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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and Connected Computer Networks Volume 43: February 1, 1996 - April 30, 1996

BACKGROUND ARTICLES ............................................................................................................................ 9
EAST TIMOR’S HISTORY FROM SPICES TO CONFLICT....................................................................................9
XANANA A THORN IN INDONESIA’S SIDE .....................................................................................................9
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 10
AI ON DETENTION & TORTURE AFTER SEPT. 95 RIOTS...............................................................................10
REPORT FROM OCTOBER VISIT TO EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................12
FOUR INDONESIAN TROOPS KILLED, NINE INJURED IN VIQUEQUE .........................................................14
TROOPS CAPTURE EAST TIMOR REBEL .......................................................................................................14
INDONESIAN TROOPS KILL SIX TIMORESE REBELS....................................................................................14
TIMORESE REBELS KILL TWO - ANTARA .....................................................................................................15
INDONESIA ARRESTS 27 REBELS IN 10 MONTHS ........................................................................................15
TIMORESE REBEL GIVES UP TO INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES......................................................................15
400 YEARS UNDER PORTUGUESE COLONIZATION, NO ELECTRICITY AT FATUBOSA....................................15
GOVT. TO ORGANIZE DOMESTIC TOUR FOR EAST TIMOR TEACHERS.........................................................16
SEVEN INJURED AS INDONESIA QUELLS TIMOR JAIL RIOT.......................................................................16
GUERRILLAS FACE NEW ARMY ONSLAUGHT...............................................................................................17
INCREASED MILITARISATION AND WORSENING HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST TIMOR CONFIRMED ................18
FIGHTING AND KILLING CONTINUES IN EAST TIMOR.................................................................................19
AI UPDATE ON JOSÉ ANTONIO BELO...........................................................................................................19
PORTUGAL, COME QUICKLY... AND LIBERATE US!.......................................................................................21
ANTONIO, FALLEN STAR ..............................................................................................................................22
Documents on East Timor from
PeaceNet and Connected Computer Networks
Volume 43: February 1, 1996 - April 30, 1996
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Much of this information is translated and supplied by TAPOL (London), CDPM (Lisbon), CNRM, Free
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they are not responsible for editorial comment or selection.
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KONIS SANTANA: U.S. HOLDS THE KEY......................................................................................................23
GIANT STATUE PROJECT HALTED ...............................................................................................................23
JAKARTA TIGHTENS SECURITY IN DILI .......................................................................................................23
TIMORESE ARRESTED IN FATUBERLIU........................................................................................................23
MA’HUNO’S SON BEATEN TO A COMA.........................................................................................................24
SUMAMPOUW’S BIGGEST BET (COFFEE)......................................................................................................24
MARINE SOLDIERS FROM EAST TIMOR ARE VERY NEEDED ......................................................................26
EAST TIMORESE YOUNG PEOPLE IN STRUGGLE..........................................................................................26
ABRI FACTION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VISITS EAST TIMOR ......................................................28
RP 4.8 BILLION FOR COOPERATIVES AND SMALL INDUSTRIES IN EAST TIMOR ..........................................28
INDONESIA TO OPEN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE IN TIMOR ...........................................................................28
TIMORESE REPORTEDLY KILLED FOR RAISING FLAG..................................................................................29
TIMOR TENSION HIGH AFTER PROTEST DEATHS .......................................................................................29
OMCT ALERT ON AFONSO GONÇALVES AND ANTONIO LUIS SOARES ........................................................29
ASYLUM-SEEKING CONTINUES ................................................................................................................. 30
CHRONOLOGY OF EMBASSY ASYLUM BIDS FOR EAST TIMORESE ...............................................................30
POLAND SETS UP COMMITTEE ON TIMORESE REFUGEES ..........................................................................30
YET ANOTHER EMBASSY OCCUPATION (FRENCH) .......................................................................................31
29 EAST TIMORESE APPLY TO LEAVE FOR PORTUGAL..................................................................................31
AI ALERT ON BOAT PEOPLE ARRESTS .........................................................................................................32
AI UPDATE ON NOVEMBER 1995 BOAT PEOPLE............................................................................................32
TIMORESE GATECRASH AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY...........................................................................................33
EAST TIMORESE DENIED ACCESS TO AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS ..............................................................33
TIMORESE IN OZ AND FRENCH EMBASSIES................................................................................................34
TIMORESE LEAVE FRENCH JAKARTA MISSION FOR PORTUGAL...................................................................34
MORE TIMORESE SAID READY TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND......................................................................35
TALKS BETWEEN AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, ASYLUM-SEEKERS CONTINUE.....................................................35
NINE EAST TIMORESE REJECT OFFER TO GO TO PORTUGAL......................................................................36
ASYLUM SEEKERS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL ................................................................................................36
SUICIDE ATTEMPT: ET ASYLUM SEEKERS ...................................................................................................37
INDONESIAN MILITARY ABDUCTS HOSPITALISED ASYLUM SEEKERS .........................................................37
TIMORESE IN AUSTRALIAN MISSION STILL IN STALEMATE .......................................................................37
ASIET: 5 EAST TIMORESE OUT OF EMBASSY ................................................................................................38
CNRM STATEMENT ON ASYLUM SEEKERS ...................................................................................................38
MILITARY GRILLS ASYLUM-SEEKERS, SAYS ASSOCIATE ..............................................................................40
FOUR TIMORESE LEAVE DUTCH EMBASSY IN RECORD TIME......................................................................40
FOUR EAST TIMORESE SITTING TIGHT AT AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY...............................................................41
ENTRY ATTEMPT AT PALESTINIAN EMBASSY................................................................................................41
INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ON JAKARTA EMBASSY ASYLUM-SEEKERS....................................................41
TIMORESE IN AUSTRALIA MISSION LIKELY FOR PORTUGAL........................................................................42
FOUR EAST TIMORESE LEAVE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, TO STAY...................................................................43
TIMORESE ENTER FRENCH AND POLISH JAKARTA MISSIONS AHEAD OF TALKS ........................................43
TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE JAILED................................................................................................................44
TIMORESE FORCED TO LEAVE GERMAN EMBASSY ......................................................................................44
EAST TIMOR LEADER TO LODGE COMPLAINT AGAINST GERMANY.............................................................46
BONN SUMMONS INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR IN TIMOR CASE..................................................................46
TIMORESE HELD IN JAKARTA RELEASED ...................................................................................................47
