The military commander in East Timor, Colonel Tono Suratman said that if you wanted to have a ceasefire, it would be necessary for UN monitors to…
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December 15, 1998
Suara Pembaruan - December 15, 1998
December 14, 1998
Agence France Presse - December 14, 1998 (abridged)
Dili – Hundreds of students from three universities and academies here Monday staged a demonstration at the local parliament to…
December 12, 1998
Associated Press - December 12, 1998
Vienna – In a decision welcomed as a landmark by Portugal, European Union leaders Saturday backed calls for a referendum to decide the…
December 11, 1998
Associated Press - December 11, 1998 (abridged)
Lisbon – Indonesian troops attacked East Timorese civilians in a village in the disputed territory, killing one person and wounding 22…
December 8, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - December 8, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The Indonesian military will draw more East Timorese into the war against the pro-independence Fretilin guerillas by…
December 7, 1998
Reuters - December 7, 1998 (abridged)
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Thousands of East Timorese protesters rallied in the troubled territory's capital Monday to mark the anniversary of its…
December 4, 1998
Inside Indonesia Digest 72 - December 4, 1998
After years of deadlock, President Habibie's offer in June of autonomy for East Timor has finally set wheels moving over the fate of the troubled…
December 3, 1998
Tapol - December 3, 1998
A team of students which planned to visit Alas to conduct investigations into the human rights violations there was forced to return to Dili after…
Tapol - December 3, 1998
According to a report received today from the Peace and Justice Commission in Dili, a religious teacher named Francisco Carvalho was shot dead by…
November 27, 1998
Agence France Presse - November 27, 1998
Jakarta – Most Indonesian students and academics believe the people of troubled East Timor should be allowed to decide their own future, according…
November 25, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - November 25, 1998
Christopher Henning, London – The former Australian ambassador to Indonesia Mr Philip Flood has rejected claims that he withheld information from…
New York Times - November 25, 1998
Jakarta – Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights will investigate accusations that soldiers executed as many as 50 people in East Timor…
November 23, 1998
East Timor Human Rights Centre - November 23, 1998
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) has received reports from reliable sources in East Timor about the extra-judicial execution of…
November 21, 1998
Algemeen Dagblad - November 21, 1998 (Translated and abridged by Tapol)
Dili – Student organisations in Dili, the capital of East Timor, will hold a big demonstration on Monday to protest against a bloodbath…
November 20, 1998
Tapol - November 20, 1998
We have been informed by Solidamor in Jakarta that major military operations are underway in sub-district Alas, district of Manufahi.…
Associated Press - November 20, 1998 (abridged)
Lisbon – Portugal Friday suspended a New York meeting with the United Nations and Indonesia over East Timor, following intelligence reports of a…
November 18, 1998
The Age - November 18, 1998
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The former governor of East Timor has broken his silence on the 1991 Dili massacre, claiming dozens more people were…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 18, 1998
Hamish Mcdonald – Australia's ambassador in Jakarta was told by a key Indonesian army officer a few weeks after the massacre at Dili's Santa Cruz…
November 16, 1998
Agence France Presse - November 16 1998
Jakarta – East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao has spelled out his blueprint for the territory's gradual independence from Indonesia, a…
November 15, 1998
TAPOL - November 15, 1998
November 14, 1998
Agence France Presse - November 14, 1998
Lisbon – A Portuguese former governor of East Timor said Saturday that the 1991 massacre by Indonesian troops at a Dili cemetery was…
November 12, 1998
Agence France Presse - November 12, 1998
Jakarta – Troops in the troubled Indonesian territory of East Timor were hunting for rebels who killed three soldiers and were holding…
Reuters - November 12, 1998 (abridged)
Lewa Pardomuan, Dili – East Timorese on Thursday marked the killings of scores of unarmed protesters on this day in 1991 with tears and renewed…
November 3, 1998
South China Morning Post - November 3, 1998 (abridged)
Agencies in Dili and Jakarta – East Timorese resistance leader Jose Ramos Horta claims Indonesian troops have launched a major offensive against…
Agence France Presse - November 3, 1998 (slightly abridged)
Michael Thurston, Austria – UN-sponsored talks between East Timorese leaders broke down Tuesday without agreement on their demands for the future…
November 2, 1998
Interpress Service - November 2, 1998
