http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=8954 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:45:00 EST Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:26:00 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com BBC News Jakarta Timorese militia were funded by the Indonesian army, the report says. The Indonesian army funded militias that committed human rights abuses in East Timor, according to a truth commission report seen by the BBC. The commission has been investigating human rights violations committed as Indonesia withdrew from East Timor nine years ago. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1744753 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1744753 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:41:00 EST Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:38:00 GMT Sydney - Students protested in the East Timor capital Dili on Wednesday, the third day of demonstrations against government spending priorities, radio reports said. Dozens have been arrested outside the National University where hundreds of students have faced off against local police and United Nations police. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1735435 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1735435 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:25:00 EST Continue to fight: 37 students detained, 4 women - PNTL condemned for student arrests - Fretilin condemns the attitude of PNTL-UNPol - Civil society preoccupied with the ratified budget - Ed: peaceful acts get violent treatment http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1722493 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1722493 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:16:00 EST Petition delivered July 7, 2008 University Students protest will be carried on today in Dili. A petition was delivered yesterday to the following institutions: Parliament, Office of the President, Office of the Prime Minister & F-FDTL http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1722482 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1722482 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:56:00 EST 09/07/08 - The Gusmao de facto AMP government and its allies in the national parliament have to listen to Amnesty International's concerns, said the MPs from FRETILIN yesterday, as a further 21 students were arrested while holding another peaceful protest against government corruption. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1713487 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1713487 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:19:00 EST Horta condemns police action - Police capture protesters. Osorio: Dictatorship is starting to appear - Lasama appeals for students to be calm - Ed: Petroleum fund, people's money - CTF report to hand over in Bali http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1710070 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1710070 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:06:00 EST 7:13pm on 8 July 2008 Radio NZ East Timorese and United Nations anti-riot police arrested at least 16 students on Tuesday during a second day of protests against a plan to import cars for its 65 politicians. In June, parliament decided to buy Toyota Land Cruisers. The students claim the government ordered 65 vehicles from Japan for more than $US2 million, but the government says the order is for 26 cars at $US900,000. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1709980 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1709980 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:32:00 EST JSMP: Horta wrong over amnesty law - PM Xanana: payment for the petitioners in final process - Ed: Good for PM Xanana to respond in Parliament http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1703572 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1703572 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:15:00 EST ABC Radio Australia East Timor's Oppositiion Fretilin Party has called on the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to explain why a lucrative contract has gone to a member of his party the CNRT. The contract for the importation of rice has been doubled to 16,000 tons to provide improved food security in the country. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1699883 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1699883 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:03:00 EST DILI, July 7 (Reuters) - East Timor police arrested 21 people and fired tear gas to disperse a protest against a parliament decision to buy 65 luxury cars - one for each member of parliament -- in one of the world's poorest nations. East Timor's parliament decided last month to buy the Toyota Land Cruisers amid soaring food and oil prices in a country where the average income is about 50 U.S. cents a day and 42 percent are unemployed. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1698031 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1698031 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:55:00 EST The Australian - AUSTRALIAN-East Timorese citizen Angelita Pires has appealed to the Australian Government for assistance as she faces possible charges of crimes against the state and conspiracy to murder East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1691399 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1691399 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:06:00 EST EAST Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has signed a $US14.4 million food security contract giving sole import rights to the vice-president of his political party - a deal that is ringing alarm bells at the UN and among the impoverished country's main donors, including Australia. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1691398 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1691398 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:04:00 EST Nine years ago, during East Timor's vote for independence, Joni Marques was the leader of a brutal pro-Indonesian militia, Tim Alpha; a group that murdered and tortured fellow East Timorese. Now, newly-released from prison after a presidential pardon, he is just another one of Dili's shifting residents, surviving in the rudimentary family home, trying to pick up the strands of his life. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1675867 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1675867 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:25:00 EST The Jakarta Post 05/07/08 Despite several months of delay and mounting public pressure, the government remains uncertain as to when it will announce the findings of the Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship. Indonesia and Timor Leste established the commission in 2005 to investigate alleged human rights violations by the Indonesian Military (TNI) before, during and after the UN-administered independence vote in the former Indonesian province in 1999. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1675866 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1675866 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:21:00 EST Suara Timor Lorosae DILI - The East Timor Students Forum is threatening hunger strikes because its members feel deceived by the National Parliament about the agreement to purchase luxury motor vehicles being reduced from 65 to 26 vehicles. (translation) http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1651504 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=1651504 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:10:00 EST