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September 13, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

Hamish Mcdonald – Australian diplomatic cables released yesterday covering Indonesia's takeover of East Timor in 1974-76 show officials caught in…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

No check was made to see if any Australians were in the area before Indonesia's attack, Foreign Affairs documents show. Hamish McDonald reports.…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

Just-released Foreign Affairs documents show how Australia encouraged Indonesia to grab East Timor by its own early complicity in plans for the…

The Melbourne Age - September 13, 2000

Tom Hayland – The depressing saga of Australian efforts to establish the fate of the five Australia-based TV reporters killed in Balibo…

Green Left Weekly - September 13, 2000

Jon Land – The brutal murder on September 6 of three United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) staff by pro-Jakarta militia thugs at…

September 12, 2000

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Compere: Well, supporters of East Timor have long interpreted Australia's actions as a betrayal on the broad international stage of an entire…

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Kerry O'Brien: First, the Timor papers, released today, which finally confirm after a quarter of a century of suspicion that Australia was warned…

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Compere: We begin by going back almost exactly a quarter of a century to the momentous spring of 1975, the time leading up to the two most…

September 9, 2000

Agence France Presse - September 9, 2000

Jakarta – The global group Human Rights Watch on Saturday called for an independent investigation with UN participation of the brutal murders of…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 9, 2000

Barbie Dutter, Dili – Survivors of the savage militia rampage through a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in West Timor told of…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 9, 2000

David O'Shea – On the balcony of their new home in Kupang, West Timor, her fingers covered in gold rings, Mrs Guterres watches her children play…

South China Morning Post - September 9, 2000

Keith Loveard, Vaudine England and Agencies – The United Nations said 20 people were killed in renewed fighting in Indonesian West Timor yesterday…

South China Morning Post - September 9, 2000

Joanna Jolly, Dili – An Indonesian aid worker now in hiding in West Timor believes notorious East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres started…

September 8, 2000

Associated Press - September 8, 2000 (abridged)

Irwan Firdaus, Atambua – Hundreds of gun-toting militiamen staged a show of force Friday in a West Timor village where UN officials fear the…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia promised to send two extra battalions to the West Timor border where militia killed up to six United Nations…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch – The plan was simple and savage: kill Olivio Mendoza Moruk and the pro-Jakarta militia roaming West Timor would go berserk, as…

September 7, 2000

Agence France Presse - September 7, 2000 (abridged)

Jakarta – A chronoloy of major events since East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia on August 30, 1999.

Aug 30, 1999: East…

Agence France Presse - September 7, 2000

Jakarta – When East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia last year, feared militia leader Eurico Guterres made his displeasure known by…

South China Morning Post - September 7, 2000

Vaudine England – Tension had been escalating in the refugee camps of Indonesian West Timor for several weeks before yesterday's attack on the UN…

Associated Press - September 7, 2000

David Crary, United Nations – Six hours before he and two colleagues were murdered in West Timor, an American relief worker e-mailed a friend at a…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 7, 2000

Mark Dodd, Suai – They gathered by the thousand, many bringing tributes of flowers to mark the single worst act of militia violence in East Timor…

September 6, 2000

Green Left Weekly - September 6, 2000

Philippa Skinner and Jill Hickson, Dili – From August 21-29, members of East Timor's seven political parties participated in the congress of the…

Green Left Weekly - September 6, 2000

Dili – Members of Timorese Socialist Party (PST) around East Timor have been occupying buildings left by the Indonesian government in…

September 5, 2000

The Industry Standard - September 5, 2000

Stewart Taggart – Walk down any street in East Timor's capitol of Dili and the scene is the same: blackened, roofless buildings and heaps of…

September 4, 2000

The Progressive (US) - September 4, 2000

Matthew Rothschild, Dili – On August 30, a huge crowd in Dili, East Timor, gathered to celebrate the first anniversary of the independence vote…

