Making Friends, and History
The report by the bilateral Indonesia-East Timor Commission for Truth and Friendship, or CTF, received…More
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Reinado to Gusmao: You Created Me
Tonight on Al Jazeera’s 101 East Program, a spokesperson for the East Timorese Prime Minister,…More
A Model Dictator
In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an…More
Neo-Cold War Politics 101
The current situation in East Timor makes me think of my first year American Politics…More
Two Tutorials in Politics
When the Timor Sea Treaty was presented to the East Timor Parliament in 2002, Prime…More
Blood Under the Carpet
The 2007 NSW Coronial Inquest into the killing of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor…More
Ramos Horta Rising
‘Horta, Horta,’ a young businessman chanted as he greeted me on Election Day in Dili.…More
Playing Favourites
Recent Australian representations of elections in East Timor have reflected the wishful thinking of the…More
Democracy Split
The votes cast in the 9 April first round of East Timor’s Presidential elections have…More
The Blood of Balibo
In October 1975, five journalists (including the Englishman Brian Peters) went to the border town…More