PCP DEMANDS EXPLANATION .....................................................................................................................47
THREE TIMORESE IN HOSPITAL .................................................................................................................47
GERMANY REGRETS INCIDENTS .................................................................................................................47
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LETTER TO GERMANS..................................................................................................................................48
THREE TIMORESE ENTER DUTCH EMBASSY ................................................................................................49
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 49
GOVERNMENT NETWORK HACKED BY FREE TIMOR SUPPORTERS..............................................................49
WHAT CORRUPTION DOES ..........................................................................................................................49
INDONESIA SAYS STILL NEEDS SUBVERSION LAW .....................................................................................50
BISHOP BELO’S NIECE ARRESTED IN PRIOK...............................................................................................50
MUI AID TO TIMOR MUSLIMS ......................................................................................................................50
‘TIMOR’ CAR TO BE PRODUCED BY TOMMY SUHARTO ................................................................................51
HUMAN RIGHTS GUIDE BOOK.....................................................................................................................51
DOMESTIC SITUATION CALLS FOR MORE SERIOUS ATTENTION................................................................52
ARMED FORCES CHIEF: HUMAN RIGHTS ALONE CANNOT SOLVE NATIONAL PROBLEMS...........................52
ARMED FORCES SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT THE GROUPINGS IN SOCIETY ............................................52
PAKPAHAN CALLS FOR REFERENDUM IN EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................52
TIMOR - INDONESIA’S MAIN PROBLEM ......................................................................................................54
SUHARTO WARNS AGAINST INDONESIAN DISINTEGRATION .....................................................................54
INDON PARTY BOSS SAYS TIMOR A NON-ISSUE .........................................................................................54
NIP THIS REBELLION (IRIAN JAYA).............................................................................................................54
DPR MEMBER REGRETS DYSFUNCTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OFFICE....................................55
INDONESIANS JEALOUS OF EAST TIMOR HANDOUTS .................................................................................55
INDONESIA AIR SHOW (IAS) IN JUNE ‘96 ..................................................................................................56
DISINFORMATION FROM THE INDONESIAN SIDE .................................................................................... 57
MULADI IN MATRA: EAST TIMORESE TERRORISM?......................................................................................57
EAST TIMORESE CLAIM OVER PORTUGAL IS REALISTIC.............................................................................57
WOMEN’S ROLE HAS IMPROVED RAPIDLY ..................................................................................................58
RAFTY: THE EAST TIMOR QUESTION: AS I SEE IT.........................................................................................58
EUROPE-ASIA SUMMIT IN BANGKOK........................................................................................................ 61
THAILAND TO BAR TIMOR LEADER .............................................................................................................61
GAC TO PREPARE FOR BANGKOK SUMMIT..................................................................................................61
EAST ASIANS SEEK TO AVOID CONTROVERSY AT EU SUMMIT....................................................................62
EAST TIMOR AND THE ASIA-EUROPE SUMMIT............................................................................................62
JAKARTA WORRIED BY TIMOR....................................................................................................................62
PARIS-JAKARTA – WITHOUT PASSING THROUGH TIMOR.............................................................................63
PARIS DOES NOT WANT ANY CLASHES ......................................................................................................64
PRESSURE GROUPS PLAN ALTERNATIVE ASIA-EUROPE TALKS..................................................................64
HOST THAIS SAY NO SENSITIVE TOPICS ....................................................................................................64
EU WANTS SENSITIVE ISSUES BROACHED ..................................................................................................65
EU WON’T PUSH HUMAN RIGHTS ...............................................................................................................65
EU MINISTERS AGREE ON BANGKOK PREPARATIONS.................................................................................66
ASIANS STEER SUMMIT WITH EU AWAY FROM CONTROVERSY .................................................................66
EU-ASIA MEETING TO TARGET BIASES.........................................................................................................67
HUMAN RIGHTS LOOMS OVER ASIA SUMMIT ..............................................................................................68
PORTUGAL DETERMINED TO KEEP ASIAN EYES ON TIMOR.........................................................................69
AMNESTY: SUMMIT MUST INCLUDE STRONG COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS......................................70
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: DON’T IGNORE HUMAN RIGHTS .........................................................................70
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE GLOOMY ON SUMMIT ...............................................................................71
SPEECH BY CARMEL BUDIARDJO AT BANGKOK NGO CONFERENCE...........................................................71
BANGKOK NGO CONFEREN CE RECOMMENDATIONS..................................................................................74
TRILLION DOLLAR TRADE DULLS RIGHTS PRINCIPLES...............................................................................77
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EUROPEAN, ASIAN NATIONS PLEDGE FRESH COMMITMENT TO FREE TRADE............................................78
AGIR POUR TIMOR LETTER TO FRENCH EMBASSY.......................................................................................78
CHIRAC IN BANGKOK, DEMOCRACY IN THE LOO ......................................................................................79
EAST TIMOR IN THAI PRESS........................................................................................................................79
ASEM COVERAGE IN JAPAN.........................................................................................................................79
TIMORESE LEADER THREATENED................................................................................................................80
GUTERRES OFFERS OUT TO SUHARTO .................................................................................................... 80
GUTERRES MEETS WITH SUHARTO.............................................................................................................80
PORTUGAL SAYS INDONESIA MOVING ON TIMOR PLAN .............................................................................81
PORTUGAL’S TIMOR OFFER CARRIES RISKS...............................................................................................81
TEN MINUTE HISTORIC DIALOGUE.............................................................................................................82
EAST TIMORESE CAUTIOUS ON PORTUGUESE INITIATIVE...........................................................................83
PORTUGUESE PROPOSALS SEEN BREAKING EAST TIMOR IMPASSE............................................................83
LISBON SEEKS JAKARTA TRUCE.................................................................................................................84
ALATAS ON PORTUGUESE PROPOSAL..........................................................................................................84
PRESIDENT: NOT ONLY XANANA GUSMÃO ..................................................................................................84
INTRA-TIMORESE DIALOGUE IN AUSTRIA ................................................................................................ 85
HORTA’S PLACE MIGHT BE TAKEN BY PRIEST FROM TIMOR......................................................................85
BISHOP BELO, VATICAN, AND AUSTRIA.......................................................................................................86
ALL INCLUSIVE EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE II TO BE HELD IN AUSTRIA ....................................................86
SOEHARTO ASKS EAST TIMORESE ABROAD TO THINK REALISTICALLY .......................................................86
ALL-INCLUSIVE DIALOGUE ON EAST TIMOR TO CONTINUE IN AUSTRIA, 19-22 MARCH .............................87