September 1, 2000

IOM - September 1, 2000

Rising tensions and an increasing number of attacks on foreign aid workers in West Timor reduced the IOM/UNHCR repatriations of East Timorese…

August 31, 2000

The Australian - August 31, 2000

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Western diplomats and senior Indonesian military officers say the pro-Jakarta militias operating in West Timor are still…

Indonesian Observer - August 31, 2000

Jakarta – A peaceful demonstration by East Timorese refugees to commemorate the first anniversary of East Timor's secession from Indonesia turned…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 31, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – After a 24-hour session, East Timor's main independence umbrella group has reaffirmed support for Mr Xanana Gusmao as its leader…

South China Morning Post - August 31, 2000

Joanna Jolly, Dili – On a day tinged with sadness and joy, thousands of East Timorese yesterday celebrated the first anniversary of their…

August 30, 2000

Associated Press - August 30, 2000

Heather Paterson, Aileu – They fought a desperate jungle war against Indonesia's occupation for a quarter of a century. Now, one year after East…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 30, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor independence leaders have accused the United Nations of failing to uphold its mandate to provide security for the…

August 29, 2000

Australian Financial Review - August 29, 2000

Tim Dodd, Dili – "When the UN pulls out, the whole system's going to crash," says Mr Kirk MacManus, the manager of Hello Mister, Dili's only…

Green Left Weekly - August 29, 2000

Jon Land – August 30 is the first anniversary of East Timor's courageous act of self-determination, when, after 24 years of occupation, 78.9% of…

Green Left Weekly - August 29, 2000

Francesca Davis, Dili – Its 4.45pm and the heat is stifling. There is a crowd of students at the door, smiling at me hopefully. Some have…

The Age - August 29, 2000

Paul Daley – A small group of Australian politicians and military chiefs still shudder when they recollect receiving a top-secret report from the…

August 26, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - August 26, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – It had been a bad few hours. Tempers were starting to fray. Some people wept. As gunfire echoed around the besieged…

August 23, 2000

OneWorld News Service - August 23, 2000

Daniel Nelson, Dili – Economic and social rights are as important as traditionally defined human rights, UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary…

Green Left Weekly - August 23, 2000

Vanja Tanaja, Dili – Speaking at a meeting of the just weeks-old East Timor Press Club on August 12, Jose Ramos Horta, vice-president of the…

August 22, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - August 22, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Almost a year since voting to end Indonesian rule, East Timor is about to launch into open politicking about the shape of its…

South China Morning Post - August 22, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Government ministers admit they were caught off guard by a constitutional amendment which appears to provide legal…

Agence France Presse - August 22, 2000

Jakarta – Suspected militiamen attacked a UNHCR mission in Indonesia bringing aid to a refugee camp in West Timor on Tuesday, badly beating up…

August 21, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - August 21, 2000

Mark Dodd, Aileu – Fighters from the former guerilla resistance force Falintil, in their first move out of forced cantonment since the United…

South China Morning Post - August 21, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The upsurge in fighting on the border between East and West Timor is the latest sign that the Indonesian military's…

August 19, 2000

Agence France Presse - August 19, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab on Saturday said some soldiers might have encouraged the pro-Jakarta militias in the border area…

August 17, 2000

The Australian - August 17, 2000

Andrew Perrin, Ainaro – Fearing UN peacekeepers cannot guarantee their safety, villagers in East Timor's mountainous central south-west have fled…

August 16, 2000

Lusa - August 16, 2000

A group of prominent East Timorese leaders, spanning the territory's historical political spectrum, are organizing a new center-right…

Green Left Weekly - August 16, 2000

Jon Land – Pro-Jakarta militia operating out of refugee camps and other bases in West Timor show no sign of scaling down their attacks upon…

August 15, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia yesterday denied responsibility for intensified attacks by militias on international forces inside East Timor…

August 14, 2000

Reuters - August 14, 2000

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia conceded on Friday it could not fully control its border with East Timor where another UN soldier was killed…