On June 6 and 7, the Indonesian government conducted a procedure throughout the refugee camps in West Timor. One stated objective was to allow…
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June 7, 2001
ETAN/CIS - June 7, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - June 7, 2001
The East Timorese leader [currently cabinet member for foreign affairs] Jose Ramos Horta says his country cannot support the claim to…
Australian Associated Press - June 7, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – East Timor could not begin its life as an independent country by scaring off investors – so it would reach agreement…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timorese languishing in Indonesian refugee camps were asked yesterday if they wanted to stay or go home as aid agencies…
June 6, 2001
Green Left Weekly - June 6, 2001
John Gauci, Sydney – "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new…
June 4, 2001
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – Administrative action is being taken against two defence personnel following high profile document leak investigations. Defence…
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – An interim East Timorese government minister has accused Telstra of monitoring private telephone conversations within the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 4, 2001
Andrew West – Australian Government officials have been accused of burying a crucial intelligence report about a 1998 Indonesian massacre in the…
June 1, 2001
UN News - June 1, 2001
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today reported that the grenade attack that killed five people…
Aidwatch Briefing Notes - June 2001
By Tim Anderson for AID/WATCH
1. World Bank dictating terms of development in East Timor
While East Timorese society has…
May 31, 2001
Australia Financial Review - May 31, 2001
Brendan Pearson – East Timor's bounty from Timor Gap oil and gas revenues may hit $US1 ($1.95 billion) billion annually this decade, East Timor's…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 31, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A dispute over illegal trade on the East Timor border with Indonesian West Timor is thought to have caused a series…
May 30, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 30, 2001
London – Human rights abuses emerged in East Timor last year amid delays in rebuilding the territory after the bloody destruction carried out by…
UN Department of Public Information - May 30, 2001
The death toll in yesterday's attack along the border between East and West Timor has reached five, with up to 40 people injured, the United…
International Herald Tribune - May 30, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor In an effort to mend an economy devastated by the violence that accompanied the Indonesian withdrawal in 1999, the…
May 29, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 29, 2001
A group of GNR (Guarda Nacional Republicana) [a security arm of Civpol], on Monday, fired warning shots at a group of RDTL supporters…
May 28, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Gleno – Ironically, it is neglect which has produced independent East Timor's first major export crop: world-class organic, forest-…
May 23, 2001
Green Left Weekly - May 23, 2001
Jon Land – The World Bank has been prominent in East Timor's transition to full independence – so prominent in fact that the country now faces a…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Only 5 per cent of East Timorese understand the purpose of the United Nations-organised election to be held on August 30, a…
May 22, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are preparing for the registration of some 100,000 East Timorese refugees in camps in West Timor, a report said…
May 21, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 21, 2001
Partido Trabalhista Timor (PTT), on Friday, submitted its registration application with the Independent Electoral Commission. The…
BBC News - May 21, 2001
Richard Galpin, Dili – East Timor is celebrating becoming the world's newest country. It has been under United Nations administration since 1999…
May 19, 2001
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…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 19, 2001 (abridged)
Mark Dodd, Dili – In a breakthrough for relations between East Timor and its former ruler, Jakarta has finally agreed to settle the…
May 17, 2001
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…
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…
May 16, 2001
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…
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…
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…
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…
May 14, 2001
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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
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…
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…
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
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…
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…