On the 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, longtime independence advocate and now the country’s President ...
Survivors still have clear memories of the invasion by Indonesia, as Timor-Leste this week commemorates the beginning of a brutal 24-year occupation.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
In this Dec. 8, 2005 file photo, an Indonesian activist holds a poster of Munir Said Thalib during a rally to commemorate the International Human Rights day outside the state place in Jakarta, ...