Dili – East Timor, preparing the way for eventual independence, will hold its first democratic elections on August 30, the head of the United…
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March 18, 2001
Reuters - March 18, 2001
March 17, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Seven suspected Indonesian spies have been detected in East Timor, prompting warnings by United Nations officials that saboteurs…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Death threats and intimidation this week forced United Nations officials to abandon efforts to reunite children living…
March 15, 2001
International Herald Tribune - March 15, 2001
Mark Dodd, On board the Curtis Wilbur, East Timor – The deck of an American guided missile destroyer might seem a strange place to train East…
Associated Press - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – The estimated number of East Timorese refugees still in camps in Indonesia has been reduced to about 50,000, a UN official…
March 14, 2001
Green Left Weekly - March 14, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic…
March 13, 2001
Associated Press - March 13, 2001
Viqueque – Gang violence in an East Timorese town has left at least two men dead and forced dozens of residents and aid workers to shelter in a…
March 10, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - March 10, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A small political party that claims allegiance to East Timor's first short-lived independent government has emerged as a thorn…
Straits Times - March 10, 2001
Dili – The UN mission chief in East Timor yesterday blamed agitators with links to Indonesia for the recent violence in the capital of…
March 8, 2001
Associated Press - March 8, 2001
Geneva – An ambitious drive to repatriate tens of thousands of East Timorese from West Timor has ground to a halt because of blatant…
Associated Press - March 8, 2001
Jakarta – Around 50 supporters of East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres burned an American flag outside the US embassy in…
South China Morning Post - March 8, 2001
Roger Maynard, Sydney – Australian troops in the multi-national peacekeeping force which was sent to East Timor 18 months ago were too aggressive…
March 5, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - March 5, 2001
Mark Dodd, Kupang – Elly Pereira was a well known face around Dili in 1999. Short, stocky and muscular, dressed in trademark jeans, T- shirt and…
March 4, 2001
New York Times - March 4, 2001
Seth Mydans, Dili – Judge Maria Natircia Perreira set her face in a judicial frown and studied the nine scruffy men lined up below her in the dock…
March 3, 2001
Associated Press - March 3, 2001 (abridged)
Dili – Human rights groups Friday welcomed the conviction by a UN court of an East Timorese guerrilla for killing a pro-Indonesian…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 3, 2001
Mark Dodd – An Indonesian Army commander has told a group of East Timorese who served with the Indonesian military they should renounce violence…
March 2, 2001
Reuters - March 2, 2001
Geneva – An international resettlement group said on Friday that it had restarted repatriating East Timorese refugees from the Indonesian west of…
March 1, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2001
Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – Indonesians, who grew up believing they helped East Timor out of a civil war, must wake up to the fact that they are…
New York Times - March 1, 2001
Seth Mydans, Ermera – There is one happy thing – one glorious thing – in the shamed and broken life of Loren a Martins. Far from her family,…
February 28, 2001
The Age - February 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The head of the UN mission in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, has given the green light to Indonesia's armed forces to…
February 26, 2001
Associated Press - February 26, 2001
Regan Morris, Singapore – East Timor's Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta says he understands the suffering, humiliation and struggles of…
February 25, 2001
South China Morning Post - February 25, 2001 (abridged)
Associated Press in Jakarta – Australian peacekeepers clashed with suspected militiamen in East Timor, UN officials said on Saturday…
February 24, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 24, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor will go to the polls on August 30 – the second anniversary of its United Nations-brokered referendum – in a historic…
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Jakarta – A pro-integration East Timorese militia member told the North Jakarta District Court on Thursday that he had stabbed a UNHCR…
February 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese leaders told Indonesian parliamentary heads Friday that unless Jakarta moves soon to try those accused of committing…
February 22, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The Australian wife of the independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has blasted Indonesian authorities over their lack of action in…
Agence France Presse - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – A retired Indonesian general accused of killing five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975 told a parliamentary hearing…
February 21, 2001
Green Left Weekly - February 21, 2001
Jon Land – The Australian government is attempting to prevent East Timor from gaining full sovereign rights over vast oil and gas reserves in the…
February 19, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 19, 2001
Mark Dodd – One of East Timor's most notorious militia leaders will today meet representatives of the community he left devastated to discuss his…
February 14, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 14, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor could still press for a United Nations war crimes tribunal unless Indonesia brought to justice those responsible for…
Their Nature and Causes by James Dunn - February 14, 2001
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Christian Science Monitor - February 14, 2001
Dan Murphy, Aileu and Dili – Sergio Vieira de Mello watches impassively as the United Nations flag rises over a group of jungle survival experts,…
Green Left Weekly - February 14, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Public hearings held here January 14-24 to discuss the timetable for East Timor's transition to independence have revealed…
February 13, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 13, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Senior bureaucrats working for the UN administration in East Timor should focus on developing the skills of local public…
February 7, 2001
Green Left Weekly - February 7, 2001
Jon Land – Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 7, 2001
Joanna Jolly, Dili – In a legal first for East Timor, United Nations prosecutors yesterday filed multiple rape charges against an Indonesian army…
The Age - February 7, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – An East Timorese independence fighter pleaded for acquittal yesterday at the end of his trial for the killing of a pro-…
February 6, 2001
Kyodo News - February 6, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese are expected later this month to begin preparations for a constituent assembly election likely to be held around August 30…
February 5, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – The house in East Timor's second city, Baucau, stands derelict, its windows boarded up and a tap running endlessly inside. The…
February 3, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 3, 2001
Jill Jolliffe – United Nations investigators have sought international warrants to arrest three men – including a former Indonesian Government…
February 2, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 2, 2001
Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations Security Council will consider withdrawing troops from East Timor in four months if the…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 2, 2001
Mark Dodd, Aileu – The Falintil guerilla force yesterday became the world's newest internationally recognised army – the East Timor Defence Force…
Jakata Post - February 2, 2001
[The following are excerpts from an interview with sociologist George Junus Aditjondro with The Jakarta Post's Ati Nurbaiti, following his one-…
February 1, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – An argument over a traffic infringement sparked an ugly brawl between East Timorese university students and Portuguese riot…
January 30, 2001
Christian Science Monitor - January 30, 2001
Dan Murphy, Dili – Almost trembling as he awaits a decision, Joao Fernandes, barely literate and desperately poor, looked nothing like the cold-…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 30, 2001
Mark Dod, Maliana – A community radio station is being used to counter propaganda from pro-Indonesia militia groups and convince thousands of…
January 29, 2001
Associated Press - January 29, 2001
Dili – Hundreds of UN workers in East Timor signed a petition Monday against cuts to their daily living allowances.
From February 1, the…
January 26, 2001
Associated Press - January 26, 2001
Dili – Human rights activists Friday welcomed the first successful prosecution of an East Timorese militiaman implicated in the 1999 post-…
January 25, 2001
Associated Press - January 25, 2001
Dili – In the first successful prosecution for the destruction of East Timor in 1999, an international court sentenced a pro-Indonesian…
January 24, 2001
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the…