SECOND ALL INCLUSIVE EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE WITHOUT BISHOP BELO...........................................87
INTRA-TIMORESE MEETING STARTS TODAY IN AUSTRIA.............................................................................87
A BETTER FUTURE FOR THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR MOST WANTED..........................................................88
TWO HOT ISSUES COMMENCE INTRA-TIMORESE MEETING........................................................................88
STALEMATE AT INTRA-TIMORESE MEETING.................................................................................................89
INTRA-EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE ADOPTS DECLARATION; CALLS FOR CONTINUING TALKS ....................89
BURG SCHLAINING DECLARATION, 1996.....................................................................................................89
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMEN T COMMITS $20,000 TO TIMOR...........................................................................90
JAPANESE FUNDS FOR INTRA-TIMORESE DIALOGUE..................................................................................90
XIMENES BELO KEPT FROM MEETING FOLLOWING PRESSURE ON VATICAN ..............................................90
THE PEOPLE OF TIMOR CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE......................................................................................91
CNRM ON SECOND EAST TIMORESE TALKS ................................................................................................92
HORTA: “THE FUTURE OF EAST TIMOR IS VERY CLOSE” ............................................................................92
A GOOD STEP TO HAVE INDONESIAN REPORTERS IN PORTUGAL..............................................................93
CATHOLIC CHURCH ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................... 93
THE DAILY MARTYRDOM OF THE CHURCH IN TIMOR..................................................................................93
INVITATION DIDN’T COME ..........................................................................................................................94
BISHOPS’ TRIP TO TIMOR DELAYED ...........................................................................................................94
NEW SEMINARY INAUGURATED ON SATURDAY..........................................................................................94
EAST TIMORESE PROTEST AGAINST INDONESIA AT MASS .........................................................................95
THREE ARRESTED IN DILI ...........................................................................................................................96
POLICE SMASH EAST TIMOR PROTEST .......................................................................................................96
YOU ARE LIVING IN HELL............................................................................................................................97
DARWIN PROTEST AT SUNDAY INCIDENT...................................................................................................97
INDONESIA POLICE RELEASE TIMORESE AFTER PROTEST..........................................................................97
APPEAL FROM EAST TIMOR - “DON’T FORGET US!” ......................................................................................97
TWO INDONESIAN AMBASSADORS MEET WITH BISHOP BELO ...................................................................98
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LETTERS ARRIVE FROM TIMOR...................................................................................................................98
POPE URGES DIALOGUE BETWEEN INDONESIA, EAST TIMOR.....................................................................98
POPE SENDS ENVOY TO EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................................98
CONFRONTATIONS & ARRESTS DURING ETCHEGARAY’S VISIT...................................................................99
ETCHEGARAY STATEMENT ON LEAVING DILI ..............................................................................................99
CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SOEHARTO ................................................................ 100
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR AND BISHOP BELO FULFILL INVITATION OF MUI ACEH ..................................... 100
TIMOR ON THE VATICAN AGENDA............................................................................................................ 101
VATICAN URGING XANANA’S RELEASE..................................................................................................... 101
BISHOP BELO VISITS PURA GIRINATA ...................................................................................................... 101
BELO MAKING WAVES AGAIN .................................................................................................................... 102
GIVE EAST TIMOR MORE AUTONOMY: BISHOP.......................................................................................... 103
FATHER MARSHALL: HARMONY AMONG RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN EAST TIMOR HAS NO PROBLEM 103
READERS DIGEST ARTICLE AND CONTROVERSY................................................................................... 103
READER’S DIGEST: HERO FOR A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE.............................................................................. 103
JAKARTA BARS READER’S DIGEST NEWSSTAND SALES ............................................................................. 106
INDONESIA DENIES BANNING READER’S DIGEST EDITION ..................................................................... 106
INDONESIAN GENERALS BAN READERS DIGEST MARCH EDITION .......................................................... 106
2XX RADIO NEWS ON READER’S DIGEST BAN IN INDONESIA................................................................. 107
NEGOTIATIONS AND COUNTER-OFFERS ................................................................................................. 107
HORTA: A ROAD TO PEACE IN EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................... 107
SEARCHING FOR A SOLUTION TO EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................... 107
EAST TIMORESE LEADER APPEALS FOR RELEASE OF WEST PAPUA HOSTAGES ......................................... 108
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA CHATHAM HOUSE ADDRESS.................................................................................... 108
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN GENEVA ....................................................................................... 112
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER VISITS INDONESIA [AND E. TIMOR].............................................. 112
SELF-DETERMINATION CONFERENCE IN GENEVA .................................................................................... 113
UN HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM IN FINANCIAL CRISIS.............................................................................. 113
BOUTROS GHALI CONFIDENT OF SETTLEMENT FOR EAST TIMOR ............................................................ 114
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REMARKS TO UNHRC ..................................................................................... 114
U.N. CHIEF SAYS ETHNIC WARS THREATEN HUMAN RIGHTS ................................................................... 115
NGOS RAISE EAST TIMOR AT UNHRC ....................................................................................................... 115
UN RIGHTS BOSS CITES GRAVE VIOLATIONS IN EAST TIMOR.................................................................. 115
UN RIGHTS CHAIRMAN SLAMS WESTERN HYPOCRISY.............................................................................. 118
UN HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING OFFICE IN JAKARTA........................................................................... 118
UN TO DISCUSS SITUATION IN TIMOR ..................................................................................................... 119
AMNESTY REFUSES TO SPEAK AT UNHRC MEETING.................................................................................. 119
NEGOTIATIONS AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.................................................................................... 119
EAST TIMOR CAUSES IMPASSE IN GENEVA ............................................................................................... 120
UNHRC EXCERPTS..................................................................................................................................... 120
UNHRC CHAIRMAN’S CONSENSUS STATEMENT........................................................................................ 121
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONCLUDES ANNUAL GENERAL DEBATE............................................ 122
JAKARTA’S INTERPRETATION OF UNHRC STATEMENT.............................................................................. 122
OTHER UN ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................ 123
DECOLONIZATION SUCCESSES HAVE CHANGED INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE...................................... 123
