One voter in the capital Dili, Joao da Costa, said the election was peaceful.
The mood in the capital Dili was calm, Michael Maley, a volunteer observer told the Australian broadcaster.
Their feelings have been strengthened by pictures appearing in the media of Australian soldiers in Dili searching people at gunpoint.
On September 21st, Sander Thoenes, a Dutch journalist based in Jakarta for the Financial Times, was killed in a Dili suburb.
Its northern town of Darwin is only 690km (430 miles) from Dili.
Jakarta, in fact, had become more of a battleground than Dili.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | East Timor: Step Forward, With Caution
Five people were reported dead in Dili, the capital of East Timor , when police fired on a crowd protesting against the arrest of a student.
On April 21st he produced a peace agreement, signed in Jakarta by Mr Gusmao, and in Dili by leaders of the local pro-independence and pro-integration factions.
Within a week of the vote for independence on August 30th, this had been reduced to a symbolic presence in a besieged compound in East Timor's capital, Dili.
In the picturesque hilltop town of Ermera southwest of the capital Dili, a woman is near tears as she says prayers for the dead during a recent Sunday mass.
But the multinational force, now numbering more than 2, 000 troops, is still way below its final strength of 7, 500 and has yet to fan out through Dili and beyond.
DILI, East Timor (CNN) -- As the presence of an international peacekeeping force in East Timor grows, so do the hopes of pro-independence East Timorese after weeks of terror and violence.
The arrival of Australian Blackhawk helicopters triggered a minor dust storm at the Dili airport Tuesday, while trucks and armored vehicles rolled ashore from the small naval armada off the coast.
Heading east from Dili to the village of Becora, the highway is deserted except our little convoy--a military truck bearing two tons of rice, and two cars carrying military officers and journalists.
On Monday, troops from the Indonesian Air Force's special forces, the Paskhas, herded goats off the Dili tarmac and watched curiously as a C-130 Hercules transport plane brought in a unit of Australian commandos.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | East Timor: Step Forward, With Caution
Significantly, elite troops of Australia's Special Air Service Regiment, understood to have infiltrated into East Timor in advance of Interfet's arrival in Dili Sept. 20, have already linked up with Falintil's Ruak in his mountain base.
The workshop was organized by the Haburas Foundation, the Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science for Asia and the Pacific (based in Jakarta) and took place in Dili, Timor Leste, on 7-8 June 2011.
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