Mark Dodd, Dili – The United States Ambassador to Indonesia has condemned Jakarta's "lamentable and inexcusable" failure to disarm militias…
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August 2, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - August 2, 2000
Agence France Presse - August 2, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities plan to register all East Timorese refugees still on Indonesian soil and make a last offer, to either stay or…
August 1, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Former guerilla fighter Mr Xanana Gusmao will become the first president of independent East Timor. After insisting for…
July 31, 2000
Australian Associated Press - July 31, 2000
Denis Peters and Linda McSweeny, Canberra – Australian unions and a prominent law firm have warned that workers rebuilding East Timor could be…
The Australian - July 31, 2000
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – The Harco Hotel in central Jakarta is a dreary resting place for people travelling on the cheap. For 100,000 rupiah ($20…
July 29, 2000
Temo - July 29, 2000
Lisbon – East Timorese youth rejected the foreign military base. It is one point of declaration of East Timorese Youth Congress that…
July 28, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 28, 2000
Mark Dodd in Suai and David Lague in Bangkok – A price has been put on the heads of Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers in East Timor, with…
July 27, 2000
Associated Press - July 27, 2000 (abridged)
Jakarta – Just hours after the UN Security Council called on Jakarta to crack down on anti-independence gangs conducting raids in East…
July 26, 2000
Green Left Weekly - July 26, 2000
Vanja Tanaja, Dili – On July 19, an Indonesian investigation team arrived here to interview witnesses to the worst atrocities that took place from…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 26, 2000
Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations had begun closed-door discussions with key diplomats to bring forward the withdrawal of peacekeepers…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 26, 2000
The killing and mutilation of a New Zealand peacekeeper in East Timor threatens further damage to Australia's fragile ties with Indonesia after…
Green Left Weekly - July 26, 2000
Jon Land – As East Timor moves towards full independence under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (…
July 24, 2000
Indonesian Observer - July 24, 2000
Jakarta – A respected legal aid activist says the government must guarantee the security of witnesses who are scheduled to testify later this year…
Lusa - July 24, 2000
East Timor – The United Nations High Commission for Refugees announced Friday that it has withdrawn its personnel from the Betun…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 24, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – An Indonesian judicial team in East Timor to investigate violence by Jakarta's military and its local allies last year faced a…
Dow Jones Newswires - July 24, 2000
Damian Milverton, Washington – The international effort to repair the devastation in East Timor is meeting with some success but at the same time…
July 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 22, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations mission in East Timor yesterday said it had no plans to arrest notorious pro-Jakarta militia leader Eurico…
July 20, 2000
Associated Press - July 20, 2000
Jakarta – At least 547 East Timorese refugees sheltering in squalid camps throughout Indonesian-controlled West Timor have died in the…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 20, 2000
Justice John Dowd, Sydney – A royal commission is needed into why the Whitlam Government turned a blind eye to the Balibo killings, writes Justice…
July 19, 2000
Green Left Weekly - July 19, 2000
Jon Land - Up to 120,000 East Timorese are still languishing in refugee camps throughout West Timor 10 months after the post-referendum rampage by…
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin - July 19, 2000
Dili – The Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Rehabilitation Pillar recently released its three-part assessment of the Consolidated Appeal…
July 18, 2000
Associated Press - July 18, 2000
Daniel Cooney, Dili – No one knows who really owns the blackened, burned-out building where Canadian businessman Kirk MacManus is trying to set up…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 18, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Violence by pro-Jakarta militia in West Timor camps has sabotaged plans by the United Nations High Commissioner for…
July 15, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 15, 2000
Lisbon – East Timor's first transitional government was hailed yesterday as a crucial step forward by the pro-independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao…
July 14, 2000
