Independence

2002 20 May – Independence: VIP guests including former US president Bill Clinton and Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri join celebrations in Dili.

2002 20 May – Independence: VIP guests including former US president Bill Clinton and Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri join celebrations in Dili.

2004 November – End of two-year process under which 18 people were tried by Indonesian court for human rights abuses in East Timor during 1999 independence drive. Only one conviction – that of militia leader Eurico Guterres – is left standing.

2005 April – East Timor, Indonesia sign landmark border agreement during Indonesian President Yudhoyono’s first visit to Dili since coming to power.

2005 June – Remaining Australian peacekeepers leave.

2005 August – Truth commission, set up by East Timor and Indonesia, holds its first meeting. The body, which has no power to prosecute, will examine the violence that accompanied East Timor’s independence in 1999.

source:  http://news.bbc.co.uk