Michael Ware – The capture of a militia reconnaissance team inside East Timor just one day after Major-General Peter Cosgrove's departure marks a…
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February 29, 2000
The Australian - February 29, 2000
Australian Financial Review - February 29, 2000
Wilson da Silva, Dili – An impost on coffee exports in East Timor, among tax measures to be announced by the governing United Nations authority…
Australian Associated Press - February 29, 2000
John Martinkus, Salale – Indonesian military and New Zealand troops mix freely on the bridge that forms the border here. It is hot, isolated and…
Agence France Presse - February 29, 2000
Dili – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid made a historic visit to East Timor Tuesday, braving the wrath of the population over 24 years of…
February 28, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 28, 2000
Mark Dodd, Ermera – The coffee trees in this prime highland growing area are laden with berries, promising aficianados of arguably the world's…
February 25, 2000
Australian Associated Press - February 25, 2000
Sharon Labi, Sydney – At least 100 police officers were called in to disperse a blockade formed by East Timorese refugees refusing to leave Sydney…
February 23, 2000
Green Left Weekly - February 23, 2000
Jon Land, Dili – The Socialist Party of Timor (PST) held its first national congress here on February 10-11. The event marked an important stage…
Green Left Weekly - February 23, 2000
Jon Land, Dili – East Timorese workers at the floating Hotel Olympia and Amos W. complex have won better wages and conditions following a 24-hour…
The Melbourne Age - February 23, 2000
Paul Daley – Operatives from Indonesia's special forces, Kopassus, made extraordinary efforts to implicate Australia in illegal spy flights in…
February 22, 2000
South China Morning Post - February 22, 2000
Reuters, Dili – World Bank president James Wolfensohn yesterday signed over its first US$21.5 million in reconstruction aid for East…
February 21, 2000
South China Morning Post - February 21, 2000
Reuters in Dili – Australian troops in East Timor have been accused of sexual harassment of local women, the second such incident…
Freedom Forum Online - February 21, 2000
Arnold Zeitlin, Dili – In impoverished, war-devastated East Timor, the most urgent needs are food, water, shelter, clothing – and a printing press…
February 20, 2000
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2000
Jakarta – World Bank President James Wolfensohn on Sunday catagorically denied reports millions of dollars of the bank's funds for Indonesia's…
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2000
Mota'ain – Indonesian troops fired in the air yesterday to halt fighting that broke out among East Timorese refugees and residents at an informal…
February 19, 2000
South China Morning Post - February 19, 2000
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The World Bank says it knew of allegations concerning misuse of its money to fund East Timor militias but found no…
February 16, 2000
Australian Associated Press - February 16, 2000
Canberra – East Timor's main political organisation, the National Council for East Timorese Resistance (CNRT), was attacking some of the people it…
Media Indonesia - February 16, 2000
The commission investigating human rights violations in East Timor has finally completed the report of its findings. The evidence was so…
Green Left Weekly - February 16, 2000
Dili – The East Timor Human Rights Commission (ETHRC) was established on October 1 to conduct investigations and monitoring of human rights…
Dateline (SBS Television) - February 16, 2000
Mark Davis – In a forest West of Dili, Filomena Amaral is about to learn the details of how her husband, a village schoolteacher and church leader…
February 14, 2000
Agence France Presse - February 14, 2000
Negotiations continued Friday to resolve one of East Timor's first labor disputes, which saw a day-long walkout from the two floating hotels…
Four Corners (ABC) - Broadcast on February 14, 2000
[Andrew Fowler reports on the story behind the East Timor crisis and how it plunged Australian-Indonesian relations to an all-time low.]…
February 13, 2000
British Broadcasting Coorporation - February 13, 2000
Jonathan Head – It was at the beginning of last year that we first started to hear reports of attacks by new pro-Indonesian militia gangs in East…
February 12, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 12, 2000
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…
February 11, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 11, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – A pro-Jakarta militia commander has testified that East Timor's former governor, Mr Abilio Soares, told him early last…
Canberra Times - February 11, 2000
Peter Clack – The Australian Government sent a police delegation to train the Indonesian Police Force in Jakarta while Australian Federal Police…
Agence France Presse - 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…
February 10, 2000
Agence France Presse - 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…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 10, 2000
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
Green Left Weekly - February 9, 2000
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…
Green Left Weekly - February 9, 2000
Editorial – "I think any comment [beyond "understanding and sympathy"] is really intruding a little into the internal affairs of another country…
Green Left Weekly - February 9, 2000
Jonathan Singer – The Indonesian and United Nations human rights commissions have released their reports on the massive human rights violations…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 9, 2000
Tom Fawthrop, Aileu – In the mountains south of Dili, UN military observers have noticed new, younger faces arriving in the Aileu cantonment of…
February 8, 2000
Tapol - February 8, 2000
[The following is a translation by the British based human rights organisation, Tapol, of the concluding paragraphs of Chapter IV of the…
Sydney Morning Herald - 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…
February 7, 2000
The Independent - 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
Agence France Presse - 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…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2000
Mark Riley, New York – East Timor risks regressing into social turmoil unless the World Bank releases funds for reconstruction projects, the…
February 4, 2000
Financial Times - 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
South China Morning Post - 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
Sydney Morning Herald - 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…
Green Left Weekly - February 2, 2000
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 Post - February 1, 2000
Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has implicated former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Wiranto and four other…
Agence France Presse - February 1, 2000
Kupang – Five months after their flight from violence in East Timor, more than 150,000 people are still languishing in West Timorese camps where…
The Independent - February 1, 2000
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…
January 31, 2000
Jakarta - 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…
Indonesian Human Rights Commission Investigative Commission on Violence in East Timor - January 31, 2000
South China Morning Post - January 31, 2000
Xanana Gusmao travelled through six Asian nations last week with his colleague in the East Timorese leadership, Jose Ramos Horta, seeking…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 31, 2000
Marian Wilkinson – Indonesian security forces drew up extensive plans weeks before the United Nations ballot to move 200,000 people from East…
January 30, 2000
Associated Press - 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
Sydney Morning Herald - 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…