Sonny Inbaraj, Darwin – The disclosure of Indonesian army documents revealing higher than stated troop levels in East Timor grossly undermines…
November 1, 1998
Agence France Presse - November 1, 1998 (abridged)
Dili – Masked assassins killed an Indonesian policeman in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor Saturday a day after the stabbing…
October 31, 1998
The Australian - October 31, 1998
Don Greenlees and Robert Garran, Jakarta/Canberra – The leak of confidential Indonesian army documents on troop numbers in East Timor yesterday…
The Australian - October 31, 1998
David Brearley – Australia's Timorese community was celebrating a victory last night it hopes will open the nation's doors to 1500 asylum seekers…
October 30, 1998
Australian Associated Press - October 30, 1998
Karen Polglaze and Buni Yani, Jakarta – Indonesia admitted for the first time today that as many as 18,000 troops may be deployed in East Timor.…
The Australian - October 30, 1998
Don Greenlees – Confidential Indonesian army documents show the number of combat troops in East Timor has remained steady in recent months, in an…
October 29, 1998
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - October 29, 1998
A former Australian diplomat says Australia's Foreign Affairs Department has maintained sensitive files on East Timor. The diplomat says the files…
October 26, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - October 26, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Indonesian community groups have for the first time formally joined East Timorese activists in calling for a referendum…
October 24, 1998
Suara Merdeka - October 24, 1998
Washington (Agencies) – The United States on Wednesday banned the use in East Timor of weapons supplied to Indonesia and continued a ban on…
October 22, 1998
The Australian - October 22, 1998
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Indonesia backed away yesterday from claims President B. J. Habibie offered to open an investigation into the killings of…
October 21, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - October 21, 1998
By Louise Williams in Jakarta and James Woodford in Canberra – A senior minister in the Habibie Government has flatly denied new allegations that…
Agence France Presse - October 21, 1998
Dili – An assistant to the UN secretary general said here Wednesday he has met jailed East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao at his Jakarta…
October 17, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - October 17, 1998
Louise Williams, Los Palos – Less than two weeks after the brass bands and media circus of Indonesia's "goodwill" withdrawal of combat troops from…
October 16, 1998
Lusa - October 16, 1998
Sydney – East Timorese leaders in Australia criticised on Thursday Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas two-day meeting with about 60 East…
October 15, 1998
Reuters - October 15, 1998
Tommy Ardiansyah, Dili – East Timor spiritual leader Bishop Carlos Belo on Thursday urged an end to Indonesian military activity in the troubled…
October 13, 1998
Lusa - October 13, 1998
Sydney – The Indonesian authorities announced on Monday the detachment of four mobile police brigades (BRIMOV) in the occupied…
October 12, 1998
Associated Press - October 12, 1998 (abridged)
Dili – About 15,000 East Timorese staged a second consecutive day of protest today and demanded the provincial governor quit over a threat to fire…
October 11, 1998
Reuters - October 11, 1998 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – The Indonesian military denied reports it had launched attacks against separatist rebels in the troubled territory, the…
Agence France Presse - October 11, 1998 (abridged)
Jakarta – Thousands of protestors rallied in the troubled East Timorese capital of Dili Sunday demanding the replacement of the…
October 10, 1998
Agence France Presse - October 10, 1998 (abridged)
Jakarta – Sixteen inmates escaped from an Indonesian prison in the troubled territory of East Timor today as the population of the main city of…
South China Morning Post - October 10, 1998
Andrew Perrin, Dili – Tension was rising last night following accusations of a major military offensive against Timorese resistance forces in the…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 10, 1998
United Nations – Portugal and Indonesia reviewed proposals for autonomy for the disputed territory of East Timor but came to no…
Agence France Presse - October 10, 1998 (abridged)
Jakarta – Some 400 East Timorese students studying in neighboring Indonesian West Timor have returned home after being terrorized by…
October 9, 1998
The Independent - October 9, 1998
Richard Lloyd Parry, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is covertly sending thousands of combat troops into the occupied territory of East Timor…
October 6, 1998
Reuters - October 6, 1998 (abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesia said on Tuesday it would not allow a referendum on independence for East Timor, and a dispute over the restive province would…