U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT IN MACAU ..................................................................................... 125
GUINEA-BISSAU PRESIDES UNSC NON-ALIGNED GROUP ......................................................................... 125
UN DECOLONIZATION MEETING ATTACKED.............................................................................................. 125
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EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 126
LETTERS IN THE BULLETIN ........................................................................................................................ 126
DARWIN: OZ MILITARY VISIT CONSULATE................................................................................................ 126
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH EAST TIMOR ............................................................ 126
ACADEMICS TARGET EAST TIMOR AS POLL ISSUE..................................................................................... 127
COALITION WOULD BE CONSISTENT ON EAST TIMOR: DOWNER.............................................................. 127
ET’ESE KIM JONG DEN IED ASYLUM IN OZ ............................................................................................... 127
LAWYERS CALL FOR AUSTRALIA RE-THINK EAST TIMOR .......................................................................... 129
INQUIRY INTO DEATHS OF JOURNALISTS ................................................................................................ 129
GARETH EVANS UPSTAGED IN BRISBANE.................................................................................................. 129
NORTHERN TERRITORIANS WANT EAST TIMOR TALKS.............................................................................. 129
PROTEST PLANNED IN DARWIN ............................................................................................................... 129
INDONESIA & AUSTRALIA TO CO-DEVELOP MILITARY HARDWARE - ACADEMIC...................................... 130
NEW INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR DUE MARCH 10 ................................................................................... 130
SPY IN DARWIN?....................................................................................................................................... 130
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY, JUNE 1996............................................................................ 130
KEATING CAMPAIGN HQ OCCUPIED ........................................................................................................ 131
EVANS HECKLED AGAIN............................................................................................................................ 131
DARWIN MAN FINED FOR FLAG BURNING ............................................................................................... 132
DARWIN COUNCIL ATTEMPTS INTIMIDATION ........................................................................................... 132
LABOUR DEFEATED IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................ 132
EAST TIMOR, THE AUSTRALIAN MEDIA (IN SYDNEY) AND THE MARCH 1996 FEDERAL ELECTION ............. 132
HOWARD WIN SEEN AFFECTING INDONESIAN PERSONAL TIES ............................................................... 134
DON’T LET E TIMOR ISSUE MAR RELATIONSHIP - INDONESIA.................................................................. 135
TIMORESE URGE HOWARD TO BE FIRM WITH INDONESIA ....................................................................... 135
SUHARTO SAYS COMMITTED TO INDONESIA- AUSTRALIA TIES................................................................. 135
INDONESIA’S NEW AMBASSADOR HOPES SUHARTO TO VISIT .................................................................. 136
A TRIBUTE TO JASON PORTER OF CRYSTAL BROOK ................................................................................ 136
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY FOCUSSED ON TIMOR WOMAN ............................................................. 136
INDONESIAN ACADEMIC TO SPEAK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS............................................................... 137
AUSTRALIA ENDORSES U.S. REPORT ON INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS.................................................. 138
SUHARTO’S VISIT TO EAST TIMOR IN JULY............................................................................................... 138
NATIONAL WITHDRAW RECOGNITION DAY............................................................................................... 138
NEW AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND REFUGEES .................................................................................... 139
STONE TO HELP NEW GOVT. IMPROVE INDONESIA TIES .......................................................................... 140
APPEAL TO COALITION - AMNESTY FOR EAST TIMOR ASYLUM SEEKERS................................................... 141
AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH FRETILIN GROUP IN DARWIN ......................................... 141
AUST AMBASSADOR TO VISIT EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................ 144
ASIET ACTION REPORT - FEBRUARY-MARCH ............................................................................................. 144
TIMOR PROTESTER JAILED........................................................................................................................ 145
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE OVERACTING?........................................................................................... 145
DARWIN: CONSUL CHALLENGED .............................................................................................................. 146
AMNESTY (AUSTRALIA) TIMOR LETTER....................................................................................................... 146
WIRYONO: WHAT AUSTRALIANS NEED TO KNOW .................................................................................... 147
DOWNER VISIT TO INDONESIA................................................................................................................ 148
ALATAS INTERVIEW WITH DATELINE........................................................................................................ 149
AUSTRALIA TO FUND RED CROSS WORK IN E. TIMOR .............................................................................. 150
POSITIVE, AUSTRALIA’S INTENTION TO HELP FIGHT POVERTY IN EAST TIMOR ........................................ 150
RESISTANCE CAMPAIGNS FOR EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................. 151
AUST-INDON TREATY REFLECTS REGIONAL CONCERNS - INSTITUTE ....................................................... 151
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AUST AMBASSADOR TO VISIT EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................... 152
EVENTS IN NEW ZEALAND ...................................................................................................................... 152
CULTUS GROUP TO SEARCH IN TIMOR SEA OIL FIELD .............................................................................. 152
EMBASSY OCCUPIERS ‘NOT AUTOMATICALLY BANNED’............................................................................. 153
NZ EMBASSY WARNED GUARDS............................................................................................................... 153
JAKARTA STAFF CRITICISED ...................................................................................................................... 154
TRIAL OF MANU CADDIE............................................................................................................................ 154
NZ REFUGEE MEETING REPORT............................................................................................................... 154
EVENTS IN ASIA....................................................................................................................................... 155
“HYPOCRISY BETTER”................................................................................................................................ 155
DAILY YOMIURI DISTORTIONS.................................................................................................................. 155
PIYF TAKES ALATAS TO TASK .................................................................................................................... 156
RECALL INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR TO INDIA......................................................................................... 156
CHINESE ATLAS “SEPARATES” TIMOR........................................................................................................ 157
JAPAN AND EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................................................... 158
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 159
CONFUSION OVER E.U. TIMOR STATEMENT.............................................................................................. 159
FRENCH MINISTER TO CHINA, HONG KONG, INDONESIA........................................................................ 160
RECENT COVERAGE IN IRELAND.............................................................................................................. 160
PROTEST LETTERS TO THE FINNISH GOVERNMEN T ON ARMS TRADE....................................................... 161
IRISH CALL FOR ARMS EMBARGO ............................................................................................................ 161
