Jakarta – East Timorese refugees are dying from a rapidly spreading diarrhoea epidemic in fetid camps in Indonesian-ruled West Timor, a Catholic…
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April 9, 2001
Agence France Presse - April 9, 2001
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
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…
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…
April 1, 2001
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…
Estafeta - April 2001
Charles Scheiner – Eighteen months have elapsed since the Indonesian military and its militia proxies devastated East Timor. A quarter century has…
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Death threats and intimidation this week forced United Nations officials to abandon efforts to reunite children living…
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…
March 15, 2001
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…
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…
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
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…
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
Jakarta – Around 50 supporters of East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres burned an American flag outside the US embassy in…
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
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,…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…