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June 29, 2000

Christian Science Monitor - June 29, 2000

Carolyn Robinson, Belu – They fled only to become refugees. Now they almost live here as inmates.

June 27, 2000

Reuters - June 27, 2000

Darwin – East Timor wanted a maritime boundary with Australia at the midpoint between the two countries, putting key petroleum projects in East Timorese waters, spokesman on Timor Gap i

Lusa - June 27, 2000

Dili – Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, East Timor's spiritual leader, has written to the UN administration and foreign health aid groups demanding a stop to the use of "artificial"

Kyodo News - June 27, 2000

Dili – The United Nations has ruled out sharing executive power with East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao in the lead-up to full independence for the UN-administered territory, according

The Australian - June 27, 2000

Peter Alford – "The criticism of us has been varied and I would say only partly justified ...

June 23, 2000

Associated Press - June 23, 2000 (abridged)

Lisbon – East Timor 's independence leader Jose Alexandre Gusmao said Thursday the guerrillas he once led against Indonesian troops are living in squalid conditions and could revolt.

Kyodo News - June 23, 2000

Tim Johnson, Dili – UN peacekeepers in East Timor have arrested two suspected anti-independence militiamen and confiscated rifles and grenades in the wake of a grenade attack on peaceke

June 22, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 22, 2000 (slightly abridged)

Mark Dodd, Dili – Under pressure to give East Timorese more responsibility for their own affairs, the United Nations announced yesterday it would more than double the size of the countr

Asian Wall Street Journal - June 22, 2000

Jim Della-Giacoma – In one of the most courageous acts of self-determination in recent history, the people of East Timor went to the polls last August to reject an Indonesian offer of g

June 21, 2000

Green Left Weekly - June 21, 2000

Vanya Tanaja, Dili – This city has been rocked by snap public transport stoppages since June 2 in response to a rise in the price of fuel.

Sydney Morning Herald - June 21, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Negotiations between the United Nations and Canberra for a new Timor Gap treaty could see up to $US100 million a year in oil and gas revenue flowing to East Timor, sen

June 19, 2000

Time Magazine - June 19, 2000

Twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation of East Timor ended last September in a frenzy of murder and destruction.

June 16, 2000

Kyodo News - June 16, 2000

Dili – The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) is sending a wrong message to the devastated territory by failing to allocate funds for environmental protection in its

June 15, 2000

Reuters - June 15, 2000

Sonali Paul, Melbourne – Australian, East Timorese and United Nations officials have told oil companies renegotiation of the Timor Gap Treaty would not hurt their oil and gas plans, a P

June 13, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 13, 2000

Mark Dodd – East Timor, a rugged and mountainous half-island territory just 300 nautical miles off Australia's north-west coast, has long played a strategic role in Australia's defence

June 12, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 12, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Do not expect shiny stainless steel tables or a laboratory filled with gleaming new equipment at the United Nations' forensic examination centre in Dili.

June 10, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 10, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – The de facto parliament, the National Consultative Council, has approved a Budget of $US59.23 million to help the nation rebuild after last year's devastating militia

June 8, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 8, 2000

Dili – Is there a conspiracy of silence within our media about conditions in East Timor?

Christian Science Monitor - June 8, 2000

Dan Murphy, Jakarta – As Indonesian prosecutors stepped up their investigation of soldiers for involvement in the atrocities that followed East Timor's independence vote last September,

International Herald Tribune - June 8, 2000

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Dili – Lured by the opportunity to make it big in the coffee trading business, Abdul Halim moved to this predominantly Roman Catholic territory in 1996 from his la

June 7, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – A draft UN legal code designed to serve East Timor's fledgling judiciary was so flawed it would make a criminal conviction virtually impossible, a visiting team of sen

Lusa - June 7, 2000

Taxi and van drivers blocked traffic in Dili with their vehicles and tried to force their way into the central administrative building Wednesday to protest recent fuel price hikes.

June 6, 2000

Surya Timor - June 6, 2000

Kupang – Responding to an UNTAS statement which said that it would not participate in the 2001 elections in East Timor if the UN didn't clarify UNAMET fraud in the referendum, UNTAET re

May 31, 2000

Green Left Weekly - May 31, 2000

Jon Land – From May 15 to 20, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) held a conference in Dili, East Timor.

