East Timor
East Timor: Former PM Alkatiri claims alleged assassination attempt on Xanana Gusmao was faked
By Patrick O’Connor, April 8, 2008
Mari Alkatiri, former East Timorese prime minister and current general secretary of the Fretilin opposition party, has alleged that the reported assassination attempt on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao o...
East Timorese government steps up repression in aftermath of alleged “coup attempt”
By Patrick O’Connor, March 1, 2008
East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has seized upon the crisis sparked by the February 11 wounding of President Jose Ramos-Horta and killing of former major Alfredo Reinado to enforce a number ...
East Timor: Official “assassination” claims collapse
By Mike Head, February 19, 2008
After just one week, the official version of the February 11 events in East Timor—that army rebel Alfredo Reinado, attempted a “coup” and “double assassination” against P...
A very strange “coup attempt” in East Timor
By Peter Symonds, February 13, 2008
Nothing is clear about Monday’s events in the East Timorese capital of Dili, in which rebel soldier Alfredo Reinado was shot dead and the country’s president Jose Ramos-Horta was seriously...
Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao accused of instigating 2006 political crisis in East Timor
By Patrick O’Connor, January 22, 2008
Former East Timorese major Alfredo Reinado has accused Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao of directly instigating the 2006 military mutiny, which triggered the political and social unrest that forced more t...
Australian troops carry out provocations against East Timor’s Fretilin
By Richard Phillips, August 27, 2007
Australian troops occupying East Timor vandalised and stole Fretilin flags from two villages in the country’s eastern districts of Baucau and Viqueque last week. The arrogant and crude provocati...
A regime made in Australia
Gusmao appointed East Timor’s prime minister
By Richard Phillips, August 10, 2007
Angry rioting and protests erupted in East Timor this week after President Jose Ramos-Horta appointed Xanana Gusmao as prime minister. Gusmao’s 12-member cabinet includes Jose Luis Guterres as d...
East Timor: Despite winning election, Fretilin likely to be ousted
By Patrick O’Connor, July 9, 2007
East Timor’s ruling party, Fretilin, won the parliamentary election held on June 30 with 29 percent of the national vote. Despite the result, however, three rival parties announced last Friday t...
East Timor’s election held under shadow of Australian military
By Mike Head, June 30, 2007
Today’s parliamentary elections in East Timor are being conducted amid continuing Australian interference and pressure to secure the defeat of the Fretilin government, which has been in office s...
East Timor: Ramos-Horta wins presidential election
By Patrick O’Connor, May 14, 2007
Jose Ramos-Horta has claimed victory in East Timor’s presidential election after recording 69 percent of the vote in last Wednesday’s run-off ballot. Fretilin’s Francisco “Lu-O...
East Timor: final round of presidential elections
By Patrick O’Connor, May 9, 2007
The second and final round of voting in the East Timorese presidential election is being held today amid allegations that Australian troops have been carrying out provocations. On May 6, Fretilin cand...
East Timor: Hunt for “rebel” military leader called off
By Patrick O’Connor, April 20, 2007
East Timorese presidential candidate and current prime minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, announced on Tuesday that he was calling off the pursuit by Australian soldiers of “rebel” military leade...
