East Timor Politics
Crimes Against Humanity From Ford to Saddam
By Joseph Nevins
Now that both Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein are dead and buried, the question of how they will be remembered here in the United States arises. If the talk of officialdom and the mainstream media outlets thus far is any indicator-and surely it is-the U.S. collective memories of the two leaders will be diametrically opposed.Read More
East Timor: a nation divided
By Loro Horta
A combination of political misjudgment and personal rivalry has brought the East Timorese state to near collapse, writes Loro Horta.Read More
East Timor: a tough road ahead
By Loro Horta
The election cycle of 2007 offers the last chance for the current generation of leaders to bring stability and progress to troubled East Timor, says Loro Horta.Read More
Eight years after 1999: Displaced East Timorese children go hungry in Indonesian West Timor
By Elcid Li
The big political change in East Timor in 1999 was accompanied by killing, burning, and the forced displacement of 280,000 people out of the territory by Indonesian military-backed militias. By 2002, 111,540 East Timorese had decided to stay in Indonesia, mostly in West Timor. In 2006, 53,889 of these were still living in refugee camps or otherwise squatting on land owned by locals. Some had moved into resettlement villages built specially for them.Read More
Let us build a new Timor-Leste free from corruption
By Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
I have always said that, we the people of East Timor, are being offered the great historical opportunity to build a new nation founded on the values we fought hard to achieve – human rights, justice, peace, freedom and sustainable development.Read More