INDONESIA: THE VISIT OF THE POLISH PM.............................................................................................. 161
ARMS TRADE OF ITALY TO INDONESIA..................................................................................................... 162
BELGIUM ARMS FOR AID........................................................................................................................... 162
EVENTS IN GERMANY.............................................................................................................................. 163
TANJUNG INTERVIEW: INDONESIA DEPLOYS EX-NVA-SHIPS AGAINST “INTERNAL DISTURBANCES” ....... 163
GERMAN ARMOURED VEHICLES TO INDONESIA....................................................................................... 164
EVENTS IN SWEDEN................................................................................................................................ 165
SWEDEN TO SELL NAVY ARTILLERY TO INDONESIA.................................................................................. 165
STOP THE CANNON DEAL WITH INDONESIA............................................................................................. 165
1994 SOCIAL DEMOCRAT PARLIAMENTARY MOTION ................................................................................. 166
SWEDISH GOVERNMENT ARE “BEHAVING LIKE TURNIPS” ........................................................................ 168
CANNONS TO INDONESIA......................................................................................................................... 168
CARMEL BUDIARDJO VISIT TO SWEDEN .................................................................................................. 168
URGENT APPEAL TO ALL EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY GROUPS AND EAST TIMORESE ORGANISATIONS....... 169
NEW STRATEGY SHALL BRING COVETED POST ......................................................................................... 170
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 170
PORTUGUESE STATE TELEVISION BEAMED INTO EAST TIMOR ................................................................. 170
ALATAS CALLS FOR RI-PORTUGAL INTELLECTUALS’ EXCHANGES............................................................. 171
EAST TIMOR-INDONESIA SOLIDARITY CONFEREN CE OPENS IN LISBON .................................................. 171
RAMOS HORTA HOPEFUL........................................................................................................................... 172
EAST TIMOR ON A NEW INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF PHONE CARDS .............................................. 172
INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DISPUTES LISBON............................................................................... 172
PIFA CHIEF: “IT WON’T BE LONG BEFORE RAMOS-HORTA RECOGNIZES INTEGRATION” .......................... 173
BISHOPS FOR TIMOR - PORTUGUESE EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE.............................................................. 173
PRES. SAMPAIO MEETS EAST TIMORESE YOUTH ....................................................................................... 174
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO IMPROVE ASSISTANCE TO TIMORESE IN PORTUGAL....................................... 174
FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS PASS ON CONFI DENTIAL DOCUMENTS TO INDONESIA........................... 174
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THE INTERNATIONAL PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING COMMUNITY................................................................ 175
INDONESIA WANTS TO INVEST IN GUINEA-BISSAU .................................................................................. 175
EAST TIMOR DISCUSSED IN CAPE VERDE................................................................................................ 175
EAST TIMOR WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COMMUNITY ....................................... 175
105 MPS FOR TIMOR IN BRAZIL................................................................................................................ 175
PORTUGUESE “COMMONWEALTH” MOVES CLOSER.................................................................................. 176
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................. 176
PROTESTERS TO HAMMER ON DOORS OF ARMS DEALERS & COURTS...................................................... 176
HOUSE OF COMMONS MOTION ................................................................................................................. 178
INDONESIAN SEEDS OF HOPE INTERVIEW ............................................................................................... 178
HAWK IS HAMMERED IN PLOUGHSHARE ACTION ..................................................................................... 179
HAWKS OFF EAST TIMOR WEEK OF ACTION .............................................................................................. 179
UK HAWK PROTEST TRIAL UPDATE........................................................................................................... 180
INDONESIA AMBASSADOR ATTACK’S HORTA’S CREDENTIALS................................................................... 180
WARWICK UNIVERSITY CHANGES BAR NAME TO XANANA’S .................................................................... 181
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 181
F-16 FIGHTERS TO INDONESIA: ACTION NEEDED.................................................................................... 181
INDONESIA BACKING AWAY FROM EARLIER PLAN TO PURCHASE PAKISTANI F-16S................................. 181
NO ARMS TO DICTATORS! ......................................................................................................................... 182
INDONESIA PLANS TO BUY 28 F-16 FIGHTER JETS FROM U.S................................................................... 184
INDONESIA WANTS F-16S, LOAN .............................................................................................................. 185
EAST TIMOR ABUSES CANNOT BE IGNORED ............................................................................................. 185
WORKERS, ACTIVISTS PICKET TRAILMOBILE............................................................................................. 185
MOYNIHAN AND THE COLUMBIA SPECTATOR ........................................................................................... 186
US STATE DEPARTMENT 1995 REPORT ON INDONESIA ............................................................................. 189
JOHN SHATTUCK ON HUMAN RIGHTS...................................................................................................... 201
U.S. REVIVES INDONESIAN MILITARY TRAINING SCHEME........................................................................ 202
CONGRESSIONAL LETTER ON EAST TIMOR BILL ....................................................................................... 202
BACKGROUND ON EAST TIMOR AND US POLICY....................................................................................... 203
HOUSE AUTHORIZES PARTIAL IMET TRAINING FOR INDONESIA ............................................................. 204
FROM YOUR OWN HOME: LOBBY FOR EAST TIMOR................................................................................... 208
U.S., PORTUGAL TALK HUMAN RIGHTS...................................................................................................... 209
US D.O.D. ON IMET FOR INDONESIA ....................................................................................................... 209
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 210
CANADIANS BOOED FOR BURYING HEADS IN SAND ................................................................................ 210
ENVOY’S VISIT FRIGHTENED HER, TIMOR REFUGEE’S MOTHER INSISTS.................................................. 211
UNIVERSITY OF BC STUDENTS BACK TIMOR ............................................................................................. 213
FIG LEAVES FOR FASCISTS TANGO........................................................................................................... 213
CANADIAN MP ASKS SUHARTO ABOUT EAST TIMOR................................................................................. 213
TIMOR ACTIVIST SAYS OTTAWA TRYING TO GAG HER .............................................................................. 214
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 214
ET BOOK REVIEWED IN JAPAN TIMES ...................................................................................................... 214
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S SKEWED MAP OF EAST TIMOR ....................................................................... 214
PHOTO OF RIOT POLICE IN DILI .............................................................................................................. 217
EAST TIMOR PHOTO SITE .......................................................................................................................... 218
REG.EASTTIMOR WEEKLY SUMMARIES CHANGE OF ADDRESS ................................................................ 218
NEW XANANA T-SHIRTS! ........................................................................................................................... 218
PHOTO EVIDENCE OF TORTURE IN TIMOR................................................................................................ 218

