This newsletter contains:

• Introducing the East Timor News Agency
• Indonesians Lose 525 in Battle
• Brief Reports
• 'Shut Up' Refugees Told
• Freedom Fighters' Radio
• Timor Link Keeps Hope Alive (by Kerry Sharp)
• Men Found Guilty of Illegal Exports to East Timor
• ACTU Lifts Ban on Chile Wheat (from Keith Martin)
• Roger East's Body Burned
• Timor Probe Sought
• Jakarta Gets Our Old Jets (from Michael Richardson)
• Indonesia Accused of Mass Murders in East Timor (by David Watts)
• Fretilin says Hard to Crush, Malik
• Peacock Gets Poll on Timor (by Peter Game)
• Jakarta Loses Plane in Timor Attack (from Hamish McDonald)
• Timor Appeasement Must End (by Michael Hodgman)
• Boat Gift to Indonesia
• Inside Occupied Dili
• Offensive Fails

East Timor: Betrayed but not Beaten

• Introduction
• Military Conflict
• Fretilin
• East Timor Today
• Appeals for Peace
• The United Nations
• Key Players
• Resistance
• The Church
• "No Blood for Oil"
• New Zealand
• What You Can Do?

Nettalk newsletter, Update 11, April 1998

• Nino Konis Santana - Tragic Death
• NZ diplomats visit East Timor - their findings remain secret
• International Solidarity (Third conference on East Timor held in Bangkok)
• Inside East Timor (No Positive Improvements in East Timor Yet; Ramos Horta - Cautious Optimism for 1998)
• Problems in Indonesia may lead to an independent East Timor
• International (United States military training for Indonesia's crack forces exposed)
• Inside Indonesia (Indonesia - the gathering storm)
• NZ Response to East Timor
• Aotearoa Newsbriefs (Confrontation at Lilybank)
• East Timor Resistance
• East Timorese continue to seek embassy asylum

Nettalk newsletter, Update 12, July 1998

• Inside Indonesia (Release Xanana Gusmão - No conditions!; A 'Special status' for East Timor)
• Inside East Timor (Atrocities continue in East Timor; Ferment in Dili)
• Inside Aotearoa (New Zealand trains Indonesia's 'eminently responsible' military)
• Timorese National Convention (Formation of new structure - National Council of Timorese Resistance)
• PRD - Demanding [real reforms]
• Suharto departs (An opening of democratic space in Indonesia)
• Indonesian Economy (The International Monetary Fund)
• International Solidarity (United States; the Philippines; Japan; United Kingdom; Australia; United Nations)
• News Briefs (Panjaitan; PRD Visit; July 17 demos; Christchurch Demonstration)
• Some Suharto Assets in NZ (Lilybank; Garuda airlines; Brierleys; Hospitality Industry)

Nettalk newsletter, Update 13, October 1998

• Inside Aotearoa (Skyhawk Contract deals NZ into arms exports to Indonesia; Indonesia's offer of autonomy - a Clayton's deal?)
• Inside East Timor (Journalist Killings at Balibo - Truth at Last; Activist visits East Timor as Suharto departs; Visit of East Timorese Activist - Virgilio da Silva Gutteres)
• A Solution for East Timor (Change is coming; Autonomy or independence?; Negotiations; Referendum; Beware of troop increases; Survival as a small country; An independent East Timor)
• Inside Indonesia (Chinese Indonesians Raped)
• Demonstrations in Dili
• Inside East Timor (Fr Terry Dibble visits East Timor)
• News Briefs (Indonesia - Protests continue; US restrictions on military training and weapons sales; Timor Gap oil production begins)
• Inside Aotearoa (East Timor Case Pushed in Wellington)
• NZ joins the call for the release of Xanana Gusmão cautiously

Nettalk newsletter, Update 14, February 1999

• International Support for East Timor Transition
• Inside East Timor (Bishop Belo to visit NZ; The Violence Continues)
• Inside Aotearoa (NZ Government failure of leadership on East Timor; Regional Reports from Aotearoa East Timor Solidarity Groups)
• Analysis of Indonesia's about-turn [of] independence
• Inside Indonesia (The Future of East Timor - National Liberation; Indonesia reneges on UN "vote")
• Inside East Timor (Indonesia arms Paramilitary Groups)
• News Briefs (Portugal and Indonesia open interest sections in each others capital; Gusmão and Horta tender the olive branch; Australian Labor Party's major policy shift; Bishop Belo)
• Inside Aotearoa (Protest - Export of Skyhawks)
• NZ should seize the opportunity

