Important Documents

• Security Council Resolution 1272 of 25th October 1999, establishing a United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor (English/French)

• Regulation 2000/11 of UNTAET setting up a judicial sytem in East Timor and notably creating a Tribunal responsible for judging serious crimes (English)
  
  
• Regulation 2000/15 of UNTAET on the establisement of panels with exclusive juridiction over serious ciminal offenses
  
  
• Regulation 2000/16 of UNTAET on the organization of the public prosecution service in East Timor

• Other documents can be found in English under site PICT (English)

• Several useful articles, reports and comments can be looked up on the site of JSPM (English)

General Links

• Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSPM) 

• Project on International Courts and Tribunal (PICT) 

• East Timor Action Network (ETAN) 

• Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor

Links "Historical benchmarks"

• Justice abandoned? An Assessment of the Serious Crimes Process in East Timor, International Center for Transitional Justice, June 2005.

• Harrington, Andrew, '25th of May 2006 Massacre & War Crimes in Timor-Leste', East Timor Law Journal, 24 January 2007, 55 pages.

• UN commission of inquiry issues report on violent crisis that shook Timor-Leste in 2006. 

• Progress to date in the cases of Lobato and Alkatiri, Judicial System Monitoring Programme, september 2006.

• Report on human rights developments in Timor-Leste, August 2006-August 2007, United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste.

• A chronology of key events in East Timor, BBC News.

Links "Organisation of the Courts"

• Security Council Resolution 1272 of 25th October 1999, establishing a United Nations Transitional Administration for East Timor (English/French).

• Regulation 2000/11 of UNTAET setting up a judicial system in East Timor and notably creating a Tribunal responsible for judging serious crimes.

• Regulation 2000/15 of UNTAET on the establisement of panels with exclusive juridiction over serious ciminal offenses.

• Regulation 2000/16 of UNTAET on the organization of the public prosecution service in East Timor.

• Report to the Secretary-General of the Commission of Experts to Review the Prosecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in Timor-Leste (then East Timor) in 1999 (English, with introduction in french).

Links "Cases in Timor"

• Judgments of the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor, April 2007.

• Justice in Timor Leste, Human Rights Watch, January 2006.

• Digest of the Jurisprudence of the Special Panels for Serious Crimes, Judicial System Monitoring Programme.

• The Courts of Timor Leste in 2007, Judicial System Monitoring Programme.

Links "Appraisal and Future Prospects"

• Report presented to the Secretary General by the Commission of Experts in charge of the “Review of the Prosecution of Serious Violations of Human Rights in Timor Leste (the then East Timor) in 1999.

• Aftermath Timor Leste: reconciling competing notions of justice, Parlement d’Australie, mise à jour le 21 mai 2007.