• DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor's president on Monday accepted the resignation of independence hero Xanana Gusmao as prime minister ahead of an expected restructuring of the government that would make it more inclusive. (ksl.com)
  • Residents line up to vote during the second round of the presidential election in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (ktar.com)
  • DILI, East Timor (AP) - Voters in East Timor chose a president in a runoff Tuesday between former independence fighters who've blamed each other for years of political paralysis. (ktar.com)
  • Electoral workers assist a man in a wheelchair to cast his ballot at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Dili, East Timor, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (fox4kc.com)
  • DILI, East Timor (AP) - Vote counting was underway in East Timor's parliamentary election Sunday with two former independence fighters considered for the post of prime minister. (fox4kc.com)
  • I believe the CNRT will win a majority of seats in Parliament this time and I'm ready to be the prime minister for the sake of people's prosperity and justice," Gusmao said after casting his vote in Dili, the capital. (fox4kc.com)
  • In 2001, he returned to Dili in response to Xanana Gusmao's policy of reconciliation. (wikipedia.org)
  • When political leaders supporting someone like Daschbach, society produces many young people who grow up to thinking it's OK to abuse women and it's OK for women to receive abuse," said Berta Antonieta, a researcher for La'o Hamutuk, a think-tank in Dili, the capital. (azureedge.net)
  • Mr Guterres Lopes reminded a large audience in the auditorium of the former CNRT/UNAMET compound in Dili that the Commission existed for all the people of Timor. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • DILI, East Timor (AP): Voters in East Timor cast ballots for president on Saturday in an election that will test the young nation's stability amid a protracted political crisis and economic uncertainty. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The recent convulsions inside Indonesia - with its people finally crying for freedom and democracy - and the Nobel Peace Prize of 1996 - shared between Bishop Belo, a dominican supporting the Maubere people in Dili, and Jose Ramos Horta, a politician and activist who represents the Resistance historic leader, Xanana Gusmao, imprisioned in Indonesia for a 20-year sentence - have brought a new hope to the fight of this martyr people. (refine.com.ru)
  • Chris Barrett, Dili - When Timor-Leste was reborn as an independent nation in 2002, formalising its freedom from Indonesian occupation and, before that, Portuguese colonialism, boys and girls wrote down their aspirations for the new state on the back of postcards. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Magno, who hails from the southern town of Suai but lives in the capital, Dili, would like the next government to invest in Timor-Leste's agricultural sector to create new opportunities, and also to prioritise education. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • DILI: The leader and founding father of Asia's youngest nation, Xanana Gusmao, announced in November that he was resigning as prime minister and leaving politics. (yale.edu)
  • DILI, East Timor -- Benny Pinontoan had finished his siesta, but he decided to just remain lying on his couch, watching television programs inside his small apartment. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Some observers say that Dili, with a population of 100,000, is among the worst-hit areas in East Timor, because most pendatangs live in the capital. (andreasharsono.net)
  • We have learned how to do business ourselves," says journalist Metta Guterres of the Dili-based Suara Timor Timur daily. (andreasharsono.net)
  • DILI - The party of East Timor's prime minister won the majority of seats this weekend in peaceful parliamentary elections, paving the way for him to form another coalition government as the country faces its second major transition a decade after independence. (simonroughneen.com)
  • The course of Timor-Leste history may have changed if a credible single voice for national unity had emerged from Dili. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • On Feb. 11, 2008, gunfire erupted across Dili, the capital of East Timor, as rebels under disgruntled former army officer Alfredo Reinado unleashed separate attacks against the country's president and prime minister. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor's Catholics reacted with shock but also expressions of support Friday for revered independence icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo following allegations he sexually abused boys decades ago in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. (newsmax.com)
  • Gregoriu Saldanha, who chairs the November 12th Committee, a youth organization established after a massacre at Santa Cruz during Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, held a news conference in Dili to express support for the bishop. (newsmax.com)
  • East Timor people immotalize Habibie's role in granting them independence by naming a bridge in Dili, East Timor capital, after his name. (islami.co)
  • Assessing the implications of the new China-East Timor comprehensive strategic partnership, which happened to take shape just as ASEAN Wonk was on the ground in Dili (Note to Readers: ASEAN Wonk was on the ground this week in East Timor as part of the latest regional swing through Southeast Asia - arguably the least visited country in the region. (aseanwonk.com)
  • Ground realities in East Timor suggest that the ongoing focus on the specifics of China's new elevated partnership with Dili obscures the broader, longer-term need to mind what might be termed as the "spillover challenge" in ties, with implications for the broader Indo-Pacific region. (aseanwonk.com)
  • East Timor Legal News 18/12/2011 Source: Office of the President of the Republic Press Release DENIAL - Dili, 16.DEC-11 (PPR) - The Office of the President of the Republic denies news published by Timorese press according to which H.E. President Jose Ramos-Horta would have instructed the Minister of Justice, Lucia Freitas Lobato, to prepare a list of 100 prisoners to receive pardons on Christmas. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Genoveva da Costa Martins was a founder of the Popular Organisation of East Timorese Women, and is the widow of nationalist poet Francisco Borja da Costa, executed by the Indonesian army during the paratrooper landings in Dili in December 1975. (niu.edu)
  • The former guerrilla leader spearheaded East Timor's drive for independence when Indonesian rule ended in 2002. (ksl.com)
  • East Timor on Sunday held its fifth parliamentary election since gaining its independence in 2002. (fox4kc.com)
  • Since Timor-Leste's independence from Indonesia in 2002, Gusmao has dominated the small nation's politics. (yale.edu)
  • BANGKOK - When incumbent Jose Ramos-Horta lost the March first round of Timor-Leste's presidential election, some saw it as the end of an era for Timorese politics that began with the country's independence in 2002. (simonroughneen.com)
  • Timor-Leste's independence, achieved in 2002, coincided with the growing need for a UN success story after a series of failed missions in the 1990s. (newmandala.org)
  • In contrast, Xanana Gusmao in 2002 was able to obliterate his opponents in the first round of the 2002 presidential election, securing 85 per cent of the vote - and this despite Fretilin's opposition. (magill.ie)
  • President Jose Ramos-Horta, who a year earlier had won the country's first presidential election since gaining independence in 2002, was shot and wounded. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • VSA has been in Timor-Leste since 2002. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Timor-Leste became independent in 2002, after it suffered a violent history through decades of struggle for independence from Indonesia. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Following a long struggle and the fall of Indonesia's dictator Suharto, East Timor finally gained official independence in 2002. (solidarity.net.au)
  • Timor Leste gained its independence from Indonesia only in 2002, and is the youngest democratic nation in the world and the newest sovereign state of the twenty first century. (hart-uk.org)
  • On 20 May 2002, Timor-Leste was internationally recognized as an independent state. (flagcounter.com)
  • On October 25th, the UN become the official interim governing authority, a role it played until independence was formally granted in May 2002. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Now Gusmao is proposing that Dr Rui Araujo, a former Minister for Health in the Alkatiri-led government of 2002-2006, become prime minister. (edu.au)
  • Indonesia's military responded with scorched-earth attacks that devastated the East Timorese half of the island of Timor. (ktar.com)
  • Two main political parties - the incumbent Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, and opposition National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, or CNRT - are believed to be in a close race for the 65-seat National Parliament. (fox4kc.com)
  • Nemecio (also Nemesio or Remesio) Lopes de Carvalho (born around January 1965) is an East Timorese paramilitary figure noted for his activities during and after East Timor's bid for independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the United Nations' estimate during this period, around 50,000 East Timorese refugees lived in West Timor as well as territories controlled by the militia. (wikipedia.org)
  • East Timorese voted overwhelmingly in a U.N.-supervised referendum in 1999 to end 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Indonesia's military and pro-Indonesian militias responded to the independence referendum with scorched-earth attacks that devastated the East Timorese half of the island. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Olo has a thick Australian accent - a product of his Melbourne upbringing with his mother, Gusmao's ex-wife Kirsty Sword Gusmao - but he can speak Tetum, the Timorese language. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Parker Novak, a Timor-Leste analyst and non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, said the so-called generation of 1975 had retained political relevance because so much of Timorese identity was wrapped up in the resistance to Indonesian rule. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • In a referendum scheduled for the last quarter of 1999, the East Timorese people will be asked: "Do you accept the proposed special autonomy for East Timor within the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia? (socialism.com)
  • Since the invasion in 1975, over 200,000 East Timorese - or one in every three - have died as a result of the occupation. (socialism.com)
  • The East Timorese have not struggled for a century against colonialism in order to become an Australian outpost. (socialism.com)
  • Worse than that, one evening about 10 East Timorese youths even came to his house and asked Pinontoan if he was for a U.N.-managed referendum on independence or for autonomy within Indonesia for East Timor. (andreasharsono.net)
  • The East Timorese youths left his house, but also left the immigrant trader in doubt whether doing business in this internationally-disputed area was as safe as it used to be. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Many pendatangs tell similar stories about East Timorese youths who came to the immigrant-owned properties and asked for money, or asked, "When do you go home? (andreasharsono.net)
  • Soares warned that total independence is very likely to trigger a civil war among the East Timorese. (andreasharsono.net)
  • East Timor is expected to be an independent country very soon, 78 per cent of East Timorese having voted in August for independence rather than an autonomous state of Indonesia. (andreasharsono.net)
  • East Timorese were interrogated, tortured and killed, their women raped and brutalised by Indonesian soldiers. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Apparently, according to East Timorese constitutional law, the President has the necessary authority. (internationallawobserver.eu)
  • What is most surprising, however, is the fact that Mr Khare complimented the Timorese people for their exemplary commitment to the democratic process and for all people to follow the wise example of their leaders. (internationallawobserver.eu)
  • I am writing from the perspective of an East Timorese to reflect the historical process by analyzing political development during the ten years of independence of Timor-Leste. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • I assume that some of my fellow countryman will criticize the content of this article but as an East Timorese, I believe that critical thinking and argument will develop and strengthen our civil society towards a democratic one. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Some may consider the terminology of the democratic society old-fashioned but I would say that with the long history of civil conflict and colonial occupation, democracy may be the only concept that could carry East Timorese towards peace and prosperity. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Apart from the crisis of nationalism, the lack of political will and commitment by the national leadership becomes another factor creating apathy in the East Timorese about the future of their country. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Therefore, it will be incumbent upon the East Timorese to view their history and their independence in the context of a sovereign state by involving all national entities in the development process without a preferential treatment within contemporary East Timorese politics. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • If the East Timorese could reflect their history precisely, they would realize that history has repeated itself with a different timeframe and roughly with the same political actors. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • During the decolonization process in 1975, the Portuguese government through the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento Forcas Armadas or AFM) did not prepare East Timorese political leaders for transition to successful self-determination. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Recent coverage of Gusmao also overlooks the fact that local opinion about Timorese leaders was always more nuanced and conflicted than international portrayals made them out to be. (newmandala.org)
  • In the last few years, generations of young Timorese have also begun openly questioning the strict, top-down leadership style cultivated by Gusmao as head of the resistance, which undermined the individual decision-making powers of Timorese youth during their involvement in the clandestine independence movement. (newmandala.org)
  • The Nobel peace laureate and former East Timorese foreign minister and prime minister was actually defeated in the first round by the relatively obscure Fretilin candidate, Francisco "Lu'Olo" Guterreso, although there were disputes about the veracity of that result. (magill.ie)
  • The fact that Ramos Horta - a man with heroic status and one of the nation's most influential figures - was on his own unable to defeat Lu'Olo is indicative of the deep divisions in Timorese society and the loss of trust by the people in its once near-mythical leaders. (magill.ie)
  • Gusmao can count on the support of all of the main East Timorese opposition parties that have gathered under the CNRT umbrella, the sympathy of the Catholic church, and the support of Ramos Horta. (magill.ie)
  • Belo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 with fellow East Timorese independence icon Jose Ramos-Horta for campaigning for a fair and peaceful solution to conflict in their home country as it struggled to gain independence from Indonesia. (newsmax.com)
  • The East Timorese were cowed by Jakarta's brutal rule, and Belo's audacious defiance was viewed as heroic. (newsmax.com)
  • If any legal process is set in motion in East Timor, the Timorese Bishops' Conference will comply with and cooperate with the legal process," it said in a statement carried by Portuguese news agency Lusa and reported by public broadcaster RTP. (newsmax.com)
  • As East Timorese, we are shocked to hear this news," said Naomi Sarmento, a Catholic. (newsmax.com)
  • He urged fellow Timorese to not spread "negative news" about Belo and to pray for him and his family, the church and the people of East Timor. (newsmax.com)
  • The East Timorese overwhelmingly chose independence. (islami.co)
  • The move was highly unpopular with Indonesians as the nation lose its territory but for the East Timorese, Habibie was the hero. (islami.co)
  • The following is an English translation of the full text of a letter originally written in Bahasa Indonesia and sent to the Japanese government by a coalition of East Timorese NGOs. (etan.org)
  • We write to you as representatives from East Timorese non-governmental organizations. (etan.org)
  • To date, the Japanese government has sent two members of Japan's SDF to assess the security situation, and East Timorese political leader Jose Ramos Horta has responded positively to Japan's plan to send troops to East Timor (Suara Timor Lorosa'e, 24 August 2001). (etan.org)
  • Without bringing into question the constitutional legitimacy of this plan, namely that Article 9 of Japan's Constitution prohibits the sending of troops overseas, we wish instead to take this opportunity to offer another viewpoint which is based on the East Timorese people's sense of justice. (etan.org)
  • The East Timorese people had a bitter experience with the Japanese military during the Second World War. (etan.org)
  • Many East Timorese have been victims/survivors of abuse by Japanese troops, as forced laborers and sexual slaves ('comfort women'/jugun ianfu). (etan.org)
  • In December 2000, two East Timorese women testified about their experiences as sexual slaves before the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery. (etan.org)
  • In 1982, Xanana Gusmao wrote a letter to the United Nation's General Assembly explaining that Japan had left a wound in the hearts of the East Timorese people during World War II, and that this wound was deepened by the Japanese government's close relationship with the Indonesian government. (etan.org)
  • The Japanese government must publicly acknowledge that past policies have caused great suffering to the East Timorese people. (etan.org)
  • This plan will open past wounds and potentially damage the East Timorese people's image of the Japanese government. (etan.org)
  • For this reason, if the Japanese government wishes to help build stability on the Indonesian-East Timorese border, they should push for a normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. (etan.org)
  • In fact, increasing PKF members will likely increase animosity on the part of West Timorese (Indonesians) against the East Timorese people. (etan.org)
  • Tens of thousands of East Timorese people were killed by Indonesian troops in the invasion. (solidarity.net.au)
  • This encouraged transport workers, meat workers and other unions to also impose bans in support of the East Timorese. (solidarity.net.au)
  • The East Timorese foreign minister (later Prime Minister) José Ramos-Horta stated that Australia's proposals "amounted to an unacceptable blackmail. (solidarity.net.au)
  • But equally, the East Timorese resistance cannot throw the invaders out. (insideindonesia.org)
  • In any case, a new East Timorese government can always negotiate such commercial interests - if that is the price of self-determination. (insideindonesia.org)
  • The 65 seats are now shared between FRETILIN: 25 seats (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor), CNRT: 22 seats (National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction), PLP: 8 seats (People's Liberation Party), the Democratic Party: 7 seats , and KHUNTO: 5 seats (Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan). (hart-uk.org)
  • He is a survivor of the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre in Timor, which was a decisive turning point in the Timorese struggle for independence. (counterpunch.org)
  • However, in the next three weeks, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military - commenced a large-scale, scorched-earth campaign of retribution. (flagcounter.com)
  • The militias killed approximately 1,400 Timorese and forced 300,000 people into western Timor as refugees. (flagcounter.com)
  • On the hill above the town square sits the old Portuguese fort where the fighters of FALANTIL, the army of the East Timorese independence movement FRETILIN, had resisted the Indonesian invasion before retreating back into the jungle. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Between the referendum and the arrival of a multinational peacekeeping force in late September 1999, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military - commenced a large-scale, scorched-earth campaign of retribution. (2meta.com)
  • Active in the Timorese resistance movement against the Indonesian occupation, he was a critical factor in enabling those few independent Australian journalists who contrived to work in Timor Leste (legendary journalists like John Martinkus, Max Stahl, and others) to gather critical information about the Indonesian occupation, and to get that information out. (libsyn.com)
  • After Timorese independence he became a journalist, still maintaining a critical and independent attitude to successive governments of Timor Leste. (libsyn.com)
  • A 'soundscape' treatment of the 2012 East Timorese general elections which were peaceful and well conducted. (libsyn.com)
  • A small group of Australians with a long history of support for the East Timorese struggle for independence meet with the research team of the CAVR (Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation). (libsyn.com)
  • The team is producing a book about the East Timorese struggle for independence, and the years fo the resistance struggle, but from a bottom up perspective. (libsyn.com)
  • Rather than focus on the well known identities, leaders and personalities that have characterised many of the histories of the struggle fo the Timorese, they are focussing on the testimonies of the mass of people who supported the struggle and were often the main victims of Indonesian reprisals and repression. (libsyn.com)
  • At present he is working on a grammar and dictionary of Tetum, the lingua franca of East Timor, in collaboration with the East Timorese community in Australia. (health-articles.net)
  • The reality is that one cannot understand the East Timor question without an appreciation of the cultural impact of, Portuguese colonialism and the moral role of the local Catholic Church, today the heart and soul of the Maubere (East Timorese) nation. (health-articles.net)
  • A few years ago, prison doors in Indonesia and East Timor swung open to release hundreds of East Timorese nationalists imprisoned for supporting their country's 24-year struggle for independence. (niu.edu)
  • No parties have formed any pre-election coalitions, but analysts said CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and independence leader Xanana Gusmao, is favored to win following a successful presidential campaign in 2022 that saw its candidate, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, back in office. (fox4kc.com)
  • Surveys showed Guterres and former President Jose Ramos-Horta, both of whose popularity owes much to their history as fighters in East Timor's struggle for independence from Indonesia, were among the front-runners according to a recent opinion survey, with Ramos-Horta in the lead. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • But Habibie's offer was immediately rejected by East Timor separatist leaders including the independence movement's self-exiled spokesman Jose Ramos-Horta, who together with East Timor Bishop Felipe Ximenes Belo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Former President Jose Ramos-Horta called Araujo "an outstanding leader - honest, experienced, humble," in comments to the Nikkei Asian Review. (simonroughneen.com)
  • According to Jose Ramos Horta, "The problem with the Portuguese position was that it never considered internationalizing the problem, even when it was clear at the London meeting that Indonesia would stop at nothing to bring about the integration of East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Then Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer (right) and East Timor minister for foreign affairs and co-operation Dr Jose Ramos-Horta (left) sign the treaty on maritime arrangements in the Timor Sea, as Australian prime minister John Howard and East Timor prime minister Mari Alkatiri look on in January 2006 in Sydney. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • In Timor-Leste's recent presidential election in April, Jose Ramos-Horta-the former president, prime minister, foreign minister and resistance-era spokesman-won with a 62 percent majority. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize to Bishop Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, and President Mandela's dramatic appeal to President Suharto to release the imprisoned CNRM leader Xanana Gusmao, focussed the collective mind of the diplomatic community on the search for a break in the stalemate. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Statement by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for External Relations and Information of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor. (timorarchive.ca)
  • If we win, it is the victory of the people of Timor Leste," said the leader of Fretilin, former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. (fox4kc.com)
  • They are decades younger than the leaders they can choose from: resistance-era figures and founding fathers Xanana Gusmao, 76, and Mari Alkatiri, 73, who front the largest two parties, and Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak, 67. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Ramos-Horta, along with opposition leader Mari Alkatiri and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, have dominated since independence, with the top jobs of prime minister and president passing between the sometimes comrades, sometimes rivals. (simonroughneen.com)
  • In this context, then prime minister Mari Alkatiri was the 'bad' leader. (newmandala.org)
  • Since the 2012 election Gusmao and the Secretary-General of FRETILIN, Mari Alkatiri, once bitter political enemies, have seemingly become new best friends. (edu.au)
  • Virgilio Guterres, a human rights activist and chair of the Timor-Leste Press Council, criticised the journalists who attended the meeting for relying exclusively on a press release prepared by Gusmão's office. (azureedge.net)
  • Their vision for Timor-Leste was to be a democratic nation with better living conditions and opportunities, especially for young people," said Joalita Teresa Magno, a 21-year-old student at the National University Timor Lorosa'e. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • He intends to spend more time in Timor-Leste and party officials already have designs on him going into politics one day. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Timor-Leste: Lessons of a Failing State? (yale.edu)
  • Timor-Leste shares the island of Timor and a bloody history with Indonesia. (yale.edu)
  • Resignation of Xanana Gusmao, founding president of the country who later became prime minister, could exacerbate the crisis, argues Loro Horta, who served as a United Nations project manager for security reform in Timor-Leste and a senior adviser to the country's foreign ministry. (yale.edu)
  • State failure in Timor-Leste can have severe consequences for regional security creating a refugee crisis and providing a safe haven for criminal organizations and other illicit activities. (yale.edu)
  • Timor-Leste's bid for ASEAN membership inches forward www.theedgereview.com - pdf/app version of magazine here Timor-Leste got a timely boost. (simonroughneen.com)
  • The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Timor-Leste, Atul Khare, welcomed the announcement of the President . (internationallawobserver.eu)
  • What seems most interesting from a public international law perspective, is whether the new prime minister, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, will continue the process of change through rapprochement with neighboring countries such as Indonesia, continue to (re-) build the country's infrastructure, and perhaps even push forward the work of the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Timor Leste . (internationallawobserver.eu)
  • By the end of August 2009, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste will take a moment to reflect on the historical process by visualizing the future of the country. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The shadows of the historical phenomenon remain in the contemporary politics of Timor-Leste. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Moreover, the current political constellation of Timor-Leste is still dominated by the 1975 generation who had played major roles during the struggle for independence. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Bernard Collaery leaves the ACT Magistrates Court in March following a hearing into the 'Witness K' case and claims of Australia spying on Timor-Leste. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • In 1970, when Australia began negotiations in earnest with Indonesia over maritime boundary delimitations in the Arafura and Timor seas, Australia knew enough about the petroleum potential of the Timor Sea adjoining Portuguese Timor to review the economic assumption underpinning the earlier cabinet appreciation that an independent Timor-Leste would not be economically viable. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • The move by FRETILIN that leapfrogged an orderly endorsement for independence by the UN General Assembly was exactly what the hawks from Canberra and Washington, now circling over Timor-Leste, were looking for. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • Meanwhile, elements of the loosely grouped independence movement in Timor-Leste were giving voice in New York to the call for independence from Portugal. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • Instead, Timor-Leste was not included in the General Assembly's call upon all governments, specialised agencies and institutions associated with the UN to render to the peoples of four other of Portugal's overseas territories all moral and material assistance for the achievement of their national independence and the reconstruction of their countries. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • When Timor-Leste separated from Indonesia in 1999 and began the transition to independence, Gusmao became the darling of the United Nations, influential donor countries, and international foreign journalists in his role as president and later prime minister. (newmandala.org)
  • Internationally however, this understanding served to escalate external debates about good and bad leaders in Timor-Leste. (newmandala.org)
  • The peaceful election and the acceptance of the results by East Timor's major party, the Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente (Fretilin), suggest that some optimism confidence for the country's democratic future might be justified. (magill.ie)
  • The government of East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, declared a state of emergency after the attack. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Government officials in East Timor, also called Timor Leste, where the Catholic Church wields enormous influence, didn't respond to multiple requests for comment Friday, after the Vatican revealed the sanctions against the bishop. (newsmax.com)
  • We have known Bishop Belo for a long time, a good person who has done many services for God, helped the people of Timor Leste and became a role model in the world. (newsmax.com)
  • Following the election results in April 2012, VSA reaffirmed plans to extend our programmes in Timor-Leste. (vsa.org.nz)
  • There are 1,225,000 people living in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor). (vsa.org.nz)
  • Timor-Leste is one of the world's newest nations and the newest in Southeast Asia with history of colonisation and occupation. (vsa.org.nz)
  • As a young nation, Timor-Leste is moving from a post-conflict fragile state to quickly transition as a developing resilient nation. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Timor-Leste is now focused on building its governance and public service delivery, improving and rebuilding infrastructure, reversing economic hardship and poverty, along with improving education and health. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Timor-Leste has a young population (62% under 25) and along with having a very short time to run its own country, there is often a lack of experience in key positions in all sectors of the workforce, VSA volunteers are in a good position to work alongside managers and employees including building the capacity of dedicated, optimistic and driven young professionals who are contributing to building their nation. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Timor-Leste is the second most oil-dependent economy in the world with the country's offshore natural gas and oil reserves providing the majority of Government funds, this resource is unsustainable, so other income-generating sources are being investigated. (vsa.org.nz)
  • In 2019-2020, VSA volunteers undertook 33 assignments with 20 partner organisations in Timor-Leste, and since 2021 has piloted a local volunteer programme and operated an e-volunteer programme. (vsa.org.nz)
  • The need to combine economic development with social development continues to drive VSA's work in Timor Leste and provides a platform to develop strong partnerships and impactful assignments. (vsa.org.nz)
  • We also continue to support our partners in Timor Leste with youth entrepreneurship training, business planning and mentoring, English language training, IT skills, governance and institutional capacity and human resource development. (vsa.org.nz)
  • VSA's ongoing relationship with the Xanana Gusmao Reading Room in Timor-Leste has most recently involved the work done by Hugo Egan who volunteered as a Marketing and Library Coordination Assistant. (vsa.org.nz)
  • Looking to volunteer in Timor Leste and want to know what living there is like for our VSA volunteers? (vsa.org.nz)
  • What's Next for Timor Leste? (hart-uk.org)
  • Timor Leste recently held successful democratic elections, but will this bring stability to a fragile and malnourished nation? (hart-uk.org)
  • Just over one month ago, on 22 July 2017, Timor Leste celebrated a landmark achievement: the country's first ever national parliamentary elections to take place without the supervision of the United Nations. (hart-uk.org)
  • Timor Leste has since been ranked the most democratic nation in Southeast Asia on The Economist's latest democracy index. (hart-uk.org)
  • The general political mood in Timor Leste was one bursting with positivity and democratic pride. (hart-uk.org)
  • An observer from the International Republican Institute's mission in Timor Leste described being " struck by the absence of harsh criticism of political opponents or scare-campaigning … partly due to a cultural aversion to the aggressive bluff and bluster that characterises Westminster-style political campaigning [and] also reflects a real fear that strong and negative language could spark a return to the violence that erupted in 2006. (hart-uk.org)
  • In addition to Nairn's recent and ongoing work in Indonesia, he is a lifelong activist and investigative journalist who has played important roles in grassroots solidarity efforts with the peoples of Guatemala, Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), Indonesia, and elsewhere. (counterpunch.org)
  • In an August 1999 UN-supervised popular referendum, an overwhelming majority of the people of Timor-Leste voted for independence from Indonesia. (flagcounter.com)
  • At Dili's request, an Australian-led International Stabilization Force (ISF) deployed to Timor-Leste, and the UN Security Council established the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), which included an authorized police presence of over 1,600 personnel. (flagcounter.com)
  • In late 2012, the UN Security Council ended its peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste and both the ISF and UNMIT departed the country. (flagcounter.com)
  • Adult literacy, popular education and peace-building in Timor-Leste* Associate Professor Bob Boughton University of New England, NSW, Australia. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Abstract In Timor-Leste, a national adult literacy campaign, supported by a small team of Cuban advisers, was launched in 2007, in the wake of a political crisis which threatened to de-stabilise the world s newest independent country. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Introduction August 30th, 2009, marked the tenth anniversary of the historic UN-supervised referendum in Timor-Leste, in which 97% of the population voted, and an overwhelming majority (78.5%) rejected the offer of becoming an autonomous province within the Republic of Indonesia. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • In the week in which this paper is being written, the Australian media is once again full of stories about Timor-Leste, because a new feature film, Balibo, has been released, telling the story of the first days of the Indonesian invasion in 1975. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • At the request of the Government of Timor-Leste, an Australian-led International Stabilization Force (ISF) deployed to Timor-Leste in late May. (2meta.com)
  • In August, the UN Security Council established the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), which included an authorized police presence of over 1,600 personnel. (2meta.com)
  • From April to June 2007, the Government of Timor-Leste held presidential and parliamentary elections in a largely peaceful atmosphere with the support and assistance of UNMIT and international donors. (2meta.com)
  • Will Gusmao continue to influence Timor-Leste politics from the shadows? (edu.au)
  • Under Article 106 of the Constitution of Timor-Leste, the president, in this case Taur Matan Ruak, another old-guard former resistance fighter, appoints the prime minister. (edu.au)
  • East Timor Legal News 19/12/2011 Source: The Asia Foundation Nélson De Sousa C. Belo, Mark R. Koenig, Edited by Silas Everett Occasional Paper No. 8, December 2011 - A brief paper that examines the development of the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) over the last decade, which has been a core focus of the international community as well as successive national governments. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Despite this prominence in international and national rhetoric on police development, demonstrable progress toward making community policing a cornerstone of policing in Timor-Leste has been very limited. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The political leadership of Timor-Leste is very focused on the issues around the police and the need for police reform. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • East Timor Law Journal - Towards the rule of law in Timor-Leste. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • He was involved in the making of the film Balibo , and more recently, the subject of a more recent film (' Breaking the news ') about to be released exposing the behaviour and role of some foreign journalists working in Timor Leste whose ethical and professional standards do not perhaps, match up to Jose's own. (libsyn.com)
  • Three subcollections composed of materials collected by Arnold Kohen, Martin Rendon, and Daniel Southerland, relating to the advocacy work of the Humanitarian Project regarding violent Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor). (timorarchive.ca)
  • In the following period ex-prisoners organised themselves into the Associação dos ex-Prisoneiros Politícos do Timor-Leste (Association of former Political Prisoners of East Timor, ASEPPOL), which estimated that around 10,000 people living in East Timor today suffered imprisonment. (niu.edu)
  • East Timor voted overwhelmingly in 1999 to end 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation that left more than 170,000 dead, but the country has struggled to develop economically and about half of its 1.2 million people live in poverty. (ksl.com)
  • Guterres is from the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, known by its local acronym Fretilin, which had led resistance to Indonesian rule. (ktar.com)
  • However, and in the words of President Xanana Gusmao, the historic leader of the FALINTIL guerrilla forces which resisted the might of the Indonesian army backed by its main ally, the United States of America, from the mountains of Timor, East Timor is stable and the next year will be better. (pravda.ru)
  • The Pinontoan case is yet another troubling example of the way in which many Indonesian immigrants, locally known as " pendatang ," who have lived in East Timor since the 1980s, now face profound uncertainties as ethnic and religious hostilities make themselves felt, and of the difficulties in unitng the diverse minorities of the world's fourth largest nation. (andreasharsono.net)
  • The mass exodus from East Timor began after newly-installed Indonesian President B.J. Habibie offered a new autonomous status for East Timor on June 11. (andreasharsono.net)
  • His opponents, pro-Indonesian leaders like East Timor governor Abilio Osorio Soares, who advocated the territory's merger with Indonesia in 1975, enthusiastically welcomed the proposal, saying that it is the most realistic choice. (andreasharsono.net)
  • One pro-independence demonstrator was killed and four others were seriously injured when Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a street protest in mid-July. (andreasharsono.net)
  • JAKARTA - Xanana Gusmao, the former leader of East Timor's separatist revolt against Indonesian rule, resigned as the young country's prime minister on Friday morning. (simonroughneen.com)
  • But today, East Timor is still the Indonesian province it became in 1975 when the military-backed Suharto regime invaded the former Portuguese colony. (andreasharsono.net)
  • When president General Suharto was forced to step down last year in an uprising by Indonesian students fed up with the old man, it was not necessarily because of East Timor. (andreasharsono.net)
  • How will it deal with the Indonesian army whose business interests -- coffee plantations, construction companies and oil exploration -- are in East Timor's sovereign area? (andreasharsono.net)
  • How could Xanana use his friendships with many Indonesian leaders to build a healthy link between the two countries? (andreasharsono.net)
  • Xanana befriended most of the Indonesian democracy leaders while they were all inside the Cipinang prison in Jakarta. (andreasharsono.net)
  • It is a neighbour to be courted, even though when Indonesia invaded East Timor, Australia and big brother, the United States, gave the green light and even provided the weapons and military training to Indonesian soldiers. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Successive Australian governments, both Labor and Liberal, kept supporting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor until January this year. (andreasharsono.net)
  • The bishop was feted at home and abroad for his bravery in calling out human rights abuses by East Timor's Indonesian rulers despite threats against his life. (newsmax.com)
  • The prototype flew succesfully in August 1995, marking 50 years of Indonesian independence. (islami.co)
  • Following the Abbott government's arrogance over the Indonesian spying scandal, there have been fresh revelations of a disgraceful Australian government spying operation in East Timor. (solidarity.net.au)
  • Australia supported Indonesian control of East Timor and has long pressed to gain control over its resources. (solidarity.net.au)
  • Then Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam supported Indonesian dictator Suharto's invasion of East Timor in 1975. (solidarity.net.au)
  • In 1989, Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke managed to secure Australian control of the oil and gas resources through a deal with the Indonesian government called the Timor Gap Treaty. (solidarity.net.au)
  • For the Indonesian military, East Timor is a long-running sore and a humiliating failure. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Economically, three groups of Indonesians benefit from Timor - Abri-linked conglomerates, Indonesian beneficiaries of the Timor Gap oil and gas exploitation, and the large number of mainly poor transmigrants. (insideindonesia.org)
  • The Indonesian conglomerates that make money in Timor are more associated with the old Murdani-crowd than the current Abri leadership. (insideindonesia.org)
  • The most complex group of economic beneficiaries of the Indonesian occupation is the weakest politically: Indonesian immigrants into East Timor. (insideindonesia.org)
  • The two largest Indonesian obstacles to the peace process are the possible loss of face for Suharto and the Abri leadership, and the fear that any concession on East Timor would weaken them in the contest for the presidential succession. (insideindonesia.org)
  • East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. (flagcounter.com)
  • For over three decade, Balibo has been the focus of debate and recrimination, arising from the murder of five young journalists there in October 1975, by forces led by the Indonesian army, illegally invading what was then the sovereign territory of Portuguese Timor (Jolliffe 2009). (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Materials in this collection relate to Arnold Kohen's Timor advocacy from 1975 to about 2007, covering the period of Indonesian occupation (1975-1999) plus a box of additional materials for the years after 1999. (timorarchive.ca)
  • In the con- island' in relation to Indonesia proper ('East Timor' in servative Catholic press gallons of ink have flowed in Indonesian is the tautological-sounding Timor Timur ). (health-articles.net)
  • Lekahena", if that is even his real name, claims in his latest "template" letter on Monday that since January, "the armed separatists prowled in Intan Jaya" and burned a missionary plane on January 6 and he has cited several clashes between pro-independence militants seeking independence for West Papua and the colonial Indonesian security forces. (blogspot.com)
  • Gusmao's, and to a lesser extent Horta's support for the rebel soldiers (most from the western part of East Timor) has led many to question the impartiality of the president. (magill.ie)
  • Xanana Gusmao's Conselho Nacional de Reconstrução do Timor (National Congress of Reconstruction of Timor / CNRT), an alliance of the major opposition parties, is most likely to emerge victorious in the legislative election on 30 June. (magill.ie)
  • Ramos-Horta, East Timor's president from 2007 to 2012, and Guterres have blamed each other for years of political paralysis. (ktar.com)
  • Ramos-Horta, 72, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is backed by the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, a party led by former Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, an ex-resistance leader who remains influential. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Ramos-Horta, speaking to media while casting his vote, said the benefits of his party's development plans would be spread more widely in society and he vowed to work closely with Gusmao to implement them. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Ramos-Horta proposed a UN-sponsored referendum to determine the future of East Timor. (andreasharsono.net)
  • International hopes for a democratic success story in Southeast Asia hinged on select political leaders, chief among them Xanana Gusmao and José Ramos-Horta. (newmandala.org)
  • For international onlookers, Gusmao and Ramos-Horta embodied the democratic potential of the new nation. (newmandala.org)
  • Sergio Vieira de Mello and Xanana Gusmao warned the new Regional Commissioners they might face difficulties and opposition as they undertook the Commission s work in the districts over the next two years. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • Samantha Power's biography of the late head of the UN transition administration in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, tells how de Mello and other UN officials believed that the UN's success depended on building a strong relationship with Gusmao - a bond that continued though much of the UN's presence in the country. (newmandala.org)
  • Incumbent Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres, 67, a former guerilla leader from the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor party, known by its local acronym Fretilin, is running against 15 other candidates, including four women. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • In an extremely volatile environment, President Gusmao resisted discussions with the FRETILIN party leadership on the grounds of contested legitimacy, consenting instead to deal with the party's parliamentary leaders. (edu.au)
  • As an early activist for the Fretilin party, she became interested in women's rights and worked alongside prominent colleagues of Borja, such as Vicente Sa'he, Mau Huno and Xanana Gusmão. (niu.edu)
  • A new prime minister has not been selected, but a ruling coalition official said Gusmao has nominated Rui Araujo, a former health minister. (ksl.com)
  • In 2018, Guterres refused to swear in nine Cabinet nominees from the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and independence leader Xanana Gusmao, who backed Ramos-Horta's run for president. (ktar.com)
  • In recent international media reports, Prime Minister Gusmao has been labelled a 'despot', implicated in corruption and nepotism allegations , and been told it is 'time to go' . (newmandala.org)
  • Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • A political perennial, Horta's success can largely be attributed to support from another former president, prime minister and resistance-era hero: Xanana Gusmao. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao wrote to then Prime Minister Julia Gillard requesting they reopen negotiations over the treaty, but received no reply. (solidarity.net.au)
  • A significant blow came on August 21, the day the swearing in ceremony was scheduled for lawmakers, followed by the naming of the new cabinet, when former Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao announced the postponement of parliament's reopening until his return to the country. (hart-uk.org)
  • Timor-Leste's departing prime minister still seeks to play a major role in the country's often volatile and rocky politics, writes Sue Ingram. (edu.au)
  • On 5 February, Timor-Leste's long-serving prime minister and former resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, submitted his resignation to the president after publicly signalling his intention to step down a few weeks earlier. (edu.au)
  • Gusmao, as president, tested the limits of presidential discretion under Article 106 during the political and security crisis of 2006 when he effectively forced then Prime Minister Alkatiri to resign. (edu.au)
  • The former Portuguese colony was occupied by Indonesia for a quarter century and gained independence after a U.N.-sponsored referendum in 1999. (ktar.com)
  • The Mahidi began its operations ahead of the United Nations-sponsored referendum on independence on August 30, 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is also a war hero credited with saving the lives of hundreds of children and refugees during East Timor's bloody independence crisis in 1999. (azureedge.net)
  • These circumstances can be seen in the unsuccessful Portuguese decolonization process in 1975 and the popular consultation under UN-auspices in 1999 along with the two years of UN transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • In a short amount of time," he said, "the people of [East Timor] have built a functioning economy and a vibrant democracy from the ashes and destruction of 1999. (newmandala.org)
  • On 20 September 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. (2meta.com)
  • East Timor was a Portuguese colony until it declared independence in late 1975. (ksl.com)
  • More than 835,000 of the country's 1.3 million people were registered to vote, and the winner will take the oath of office May 20 to mark the 20th anniversary of East Timor's independence from Indonesia, which had invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Life is not easy and there are problems to solve but nobody in East Timor forgets our fight for independence, a fight which we won, after Kissinger gave the go-ahead for the bloody invasion and occupation by Indonesia in 1975. (pravda.ru)
  • Among this group are a few white descendants of Por- Terrible crimes have been committed in our region of tuguese colonists and the more numerous Mesticos, or the world since 1975, when the small nation of East persons of mixed blood. (health-articles.net)
  • Gusmao heads a coalition government formed after the 2012 Parliamentary election which gave his party, CNRT, the biggest vote share but one that fell well short of a majority. (edu.au)
  • In 2013 the Gusmao government appointed Alkatiri to the tailor-made post of Government Representative on the Special Economic Zone of Oecussi, Alkatiri participated in the party congress of CNRT and Gusmao attended the 40th anniversary celebration of FRETILIN's formation, and for the last two years the government's annual budget bill has been passed unanimously after negotiation between government and opposition benches. (edu.au)
  • Gusmao is the president of CNRT, the party he created in 2007 as a platform to seek the prime ministership, and it is the head of the party with whom the president consults, despite the 2006 precedent. (edu.au)
  • He also said that he will push for East Timor to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the next two years. (ktar.com)
  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations this year granted an observer status to East Timor ahead of it becoming the regional bloc's 11th member. (fox4kc.com)
  • If the majority of the population rejects autonomy, Indonesia must, under the May 5 agreement signed with Portugal and the United Nations (UN), vacate East Timor by 1 January 2000. (socialism.com)
  • This could be seen in the decolonization process in which the Portuguese government did not involve the United Nations and internationalize the issues of East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Ukraine's successes in resisting and even turning back an invasion by a numerically superior Russian force has raised expectations in East Asia that smaller nations in the region could conceivably fend off an attack from a large military like China's. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • People in East Timor want a new leader to solve the economic problems in this country," he said. (ktar.com)
  • Xanana is a very powerful leader in this country and many people will support him no matter what he does. (azureedge.net)
  • East Timor s Transitional Administrator and its President-elect have urged the new Regional Commissioners of the country s Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation to be independent and strong as they work to help reconcile the nation s people. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • But the commissioners should hold onto their principles and maintain their integrity, independence and commitment to human rights, Mr Gusmao said, while Mr Vieira de Mello said the Commissioners had been nominated because people trusted and had confidence in them. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • The reports around the world are seasoned with pessimism, the mass media highlight the difficulties for the people of East Timor. (pravda.ru)
  • president Xanana Gusmao (Sha-NA-na Guz MA u) declared to the population (700,000) that not enough has been done to ensure a more comfortable standard of living for the people, 42% of whom still live below the poverty line and more than 50% of those over 15 years of age are illiterate. (pravda.ru)
  • Leaders must refrain from misleading people with wrong information. (pina.com.fj)
  • For the first time on Sunday, people born after the restoration of independence will be old enough to vote in a parliamentary election. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • The people of East Timor have plenty of reasons to want to be free of rule from Jakarta. (socialism.com)
  • However, working people must be totally opposed to UN forces, or any other imperialist troops, being stationed in East Timor after the ballot. (socialism.com)
  • It is obvious that without economic control, such autonomy would be a very hollow gain for people of East Timor. (socialism.com)
  • These people keep on saying that East Timor is their 27th province. (andreasharsono.net)
  • in contrast, national development itself cannot be viewed only from the historical perspectives, either because of strong historical preferences, the current political environment is dominated by a romanticism of independence, which might lead people into a crisis of nationalism in the sense of losing state-ownership. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • This means that people might view independence merely as the era of claiming the rights which they had lost during 24 years of colonial occupation and expect independence to compensate their meritorious struggle. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • He added that "We cannot ignore his kindness and what he has fought for the people of East Timor. (newsmax.com)
  • Many people suggest that Indonesia will never leave East Timor, because it has too much invested. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Most people in east London will say, "A curse on both your heads. (parliament.uk)
  • Socially, the people of East Timor fall into two broad There can never be any ideological justification for groupings. (health-articles.net)
  • East Timor independence hero criticised for meeting Richard Daschbach ahead of disgraced priest's trial on child sex charges. (azureedge.net)
  • Xanana Gusmão, independence hero and East Timor's former president, has drawn rare condemnation after being accused of whitewashing the crimes of a disgraced American priest who is due to stand trial next week in a landmark child-sex abuse case in the Catholic-majority Southeast Asian nation. (azureedge.net)
  • After leading the fight for independence he was jailed by Indonesia, returning a hero. (azureedge.net)
  • Independence hero Gusmao has had his 20-year-old Australian-raised son Kay Olo, who is something of a TikTok star, with him on stage at campaign events. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • The elevation is an early foreign policy marker for the new government following parliamentary elections in May earlier this year that saw a return to the premiership for independence hero Gusmao. (aseanwonk.com)
  • or "Do you reject the proposed special autonomy for East Timor, leading to East Timor's separation from Indonesia? (socialism.com)
  • Habibie also made a bold move, called referendum for the province of East Timor, an island that was once colonized by Portuguese, offering choice between special autonomy and independence. (islami.co)
  • Bishop Belo has spoken out recently of his ideas for some sort of autonomy for East Timor, short of independence. (health-articles.net)
  • However, if you look hard at the question, 'which Indonesians have interests in East Timor that cannot be negotiated? (insideindonesia.org)
  • He was captured and tortured by the Indonesians 7 times, continuing to work in Timor even though he had the opportunity to live in exile in Australia. (libsyn.com)
  • Following the July 2012 elections Gusmao created the largest government in the Asia Pacific with a cabinet made up of 55 members - this in country with a population of just over 1 million. (yale.edu)
  • After the relatively violence-free presidential elections in East Timor in April-May 2007, many hope that the country may finally be heading on a road to normality after more than two years of internal violence and chaos. (magill.ie)
  • Since the attack, the government has enjoyed one of its longest periods of post-independence stability, including successful 2012 elections for both the parliament and president and a successful transition of power in February 2015. (flagcounter.com)
  • Gusmao, 68, submitted his resignation to President Taur Matan Ruak on Friday. (ksl.com)
  • More than a decade after independence from neighboring Indonesia and two United Nation interventions, the former Portuguese colony remains an impoverished and fragile state. (yale.edu)
  • Thereafter, successive Australian governments sought to exert influence over Portuguese Timor and its seabed resources. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • In 1971 and 1972, Australia and Indonesia signed treaties with respect to the Australia/Indonesia interface in the Arafura and Timor seas, leaving what was to become the infamous "Timor Gap" at the Australia/Portuguese Timor interface. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • The Portuguese branch of the Salesians said Thursday that it learned "with great sadness and astonishment" of the news and confirmed they had taken him in after he left East Timor. (newsmax.com)
  • The Portuguese began to trade with the island of Timor in the early 16th century and colonized it in mid-century. (flagcounter.com)
  • Imperial Japan occupied Portuguese Timor from 1942 to 1945, but Portugal resumed colonial authority after the Japanese defeat in World War II. (flagcounter.com)
  • Joaquim Fonseca, a political analyst at RENETIL, a youth organization established during Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, said, "It will be quite difficult for one political party to acquire a parliamentary majority and form a government on its own. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Also, economic crisis hitting south-east Asia has shaken the dictatorship in Jakarta more than ever. (refine.com.ru)
  • So it is nothing new that a few days after the UN ballot ended a decisive shout for self-determination that Jakarta-backed militias began terrorising the whole area, burning houses and hunting down and killing pro-independence leaders and sympathisers. (andreasharsono.net)
  • The militia was accused of committing murders included the killing of individuals who supported East Timor's independence from Indonesia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite mounting domestic and international pressure, in 1982 Fraser bullied other South Pacific leaders to vote with Indonesia in the UN against moves towards East Timor's independence. (solidarity.net.au)
  • The Japanese government has shown their concern for East Timor's reconstruction and has contributed the largest amount of funds to the Trust Fund for East Timor. (etan.org)
  • They have a glorious history of a successful independence struggle. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • But if the leaders of the liberation struggle have decided to take this step, that is their right, even if it is a mistake. (socialism.com)
  • He cited Belo's contributions to the country and its struggle for independence. (newsmax.com)
  • Belo is part of our struggle for independence. (newsmax.com)
  • As a leader of the Catholic church, he has provided supports and solidarity for the people's struggle. (newsmax.com)
  • According to a May 2013 International Crisis Group report , 71 percent of the workforce in East Timor is either unemployed or just informally employed. (yale.edu)
  • Uncertainty after the 1972 OPEC crisis heralded a new foreign policy imperative that brought the potential petroleum resources of the Australian Continental Shelf under the Timor Sea to the surface in Canberra. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • International media reported widely on local critiques of Alkatiri during the crisis, and blamed him for not calling for the aid of Gusmao to solve disputes . (newmandala.org)
  • The military crisis - part of an explosion of internecine violence and destruction in March-June 2006 - both divided the nation between a pro-Gusmao/Horta faction and the rest, and created an artificial but bloody schism between the country's east and west. (magill.ie)
  • Now it is the country that has been hardest hit by the generalised crisis in East Asia - a crisis of over-borrowing and over-production. (socialistworld.net)
  • The winner of the runoff takes office on May 20, the 20th anniversary of the restoration of East Timor's independence. (ktar.com)
  • ASIO also raided and seized important documents from the office of Australian lawyer Bernard Collaery, who is representing East Timor. (solidarity.net.au)
  • The Australian government has continually put cold calculations of economic and strategic interests above all else in its dealings with East Timor. (solidarity.net.au)
  • In 1974, suggesting that Indonesia negotiate with Australia over the Timor Gap, Australian ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott sent a cable stating, "I know I am recommending a pragmatic rather than a principled stand but that is what the national interest and foreign policy is all about. (solidarity.net.au)
  • Allegations that the Australian government spied on East Timor during these negotiations were first raised a year ago. (solidarity.net.au)
  • In 1992 she was imprisoned once again, for her association with captured guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmão. (niu.edu)
  • Four women were among 16 candidates, the highest number of women taking part in the fifth election since independence. (ktar.com)
  • The election cycle of 2007 offers the last chance for the current generation of leaders to bring stability and progress to troubled East Timor. (magill.ie)
  • The 'post-election limbo' period has left ample room for speculation as well as a reality check on the optimism about Timor Leste's politics. (hart-uk.org)
  • East Timor's transition to a democracy has been rocky, with leaders battling massive poverty, unemployment and corruption as the nation continues to recover from the bloody break for independence two decades ago, with an economy reliant on dwindling offshore oil revenues and bitter factional politics that have occasionally erupted into violence. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The two national leaders were speaking at the swearing in today by Mr Vieira de Mello of 29 Regional Commissioners for the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • And these Regional Commissioners, drawn from every district across the country, will be responsible over the next two years for helping the National Commissioners bring the work of the Commission to as many parts of the country as possible working to help all of East Timor find truth, justice and reconciliation. (easttimor-reconciliation.org)
  • Xanana repeatedly says that his main immediate agenda is reconciliation and reconciliation. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Prabowo, who received significant training and support from the United States government, has been implicated in mass killings in Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua during the 1980s and 1990s. (counterpunch.org)
  • The 53-year-old gentleman and charismatic leader is tipped to be East Timor's first president! (andreasharsono.net)
  • The most recent demonstration of how Beijing is putting this vision into practice is the ongoing four-nation tour to South Asia and the Asia-Pacific by China's vice president and potential future leader, Xi Jinping. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Xanana Gusmao, who had been a political prisoner during Soeharto regime, became East Timor's first president. (islami.co)
  • The most famous was José Alexandre 'Xanana' Gusmão, today president of the Democratic Republic of East Timor who returned to his country to the acclaim of wildly-cheering crowds. (niu.edu)
  • The Living Memory Project at East Timor is managed by Jill Jolliffe and provides videos and images of ex-prisoners in East Timor. (niu.edu)
  • East Timor's government has taken Australia to the International Court of Justice to dispute the current Timor Sea Treaty, officially known as Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS). (solidarity.net.au)
  • The treaty, signed in 2006, stipulates that East Timor and Australia will "equitably share" the proceeds of the gas and oil located in the Greater Sunrise fields. (solidarity.net.au)
  • East Timor is challenging the treaty after evidence came to light that Australia bugged East Timor cabinet offices during treaty negotiations in 2004. (solidarity.net.au)
  • Facing pressure from Australia and in need of revenue, the East Timor government signed the current treaty, CMATS, in 2006. (solidarity.net.au)
  • In the same way, self-determination will require a re-negotiation of the Timor Gap Treaty with both Indonesia and Australia. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Habibie also offered to withdraw some troops from the territory and to release East Timor rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, who was captured in 1992 and is serving a 20-year sentence for separatist activities, as part of a deal that would include international recognition of East Timor as part of Indonesia. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Since the beginning of the year, two rounds of formal negotiations have been held in Kuala Lumpur, in a Malaysia-facilitated process that has seen the government's Peace Dialogue Panel, or PDP, meet face-to-face with leaders of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional, or BRN, the most powerful rebel group in southern Thailand. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The transition to a democracy has been rocky, with leaders battling massive poverty, unemployment and corruption. (ktar.com)
  • http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/38451 RANGOON - Burma's opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has come under fire. (simonroughneen.com)
  • The Santa Cruz massacre of 12th November 1991 brought the enduring question of East Timor to the public notice in Australia. (health-articles.net)
  • Gusmao, who reportedly stepped aside to allow a new generation of leaders to take power, has not ruled out staying in the government in a different role. (ksl.com)
  • It recently endorsed the gist of a proposal by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the UN to take control of all government functions in East Timor and rebuild the infrastructure in the battered province. (andreasharsono.net)
  • More recently, for 24 years, the Japanese government has supported the illegal military occupation of East Timor by Indonesia. (etan.org)
  • Today the questions of peace and self-determination for East Timor are higher on the international agenda than at almost any time since 1976. (insideindonesia.org)
  • It is important to demand that Australia's illegal Timor Sea Oil contracts be vacated and new agreements negotiated. (socialism.com)
  • The following is a lightly edited extract from barrister Bernard Collaery's new book, Oil Under Troubled Water - Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue , published by Melbourne University. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • A severely under-resourced justice system combined with Daschbach's status as a religious leader and his high-level political, police and church connections in East Timor has made bringing him to justice extremely challenging. (azureedge.net)
  • Xanana is a poet-turned-journalist-turned-teacher-turned-guerrilla fighter-turned-political prisoner-turned diplomat. (andreasharsono.net)
  • Legal and political news from East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • By Cesar Dias Quintas (Lere-Malae) The First Fulbright Scholar from East Timor 2007-2009, studying at Ohio University with a Major in Southeast Asian Studies and a Minor in Political Science. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Nonetheless, among these political leaders there are huge political differences which frequently create a sharp political tension in the country. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Within the era of independence, the political leaders of this new independent country in Asia seem unable to abandon a bitter historical heritage. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • An interesting political dance is now underway as Gusmao seeks to anoint his preferred successor, someone from the official opposition party. (edu.au)
  • They lead a tribal existence and most of East Timor has rarely been told without a large dose of them practise a syncretistic mixture of Catholicism and political bias. (health-articles.net)
  • Inspired in part by Stephen Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation, the project will collect, preserve and catalogue testimony from political prisoners, to be held for future generations as part of East Timor's national heritage. (niu.edu)