constituent assembly elections contained…
August 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Kupang – Police forcibly evacuated some 500 former prointegration militiamen from East Timor on Tuesday. Grouped under the Indonesian Veterans…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Jon Land – With elections to the country's first post-occupation Constituent Assembly due on August 30, East Timor's socialists are building up…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 8, 2001
Mark Dodd – A court holding the territory's first war crimes trial heard graphic evidence yesterday about the torture and murder of a pro-…
August 7, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 7, 2001
Vaudine England – Aid groups may be reluctant to return to refugee camps in West Timor with as many personnel as before, despite the UN giving the…
August 6, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 6, 2001
[Excerpt from report by Asih Nurhayati by Indonesian Satunet news web site on 6 August.]
An East Timorese Jose Amaral (29) caught…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 6, 2001
Mark Dodd – East Timorese officials have hailed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's decision to expand the terms of an Indonesian…
August 3, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 3, 2001
[Source: Kompas Cyber Media web site, Jakarta, Auguse 3]
Denpasar – If civilians refuse to surrender their weapons as…
Financial Times - August 3, 2001
The United Nations is to reduce its presence in East Timor in spite of Security Council members' reservations about the new administration in…
August 2, 2001
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 2, 2001
East Timor's transitional government on Thursday moved forward with a controversial plan to adopt Portuguese as the country's official…
August 1, 2001
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
On 6 and 7 June, the Indonesian government went ahead with controversial plans to register East Timorese refugees in West Timor and determine…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – In a surprise move, American company Phillips Petroleum and its joint venture partners have deferred indefinitely plans to build…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
About 19,800 coffee farmers in Timor Lorosae have to swallow the bitter pill because of sharp falls in worldwide coffee prices. On 10 May the…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Jon Land – As campaigning for the Constituent Assembly elections slowly gathers momentum across East Timor, the installation of Megawati…
Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001
An Indonesian military commander has ordered his troops to arrest East Timorese militiamen who are still operating from refugee camps in…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
The United Nations Security Council yesterday decided to extend the presence of UNTAET in Timor Lorosae till early 2002. However,…
July 30, 2001
Lusa - July 30, 2001
Ongoing corrections to preliminary voters lists in East Timor have included an additional 18,000 names and will bring the total…
Lusa - July 30, 2001
UN transition administration officials acknowledged Monday that issues of justice and human rights in East Timor remain a problem but…
July 29, 2001
Tapol Press release - July 29, 2001
Tapol today expressed dismay at a controversial decision on Wednesday by the Dili District Court to release Dr Sergio Lobo – a surgeon at the Dili…
July 28, 2001
Reuters - July 28, 2001
Sydney – Justice and human rights in East Timor are still not guaranteed even though a UN administration in the former Indonesian territory will…
July 27, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 27, 2001
Mark Dodd, Kupang – In what will probably be the last refugee repatriation voyage, 179 East Timorese boarded the Patricia Anne Hotung this week…