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Network News 1992-07

Title: "Network News" Issue no. 1, July 1992

  • "Welcome!"
  • "House of representative’s cuts US training for Indonesian military"
  • "ETAN Meeting July 19"
  • "UN Hearing July 27"
  • "Long Jail Sentences for Timorese"
  • "Mayors Support Timor"
  • "Come to a Reception for International Timor Supporters"
  • "Resources Available"
  • "The Education of Robert Barry"
  • "New Aid Consortium to Meet in Paris"

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Network News 1993-03

Title: Timorese speaking tour begins

  • UN human rights commission passes resolution with united states support
  • International East Timor solidarity movement thrives
  • Hpoes for the Clinto administration
  • Xanana Gusmão goes on trial

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Estafeta 1996-06

Title: East Timor debate intensifies in Washington DC (Charles Scheiner)

  • Jose Ramos Horta tours the US: East Timor’s “foreign minister” spreads the word (John Miller)
  • Making links: East Timor action network helps to draw connections for locked out trail mobile workers (Brad Simpson)
  • News from East Timor and the diplomatic front (Ben Terrall)
  • Absolut terror in East Timor: made in Sweden (Lisa Westberg)
  • Question the candidates on East Timor (John Miller)

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Estafeta 1997-Autumn

Title: As fires burn on, white house fans the flames (Lynn Fredriksson)

  • About East Timor and the East Timor action network
  • International appeal to end military support for Indonesia
  • ETAN steering committee adopts new programs
  • Speaking tour: democracy in Indonesia, self determination for East Timor (Kristin Sundell)
  • Indonesia military captures David Alex, dies under suspicious circumstances (Mathew Jardine)
  • Action alert: disappearance and fear of torture
  • ETAN goes to Portugal: the VIIth symposium on Timor of Oporto University
  • Heroic British ploughshares activist to tour the US (Kyle Perkins)
  • José Ramos Horta to visit US
  • Nov. 12: ETAN to protest at Indonesia embassies and consulates (John Miller)

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Estafeta 1998-Spring

Title: Congress bars use of US supplied weapons in East Timor (Charles Scheiner)

  • Pentagon documents show Indonesian military training continues despite congressional ban (Kyle Perkins and Charles Scheiner)
  • About East Timor and the East Timor action network
  • US Should help East Timor (Lynn Fredrikson)
  • Youth resistance in East Timor (Sonya Hurtson)
  • Questions and answers: ETAN’s selective purchasing and divestment campaign (Simon Doolittle)
  • Action alert update: torture and fear of torture actualized (Charles Scheiner)
  • APCET III meets in Bangkok (Charles Scheiner)
  • Constâncio Pinto joins ETAN staff
  • Observations in Indonesia: on the verge of change?
  • US and IMF Indonesia bailout unethical (Dianne Farsetta and Ben Terrall)
  • Review: women’s rights in East Timor (Sonya Hurston)
  • Tell Congress: no bailouts for the Suharto dictatorship!
  • ETAN lobby days: April 26-28 (Lynn Fredriksson)
  • ETAN Hosts regional activist conferences (Kristin Sunndell)

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Estafeta 1998-12

Title: A continuing saga for change
Editorial: Its been a tremendous, stupefying year

  • East Timor Action Network (John Roosa)
  • Suharto’s fall: a new era in East Timor
  • Year end review Indonesia
  • Human rights developments
  • The president’s problem generals (David Jenkins)
  • After Suharto (Geejay Arriola)
  • The secret Trips betraying Timor (Louise Williams)
  • Under the Indonesia jackboot
  • The independence stand off (Andrew Perrin)
  • Determined to be free (Bill Corcoran and Carl O’Brien)
  • Hopes for referending: defying guns and goons East Timorese speaks out (Stepahnie Coop)
  • Don’t lose hope: AIETD meet fails but is “globally positive”
  • CNRT Krumbach declaration
  • Days to remember (Roberto Soares Cabral)
  • Survivors mourn losses (Lew Pardomuan)
  • Light for peace (Robero Cristebal SantaMaria)
  • Once close ties with Indonesia turn frosty (Richarrd Llyod-Parry)
  • What really happened in Alas (John Martinikus)
  • Statement on the Alas massacre
  • The first East Timorese women’s conference (Jude Conway)
  • My Personal journey (Memen L. Lauzon)
  • Justice for Tien intolerance
  • An open letter to Indonesian president B.J Habibie and the government of ASEAN

