Dili – President Xanana Gusmco told lawmakers in East Timor Monday to make fuller use of their constitutional rights to challenge in parliament the actions of the Dili government.

Sydney – East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao says pursuing Indonesian generals through the courts for atrocities committed years ago won't provide justice.

Six years ago today, Australian armed forces lead a multinational peacekeeping force (INTERFET) to East Timor to restore order and provide security for the transition to independence, b

Jill Jolliffe – A witness to the killing of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 has died in Dili months before a new inquiry by the NSW Coroner's Court.

Ellen Nakashima, Liquica – On the day he disappeared, Jacinto da Costa Canisio Pereira, a local resistance leader, stood in a priest's bedroom and prayed, his brother recalled.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of a former police officer charged with gross human rights violations in connection with two massacres in East Timor in 1999

Marguerita Choy, Paris – Australia expects to finalise a deal with East Timor in the next few months that will split the revenue from the disputed Greater Sunrise gas field, a governmen

Nigel Wilson – A technical argument about what activities may occur between the sea bed and the surface of the joint petroleum development area in the Timor Sea is now believed to be th

Dili – The top two leaders of East Timor on Monday separately said that, should the need arise, they were ready to appear in international courts judging past human rights violations.

This is a powerful and moving reminder of the horrors visited on East Timor, a tiny scrap of land that was exploited and neglected by its Portuguese colonisers for 420 years, repeatedly

Speaking after the sixth anniversary of East Timor's referendum on independence, Timor Sea Justice Campaign co-ordinator Tom Clarke, labelled the Australian Government's current obsessi

Tom Allard – Indonesia's intelligence services recruited a senior, long-serving Australian spy whose role as a double agent was eventually unearthed but did not lead to prosecution, a n

In the last of his series on East Timor, Simon Montlake looks at the Thorny topic of oil and gas

Robin Perry and Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson – On August 11, the governments of Indonesia and East Timor formally launched the joint Truth and Friendship Commission at its headquarters on t

Six years ago this month the Indonesian military unleashed its militia killers on East Timor, creating carnage that shocked the world and saw Australia intervene to drive them out.

His Excellency Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017-3515

August 22, 2005

As details begin to emerge of the proposed deal between East Timor and Australia on how to divvy up the Greater Sunrise gas field located twice as close to East Timor than Australia, it

Amnesty International is deeply concerned that the Security Council continues to delay consideration of a detailed United Nations (UN) report on the prosecution of serious violations of

Nigel Wilson – East Timor has launched an international campaign to attract explorers to the Timor Sea in areas not in dispute with Australia.

Michael McKenna – Allegations of corruption against East Timor's Government were largely unfounded and based on rumour, according to its Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta.

Denpasar – The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor launched a truth commission into the violence that marred the push for independence in what is now the world's youngest nation.

Sibylle Kaczorek, Sydney – On August 2, Sister Susan Connelly, assistant director of the Mary MacKillop Institute for East Timor Studies, said that "fairness" should be the overarching

Kuta – The truth commission looking into Jakarta's bloody handling of East Timor's push for independence has a tough job ahead of it, the chairman of the newly established body said Fri

Comrades,

Indonesia and East Timor have formally opened a truth commission to look into Jakarta's bloody handling of Timor's independence vote in 1999.

Jakarta – A number of non-government organisations (NGOs) have declared their opposition to the formation of the Indonesia-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission (KPP).

Dili – East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta has said he is convinced that none of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members would accept the presence of an Internati

Max Lane – East Timor's local elections are now in their eighth month.

Jon Lamb – On July 25, Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins, a leading intelligence expert on East Timor and Indonesia, blew the whistle on the Australian Defence Force's intelligence manip

The Catholic Church is demanding that an international tribunal investigate human rights abuses during East Timor's bloody breakaway from Indonesia six years ago.

Dili – Domingas Casimira has spent the last six years trying to find justice for her husband and brother, gunned down in the Indonesian military's drive against East Timor's independenc

Kupang – Two Indonesian soldiers stationed at Nunura in Haekesak village, Raihat district, Belu regency, were attacked by Timor Leste residents on Wednesday.

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign (TSJC) is holding a series of public meetings next week ahead of the anticipated signing of a resource sharing agreement between the Governments of Austra

Mark Dodd, John Kerin – A sobering World Bank report warning East Timor's Government to tackle corruption or face civil conflict has been rejected by a "furious" Prime Minister Mari Alk

Dili – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri unveiled an enlarged government Wednesday in East Timor as part of his drive to improve the performance of the Dili executive and decentralize power

Roger Maynard, Sydney – A report on the future of East Timor by the World Bank has painted a bleak picture of a nation in danger of imploding as it copes with the twin pressures of pove

Mark Dodd – East Timor is in danger of imploding into civil conflict, with corruption likely to erode the benefits of the billions of dollars that will flow to the fledgling nation from

East Timor's foreign minister countered claims that his tiny country was riddled with graft and burdened by poverty that could one day lead to civil conflict.

Tom Allard – A vital intelligence database shut down during the East Timor conflict was restored only on the condition army intelligence officers ceased reporting on Indonesian-backed m

The Timor Sea Justice Campaign Melbourne, has taken the opportunity to respond to East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos-Horta's media release (dated 14 July, 2005) by reiterating

Nigel Wilson – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao has broken ranks with Prime Mininster Mari Alkatiri, threatening to veto the proposed deal struck with Australia to share the energy ri

Natasha Robinson – Businessman Ian Melrose will sue television stations that refused to run his advertisements criticising the Government's negotiations with East Timor over oil and gas

Australian Prime Minister John Howard was met by more than just praise and accolades during his recent visit to Washington, DC. While media tycoon Rupert Murdoch toasted.

Washington – East Timor's future development depends on "effective administration of its new petroleum wealth" and the attraction of investment into the non-oil sector of the new nation

East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has criticised an Australia-based campaign calling for a better oil and gas revenue deal for his country.

Members of both chambers of the US Congress have written to the leaders of Indonesia and Timor-Leste urging them to support international involvement in bringing to justice the perpetra

He was a rebel, a guerrilla leader, the symbol of his country. She was A foreigner, a teacher, a spy. They fell in love though they'd never met.

Ellen Nakashima, Jakarta – Indonesian government officials said they expect to avert calls for an international war crimes tribunal on Indonesian military atrocities in East Timor, prom

Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Khan, wrote today to the members of the Security Council urging them to act upon the recommendations of a recent UN report on justice for

Australian businessman, Ian Melrose, has put to air a new television ad which aims to expose the Howard Government's tactics regarding a deal to be signed with East Timor over oil and g