James Fox – Parliamentary elections will be held in East Timor on Thursday, two years from the day when the East Timorese turned out en masse to…
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August 27, 2001
Canberra Times - August 27, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – East Timor's leaders are planning an international campaign to pressure the Indonesian Government to allow Timorese…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The East Timor independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has decided not to retire from politics to grow prize pumpkins…
Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001
Lisbon – East Timor's UN administrator said in a newspaper interview Friday that a broad-based government will be named to govern the territory…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
[Speaking for the first time, former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie tells David Jenkins how and why he made the fatal decision to leave…
August 26, 2001
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 26, 2001
Dili – It is easy to be optimistic about East Timor's future when you are sitting at the villa of its de facto king – UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de…
Los Angeles Times - August 26, 2001
David DeVoss – The East Timor branch of Portugal's Banco Nacional Ultramarino in Dili looks like a modern financial institution. It has a smiling…
August 25, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's Cabinet member for foreign affairs, Mr Jose Ramos Horta, has blasted the United Nations mission in Dili for…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dare Mulo – Some people wept. Others sang national songs they had rehearsed for days and stamped their bare feet in the dust.…
August 24, 2001
Associated Press - August 24, 2001
Dili – A US-based election monitoring group said Friday it was satisfied with conditions for East Timor's first free elections next…
Lusa - August 24, 2001
Some East Timorese political forces have set up security-style partisan groups in preparation for next week4s elections but have not…
August 23, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001
Jane Counsel – Delicate negotiations over a new Timor Gap revenue sharing agreement were further unhinged yesterday, after a small American group…
Agence France Presse - August 23, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Dili – East Timorese voters are relishing their first-ever taste of democracy but some parties in next week's elections have tried…
The Age - August 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The UN Serious Crimes Unit, charged with investigating human rights violations in East Timor in 1999, says it is investigating…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – An East Timorese anti-independence leader said yesterday he would tell refugees in camps in West Timor that the world's newest…
August 22, 2001
Australian Associated Press - August 22, 2001
The Senate has rejected a proposal for an international war crimes tribunal covering the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Instead, it backed…
Lusa - August 22, 2001
The number two in East Timor's Fretilin party hierarchy, Mari Alkatiri, strongly critized Wednesday the territory's Independent Eletoral Mediation…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 22, 2001
An American Civpol officer stationed in Bobonaro District was stoned by a group of Timorese at the border area. The Indonesian…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
August 16, 2001
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…
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…
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
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.…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lusa - August 9, 2001
Electoral officials in Dili said Thursday that final voters' lists for East Timor's August 30 constituent assembly elections contained…
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…
August 8, 2001
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-…
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…