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Estafeta 1999-Summer

Title: US “deeply disturbed” by militia attacks on civilians in Dili (Lynn Fredriksson)

  • July 4 militia attack on the humanitarian team in Liquiça: another slap in the face to the UN
  • About East Timor and thee East Timor action network
  • UN update: terror and hope for the East Timorese
  • East Timor observer project needs grassroots support
  • Excerpts from the first weekly bulletin from East Timor issued by the International federation for East Timor observer project
  • ETAN/ NY dedicates “East Timor way”

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Estafeta 2001-Winter

Title: Victories in Washington and the road ahead (Karen Orenstein)

  • The Indonesian military: resisting reform (John Roosa)
  • About East Timor and thee East Timor action network
  • Ajiza Magno discusses the next phase of struggle (Agatha Schmaedick)
  • Indonesia human right network prepares for launch (Kurt Biddle)
  • What does the new congress mean for East Timor? (John Miller)
  • A brief history of Aceh (Ben Terrall)
  • Remembering Jafar Siddiq Gamzah (Ben Terrall)
  • The struggle for justice in East Timor

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Estafeta 2001-Spring

Title: Will East Timor see justice? (Charles Scheiner)

  • Despite resistance, ETAN continues legislative efforts
  • About East Timor and thee East Timor action network
  • ETAN conference launches new phase of solidarity (Diane Farsetta)
  • West Timor refugee crisis continues (Dianne Farsetta)
  • “The problem of East Timor is not solved yet”
  • US activists respond to Indonesian military violence (Kurt Biddle)
  • Indonesian General on trial in US court (John Miller)
  • US- East Timor relationship raises new questions (Charles Scheiner)
  • Madison becomes East Timor’s first sister city in US (Diane Farsetta)
  • Community empowerment in theory and practice (Charles Scheiner)

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Estafeta 2007-Winter

East Timor hits potholes on the road to independence
Petroleum dependency

Support Democracy! Become an Election Observer

Support Resolution on “Comfort Women”

U.S. Re-engages the Indonesian Military: Rights, Democracy Suffer

Munir Update

Justice Remains Distant for East Timorese

Chega!’s Recommendations & the U.S.

Crimes Against Humanity From Ford to Saddam

Madison-Ainaro Sister City Alliance Maintains Solidarity Links

New Year Dawns with Threats to Human Rights in West Papua

Obituaries

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 8, Jan. 5-24, 1992

OPEN UP EAST TIMOR (CALGARY HERALD) ....................................................................................................................................4
SANCTION INDONESIA (CALGARY HERALD)..........................................................................................................................................4
TIMOR GOVERNOR TAKES INDEPENDENT PATH (AWSJ)...................................................................................................................4
FORESTRY MANAGEMENT....................................................................................................................................................................5
SPEAK OPENLY..........................................................................................................................................................................................5
SHADOWS, EAST OF JAVA (AWSJ)..............................................................................................................................................................5
RESPONDING TO INDONESIA (EDMONTON JOURNAL).......................................................................................................................6
“PISS WEAK” AUSTRALIA SLAMMED OVER EAST TIMOR ..................................................................................................................6
IN JEOPARDY.............................................................................................................................................................................................7
"RELUCTANT CRITIC" .............................................................................................................................................................................7
MASS GRAVES............................................................................................................................................................................................8
INTO A TRAP..............................................................................................................................................................................................8
A CHANGING WORLD..............................................................................................................................................................................9
ONLY GHOSTS AND GUARDS WALK IN THE NIGHT.............................................................................................................................9
CARRASCALAO IMPUGNS NAIRN (SUARA PEMBARUAN)................................................................................................................10
RESPONSE BY ALLAN NAIRN...............................................................................................................................................................10
UNE TRAGEDIE ORDINAIRE AUX ANTIPODES (LE DEVOIR).............................................................................................................11
DOZENS OF FOREIGN NEWSMEN BARRED (JAKARTA POST).........................................................................................................11
TIMTIM CORPORATION TO START OPERATIONS..............................................................................................................................11
INDONESIAN MILITARY TO SEARCH FOR MISSING (UPI) .................................................................................................................12
SUHARTO WARNS INTELLECTUALS (REUTER)....................................................................................................................................12
U.S. CONGRESSMEN WRITE INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR.................................................................................................................12
EAST TIMOR’S SEARCH FOR PEACE (RAMOS HORTA).......................................................................................................................13
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION ...................................................................................................................................13
ASIA WATCH CRITICIZES COMMISSION REPORT ON EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................14

