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Yass Tribune
April 3, 2018
There are times when decisive, collective action is needed to end conflict, like the sort of intervention Australia led in East Timor in 1999. If we believe that human rights are universal, and a child in Syria deserves the same protections as a child in Australia, then we have a collective obligation to act. It's too ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 25, 2018
U.S. support of “our kind of guy” Suharto as he killed and stole at home and in East Timor, and its long warm relation with Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, also may have generated a great deal of hostility toward this country among the numerous victims. Iranians may remember that the United States ...
World Socialist Web Site
March 12, 2018
Acrimonious disputes are continuing between the governments of Australia and the tiny neighouring state of East Timor despite last week's signing at the UN .... has provided the essential strategic and military backing for Australian imperialism's plundering activities throughout the region since World War II.
The Australian
March 10, 2018
Knowing him from Duntroon years in the early 1970s, writing about his courage and quick thinking in East Timor in 1999 and working with him on his book Running the War in Iraq, I can assure everyone that Jim will apply a formidable analytical mind and boundless enthusiasm to his new role. He learns ...
WikiTribune
March 8, 2018
Meanwhile, demonstrators protested outside Downing Street over Saudi Arabia's continuing involvement in Yemen's war, accusing bin Salman of war crimes and ... From the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, to the genocide in East Timor, public relation firms have a long history of helping controversial ...
The Economist
March 8, 2018
Italy's general election resulted in a badly hung parliament, with none of the three main political groupings close to a majority. Populist parties did better than expected, winning more than half the vote. Weeks of uncertainty lie ahead, though either one of the two big populist parties—the Five Star Movement ...
The Australian
March 7, 2018
It came as Ms Bishop issued a strongly worded warning about how the tariffs could create a domino effect, sparking a trade war which would hurt Australia an .... Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who is in New York to sign a maritime boundary deal with East Timor, said she was seeking an urgent meeting with ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 7, 2018
The Turnbull government has stepped up talks with Japan and other countries to resist Donald Trump's new steel tariffs, as the shock resignation of top presidential adviser Gary Cohn fuels fears of a trade war. Malcolm Turnbull has held talks with Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe to ensure two of ...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 5, 2018
Australia provides development and counterterrorism assistance to the Philippines, but relations have been strained recently over Australian criticism of Duterte's so-called war on drugs. Australia supported East Timor in the early days after independence. It stationed troops in the country for more than a ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 5, 2018
In order to properly understand the post-Cold War global hegemony foreign policy by the US Administration, it is necessary to realize the very nature of .... accepted such deal as Israel, Romania or East-Timor[12] and therefore legitimized the US Army to legally violate basic human rights and rules of war.
ZAWYA
March 5, 2018
British actress Rosamund Pike portrays the character of Colvin, a journalist specialised in Middle Eastern issues, and renown for her coverage of conflicts in Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and East Timor. Colvin had been working for the British newspaper The Sunday Times since ...
The Young Witness
March 3, 2018
Mr Fischer was conscripted into the Australian Army in 1966 and served in The Vietnam War before he entered politics in 1971 and became Deputy Prime Minister ... Mr Fischer has written several books including two on trains, one on East Timor and most recently Holy See, Unholy me: 1000 Days in Rome.
WBUR
February 28, 2018
After the war, Yosh became a teacher in Plymouth, Mass. He built sand sculptures for his grandchildren, life-size cars they could sit in. At the same time, he painted: moral art, driven art, activist art, about political injustice: the Nanking Massacre, the Holocaust, genocide in East Timor. “I think he reached the ...
Newshub
February 28, 2018
We recognise the Jewish Holocaust of World War II, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, and closer to home, the East Timor genocide. So why don't we do the same with the Armenian Genocide? The answer is simple: New Zealand's link to Gallipoli and Turkey. Turkey refuses to admit that the ...
ABC Online
February 20, 2018
For a man held up as a national hero, relatively little is written about Nicolau dos Reis Lobato — especially outside East Timor. But some Timorese are hoping one chapter — about Lobato's death — might soon be complete. He was the country's first prime minister after East Timor declared independence in ...
The Australian Financial Review
February 19, 2018
Taking that view, we start to see why Australia made the decisions it did after World War II – we had a very small local market for expensive .... While the 6000-strong deployment to East Timor strained the ADF's resources, there was little call on the international supply lines for top-end equipment.
Macleans.ca
February 17, 2018
... an important role in the war in East Timor. But how does the Canadian government explain the weapons exports to Indonesia if Canadian law states that export permits should be issued only for 'non-conflict' areas? Simply by asserting that there is no armed conflict in East Timor – knowing that to be a lie.
