East Timor Law & Justice Bulletin

The Age Jo Chandler August 20, 2008

TWO weeks ago, the families of "disappeared" victims of the 1991 Santa Cruz Cemetery massacre gathered at a site west of the East Timor capital, Dili, and held a ceremony calling for spirits of their dead to rise out of the earth.

They were watched by an international team of forensic experts, led by a Melbourne scientist and helped by local police and medics she had trained for the task. The team then resumed digging trenches across the site, looking for evidence of a long-rumoured mass grave that might hold the bodies of up to 100 victims of the massacre. Read more...

An unofficial English translation of Law of the National Parliament of East Timor No 6/2008 on the Legal Regime for Financing of Political Parties is now available on East Timor Law Journal. Click here to read the translation.

REPUBLICA DEMOCRATICA DE TIMOR-LESTE
IV Governo Constitucional
SECRETARIAT OF STATE FOR THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

PRESS RELEASE

Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers 21 August 2008

The Council of Ministers met this Wednesday, 21th August 2008, in the Council of Ministers meeting room, Government Palace, in Díli where it analysed and discussed a document presented by the Ministry of Finance that proposes some guidelines regarding the 2009 State General Budget.



Secretariat of State of the Council of Ministers
Dili, Government Palace, 21 August 2008


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