Dili – UN officials in East Timor Friday distanced themselves from a report that accuses senior Indonesian army generals of masterminding the wave…
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April 20, 2001
Associated Press - April 20, 2001
Reuters - April 20, 2001
Geniva – The United Nations urged Indonesia on Friday to bring those responsible for bloodshed in East Timor to justice and rein in militias…
Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – A former army commander Friday admitted excesses in the Indonesian military in its handling of separatist movements, and publicly…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 20, 2001
The head of TNI's Information Center, Air Marshall Graito Usodo said yesterday there was an elite group that was trying to revive…
April 19, 2001
Reuters - 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
Sydeny Morning Herald - April 18, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor is set to receive a much larger slice of income from the rich oil reserves it shares with Australia.
Federal…
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - April 18, 2001 (abridged)
Soe, Indonesia – Around 70 per cent of the tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees languishing in squalid camps in Indonesia want…
Suara Timor Lorosae - 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…
April 17, 2001
Agence France Presse - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials believe East Timorese refugees they met during a visit last week to camps in West Timor were instructed to challenge the…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 17, 2001
UNTAET's Timorization process is not clearly visible within the Transitional administration. Also, the transitional administration…
Suara Timor Lorosae - 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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April 14, 2001
Canberra Times - 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
Sydney Morning Herald - April 12, 2001 (abridged)
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The United Nations will face renewed pressure to set up an East Timor war crimes tribunal after receiving a report…
Agence France Presse - April 12, 2001
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
Dow Jones Newswires - 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…
Washington Post - April 11, 2001
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Jakarta – The 22 people suspected by the Indonesian government of orchestrating the wave of violence after East Timor voted…
April 9, 2001
Associated Press - April 9, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Dili – Manuel Carrascalao, a veteran of East Timor's 24-year struggle for freedom, was elected to head the territory's transitional…
Agence France Presse - April 9, 2001
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
South China Morning Post - April 6, 2001
Reuters in United Nations – Xanana Gusmao, the popular East Timorese resistance leader, said overnight he would not be a candidate for president…
The Australian - 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…
April 5, 2001
UN News - April 5, 2001
Civil disturbances in East Timor, the forthcoming elections and the resignation of Xanana Gusmco as president of the National Council dominated…
Antara - April 5, 2001
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…
Agence France Presse - April 5, 2001
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
Associated Press - April 3, 2001
Jakarta – Attorneys for East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres Tuesday demanded that weapons charges against him be dropped on the grounds…
Associated Press - April 3, 2001
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
Straits Times - 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…
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
Dili – An Australian member of the UN peacekeeping force in East Timor fired on two suspected militiamen near the border with…
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
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
Estafeta - April 2001
Charles Scheiner – Eighteen months have elapsed since the Indonesian military and its militia proxies devastated East Timor. A quarter century has…
Jakarta Post - April 1, 2001
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
Agence France Presse - 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
Sydney Morning Herald - 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…
Reuters - March 30, 2001
John Ruwitch, Jakarta – East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao will remain a key figure in the impoverished territory's painful transition to…
Detik - March 30, 2001
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
Agence France Presse - 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
Green Left Weekly - 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…
Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001
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
Associated Press - March 27, 2001
Dili – UN prosecutors in East Timor condemned on Tuesday the downgrading of charges against six people accused of killing international aid…
UN News - March 27, 2001
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…
March 18, 2001
Reuters - March 18, 2001
Dili – East Timor, preparing the way for eventual independence, will hold its first democratic elections on August 30, the head of the United…
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
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…
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…
March 8, 2001
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…
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…