James Dunn – It seems the Wahid Government has won its fight to ensure General Wiranto and the five other accused generals will face an Indonesian…
East Timor
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February 12, 2000
February 11, 2000
Dili – The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) has been appointed to replace Indonesia as Australia's new partner for oil and…
Peter Clack – The Australian Government sent a police delegation to train the Indonesian Police Force in Jakarta while Australian Federal Police…
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – A pro-Jakarta militia commander has testified that East Timor's former governor, Mr Abilio Soares, told him early last…
February 10, 2000
Kuala Lumpur – Indonesia should put on trial those responsible for militia atrocities in East Timor to avoid an international war crimes tribunal…
Mark Dodd, Dili – A senior East Timorese politician has threatened to resign from a decision-making body in protest over the arrival this week of…
February 9, 2000
Jonathan Singer – The Indonesian and United Nations human rights commissions have released their reports on the massive human rights violations…
Tom Fawthrop, Aileu – In the mountains south of Dili, UN military observers have noticed new, younger faces arriving in the Aileu cantonment of…
Editorial – "I think any comment [beyond "understanding and sympathy"] is really intruding a little into the internal affairs of another country…
Nick Fredman, Dili – Floating in this burned-out city's harbour is the bizarre structure of the Hotel Olympia. A large squat vessel that was…
February 8, 2000
Mark Dodd, Dili – Victims in what could have been East Timor's worst massacre last year were registered by Indonesian officials before being…
[The following is a translation by the British based human rights organisation, Tapol, of the concluding paragraphs of Chapter IV of the…
February 7, 2000
Richard Lloyd Parry – On the day that the crucial find was made, early in October last year, it was already much too late for East Timor. Its…
February 5, 2000
London – Secret military documents implicate Indonesia's top generals in a campaign of coercion and repression in East Timor intended to prevent…
Mark Riley, New York – East Timor risks regressing into social turmoil unless the World Bank releases funds for reconstruction projects, the…
February 4, 2000
Ted Bardacke – The umbrella group representing the leadership of East Timor is planning to hold a national congress in August to decide on "major…
February 3, 2000
Joanna Jolly, Dili – The United Nations is searching 29 grave sites in an area of the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi where witnesses say 75…
February 2, 2000
Mark Riley, New York – The head of the United Nations' human rights probe into East Timor has called for a South African-style truth and…
Max Lane – Jakarta's long war against East Timor may be (officially) over and may now be less of a "foreign policy issue" in formal Australian-…
February 1, 2000
Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has implicated former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Wiranto and four other…
Richard Lloyd Parry, Dili – The truth is that it had been brewing for weeks, but the trouble really began at the former school building in the…
Kupang – Five months after their flight from violence in East Timor, more than 150,000 people are still languishing in West Timorese camps where…
January 31, 2000
[The following is the full text a secret report for the Indonesian Government which makes it clear that the TNI directed the militia violence…
Marian Wilkinson – Indonesian security forces drew up extensive plans weeks before the United Nations ballot to move 200,000 people from East…
Xanana Gusmao travelled through six Asian nations last week with his colleague in the East Timorese leadership, Jose Ramos Horta, seeking…
January 30, 2000
United Nations – UN investigators have recommended that the United Nations establish an international human rights tribunal to prosecute those…
January 29, 2000
The findings of both UN and Indonesian human rights investigations into the atrocities in East Timor are soon to be made public. Marian Wilkinson…
January 28, 2000
Darwin – A Dutch journalist shot dead in East Timor was probably killed by Indonesian troops, an Australian coroner said yesterday.
Northern…
January 26, 2000
Kupang – The real losers in East Timor's tumultuous transition to independence from Indonesia, the pro-Jakarta militias and their supporters, met…
January 25, 2000
Associated Press in Dili – Gangs of youths wielding machetes and clubs rioted on Tuesday in Dili's main marketplace, seriously injuring at least…
Dario Agnote – With a pack of Australian-made apricot jam and some bread she picked up from a heap of thrash, Margarita Pereira, a skinny 8-year-…
January 24, 2000
John Martinkus, Dili – The Nobel Peace laureate Mr Jose Ramos Horta has blamed the Indonesian military for the militia border incursions that have…
Dili – East Timor will adopt the US dollar as its official currency under United Nations rule, a senior member of the National Council for…
January 22, 2000
Marian Wilkinson and Peter Cole-Adams – Australia would consider a request to hand over classified intelligence material to the Indonesian human…
January 21, 2000
John Martinkus, Dili – Pro-Indonesian militia challenged the authority of Australian troops in the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi this morning,…
Ray Brindal, Canberra – Australia and East Timor stand to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties if oil and natural gas projects in the…
Linda Tenenbaum – Four months after the Australian-led military occupation of East Timor, the United Nations is establishing a colonial-style…
January 20, 2000
Tensions are rising as the rebuilding of East Timor begins, Conor O'Clery writes from Dili.
After quelling the recent disturbance in Dili by…
January 19, 2000
Sam King, Dili – The stated aim of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) is to effectively administer the country…
Conor O'Clery, East Timor – The electricity power station in Los Palos, a remote town on the eastern plains of East Timor, survived the…
Jon Land – The low wages that workers receive in East Timor today are little different from the pre-referendum rate, but given the dramatic…
January 18, 2000
Canberra – The commander of the multinational peacekeeping force in East Timor said Monday that he had issued a warning to his troops after a…
Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday urged the United Nations to give Jakarta the chance to complete its own inquiry into atrocities in East Timor before…
January 17, 2000
Ian Timberlake, Dili – East Timor's leadership plans to start paying volunteer public servants as part of measures to ease growing frustration…
January 15, 2000
Three people have been injured in Dili during violent scuffles when thousands of poor and unemployed East Timorese scrambled to apply…
January 14, 2000
Dili – A number of pro-Indonesian militiamen and members of their families were attacked when they tried to return to their homes in East Timor, a…
United Nations civilian police have arrested a pro-Indonesian militiaman implicated in one of the first mass murders in East Timor last year.
…January 12, 2000
Jakarta – Over 400 East Timorese who fled their violence-ravaged homeland following the August 30 self-determination ballot have died from various…
January 11, 2000
Associated Press, Baucau – Gang warfare has broken out in East Timor's second largest city leaving several people injured, UN…