Nettalk newsletter, Update 15, July 1999

• Jose Ramos Horta and Xanana Gusmão - together in Jakarta
• Inside East Timor (Indonesian military supporting death squads)
• Political change in Indonesia?
• Inside Aotearoa (Suharto Family - links to NZ - and to East Timor; Voting problems; Regional Reports from Aotearoa East Timor Solidarity Groups)
• Can the UN bring hope to East Timor?
• CNRT Offices reopen
• Inside Aotearoa (Outrage over Skyhawk exports)
• Inside East Timor (Punitive Damage)
• East Timor Future (Amidst mayhem and murder - new hope)
• Inside Aotearoa (The New Zealand Government needs to do more to help)
• New links forged between New Zealand and East Timor

Nettalk. Special Action Alert, September 1999

• TROOPS OUT NOW! Murder, Mayhem Must Stop
• Is NZ Doing Enough?
• ACTION STATIONS... Events you can get involved in

Nettalk, Update 16, November 1999

• Xanana's return to East Timor - to plant the seeds of hope
• Inside Aotearoa (Safe Air helps reassemble jets; Indonesian officers continue their NZ studies; East Timorese form new group; NZ Aid agencies respond to the challenge in East Timor; NZ - East Timor Solidarity Groups)
• Inside East Timor (RESPEITU - East Timorese vote)
• Reality of life in East Timor
• International (A wider perspective)
• Inside East Timor (Chomsky - Why we should care)
• Inside Indonesia (Can Wahid improve democracy; Enquiry into Atrocities)
• Solidarity (Support from around the world)
• APEC - East Timor leaders arrive

Your local committee is going into Recess

• Work over the years
• Background
• Financial Matters
• ETIC Auckland Accounts
• Ongoing Solidarity
• Timor Lorosae Support Group
• Indonesia Human Rights Committee
• Call for a Parliamentary Enquiry into NZ East Timor Foreign Policy

No. 5 November 1983 - Jakarta's New Offensive

Contents:

• Red Cross aid blocked at critical time
• New army chief is a hardliner on Timor
• UN defers Timor vote
• Minister to Review Timor admissions policy

East Timor Report No.6 - Jakarta's offensive increases suffering in East Timor

Contains:

• UN Human Rights Commission looks at East Timor again.
• Indonesian Bishops call for end to war In East Timor
• International aid bodies take up Timor issue
• UNICEF in East Timor
• 105 members of US Congress urge Reagan to act on Timor
• British government to consult UN Secretary-General about sending a UN envoy to East Timor
• A Timorese appeal for support

East Timor Report No.7 - Jakarta intensifies East Timor offensive

Contents:

• Morrison report gravely deficient: study
• Timorese unhappy with new family reunion program
• Fretilin proposes tripartite talks
• Ex-commando rates Fretilin survival chances high
• Aid group denied access
• Portuguese Bishops: 'the injustice the Timorese people suffer' must end
• Amnesty fears for 'disappeared'
• Most Timorese reject integration: Dutch Church agency
• How Australia can stop the fighting in East Timor

East Timor Report No. 8 - Timorese leaders urge support for talks

Contents:

• 123 US Congress reps. urge settlement of Timor conflict
• Japanese Bishops appeal to Portugal
• Australian unions support self-determination
• Portugal to push for self-determination
• Pope voices concern over Timor
• UN Secretary-General's report
• Appeal to women
• Ambassador's visit 'too narrow'

No. 9 December 1984 - Amnesty Report

Contents:

• UN again defers Timor debate
• Australian Catholic Orders Support Timor Church
• Asian youth assembly backs self-determination
• Portuguese YMCA alarmed at oppression in Timor
• Bill Morrison and Benny Murdani
• ACFOA calls for talks
• Indigenous Peoples Conference condemns Indonesia
• Fretilin Peace plan
• Urgent Memo

No. 10. Timorese Church wants self-determination and support.

Contents:

• New Zealand ditches Timor
• East Timor: only guided tourists welcome
• UN human rights body drops Timor from agenda
• Catholic Institute criticizes passivity of Western Governments on Timor
• The Church must stand up for Timor: report
• CCA conference resolution
• Eat Timor: only guided tourists welcome

Contents:

• Message de l'administrateur apostolique de Dili / Message from the apostolic administrator of Dili
• L'anniversaire de la Conference de Bandung / The anniversary of the Bandung Conference
• Peut-on faire confience au Governement Indonésien / Can we trust the Indonesian government?
• Les sympathies des Parlementaires à l'égard de Timor / Parliamentarian sympathies towards Timor
• Breves info / Brief information