Jakarta – Four thieves attacked and stabbed the Australian-born wife of East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao on Tuesday in the latest in a…
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April 24, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Viqueque – Madalena Soares fought back tears as she told how her 12-year-old daughter Cesaltina was stolen.
It was late…
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's de facto parliament was hit yesterday with the resignation of a second high-profile political leader in less than a…
April 23, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Atambua – Tension is running high in this border town 2 1/2 years after the influx of over 200,000 East Timorese who fled the post-…
Sydney – Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor appealed Monday for an international tribunal to punish crimes against humanity in…
The President of CNRT, Xanana Gusmao said Satruday that the success of the general election this year was still the number one…
April 21, 2001
Christiani Tumelap in Atambua and Lindsay Murdoch in Dili – A 16-year-old East Timorese girl allegedly kidnapped as a war prize has defended the…
Geraldine Goh, Jakarta – East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao said new blood is needed to lead his country towards self-rule.
The president of…
April 20, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao insisted on Thursday that overcoming the territory's complex social and economic…
The head of TNI's Information Center, Air Marshall Graito Usodo said yesterday there was an elite group that was trying to revive…
Jakarta – A former army commander Friday admitted excesses in the Indonesian military in its handling of separatist movements, and publicly…
Geniva – The United Nations urged Indonesia on Friday to bring those responsible for bloodshed in East Timor to justice and rein in militias…
Dili – UN officials in East Timor Friday distanced themselves from a report that accuses senior Indonesian army generals of masterminding the wave…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – An investigation by a former Australian diplomat, Mr James Dunn, identifies a group of still-serving officers who secretly…
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – As the East Timorese capital was being looted and burned on a stifling hot day in September 1999, an Indonesian Army…
April 19, 2001
Jakarta – East Timor's economy has rebounded strongly after violence destroyed the tiny half-island territory nearly two years ago, with 15…
April 18, 2001
Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, one of the political leaders of East Timor, thinks that reconciliation among the people of East Timor must be carried out in…
Soe, Indonesia – Around 70 per cent of the tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees languishing in squalid camps in Indonesia want…
Craig Skehan – East Timor is set to receive a much larger slice of income from the rich oil reserves it shares with Australia.
Federal…
April 17, 2001
An ex-militia leader yesterday appealed for a general amnesty for those who committed human rights crimes in Timor Lorosae.
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UNTAET's Timorization process is not clearly visible within the Transitional administration. Also, the transitional administration…
Jakarta – UN officials believe East Timorese refugees they met during a visit last week to camps in West Timor were instructed to challenge the…
April 14, 2001
Jenny Denton – At 11 o'clock on a Thursday morning, a handful of people are standing around outside the Anarchist Bookshop in Newtown, Sydney,…
April 12, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The United Nations will face renewed pressure to set up an East Timor war crimes tribunal after receiving a report…
Jakarta – Indonesia's government is delaying setting up a human rights court to try crimes committed in East Timor in 1999 because of military…
April 11, 2001
Canberra – Australia and East Timor representatives are scheduled to resume negotiations in May on a new treaty covering the share of economic…
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Jakarta – The 22 people suspected by the Indonesian government of orchestrating the wave of violence after East Timor voted…
April 9, 2001
Dili – Manuel Carrascalao, a veteran of East Timor's 24-year struggle for freedom, was elected to head the territory's transitional…
Jakarta – East Timorese refugees are dying from a rapidly spreading diarrhoea epidemic in fetid camps in Indonesian-ruled West Timor, a Catholic…
April 6, 2001
Stephen Romei, New York – At the risk of exposing himself to political parody, Xanana Gusmao has a simple message for the international community…
Reuters in United Nations – Xanana Gusmao, the popular East Timorese resistance leader, said overnight he would not be a candidate for president…
April 5, 2001
Civil disturbances in East Timor, the forthcoming elections and the resignation of Xanana Gusmco as president of the National Council dominated…
New York – Asking the international community to try those involved in criminal actions in East Timor is not a priority to the East Timorese at…
Sydney – East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao will inevitably become his country's first president, even though he says he does not…
April 3, 2001
Jakarta – Attorneys for East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres Tuesday demanded that weapons charges against him be dropped on the grounds…
Dili – New violence broke out along East Timor's border with Indonesia when unidentified gunmen threw grenades and fired shots at UN peacekeepers…
April 2, 2001
Yeoh En Lai – Almost two years after the independence referendum in East Timor, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is…
Dili – An Australian member of the UN peacekeeping force in East Timor fired on two suspected militiamen near the border with…
Singapore – The United Nations' transitional government in East Timor is still struggling, leaving much to "sheer luck" despite 18 months in power…
April 1, 2001
Charles Scheiner – Eighteen months have elapsed since the Indonesian military and its militia proxies devastated East Timor. A quarter century has…
Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – The rains finally poured in late December, too much in some areas for a good corn harvest. Emergency operations over the past…
March 31, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rejected as unacceptable the trial in the United States of an Indonesian general accused of gross human…
March 30, 2001
Dili – After quitting East Timor's interim legislature in a bitter row over the shape of a new constitution, independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao…
John Ruwitch, Jakarta – East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao will remain a key figure in the impoverished territory's painful transition to…
Rita Uli Hutapea/Heather, Jakarta – East Timorese leader, Xanana Gusmao is unimpressed with the Indonesian government's handling of East Timor's…
March 29, 2001
Stephen Collinson, Washington – An activist from East Timor tearfully told on Tuesday of his brother's murder in violence that erupted after the…
March 28, 2001
Jon Land – Chances are increasingly remote that the Indonesian legal system will bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and human…
Starting March 27, a United States court in Washington, DC, will hear evidence that Indonesian General Johnny Lumintang is responsible for gross…
March 27, 2001
Dili – UN prosecutors in East Timor condemned on Tuesday the downgrading of charges against six people accused of killing international aid…
The National Council of East Timor today voted against setting up a mechanism that would have allowed the East Timorese people to provide input to…