Mark Dodd, Dili – In a breakthrough for relations between East Timor and its former ruler, Jakarta has finally agreed to settle the…
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May 19, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 19, 2001 (abridged)
Indonesian Observer - May 19, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian military leader yesterday in Kupang, West Nusa Tenggara (NTT), expressed doubt that 95% of the East Timorese refugees in…
May 17, 2001
Financial Times (London) - May 17, 2001
Virginia Marsh and Tom Mccawley – Australia and East Timor are edging towards agreement on a critical new treaty to govern the Timor Gap, paving…
Timor Post - May 17, 2001
The withdrawal of Indonesian rupiahs from Timor Lorosae was a good step because it would prevent confusion in currency usage in the…
May 16, 2001
Reuters - May 16, 2001
Jonathan Thatcher, Balibo – Maria Maia, her mouth stained scarlet from the juice of the betel nuts she chews, bursts out laughing as she fingers…
New York Times - May 16, 2001
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – A strange red banner hangs over the gate of one of the middle-class villas on a quiet street in central Jakarta: "Am I…
Timor Post - May 16, 2001
The Concelho Nacional da Recistencia Timorense/Congresso Nasional (CNRT/CN) will be dissolved in early June 2001. Ex-members of CNRT…
SBS Dateline - May 16, 2001
Mark Davis – In September 1999, the Australian Army stepped into the carnage of East Timor as the lead contributor in the international force…
May 14, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 14, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The plight of a 15-year-old East Timorese girl kept as a sex slave for more than 18 months in a militia-controlled refugee camp…
Timor Post - May 14, 2001
Participants at a weekend discussion seminar, organized by the human rights NGO Yayasan Hak, expressed their frustration at UNTAET. Many said they…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 14, 2001
The leader of the Catholic Church in Dili, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo urged academics at the National University of Timor Lorosae to…
Australian Financial Review - May 14, 2001
Scott Burchill – Given advance notice that the street bully is about to beat up your neighbour, three courses of action are open to you. The first…
South China Morning Post - May 14, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – Fed up with Indonesia's feeble attempts at administering justice to accused war criminals, the families of East Timor's dead…
May 11, 2001
Associated Press - May 11, 2001
Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 11, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor. To…
May 10, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 10, 2001
The Australian government knew about Indonesian military plans to massacre East Timor independence supporters in 1999 and thought clever diplomacy…
May 9, 2001
SBS Dateline (Australia) - May 9, 2001
[In an extraordinary investigation, reporter Mark Davis returns to East Timor to disclose disturbing new revelations about Australia's secret…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
The General Co-ordinator of CPD-RDTL Antonio Aitahan Matak yesterday rejected allegations that the group was behind the threats…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.…
Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor…
Lusa - May 9, 2001
A report by members of the Portuguese parliament criticizes the UN Transition Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as being "costly and not very…
South China Morning Post - May 9, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – Once branded a gang of dangerous left-wingers, Fretilin is out in the open and may be set to win through the ballot what it…
Melbourne Age - May 9, 2001
Jill Jollife, Dariwn – An Australian Army intelligence officer who served in East Timor has accused the Federal Government of concealing vital…
May 7, 2001
Reuters - May 7, 2001
Melbourne – Tough negotiations over a Timor Sea oil and gas production treaty are likely to resume between Australia and East Timor later this…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 7, 2001
Fifteen militia commanders on Saturday accepted the 30 August 1999 referendum result, because it was, as they said, the decision of…
May 5, 2001
South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta and Geneva – The United Nations and foreign diplomats yesterday condemned as a mockery jail terms imposed by a Jakarta court…
May 3, 2001
Melbourne Age - May 3, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – Indonesia has dropped prosecutions against six people who have been under investigation for more than 12 months over crimes…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Negotiators for Australia and East Timor yesterday began a secrecy-shrouded meeting in Brisbane in the search for agreement on…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Jakarta has dropped prosecutions against six people who have been under investigation over crimes against humanity in…
May 2, 2001
Green Left Weekly - May 2, 2001
Jon Land – In the wake of the second round of negotiations between Australia and East Timor on the Timor Gap Treaty and the disputed seabed…
Green Left Weekly - May 2, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Thousands of small traders at the Dili market (Mercado Lama) are being pressured to move to two refurbished markets in Comoro…
Timor Post - May 2, 2001
The labor sector must be allowed to participate in the political process because they too have rights, said the Secretary-General of…
May 1, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 1, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The notorious East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres will be free within weeks after a Jakarta court yesterday…
The Age - May 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations' Serious Crimes Unit, the taskforce gathering evidence to prosecute perpetrators of the violence that swept…
April 30, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - April 30, 2001
Craig Skehan – The Australian Government yesterday urged Indonesia to push ahead with the prosecution of all those involved in killings and other…
April 28, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - April 28, 2001
[The Timor massacres were planned in detail: the guns, the trucks, the burial sites. Hamish McDonald has Jakarta's secret report which details…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 28, 2001
Hamish McDonald – A secret report for the Indonesian Government makes it clear that its military directed the militia violence against East Timor'…
April 27, 2001
The Age - April 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Key people accused of complicity in the bloodshed in East Timor are set to escape prosecution because of the bungled…
Straits Times - April 27, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Atambua – Weapons are valued treasures in this border town that has 63,000 East Timorese refugees, and there is always an…
Agence France Presse - April 27, 2001
Jakarta – All crimes committed in East Timor in 1999 and investigated by Indonesia's Human Rights Commission (Komnas Ham) will be tried here soon…
Tempo - April 27, 2001
Jakarta – Some Indonesian NGOs – including Kontras (Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence), YLBHI (Foundation of the Indonesian…
April 26, 2001
South China Morning Post - April 26, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – They used to supply bombs to Falintil resistance fighters. Now East Timor's Marxists are preparing for battle at the ballot…
Lusa - April 26, 2001
The East Timorese association of non-governmental organizations NGO Forum said Thursday it was "very worried" about the public stance…
AID/WATCH - April 26, 2001
Two AID/WATCH volunteers returned from East Timor yesterday and observed that, while East Timorese society has been heartened by the stability and…
The Melbourne Age - April 26, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dara Lata – Evidence is mounting against retired Indonesian Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto for his alleged role in atrocities…
Tapol - April 26, 2001
Following Indonesian President Wahid's decision on 23 April to limit the jurisdiction of a new human rights court for East Timor to crimes…
April 25, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 25, 2001
The President of ASDT-Fretilin Francisco Xavier do Amaral said East Timorese from 12 districts were in Dili to deliver their…
Melbourne Age - April 25, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – About 300 East Timorese supporters of a pro-independence party protested outside the United Nations headquarters in…
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Tanya Vanaja, Dili – East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's…
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Sibylle Kaczorek – In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now…