From Cyclone Tracy to the Bali bombings, the small tropical city of Darwin has on a few rare, yet memorable occasions become an epicentre of a major international event. One of those moments was the ...

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Xisto Barros, 30, and Cesar Mendonca, 34, were on Thursday convicted of killing two civilians during the Suai church massacre in September 1999, in which Indonesian soldiers and their proxy militiamen ...

It is a week on from that glorious, hopeful Sunday mass. Everything is different. Two UNAMET outposts in Maliana and Viqueque have been evacuated back to Dili following attacks by militia. In Liquica, ...

An Indonesian appeals court has overturned the convictions of three army officers and one policeman for crimes against humanity during violence in 1999 over East Timor's independence that left some ...

Part II of our conversation with investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who reveals Admiral Dennis Blair played a critical role in backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor during the 1990s. At ...

IT CAME late, but was still welcome. “Too many people have lost their lives since the beginning of the unrest...We cannot wait any longer,” said B.J. Habibie, Indonesia's president, when he agreed to ...

entioning Timor Leste not only brings to mind a state that was once Indonesia’s 27th province, but also a place where gross human rights violations took place before, during and after its UN-sponsored ...

DILI, East Timor (CNN) -- On August 30, 1999 East Timor stood up and was counted. After 24 years of conflict and bloodshed under Indonesian rule, the people of Indonesia’s 27th province were given ...

East Timor's economy was seriously disrupted by widespread violence following the 1999 referendum in which its people voted for independence from Indonesia. With strong support from the international ...

Entering its fourth year of independence after a brutal twenty-five-year occupation by Indonesia, East Timor continued generally to make progress in human rights in 2005, although the pursuit of ...