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September 9, 2008
ABC Radio Australia - September 9, 2008
Australian Associated Press - September 9, 2008
Australia's military may be responsible for introducing into East Timor the nation's worst pest – the cane toad.
The resilient and toxic…
September 8, 2008
Deutsche Presse Agentur - September 8, 2008
Dili – The East Timor government on Monday began emptying the largest displacement camp left in the capital in the first step in helping 2,000…
September 5, 2008
IRIN - September 5, 2008
Dili – Rosalina Soares has no idea who cut off her fingers. She also has machete scars across her upper back and neck. The middle-aged mother of…
September 4, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - September 4, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor's top prosecutor, Longuinhos Monteiro, is flying to Canberra to be briefed on the investigation into the…
ABC Online - September 4, 2008
East Timor's prime minister has signalled a gradual reduction in the number of international troops needed in his country. Xanana Gusmao said…
Asia Times - September 4, 2008
Simon Roughneen, Dili – East Timor's post-independence politics have confounded outside observers, and for the most part the Timorese themselves.…
September 1, 2008
ABC Online - September 1, 2008
East Timor's six month gun amnesty has ended. The opposition is describing it as pointless, saying the government should be trying to recover the…
Dissent magazine - Spring, 2008
[Review essay by Dr Clinton Fernandes, UNSW@ADFA The UN in East Timor: Building Timor Leste, a Fragile State, by Dr Juan Federer, Charles…
United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) - September 1, 2007-June 30, 2008
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
I. Introduction
II. The Security Sector
1. Allegations of human rights…
ABC News Online - September 1, 2008
For the part six weeks, a group of forensic anthropologists from Australia and Argentina have been in East Timor searching for a mass grave…
August 28, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2008
Ben Doherty and Daniel Flitton – Australia's 750-strong troop commitment to East Timor could be over by the end of next year, as security in the…
August 27, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2008
Hamish McDonald – Xanana Gusmao has had many difficult roles in his 62 years: as rural teacher, guerilla leader, political prisoner, symbolic…
CAN - August 27, 2008
Havana – A farewell ceremony for a group of six Cuban healthcare service providers in East Timor was held at that country's Health…
August 26, 2008
Agence France Presse - August 26, 2008
Chris McCall, Sydney – East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao says he believes his country has turned the corner, and divisions in the military…
The National (Abu Dhabi) - August 26, 2008
Marianne Kearney, Dili – Plans to build a massive new power station in East Timor have stirred debate over the use of the tiny and impoverished…
August 25, 2008
Asia Calling - August 25, 2008
Saul Salavador – Thousands of Internally displaced refugees in Timor Leste are finally going home.
For the last two years, they have been…
August 24, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald - August 24, 2008
Jessica Mahar, West Timor – All Charles Meluk wants is a better future for refugees in West Timor. The 22-year-old East Timorese man has been…
August 23, 2008
ABC - August 23, 2008
Judicial authorities in East Timor are investigating more than 40 allegations that armed forces have used violence, intimidation, and death…
August 22, 2008
Melbourne Age - August 22, 2008
Ben Doherty and Sarah Smiles – A new guest worker scheme, this one to bring East Timorese workers to the labour-starved Kimberley region of…
The Australian - August 22, 2008
Paul Toohey – A secret recording of the last meeting between East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta and rebel leader Alfredo Reinado reveals that…
August 21, 2008
Agence France Presse - August 21, 2008
Complaints of human rights abuses by East Timor's fledgling national police have shown a "notable increase" over the past year, the United Nations…
BBC News Online - August 21, 2008
Lucy Williamson, Jakarta – The UN in East Timor has rejected claims by the country's president that it was slow to act in the aftermath of his…
August 20, 2008
ABC News Online - August 20, 2008
As East Timor's defence force celebrates it's 33rd anniversary, analysts say it will take time to build the force's strength.
