Mark Dodd – One of East Timor's most notorious militia leaders will today meet representatives of the community he left devastated to discuss his…
East Timor
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February 19, 2001
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…
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor could still press for a United Nations war crimes tribunal unless Indonesia brought to justice those responsible for…
Dan Murphy, Aileu and Dili – Sergio Vieira de Mello watches impassively as the United Nations flag rises over a group of jungle survival experts,…
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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
Jon Land – Imagine someone referring to prime minister John Howard and his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, as "more generous than Mother…
Mark Dodd, Dili – An East Timorese independence fighter pleaded for acquittal yesterday at the end of his trial for the killing of a pro-…
Joanna Jolly, Dili – In a legal first for East Timor, United Nations prosecutors yesterday filed multiple rape charges against an Indonesian army…
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
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
Jill Jolliffe – United Nations investigators have sought international warrants to arrest three men – including a former Indonesian Government…
February 2, 2001
Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations Security Council will consider withdrawing troops from East Timor in four months if the…
Mark Dodd, Aileu – The Falintil guerilla force yesterday became the world's newest internationally recognised army – the East Timor Defence Force…
[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
Mark Dodd, Dili – An argument over a traffic infringement sparked an ugly brawl between East Timorese university students and Portuguese riot…
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-…
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
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
Dili – Human rights activists Friday welcomed the first successful prosecution of an East Timorese militiaman implicated in the 1999 post-…
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
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…
Jon Land – Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and…
Robyn Marshall, Dili – Aurora Ximenes, the coordinator of the East Timor Women's Network, which comprises 15 grassroots organisations, is angry…
Peter Johnston, Darwin – "We expect over 50% of the first elected parliament – definitely", Estanislau da Silva reassured trade…
January 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's hope for national reconciliation will take a step towards realisation this year with the introduction of a…
January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – His full name is said to be Ely Foho Rai Boot, which translates from the main Timorese language Tetum as something like…
Hamish McDonald – Next month the legendary guerilla army Falintil, an acronym for Armed Forces of the Liberation of East Timor, will cease to…
January 17, 2001
Jeremy Bowden, Singapore – East Timor is raising the stakes in talks on sharing offshore oil and natural gas revenues with Australia, according to…
January 15, 2001
Maggie O'Kane – The discovery of the bodies of four women murdered with machetes in different parts of the country last summer passed almost…
Hamish McDonald, Dili – The Australian Government is retreating from its tough opening stance on the oil revenue split in a new seabed boundary…
January 13, 2001
Jakarta – More than 150 East Timorese journalists, gathering at their inaugural congress in the East Timor capital of Dili, have agreed to build…
January 12, 2001
Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court began on Thursday the trial of six pro-integration East Timorese for the murder of three United Nation…
January 10, 2001
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – An unlikely gathering of Indonesian rock stars, criminals and retired soldiers yesterday converged on a Jakarta…
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Sitting in jail waiting to hear his fate, feared East Timor militia chief Eurico Guterres is accusing his nemesis Xanana…
January 8, 2001
Denis Dragovic, Dili – For several months I have been watching the United Nations "rescuing" East Timor. The half-term report is not promising.…
January 5, 2001
Robert Garran – Australia and East Timor remain far apart in crucial talks over revenue from the Timor Gap oil and gas fields that could become a…
January 4, 2001
Kupang – Following a clash between East Timorese refugees and local residents, hundreds of East Timorese refugees were returned to…
January 2, 2001
Jakarta – A notorious former East Timorese militia leader went on trial here Tuesday charged with inciting criminal activities against the state…
January 1, 2001
December 31, 2000
Compatriots! Timorese!
This is not intended to be an exclusive message; the time for exclusive leaders playing the ungrateful role of…
December 28, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Somewhere in Indonesian West Timor, in a camp controlled by some of the most notorious militia thugs who fled East Timor after…
Louise Williams – Sydney, you can't rebuild East Timor with teddies and thongs. And you shouldn't even give a child a teddy to play with outside…
December 27, 2000
Dan Murphy, Jakarta – Shortly after Monitor contributor Sander Thoenes was killed in East Timor last year, it seemed as if justice would be served…
December 23, 2000
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has postponed the registration of some 100,000 East Timorese refugees still langishing in squalid camps in…
December 22, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Christmas brings out the best in the East Timorese. Last year, despite the misery and destruction inflicted by the militia and…
December 20, 2000
Jakarta – Former pro-Indonesia militia leaders from East Timor's Baucau district are preparing for a one-day visit to their homeland to see…
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Australia has with held from United Nations prosecutors hundreds of hours of secret communication intercepts, which…
December 19, 2000
Jakarta – East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres will open the new year unlike any other as he faces court proceedings against him…




