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June 14, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 14, 2001
June 13, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Kupang – Changes in the results of last week's registration of East Timorese refugees have aroused suspicion in Kupang of the possible…
UN News - June 13, 2001
A security operation conducted by United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor has resulted in the surrender of 34 suspected militia…
June 12, 2001
Associated Press - June 12, 2001
Dili - East Timor's UN administrators Tuesday said they would push ahead with historic elections in August despite fears of unrest. UN…
Agence France Presse - June 12, 2001
Washington – A leading Timorese aid worker on Wednesday branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98 percent of East…
Lusa - June 12, 2001
East Timor may be forced to apply its future revenues from oil and natural gas exploration in the Timor Gap to cover its operational budget,…
June 11, 2001
UN News - June 11, 2001
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), has called the dissolution of the East…
June 9, 2001
Melbourne Age - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili - Amid emotional scenes, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule dissolved…
The Age - June 9, 2001
Mark Forbes, Canberra – Jose "Xanana" Gusmao will become East Timor's first president next year despite his pledge not to nominate, according to…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – As its final act, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule called for all…
Straits Times - June 9, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of East Timorese still languishing in West Timor's camps are not free to choose to return to home as…
June 8, 2001
Reuters - June 8, 2001
Irwin Arieff G. K. Goh, United Nations – East Timorese refugees eager to return home are being threatened and intimidated by militia who forced…
BBC Monitoring Service - June 8, 2001
Indonesian language Internet media sources have published comments by East Timorese refugee representatives and IX/Udayana Military Area Commander…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank (BI) and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) on Friday agreed to repatriate the…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – An overwhelming majority of East Timorese refugees languishing in West Timor camps want to stay in Indonesia, early results of a…
June 7, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres has been freed 23 days after an Indonesian court jailed him for six…
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…
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…
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…
ETAN/CIS - June 7, 2001
On June 6 and 7, the Indonesian government conducted a procedure throughout the refugee camps in West Timor. One stated objective was to allow…
Kyodo News - June 7, 2001
Kupang – Allegations of widespread fraud and reports of intimidation of voters marred an Indonesian-run vote Wednesday for thousands…
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 – An interim East Timorese government minister has accused Telstra of monitoring private telephone conversations within the…
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – Administrative action is being taken against two defence personnel following high profile document leak investigations. Defence…
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
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…
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…
May 30, 2001
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
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…
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…