ReliefWeb
February 16, 2018
The successes of peacekeeping missions never make headlines—from Namibia and Mozambique, to Cambodia, East Timor, and Sierra Leone, through to ... activity is one of an unloved and often misunderstood stepchild, as peacekeeping operates in an uncomfortable grey zone between war and peace.
PLANT
February 14, 2018
... an important role in the war in East Timor. But how does the Canadian government explain the weapons exports to Indonesia if Canadian law states that export permits should be issued only for 'non-conflict' areas? Simply by asserting that there is no armed conflict in East Timor – knowing that to be a lie.
South China Morning Post
August 14, 2017
A Hong Kong photographer and eco-tourism pioneer has been killed in a freak accident in East Timor. Long-time ... of his death were “deeply tragic and ironic” given that he had worked in some of the most dangerous places in the world and made it through covering Timor's war of independence unscathed.
The Conversation AU
April 23, 2017
The fond appreciation for the nation's beans traces back to the second world war, where Dutch and Australian commandos – known collectively as Sparrow Force – engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in what was then known as Portuguese Timor. The commandos were only intermittently ...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
While a third of East Timor's population wouldn't survive Indonesia's occupation, in the end Suharto's war became unwinnable. But Timor-Leste's relationship with its geography is complicated. Long an enabler of Timorese independence, the island's mountains are now a chief adversary in Dili's quest to ...
Daily Telegraph
December 31, 1999
A swastika has been daubed on a memorial to deceased Australian war veterans on the northern beaches. ... shock to the community and the RSL Club which are very supportive of veterans and Australian service personnel,” Ms Sloper-Harding, an Australian Navy veteran who served in East Timor. said.
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
He knew very well regional and global circumstances that led to the war in the Pacific and how the war would end. He knew very well how to cope with ... Indonesia's diplomacy during his presidency was primarily directed at finding a solution to the situation in East Timor. Another important contribution of ...
The Australian
December 31, 1999
It's extraordinary that the insular Americans adopted him as the voice of the Iraq war for Time magazine and then CNN, even when he publicly contradicted President George W. Bush's statement about Iraqi troops leading US troops in the battle of Tal Afar in 2005. (Ware knew they hadn't, he was there).
VICE
December 31, 1999
... was East Timor at the time. I just thought that was so short-sighted, and such a reflection of the culture that we were becoming. Even 18 years ago, we were becoming this social media-driven culture, thinking in such shallow terms. People thought five years was enough time for people to get over a war ...
ABC Online
February 21, 2018
For a man held up as a national hero, relatively little is written about Nicolau dos Reis Lobato — especially outside East Timor. But some Timorese are hoping one chapter — about Lobato's death — might soon be complete. He was the country's first prime minister after East Timor declared independence in ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 19, 2018
Her later books reflect some of her great passions – the history of war-time and post-war France, and the story of the glory and tragedy of the Sydney ... of refugees, French resistance during the Second World War, and the difficult histories of two of Australia's near neighbours, West Papua and East Timor.
Macleans.ca
February 18, 2018
... an important role in the war in East Timor. But how does the Canadian government explain the weapons exports to Indonesia if Canadian law states that export permits should be issued only for 'non-conflict' areas? Simply by asserting that there is no armed conflict in East Timor – knowing that to be a lie.
ReliefWeb
February 16, 2018
The successes of peacekeeping missions never make headlines—from Namibia and Mozambique, to Cambodia, East Timor, and Sierra Leone, through to ... activity is one of an unloved and often misunderstood stepchild, as peacekeeping operates in an uncomfortable grey zone between war and peace.
PLANT
February 15, 2018
... an important role in the war in East Timor. But how does the Canadian government explain the weapons exports to Indonesia if Canadian law states that export permits should be issued only for 'non-conflict' areas? Simply by asserting that there is no armed conflict in East Timor – knowing that to be a lie.
Mirror.co.uk
February 14, 2018
In those conditions, Oxfam staff led by Roland van Hauwermeiren were bringing water to three million people displaced by war into a desert of barren scrubland. It was extraordinary work, even by the standards of other work I had seen Oxfam do in Rwanda, Mozambique, South Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo ...
The Australian
February 7, 2018
That it is not a misprint — the Greens MP who was inspired by the war on terror to write a PhD on Marxism, workplace relations and globalisation, dubbed the military leader who risked all on the battlefields of Iraq and in the liberation of East Timor a “complete coward”. It got even worse. Mr Bandt accused ...
The Observer
February 6, 2018
When war broke out, her family moved to Yei, a border town near Uganda, which was relatively peaceful. ... with the law society for a year before joining UNDP as an access to justice and rule of law analyst where she worked for five years until she got another offer to do the same work in East Timor in 2011.
