1. Mob Steals Criminal Files from 1999 Bloodshed in E Timor
2. A Display of Power: E Timor
3. Australia Urges Alkatiri to Put Timor First
4. Australians Safe Despite Vehicle Bombing in Iraq
5. Overseas Missions Get Their Own Police
6. Papuan Religious Leader Spooked by Indonesian Security Officers
7. The Other Disaster on our Doorstep: PNG

1. Mob Steals Criminal Files from 1999 Bloodshed, Mark Dodd, Australian, 2006-05-30

   Attorney-General Longuinhos Monteiro confirmed at least 12 per cent of East Timor’s entire criminal archive is missing after a mob looted the Attorney-General’s office. The lost files include ones for General Wiranto, Indonesia’s former armed forces chief, who was indicted by UN-backed prosecutors for rights abuses in East Timor. Wiranto has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

   • U.N. Serious Crimes Unit – Timor-Leste

   • Judicial System Monitoring Program, East Timor

   • Operation Astute, Timor-Lest, Australian Department of Defence, 2006-05-30

   • Operation Astute, Wikipedia

   • Masters of Terror: Indonesia’s Military and Violence in East Timor, Gerry Van Klinken, Richard Tanter and Des Ball, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006

      

2. A Display of Power, Paul Kelly, Australian, 2006-05-31

   Australia’s intervention in East Timor is both military and political. Its primary purpose was to respond to East Timor’s security crisis. But this is not just a military intervention. It transcends the domain of law and order and penetrates to East Timor’s political crisis. In this sense Australia is operating as a regional power or a potential hegemony that shapes security and political outcomes.

   • When To Stay and When to Go, Geoffrey Barker, AFR*, 2006-05-31
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   • Australian Forces Seen Mired in Mission, Michael Keats, Washington Times, 2006-05-31

   • East Timor Crisis Due to Multiple Defense Forces, Ramesh Thakur, Daily Yomiuri, 2006-05-31

   • Blind to Timor’s Growing Pains, David Martin-Jones, AFR*, 2006-05-30
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   • We’ll Need A Lot Of Luck To Beat The Odds In East Timor, Hugh White, SMH, 2006-05-30

      

3. Australia Urges Alkatiri to Put Timor First, John Kerin and Geoffrey Barker, AFR*, 2006-06-01

   Australia has directly appealed to Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to do what is in “the best interests of the nation”. The appeal came after Dr Alkatiri declined to accept he had been stripped of his national security powers by President Xanana Gusmao. Two rebel defence faction leaders, Major Alfredo Reinado and Lieutenant Gastao Salshina, said Dr Alkatiri should resign or be sacked.
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   • Stand Up, the Real Mr Alkatiri, Helen Hill, Age, 2006-06-01

   • Alfredo Alves Reinado: Looking Back in Anger at a Life Less Ordinary, Tom Hyland, Age, 2006-06-01

      

4. Australians Safe Despite Vehicle Bombing in Iraq, Cynthia Banham, SMH, 2006-06-01

   An Australian military vehicle in Iraq was damaged by a roadside bomb as the Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, said Australian soldiers were moving into a more dangerous phase. Defence confirmed that an Australian light armoured vehicle, part of a convoy escorting Japanese engineers back to base in the southern city of Samawah, had two tyres blown out. All Australians had been accounted for and were safe.

   • Commencement of New Training Tasks in Iraq, Minister for Defence, Media Release, Min 90/0631, 2006-05-31

      

5. Overseas Missions Get Their Own Police, Cynthia Banham, SMH, 2006-06-01

   Dedicated service police investigators are being sent to all of Australia’s major military deployments, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Solomon Islands and E. Timor. They will operate under an independent chain of command to the deployed troops, answerable to the Chief of Defence Force through a new chief investigator, Provost Marshal-Australian Defence Force, Colonel Tim Grutzner.

    

6. Papuan Religious Leader Spooked by Indonesian Security Officers, RNZI, 2006-05-31

   The head of the Papua’s Baptist church says harassment by Indonesia won’t stop him speaking out about human rights and justice in the province. Reverend Socratez Sofyan Yoman has released a list of incidents this year when he has been terrorised and intimidated by Indonesian military, police or intelligence officers.

   • Peace in Papua, Widening a Window of Opportunity, Blair A King, CSR No. 14, Council on Foreign Relations, March 2006 [PDF]

      

7. The Other Disaster on our Doorstep, Allan Patience, SMH, 2006-06-01

   The UN has warned that PNG may be downgraded from being a “developing state” to a “least developed state”, ranking it among the poorest nations in the world. Canberra’s befuddled responses to the looming crisis in PNG have been as reactive as its responses to the Honiara and Dili catastrophes.

   • UN report puts PNG HIV cases at 60,000, The National, AAP, 2006-06-01

   • 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, UNAIDS

   • 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, Annex 1: Country Profiles M-Q (p. 31), UNAids, 2006 [PDF]

      

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