Timor gangs promise mayhem on East Timor's streets
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With names like "Cold Blooded Killers", "Provoke me and I'll Smash You" and "Beaten Black and Blue", East Timor's youth gangs promise mayhem on streets which not so long ago offered hope.
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The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burned tires and threw stones to protest a raid by international troops on the fugitive's hideout.
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East Timor&#039;s president extended his emergency powers and warned of possible early elections amid fresh fears of violence as thousands of supporters of the ex-premier massed on the edge of the capital.
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Australian-led troops are hunting for rebels thought to have carried out attacks on East Timor's top leaders.
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Mobs torch buses and burn driver to death as rival gangs confront each other in latest escalation of unrest
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Fighting and looting erupted in East Timor&#039;s capital on Tuesday as its leaders held urgent meetings to find a way out of the worst crisis in the young nation&#039;s seven-year history.
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East Timor risks lapsing into civil conflict if divisions between police and army forces are not resolved, a security watchdog cautioned Friday, calling on the government and United Nations to act quickly.
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Close to 2,000 guns have been rounded up in restive East Timor in an ongoing effort to get firearms off the country's violent streets, the head of the multinational forces said.
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The political leaders of unrest-plagued East Timor have pledged to work together to return peace and order to the fledgling nation.
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In the wake of Mondayâs twinned attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor, the United Nations and East Timorese police have begun a joint investigation.
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Crack Australian troops landed in East Timor as new fighting between the military and rebel soldiers forced thousands to flee the worst violence in the independent nation&#039;s history.
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Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.
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Authorities in East Timor impose a night-time curfew after an attack on President Jose Ramos-Horta.
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Troops are scouring the jungle outside East Timor's capital for rebels blamed for an attack that seriously wounded the country's Nobel Peace prize-winning president, an official said Saturday.
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Soldiers fired on unarmed police in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, as international troops landed to try to end the fighting that threatens to push the country closer to civil war.
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The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet  but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of  rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burned tires and threw stones to  protest a raid by international troops on the fugitive's  hideout.
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Armored U.N. vehicles guarded East Timor's leaders Tuesday under a state of emergency declared after rebel soldiers critically wounded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president and fired at the prime minister's convoy.