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2010 Timor-Leste: Time for the UN to Step Back – International Crisis Group. December 15,  2010 (PDF format) Timor-Leste: Justice in the Shadow – Amnesty International June 2010 (PDF format) No Human Rights Watch world report for 2010 Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste - Amnesty International Report 2010  2009 'We cry for justice’: Impunity persists 10 years on in Timor-Leste – Amnesty International August 2009 (PDF format) Timor-Leste World Report 2009 - Human Rights Watch. January 14, 2009 US State Department 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Timor-Leste - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. February 25, 2009 Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste - Amnesty International Report 2009  2008 Timor-Leste - International Religious Freedom Report 2008 - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. September 19, 2008 Timor-Leste Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007 - US State Department. March 11, 2008 Burying the past in impunity – Backgrounder on the Indonesia/Timor-Leste Commission of Truth and Friendship - TAPOL February, 2008 ‘Out of Civil Disorder Towards the Challenges of Well-being’ - HAK Association Human Rights Situation 2008 Inquest into the death of Brian Raymond Peters - Magistrate Dorelle Pinch, Coroner (PDF format). Timor-Leste - International Religious Freedom Report 2008 - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. September 19, 2008 East Timor: A new dawn? - James Dunn, May 2008  Timor-Leste's displacement crisis - International Crisis Group Asia Report. March 31, 2008 (executive summary and recommendations only) Timor-Leste Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007 - US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. March 11, 2008 Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission report – International Center for Transitional Justice (PDF format) Timor-Leste World Report 2008 - Human Rights Watch. January 31, 2008 Human Rights in Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste - Amnesty International Report 2008  2007 State Department background notes on Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) - Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs - August 2007 World Report Timor-Leste 2007 - Human Rights Watch. January 11, 2007  2006 UN Commission of Inquiry report  Summary of findings full report http://www.ohchr.org/english/(PDF format) Resolving Timor-Leste’s crisis - International Crisis Group. October 10, 2006 East Timor Human Development Report 2006 - United Nations Development Program Tortured Beginnings - Police Violence and the Beginnings of Impunity in East Timor - Human Rights Watch. April 2006 (PDF format) World Report Timor-Leste 2006 - Human Rights Watch. January 18, 2006  2005 Truth and Friendship Commission undermines search for justice - Tapol Bulletin No 178 March-June, 2005 World Report Timor-Leste 2005 - Human Rights Watch. January 2005  2004 World Report East Timor 2004 - Human Rights Watch. January 1, 2004  2003 US State Depertment Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2002 - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. March 31, 2003 World Report Timor-Leste 2003 - Human Rights Watch. January 2003

2002 Justice denied for East Timor - Human Rights Watch December 2002 Masters of Terror: Indonesia’s Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999 - Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University 2002 The IFI threat to East Timorese economic independence - Dr Tim Anderson, Aidwatch. October 8, 2002 World Report Timor-Leste 2002 - Human Rights Watch. January 2002  2001 Ford, Kissinger and the Indonesian Invasion, 1975-76 - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book - December 6, 2001 The World Bank in East Timor - Aidwatch Briefing Notes, June 2001 East Timor's political parties and groupings - Pat Walsh, Australian Council for Overseas Aid April 2001 World Report Timor-Leste 2001 - Human Rights Watch. January 2001  2000 Indonesian Commission of Investigation into Human Rights Violations Report - Komnas HAM. January 31, 2000 Report on the investigation of human rights violations in East Timor - Executive Summary - Komnas HAM. January 31, 2000 International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor 2000 - United Nations Office of the High Commissioner. January 2000  1995-1999 Crimes against humanity in East Timor: January to October 1999 - Their Nature and Causes. By James Dunn East Timor under the Indonesian jackboot - Tapol report, November 15, 1998 East Timor Human Rights Centre annual report - February 17, 1998 Human Rights Watch/Asia report on East Timor - September 29, 1997 East Timor, a review of 1997 - Commissonfor the Rights of the Maubere People - January/February 1997 End the Atrocity in East Timor - Noam Chomsky - January 1995