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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…

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…

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

Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

Tempo - April 27, 2001

Jakarta – Some Indonesian NGOs – including Kontras (Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence), YLBHI (Foundation of the Indonesian…

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…

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…

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…

April 26, 2001

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…

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…

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…

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…

April 25, 2001

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

Sibylle Kaczorek – In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now…

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…

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…

April 24, 2001

Melbourne Age - 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…

Reuters - April 24, 2001 (abridged)

Jakarta – Four thieves attacked and stabbed the Australian-born wife of East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao on Tuesday in the latest in a…

Sydney Morning Herald - April 24, 2001

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

Timor Post - April 23, 2001

The President of CNRT, Xanana Gusmao said Satruday that the success of the general election this year was still the number one…

Associated Press - April 23, 2001

Sydney – Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor appealed Monday for an international tribunal to punish crimes against humanity in…

Straits Times - 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-…

April 21, 2001

Sydney Monring Herald - 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…

Straits Times - April 21, 2001

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

Sydney Morning Herald - April 20, 2001

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – As the East Timorese capital was being looted and burned on a stifling hot day in September 1999, an Indonesian Army…

Sydney Morning Herld - April 20, 2001

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – An investigation by a former Australian diplomat, Mr James Dunn, identifies a group of still-serving officers who secretly…

Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001

Jakarta – East Timorese leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao insisted on Thursday that overcoming the territory's complex social and economic…