Washington Post - July 14, 2000
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Dili – Lakan Feralafaek, one of a score of money changers who ply their trade on the sidewalk in front of East Timor's only…
July 13, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - July 13, 2000
Marian Wilkinson, Sydney – An Australian intelligence agency learned from an intercepted Indonesian Army radio message that Australian television…
July 12, 2000
Green Left Weekly - July 12, 2000
Max Lane – The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) has announced that it will be implementing measures to increase…
July 11, 2000
Indonesian Observer - July 11, 2000
Kupang – Peace has been restored to the West Timor town of Oesau following the July 1 mass riot in which remnants of the feared pro-Jakarta…
New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2000
Greg Ansley, Dili – New Zealand troops have broken a militia-linked extortion racket in a crackdown on organised crime in the western border…
Lusa - July 11, 2000
Dili – Militants of East Timor's newest political party have seized a building destined to serve as a police station in the eastern…
July 10, 2000
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – Tension between East Timorese refugees and locals in Indonesia's West Timor has forced the International Organization for Migration (IOM…
Jane's Intelligence Review - July 10, 2000
Tom Fawthrop – Political expediency persuaded the UN mission in East Timor to revoke its original requirement to disarm FALINTIL, the army of the…
July 5, 2000
Lusa - July 5, 2000
Dili – Hundreds of Indonesians armed with bows and arrows have blocked roads in West Timor to keep UN aid officials from continuing…
July 4, 2000
Lusa - July 4, 2000
Dili – United Nations police have opened investigations into three more recent discoveries of human remains in East Timor, likely…
July 3, 2000
US Department of State - July 3, 2000
New York – Stressing that a climate of fear is still a reality in the East Timorese refugee camps in West Timor, US Ambassador Richard…
Lusa - July 3, 2000
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao's new Australian wife played a "fundamental and key" role over the past decade in the…
Associated Press - July 3, 2000
Kupang – Angry over a spate of recent attacks, hundreds of villagers blockaded a road in Indonesian-controlled West Timor demanding…
June 30, 2000
South China Morning Post - June 30, 2000
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Bargaining over property and compensation claims between Indonesia and East Timor has begun in what is already proving…
Lusa - June 30, 2000
Dili – Rigid UN practices coupled by delays in distribution of World Bank funds are hampering progress on the reconstruction of East…
June 29, 2000
Christian Science Monitor - June 29, 2000
Carolyn Robinson, Belu – They fled only to become refugees. Now they almost live here as inmates. In the camps that dot the countryside of this…
June 27, 2000
Kyodo News - June 27, 2000
Dili – The United Nations has ruled out sharing executive power with East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao in the lead-up to full independence for…
Lusa - June 27, 2000
Dili – Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, East Timor's spiritual leader, has written to the UN administration and foreign health aid…
Reuters - June 27, 2000
Darwin – East Timor wanted a maritime boundary with Australia at the midpoint between the two countries, putting key petroleum projects in East…
The Australian - June 27, 2000
Peter Alford – "The criticism of us has been varied and I would say only partly justified ... at no time in history has a country been totally…
June 23, 2000
Associated Press - June 23, 2000 (abridged)
Lisbon – East Timor 's independence leader Jose Alexandre Gusmao said Thursday the guerrillas he once led against Indonesian troops…
Kyodo News - June 23, 2000
Tim Johnson, Dili – UN peacekeepers in East Timor have arrested two suspected anti-independence militiamen and confiscated rifles and grenades in…
June 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Mark Dodd, Dili – Under pressure to give East Timorese more responsibility for their own affairs, the United Nations announced yesterday it would…
Asian Wall Street Journal - June 22, 2000
Jim Della-Giacoma – In one of the most courageous acts of self-determination in recent history, the people of East Timor went to the polls last…
June 21, 2000
Green Left Weekly - June 21, 2000
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – This city has been rocked by snap public transport stoppages since June 2 in response to a rise in the price of fuel. Small…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 21, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Negotiations between the United Nations and Canberra for a new Timor Gap treaty could see up to $US100 million a year in oil and…