East Timor's Interior Ministry on Friday summoned Indonesia's ambassador in Dili to express concern over the alleged rape of an East…
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February 3, 2006
February 2, 2006
The federal government has sidestepped accusations it wanted East Timor to remain a province of Indonesia and delay its bid for independence.
…Dili – East Timorese officials strongly criticized a New York-based human rights group Thursday for publishing on the Internet without…
A Foreign Office minister yesterday denied that the Government misled the relatives of a Bristol cameraman killed in East Timor. Douglas Alexander…
February 1, 2006
Canberra – Australia wanted East Timor to remain an Indonesian province and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer lobbied Jakarta to delay a vote for…
Joseph Nevins, New York – The logic of reparations for war-related crimes has a long history. It has become especially powerful in the aftermath…
January 30, 2006
Sian Powell – In September 1999, a young East Timorese woman was brought to a militia post in Gleno. In the days immediately after the…
January 26, 2006
Sian Powell, Jakarta – Relations between Indonesia and East Timor have soured, with Jakarta canceling President Xanana Gusmao's visit to deliver a…
January 25, 2006
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Human rights activists have criticized the government's defensive stance on a report by an independent commission,…
Jon Lamb – On January 12, Australia and East Timor signed a deal establishing a 50-50 split of royalties from the lucrative Greater Sunrise gas…
Colum Lynch, United Nations – US political and military support for Indonesia was vital to its ability to invade East Timor in December 1975 and…
Washington – US-supplied aircraft played a crucial role in enabling the Indonesian military to crush East Timorese resistance to its invasion and…
Sydney – A new report backing claims that Indonesian soldiers deliberately killed the Balibo Five journalists has sparked fresh calls for…
January 24, 2006
Washington – East Timor needs a continued United Nations presence after the scheduled pullout of the UNOTIL mission in May, particularly to…
The East Timorese have two tetchy, uncharitable neighbours in Indonesia and Australia, neither willing to lend a genuine hand to the nation, says…
Guido Guilliart, Dili – An internationally funded report supports claims that Indonesian soldiers intentionally killed five foreign journalists…
January 23, 2006
Edith M. Lederer, United Nations – East Timor's president urged the UN Security Council on Monday to keep a small political office in the country…
Scott Burchill – The report of the United Nations inquiry into Indonesia's brutal 24-year occupation of East Timor will come as no surprise to…
Sian Powell, Jakarta – Indonesia's own military films provide the proof that the Soviet equivalent of napalm, opalm, was used on the people of…
Colum Lynch, United Nations – An internal UN probe of the department that runs international peacekeeping operations has uncovered extensive…
January 22, 2006
Jakarta – Indonesia's military chief on Sunday denied that the country's forces massacred or starved to death more than 180,000 civilians and used…
Jim Dickins – Police failed to investigate allegations an Australian public servant passed massive bribes to East Timor's Prime Minister.
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Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – A historian is urging the government to examine the reasons behind Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975 and any…
January 21, 2006
Debbie Elliott, host:
A leaked report charges that Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor led to the deaths of more than 100,000…
Baucau – The people of East Timor are afraid that the names of the thousands of lives lost during Indonesia's occupation of the country will be…
Jakarta – The government played down Friday a report leaked to the Australian media alleging that Indonesia's 24-year-long occupation of East…
Colum Lynch and Ellen Nakashima, United Nations – Indonesian security forces and militias they supported killed at least 100,000 East Timorese…
January 20, 2006
New Zealand should lead the way by offering reparation to East Timor, Green MP Keith Locke said today after details of a damning United Nations…
Sian Powell – Former prime minister Gough Whitlam has been condemned for his tacit approval of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, his…
New Zealand should lead the way by offering reparation to East Timor, Green MP Keith Locke said today after details of a damning United Nations…
Damien Murphy – Australia would be guided by East Timor's attitudes on how it wished to come to terms with human rights abuses that took place…
New York – Indonesian politicians should not misunderstand the move of Timor Leste's independent commission to report its investigation results to…
New York – President Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão of Timor-Leste presented the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, with the final report of the…
Sian Powell's exclusive report on atrocities against the people of East Timor during the 24 years of Indonesian occupation, published in The…
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on the United Nations to launch a broad and thorough discussion of the report of…
January 19, 2006
Sian Powell, Jakarta – good relations with Indonesia have always been of prime importance to the independent nation of East Timor.
The half-…
Jakarta – The United Nations should publicise a report it was due to receive alleging that Indonesia's occupation of East Timor caused the deaths…
His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
New York, NY USA
By fax to +1-212-963-7055
Dili, 19 January…
Sian Powell – One of the most enduring horrors of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor was the "fence of legs" campaign in 1981, which rounded…
Sian Powell, Jakarta – The Indonesian military used starvation as a weapon to exterminate the East Timorese, according to a UN report documenting…
January 18, 2006
January 16, 2006
A deal signed last week between East Timor and Australia to share billions of dollars in revenue from Timor Sea oil and gas deposits has short-…
The welcome resolution of East Timor's dispute with Australia over oil and gas revenue from the Timor Sea means about $150,000 for every man,…
January 15, 2006
The new treaty between the governments of Australia and Timor-Leste to share oil and gas resources from part of the Timor Sea temporarily resolves…
January 13, 2006
His Excellency Kay Rala Xanana Gusmco
President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
C/o The Embassy of the Democratic Republic of…
[Joseph Nevins: A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor. Cornell University Press. Reviewed by Maire Leadbeater.]
Will the…
The Australian Government has been accused of bullying and short-changing East Timor.
Australia and East Timor have formally signed a treaty…
Nigel Wilson – Maritime boundary negotiations between Australia and East Timor have been put on hold for 50 years under a deal to share the Timor…
Dan Box, John Kerin – East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has declared that the fledgling nation does not need Australia's help to deal with…
January 12, 2006
Woodside Petroleum on Thursday welcomed the Timor Sea gas agreement between Australia and East Timor but said the Greater Sunrise gas project…




