Mark Dodd, Dili – Victims in what could have been East Timor's worst massacre last year were registered by Indonesian officials before being…
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February 8, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 8, 2000
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
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…
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…
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
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-…
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…
February 1, 2000
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…
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…
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
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…
Indonesian Human Rights Commission Investigative Commission on Violence in East Timor - 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…
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…
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…
January 28, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - 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
Agence France Presse - 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
South China Morning Post - 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…
Kyodo News Service - January 25, 2000
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
Reuters - January 24, 2000
Dili – East Timor will adopt the US dollar as its official currency under United Nations rule, a senior member of the National Council for…
Sydney Morning Herald - 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…
January 22, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - 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
World Socialist Web Site - January 21, 2000
Linda Tenenbaum – Four months after the Australian-led military occupation of East Timor, the United Nations is establishing a colonial-style…
Australian Associated Press - January 21, 2000
John Martinkus, Dili – Pro-Indonesian militia challenged the authority of Australian troops in the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi this morning,…
Dow Jones Newswires - January 21, 2000
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…
January 20, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - 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
Green Left Weekly - 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…
Green Left Weekly - January 19, 2000
Jon Land – The low wages that workers receive in East Timor today are little different from the pre-referendum rate, but given the dramatic…
The Irish Times - January 19, 2000
Conor O'Clery, East Timor – The electricity power station in Los Palos, a remote town on the eastern plains of East Timor, survived the…
January 18, 2000
Reuters - January 18, 2000
Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday urged the United Nations to give Jakarta the chance to complete its own inquiry into atrocities in East Timor before…
International Herald Tribune - 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…
January 17, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - 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
ABC - 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
Associated Press - 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…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 14, 2000
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 Post - 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
Australian Associated Press - January 11, 2000
John Martinkus, Kupang – Exiled pro-Indonesian militia leader Eurico Gutteres who was widely blamed for the destruction of Dili wants to negotiate…
Agence France Presse - January 11, 2000
Dili – A piece of cardboard torn from a Tiger beer carton covers the small beef satays (kebabs) to help them smoke on Emilio Gomes' grill.
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South China Morning Post - January 11, 2000 (abridged)
Associated Press, Baucau – Gang warfare has broken out in East Timor's second largest city leaving several people injured, UN…
January 10, 2000
The Age (Melbourne) - January 10, 2000
Andrew West – An Australian Federal Police officer could face charges after revealing the truth about the bloodbath in East Timor to Australia's…
The Australian - January 10, 2000
Carmel Egan, Dili – Murder, rape and torture erupted on the East Timorese capital's streets as soon as the historic referendum was declared a…
January 7, 2000
Reuters - January 7, 2000
Joanne Collins, Dili – East Timor is likely to count Indonesia, its old and often brutal master, as its top trade partner as the devastated…
East Timor International Support Centre - January 7, 2000
Sam de Silva, Dili – About 400 people marched Wednesday from the office of protest organsier, the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) to the gates of…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - January 7, 2000
Annie White: A top East Timorese official has accused Australian aid groups and businesses of profiteering in East Timor. The secretary-general of…
January 6, 2000
Associated Press - January 6, 2000 (slightly abridged)
Dili – In the first serious protest against the UN administration running East Timor, some 200 unemployed laborers demonstrated Wednesday against…
Indonesian Observer - January 6, 2000
Jakarta – Human rights activists have slammed the latest testimony made by Major General Zacky Anwar Makarim on the violence that destroyed about…
January 5, 2000
International Herald Tribune - January 5, 2000
Keith B. Richburg, Dili – At one of the two new floating hotels in Dili last week, it was standing room only at the upper-deck bar.
Relief…
South China Morning Post - January 5, 2000
Agencies in Jakarta and Dili – A senior Indonesian army general admitted yesterday that pro-Jakarta militias and some disgruntled Indonesian…