Sydney Morning Herald - May 31, 2000

Mark Dodd, Jakarta – The United Nations chief in East Timor, Mr Sergio Vieira de Mello, has sought the co-operation of Indonesia's judiciary for investigations into crimes committed by

May 29, 2000

Tapol - May 29, 2000

London – The Solidamor chair, Coki Naipospos sustained injuries all over his body and suffered wounds on his wrist and forehead.

May 27, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 27, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) has denied reports it will spend $US15 million ($28 million) on the purchase of new motor vehicle

May 26, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 26, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – The East Timor independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has threatened to boycott a key international donors' meeting in Portugal because of concerns over the UN's account

May 24, 2000

Green Left Weekly - May 24, 2000

Jon Land – East Timorese asylum seeker and independence activist Naldo Rai is being forced by immigration authorities and government officials to leave Australia.

May 22, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 22, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Making the transformation from a revolutionary front to an orthodox political party is a lot harder than it seems for East Timor's biggest pro-independence group, Fret

May 18, 2000

May 17, 2000

Green Left Weekly - May 17, 2000

Jon Land – Media reports during the recent visit to Australia by East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao highlighted the improving diplomatic relations between Australia, East Timor and Indo

Green Left Weekly - May 17, 2000

Jon Land - The 100,000 East Timorese refugees in camps in West Timor face daily hardship and terror from the pro-integration militia gangs which control or are active in many of the 200

South China Morning Post - May 17, 2000

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Former military chief General Wiranto yesterday finally resigned his cabinet post, after hours of official questioning over the bloodshed that hit East Timor las

May 16, 2000

Catholic News Service - May 16, 2000

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Sydney Morning Herald - May 16, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – One of East Timor's biggest and best known political groups, Fretilin, which spearheaded the bloody 24-year struggle for independence from Indonesia, yesterday began a

May 15, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 15, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – It is one of the darkest chapters of East Timor's independence struggle, Fretilin's purges and murder of several hundred dissidents and political prisoners in the afte

May 13, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 13, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – Autocratic decision-making by a few senior United Nations officials in Dili threatens the development of democracy in East Timor and the ultimate success of the peacek

May 12, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 12, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – At least one suspected militiaman was wounded in a heavy exchange of fire between Australian peacekeepers and a group of pro-Jakarta militia who had crossed into East

May 11, 2000

Antara - May 11, 2000

Kupang – The Timorese People's Party (PPT) intends to soon register itself with UNTAET [UN Transitional Authority in East Timor ] and become one of the political parties to contest the

Sydney Morning Herald - May 11, 2000

Mark Dodd, DilI – In a groundbreaking decision, East Timor independence fighters will work alongside United Nations peacekeepers as liaison officers, a senior UN military official said

May 9, 2000

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - May 9, 2000

Compere: An embarrassed Telstra is confronting something today; that its operation in East Timor is in breach of the local law.

May 6, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 6, 2000

The UN has made solid progress despite early snags, but problems persist, reports Herald Correspondent Mark Dodd in Dili.

Sydney Morning Herald - May 6, 2000

Mark Riley, New York – The architect of East Timor's administrative blueprint for independence has accused United Nations bureaucrats of putting the territory's future second to their o

Associated Press - May 6, 2000

Washington – Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is demanding punishment for those responsible for an "orgy of violence" in East Timor after it voted for independence from Indonesia.

May 5, 2000

Reuters - May 5, 2000

Washington – The United States said on Friday it saw "promising prospects" for Indonesia's domestic investigation into atrocities in East Timor last year.

Indonesian Observer - May 5, 2000

Jakarta – The former chief of East Timor's Battalion 745 in Los Palos, Major Jacob Joko Sarosa, confirmed yesterday his superior had told him to mobilize troops after the East Timor bal

May 4, 2000

Irish Times - May 4, 2000

West Timor – Tjitske Lingsma, reporting from one of the most notorious of the refugee camps, considers West Timor may end up with the monster created by the Indonesian army: the East Ti

Sydney Morning Herald - May 4, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations police and human rights investigators have begun inspecting what is claimed to have been a militia torture centre used last year to force independence a

May 3, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – A day after United Nations riot police swooped on armed gangs running amok in Dili, UN peacekeepers have raised concerns about another potential law and order problem: