August 2003
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September
Early August
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August 24 - 31
Getting away with murder
Timorese pay for freedom with blood
Sergio Vieira de Mello A Tragic Loss to Those Who Care
(James Dunn)
East Timor's blood, Australia's oil?
East Timor wants Sept-Oct border talks with Australia
New Rock groups Thrive in Post-Independence Era
UN 'should remain in E Timor'
E Timor to receive funding for national police force
Dili, Canberra, Jakarta together against threat of terrorism
President Xanana Hopes Ex Refugees To Return Home
East Timor- The forgotten state (fighting
corruption)
Indonesia's Wiranto- Running for President
RI plans to upgrade ties with E. Timor
Former TNI Members Still Living in Ex-Refugee Camps
Border markets, crossing points open in Nov - Jakarta official
People of Covalima District in E Timor Called to Be Serious in Reconciliation
Ex-E Timorese Refugees Deserve Job Opportunities Abroad
Dili grants some ex-militias immunity for reconciliation visits
Local Media Monitoring - August 28, 2003
Media Review 27 August 2003
Daily Media Review 26 August 2003
Daily Media Review 25 August 2003
Jakarta's Final Verdict, Serious Crimes
Unit and other Justice Updates (August)
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General Damiri in court. |
ETAN:
Indonesian Court's Final East Timor Sentence "A Joke"
IFET: Urges UN
Security Council to Create International Tribunal for East Timor
Letter: A U.N. Tribunal for East Timor
ICTJ
Intended to Fail - Ad Hoc HR Court in Jakarta (PDF)
Indonesian Ad-Hoc Court (August)
Jakarta Observed- Military Misrule Alive And Well
Jakarta Rights Tribunal Buries E. Timor Atrocities
Only justice can build Dili-Jakarta relationship
Justice in Indonesia (letter)
Indonesia prosecutors appeal verdict on general in E. Timor's violence
Justice after the Timor bloodshed (editorial)
Govt pooh-poohs int'l rights standards
East Timor atrocities- Submit to international tribunal
U.S. Timor Activists- General's Sentence A "Joke" [Also Army's Resurgence]
US disappointed with Indon rights tribunal, Timor activists rage
IPS:
Massacre Mastermind Gets Slap on Wrist in Indonesia
UN Timor tribunal 'possible'
Timor Upset by Indonesia Verdict
Unexpected three year jail sentence for Damiri
Surprise at E Timor guilty verdict
EU, rights groups denounce Jakarta's flimsy human rights trials
Calls for international tribunal on East Timor atrocities
Light sentence for dark crimes
Justice System Monitoring Project:
Court in Jakarata Completes Theatical Performance*
Amnesty International: Guilty
Verdict Insufficient to Deliver Justice and Truth*
Human Rights Watch:
Transfer
Convicted General From Aceh*
CIIR:
Indonesian tribunal verdict feeds impunity*
NZGOV:
East Timor tribunal has not delivered justice*
Indonesia Human Rights Committee:
Sentence for War Criminal a bad joke*
*open in new window
see July, June,
May, April,
March, February
updates on Indonesia Ad Hoc Court
Serious Crimes Updates
E. Timor Court Sentences Ex-Militia Leader To Prison
SCU: Update VII-03
5 August 2003
Two Indictments issued charging crimes in Alieu and Oecussi
E. Timor Court Jails Two Ex-Militia Leaders Over Murders
Two Militia Commanders Convicted
E Timor indicts more Indonesian military officers
SCU:Maliana Indictment Issued Charging 57
SCU:
3 Prosecutors Sworn-in To Appear At The Special Panels
E. Timor appoints more prosecutors to seek justice for 1999 crimes
Interpol joins hunt for killers
see July, June,
May, April Serious Crimes Updates
JSMP/Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law: Symposium On Justice For
International Crimes Committed in The Territory of East Timor (English
--Portuguese)*
Amnesty says weak justice system in East
Timor undermined rights
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August 17 - 23
Death of de Mello
Sergio Vieira de Mello A Tragic Loss to Those Who Care
Tributes for former UN administrator
Interview with de Mello on ET from Sept. 2002
Horta criticised for death penalty comments
Jose Ramos-Horta - I'll support death for terrorists
UN mission to beef up security following Baghdad blast
East Timor mourns loss of "great brother and friend"
A Diplomat's Life- Sergio Vieira de Mello
LIFSLIPO- stop military operation in Acheh...
Feared Militia Leader Lives Happily in Yogya [Joao da Silva Tavares]
Kopassus Chief to Visit Australia
Xanana:
Falintil Day Message
Lisbon official seeks to 'smooth out' controversy on aid to courts
'Fallen heroes' of independence war exhumed for proper burial
East Timor warning on oilfield control
Alkatiri astonished at Lisbon honoring man blamed for civil war
Observers face regional alignment dilemma
E Timor kept waiting in boundaries talks
Media Review 22 August 2003
Local Daily Media Review 20 August 2003
Local Daily Media Review 19 August 2003
Daily Media Review 18 August 2003
Daily Media Review 13 August 2003
Which Law Applies - Portuguese or Indonesian
JSMP: Report on the Court of Appeal Decision in the case of Armando dos
Santos
English,
Portuguese,
Bahasa Indonesia examines the recent Court of Appeal Decision that decided
that the subsidiary applicable law in East Timor is the Law of Portugal, rather
than Indonesia.
JSMP:The
Court of appeal decision on the Applicable Subsidiary Law in Timor Leste
(PDF) Also:
Bahasa Indonesia,
Portuguese
ABC: Legal System
Faces Chaos
TL Parliament:
Proposed Law on Applicable Law in East Timor (PDF)
JSMP: Special Panel
Delivers its own Decision on the Applicable Law
JSMP: East Timor's Court
of Appeal Renders Three Further Decisions Applying Portuguese Law
Prosecutor General files request with Supreme Court for declaration on
which law applies
Old European tongue brings chaos to E. Timor
Appeals Court Decisions (english translations)
August 10 - 16
Australia must not get back in bed with Kopassus
Downer reassures on Kopassus troops
Washington Refuses Kopassus
Listening to Indonesian War Veterans
PM Alkatiri confident of his security forces in post-UN scenario
Five-year deadline to settle sea border with Australia - Alkatiri
Canberra agrees to E Timor boundary talks
Xanana- at book launch of Women, War, Peace
E Timorese in S Sulawesi Reluctant to Go Home
E. Timorese graduates await RI citizenship decision
Infilitration into W Timor not alarming
Human Tragedy of East Timor
Local Media Monitoring - August 14, 2003
Daily Media Review 14 August 2003
Local Media Monitoring - August 13, 2003
Local Media Monitoring - August 12, 2003
Local Media Monitoring - August 11, 2003
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