The outcome of the first trials by an Indonesian court over the massacres in East Timor in 1999, prior to and following the UN-sponsored vote on independence, has proved to be a farce. According to UN ...
As Indonesian warplanes flew overhead, they dropped something many in Timor-Leste had never seen. But Jose Bareto de Jesus recognised the rounded objects floating to the ground and sounded the alarm ...
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - East Timor has chosen the path of reconciliation with Indonesia to heal the wounds of the past. And now this reconciliation process "could be, in its own way, an example for the ...
Thirty years ago today, on December 7 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. Over 200,000 East Timorese lost their lives in one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. A recently-completed East ...
A report charges that Indonesia's military caused the deaths of more than 100,000 people during its 24-year occupation of East Timor. East Timor's president hopes the report does not further strain ...
On 4 October 2009 the Timorese online media TimorOhin [Tet.] [TimorToday], reported that an old border dispute between Indonesia and East Timor has flared up once again in the Oecusse Enclave.
This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor. On November 12, 1991, Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, ...
Shame on me and other Indonesians for the latest carnage in East Timor. We have to bear the burden of this foolish Indonesian military venture on the half of an island north of Australia. It is ...
Cyclone-triggered rains on islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have caused flooding and landslides that have killed more than 110 people, officials said, as the search was on for many others ...