Timorese president Taur Matan Ruak awarded ETAN/Canada with the Order of East Timor in 2015. Pictrued are former Timorese refugees and CNRM representatives in Canada Abé Barreto Soares and Bella Galhos with the Order of Timor-Leste medal, Dili. (Photo: David Webster)
This item includes various speeches by East Timorese youth ambassadors during the tour of America in 1993. It also includes a list of Abé Soares' relatives in East Timor.
Abé ho Aloz in performance. Timorese-Canadian duo Abé Barreto Soares and Aloz MacDonald performed numerous shows across Canada in support of the Timorese cause.
Item consists of a press release, reports, project summaries, handwritten notes, and correspondence. The documents discuss Canada's economic aid projects and economic interest in Indonesia.
Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded in 1989 and Canada was hosting the annual meeting in Vancouver in 1997. The President of Indonesia was attending and students were protesting his arrival.
This item contains:
APEC position paper for ETAN
Anti - APEC action network minutes
Stop APEC globalization people! (flyer)
House of Commons debates
Arrest Suharto campaign
Alatas confident Canada can ban
Citizen's arrest of Suharto
Groups will demonstrate at APEC trade ministers meeting (ENG/FRA)
In Canada, solidarity activists rallied to try to make a “citizen’s arrest” of Indonesian president Suharto at the 1997 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, picking up on the example of Timorese activists who had put their country’s struggle at the centre of the 1994 APEC summit in Jakarta.
The Asia- Pacific Conference on East Timor was held in May of 1994 in Manila. The goal of the conference was to bring into focus the Timorese's people's right to self-determination and consolidate its support network in the Asia-Pacific region.
This item contains:
New York Times editorials regarding the conference
An update from APCET including what other countries are doing in solidarity for East Timor
A proposal of a creative visual presentation popularizing the East Timorese issue to the Filipino general public
Message of solidarity to political prisoners in the Philippines
Second APCET conference in November of 1996
Thailand tries to muzzle APCET III (email correspondence)
Newspaper articles
Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor leaflet and documents
The Asia- Pacific Conference on East Timor was held in May of 1994 in Manila. The goal of the conference was to bring into focus the Timorese's people's right to self-determination and consolidate its support network in the Asia-Pacific region.
This item contains:
A personal account of events and controversy surrounding the conference
Resolutions adopted at APCET
Remembering Dili
Statement to APCET regarding the implementation of the declaration of granting independence to colonial countries
A Powerplay Backfires (newspaper article)
Philippines decision to ban the entry of aliens that pose a danger to their country and a reply from ETAN
Canadian (Shannon Scharfe) faces arrest for attending conference on East Timor in the Philippines
Shannon Scharfe's statement regarding the arrest
Indonesia tries to suppress East Timor conference in the Philippines.
Foreigners banned from attending Asian Conference on East Timor
The Asia- Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET) was held in May of 1994 in Manila. The goal of the conference was to bring into focus the Timorese's people's right to self-determination and consolidate its support network in the Asia-Pacific region.
This item contains:
Press release/statements following the order to ban foreigners from the conference
News articles following the Philipino ban of foreigners heading to Timor meeting
Letter to all the participants of APCET in Manila, the Philippines
A report from APCET by Charles Scheiner; History of East Timor; Resolutions from APCET conference; Speeches delivered at APCET
Barbara McDougall was the Secretary of State of External affairs for Canada who met with the Indonesian Foreign Minister in Seoul in 1991.
This item contains:
a request for the transcript of the complete meeting between Barbara McDougall and the Indonesian Foreign Minister.
a letter from McDougall where she says that she told the foreign minister of Indonesia that she was upset with the recent shootings in East Timor and she suspended the approval to the new aid projects to Indonesia
Item consists of biographical information regarding Abé Barreto Soares, including press clippings, correspondence, a flyer for a fundraising event in Australia, and two graphic photographs depicting nudity and scenes of violence.
The Bata Shoe Company, in Toronto, had two factories in Indonesia. ETAN had urged them to remove their factories and began planning a boycott of Bata shoes.