Open Democracy
February 5, 2018
... other international tribunals were activated, including the ad hoc tribunal for Rwanda and the hybrid tribunals for Sierra Leone, Cambodia and East Timor. ... Criminal justice cannot repair the damage inflicted by an atrocious civil war because in the former Yugoslavia the line between winners and losers, ...
Manila Bulletin
February 4, 2018
Giant Australia and tiny East Timor share the hydrocarbons in the South Pacific in the waters just below Darwin and on the southeast side of Asia's newest ... could help build a model for lessening tensions and solving conflicts, and avoiding the possibility of war in Asia's manifold and dangerous flashpoints.
Townsville Bulletin
February 4, 2018
The squadron's only loss was a C47 that disappeared at war's end flying from Biak in then Dutch West New Guinea to Moratai. The wreckage was only discovered ... before deploying to Vietnam. The squadron relocated from Richmond to Amberley in 1992, from where it supported operations in East Timor.
New Straits Times Online
February 2, 2018
East Timor's President Francisco Guterres (right) arriving to announce the dissolution of parliament in Dili recently. ... The prospects for even a respite from what surely is nothing less than civil war are so dim that the African Union has now called for sanctions to be imposed on the country's warring factions, ...
Condé Nast Traveler
January 30, 2018
I've visited war-torn countries, but I always found the safest areas and ways to have a fulfilling time while being protected. 17. Best word ..... I once had a two-week trip planned with my best friend around Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Bali, and East Timor) but bad weather prevented her from coming. That was ...
Star Weekly
January 30, 2018
“The World War II veterans, Korean veterans and Malaysian veterans are amazing, they're beautiful and they're sincere,” she said. Ms Tom said she had always been ... Ms Tom served as media liaison officer for the INTERFET (International Force in East Timor) in 1999. Ms Tom said she was at a funeral in ...
Voice of America
January 30, 2018
It gained notoriety for its abuses in East Timor during the Indonesian occupation there (which ended in 1999) and in the 1998 Jakarta race riots, when ... In fact, ever since founding the Non-Aligned Movement in the Cold War, Indonesia has taken pains to not to form explicit alliances with world powers like ...
World Politics Review
January 30, 2018
During the Cold War, it was closely engaged in resolving serious big-power confrontations such as the Suez and Cuba crises. In the 1980s and 1990s, it helped Russia exit Afghanistan and deployed peacekeepers to end Cold War proxy conflicts as far apart as Central America and Cambodia. Even though ...
The Nation
January 27, 2018
This basically meant that India would refuse to ally itself with the two major superpowers during the Cold War, instead relying on temporary alliances with small ... opposing Western-led interventions in Kosovo, Iraq, East Timor etc., rather than throwing its weight behind the US, in exchange for guns and aid.
Asia Times
January 26, 2018
... the Moroccan government over the disputed territory, which Rabat annexed in 1975 and where the two sides fought a guerrilla war until a 1991 ceasefire. ... Given their historic colonial parallels, relations have been especially strong over the years between Polisario and East Timor's Fretilin resistance ...
The Cheat Sheet
January 26, 2018
And inhumanity enabled Johnson to “turn a blind eye to southerners who tried to undo what the Civil War had accomplished. ... In fact, The New York Times notes that U.S. political and military support “for Indonesia was vital to its ability to invade East Timor in December 1975 and to sustain a brutal 24-year ...
War on the Rocks
January 26, 2018
Most recently here on War on the Rocks and in The Interpreter, Greg Colton proclaimed that Australia has been uncomfortably “sitting on the fence. ... guarantee for the Australian homeland, and has also aided Australian-led offshore contingency operations, such as the 1999 East Timor intervention.
Democracy Now!
January 25, 2018
From the Vietnam war to racism at home, nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, fighting sexism to working against U.S. military intervention, from ... Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International ...
Crikey
January 25, 2018
Who does have clean/honest broker hands when it comes to “international diplomacy” in this “War on Hypocrisy” (ask East Timor). They're as bad as each other, learning from each other, getting jealous as they get behind in this one-up-manship for influence. As if Putin has been doing things the US ...
Voice of America
January 25, 2018
There were shirtless strong men with war-painted faces breaking stacks of flaming bricks with their heads. Teams ... Kopassus' alleged abuses include massacres in East Timor, the abduction and forced disappearance of student pro-democracy activists, and a torture campaign in Aceh during a now-ended ...
The Straits Times
January 24, 2018
No amount of training can fully prepare one for conditions in a war-torn country still fending off insurgents and rebuilding its government. ... military officers was deployed to Timor-Leste to assist in the transition from the International Force for East Timor to the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor.