Radio…
Melbourne Age - August 20, 2008
Jo Chandler – Two weeks ago, the families of "disappeared" victims of the 1991 Santa Cruz Cemetery massacre gathered at a site west of the East…
August 19, 2008
The Australian - August 19, 2008
Paul Toohey - East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta has delivered a furious tirade against The Australian, accusing it of inventing an article.…
Melbourne Age - August 19, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Evidence has emerged that challenges the belief that East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta was shot by a member of rebel…
August 18, 2008
The Australian - August 18, 2008
Paul Toohey – Inside the Hotel Becora, as they call Dili's prison, some of the 22 men who face spending the rest of their lives behind bars for…
Inter Press Service - August 18, 2008
Stephen de Tarczynski, Melbourne – East Timor's most prominent independence leaders – currently holders of the young nation's two highest…
August 15, 2008
ABC News Online - August 15, 2008
East Timor's main opposition party, Fretilin, is calling for an independent international investigation into the assassination attempt…
August 13, 2008
The Australian - August 13, 2008
Paul Toohey – Questions have been raised as to whether rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was lured down from the mountains of East Timor to be executed…
Australian Associated Press - August 13, 2008
Stephanie March, Dili – Six months ago Victor Alvez's voice rang out through radios and televisions, appealing for peace and calm from the people…
August 8, 2008
Reuters - August 8, 2008
Tito Belo, Dili – The United Nations urged on Thursday East Timor not to let those responsible for bloodshed surrounding Dili's 1999 independence…
August 5, 2008
Melbourne Age - August 5, 2008
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – An offer by a notorious Jakarta gangster to develop the site of a refugee camp in Dili has been accepted by the East…
August 4, 2008
Associated Press - August 4, 2008
Canberra – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has defended his decision to pardon a notorious Timorese militia leader, saying it was unfair to…
August 2, 2008
Japan Times - August 2, 2008
Jeff Kingston – On July 15 in Bali the leaders of Indonesia and East Timor met and received the final report of the Commission of Truth and…
August 1, 2008
Agence France Presse - August 1, 2008
Filmmakers have recreated scenes of chaos in the heart of East Timor's sleepy capital, blocking streets and sending up plumes of smoke for Balibo…
Direct Action - August 1, 2008
[Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto. By Max Lane. Verso 2008 312 pages. RRP (Australia) $49.95. Reviewed by Nick Everett.]
…July 31, 2008
The Australian - July 31, 2008
Stephanie March, Dili – East Timor's inaugural Journalist of the Year awards last week provided much-needed encouragement for professionals facing…
The Australian - July 31, 2008
Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum has ruled out a $15 billion East Timor liquefied natural gas export plant to process output from its Greater…
IRIN - July 31, 2008
Dili – Since it was built in 1983, residents of Dili have watched the retaining wall of the Pantai Kelapa road along Timor-Leste's coastline…
July 30, 2008
AlertNet Blogs - July 30, 2008
Katie Chalk – Every morning, when Madalena opens her front door, she is faced with what has to be one of the most beautiful views on earth. High…
July 29, 2008
UCAN - July 29, 2008
Dili – The report of the Commission for Truth and Friendship on who was behind the violence surrounding East Timor's independence vote in 1999…
July 27, 2008
Australian Associated Press - July 27, 2008
Australian Paul Stewart was just 15 when Indonesian soldiers murdered his cameraman brother in East Timor.
More than 30 years later, he…
Melbourne Age - July 27 2008
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
- TS Eliot, The Hollow Men
Tom Hyland – It would be…
Melbourne Age - July 27, 2008
Ben Doherty – There is food now, for the markets are open, and the men have found work on local farms.
But Dominges Enriques has lived too…
July 26, 2008
Australian Associated Press - July 26, 2008
Dawn Gibson – As the mini-bus pulls to a stop, a swarm of excited children press their faces against the windows, all big brown eyes and grins.…
July 25, 2008
Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) Justice Update - July 25, 2008
Last week saw the much-anticipated release of the Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) final report. The Commission was established by the…
July 24, 2008
The Australian - July 24, 2008
Mike Steketee, National Affairs Editor – Downer's achievements as our longest serving foreign minister aren't all he claims and must be balanced…
Jakarta Post - July 24, 2008
HS Dillon, Jakarta – The report of the joint Commission for Truth and Friendship, recently presented to the two heads of state who established the…