The last Air Force helicopter detachment to serve in Timor-Leste leaves from Palmerston North today. The 30-strong team will spend three months in Dili before withdrawing personnel and two Iroquois helicopters. Support from the Air Force was first
Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said human rights violations committed before, during and after the East Timor polls in September 1999 were the responsibility of the governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste. Read
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - THE Indonesian president will express regret but not apologise over a state-backed probe into the violence during Timor Leste's 1999 independence vote, Indonesia's defence minister said on Monday. The Commission of Truth and
For years, ties with Indonesia were put ahead of the human rights of the Timorese. THE sorry history of violence in East Timor did not begin with the militia rampage following the 1999 independence ballot. For more than two decades after Indonesia's 1975
Home World Breaking News Article Email Print Normal font Large font July 14, 2008 - 6:41PM A former militia leader who claims the Indonesian military drugged him and gave him weapons to kill independence supporters in East Timor says the generals
JAKARTA - THE Indonesian president will express regret but not apologise over a state-backed probe into the violence during Timor Leste's 1999 independence vote, Indonesia's defence minister said on Monday. The Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) is
A former militia leader who claims the Indonesian military drugged him and gave him weapons to kill independence supporters in East Timor says the generals responsible must be held to account. Joni Marques spent eight years in jail for crimes he