  1. TOO MUCH RELIANCE ON MILITARY SOURCES........................................................................................................................14
  2. NO ASSESSMENT OF MILITARY BEHAVIOR................................................................................................................................14
  3. POOR USE OF EXHUMATION AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TOOL..................................................................................................15
  4. INSUFFICIENT EFFORTS TO ASSESS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHERS KILLED ...........................................................15
  5. AMBIGUOUS STATEMENT ON PROSECUTIONS.........................................................................................................................15
    CONCLUSIONS.........................................................................................................................................................................................15
    GOVERNMENTS CAN NO LONGER FOOL THEMSELVES.....................................................................................................................16
    EYEWITNESS RESPONSE TO KPN REPORT........................................................................................................................................16
    INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR-FREE LOCAL AUTHORITIES WRITE TO U.N.....................................................................................17
    MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR, 12 NOVEMBER 1991..........................................................................................................................17
    THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION READS AS FOLLOWS:...................................................................................................................17
    PROTESTS FORCE CANCELLATION OF INDONESIA-AUSTRALIA STEEL DEAL (REUTER) ........................................................17
    INDONESIAN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK BLEAK (REUTER).....................................................................................................................18
    ALATAS: KPN COMMISSION REPORT FINAL (ANTARA) ...................................................................................................................18
    TIMOR PROTEST CONTINUES IN CANBERRA (RADIO AUSTRALIA) .............................................................................................18
    RADIO AUSTRALIA, JAN 5....................................................................................................................................................................18
    TIMOR LACKS ALLY AMONG THE MIGHTY (STAHL: INDEPENDENT)..........................................................................................19
    A FOREIGNER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY...................................................................................................................................................19
    Page 2 East Timor Documents, Volume 8. January 5 - 24, 1992.
    TOP INDONESIAN MILITARY TEAM IN DILI (AFP)..............................................................................................................................20
    OZ “TIMOR EMBASSY” HOLDS ON (REUTER) .......................................................................................................................................20
    SUHARTO OFFERS SYMPATHY TO VICTIMS (AFP).............................................................................................................................20
    INDONESIAN PARLIAMENTARY CHAIRMAN SPEECH (TVRI) ..........................................................................................................20
    HOW INDONESIA ENGULFED EAST TIMOR (LIECHTY: W.POST)......................................................................................................20
    EYEWITNESSES’ TESTIMONY ABOUT EAST TIMOR MASSACRE PUBLISHED ..............................................................................21
    FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION WRITES TO GEORGE BUSH................................................................................................21
    JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY PRAISES KPN REPORT (KYODO)....................................................................................................22
    LONDON TRIBUTE TO THE SANTA CRUZ MARTYRS (TAPOL)........................................................................................................22
    SOLIDARITY REPORT FROM FRANCE.....................................................................................................................................................22
    JAPAN HINTS AID CONTINUATION (REUTER) .....................................................................................................................................23
    HOLLAND WANTS U.N. INQUIRY (PMS)..................................................................................................................................................23
    LETTER TO THE EDITOR.............................................................................................................................................................................23
    YORKSHIRE TV FILM ON EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................................................23
    PACKAGE TOUR TO HELL....................................................................................................................................................................24
    U.K. PARLIAMENTARY GROUP DECRIES MASSACRE (REUTER) ....................................................................................................24
    TIMOR CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENTS (AFP) .........................................................................................................................................24
    CAFOD CONCERNED ABOUT FR. DOMINGOS SOARES......................................................................................................................24
    SINTONG PANJAITAN APOLOGIZES FOR SHOOTINGS (REUTER) ..................................................................................................25
    AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA SIGN FOUR TIMOR GAP CONTRACTS (REUTER) ..................................................................................25
    JAPAN TIMES NEWSBRIEFS ON EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................................................................25
    ASSISTANCE MAY BE LINKED TO HUMAN RIGHTS.....................................................................................................................25
    NEW AUSTRALIAN PREMIER PRAISES INDONESIA REPORT (REUTER) ........................................................................................25
    A WHITEWASH THAT DESERVES A BACKLASH (MANCHESTER GUARDIAN) .............................................................................25
    US SENATORS 'IMPRESSED'.........................................................................................................................................................................26
    RUDINI ON INVESTIGATION OF TIMOR BUREAUCRATS..................................................................................................................26
    ASIA WATCH CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL MONITORS AT TRIALS .............................................................................................27
  6. DETAINED IN DILI ..............................................................................................................................................................................27
    II. DETAINED IN JAKARTA...................................................................................................................................................................27
    STUDENT UNIVERSITY...............................................................................................................................................................28
    AUSTRALIAN E.T. EMBASSY CALLS FOR SUPPORT.............................................................................................................................28
    WE ASK YOU URGENTLY......................................................................................................................................................................28
    NEW ZEALAND ‘REASSURED’ BY INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT REPORT (AFP)..........................................................................28
    EAST TIMOR UPDATE (CANADIAN ACTIVIST).....................................................................................................................................29
    CANADA SLASHES AID..........................................................................................................................................................................29
    MASSACRE INQUIRY BLAMES VICTIMS...........................................................................................................................................29
    BISHOP RENEWS PEACE CALL.............................................................................................................................................................29
    SOARES-BOUTROS GHALI TALKS (REUTER) .........................................................................................................................................29
    NEW TIMOR COMMANDER TAKES HARD LINE (REUTER) ...............................................................................................................29
    AFRICA LUSOPHONE SUMMIT..................................................................................................................................................................30
    TIMOR (ECOLOGIE INFOS)..........................................................................................................................................................................30
    A STRATEGIC INTEREST .......................................................................................................................................................................30
    EUROPEAN VIGILANCE.........................................................................................................................................................................30
    RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USA .............................................................................................................................................................31
    MISSIONS OF OBSERVATION AND REPRESSION ............................................................................................................................31
    PORTUGAL BEGINS CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDONESIAN ANNEXATION......................................................................................31
    EYEWITNESSES OF A TRAGEDY (JAKARTA, JAKARTA).....................................................................................................................32
    INTERVIEWED BY JJ REPORTERS ABOUT THE CREDIBILITY OF EYEWITNESSES, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE KPN, M.
    DJAELANI, RESPONDED AS FOLLOWS:....................................................................................................................................33
    JAKARTA JAKARTA JOURNALISTS SACKED....................................................................................................................34
    INDONESIAN JOURNALISTS DISMISSED FOR PUBLISHING MASSACRE TESTIMONY.........................................................34
    THREE JOURNALISTS SACKED (GUARDIAN)................................................................................................................34
    WORLD JOURNALISTS PROTEST........................................................................................................................................34
    JOURNALISTS DISMISSED FOR DOING THEIR JOB........................................................................................................................34
    MOROCCANS MASSACRE EYEWITNESSES?............................................................................................................................................35
    POLICE DETAIN MOROCCANS............................................................................................................................................................35
    PRISONER’S MOTHER APPEALS TO ALL GROUPS................................................................................................................................35
    SOARES: U.N. INQUIRY STILL POSSIBLE (REUTER)...............................................................................................................................35
    SOARES, BUSH CONCERNED ABOUT TIMOR ........................................................................................................................................35
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    EXCERPT FROM AFP, WASHINGTON, JAN 13 .................................................................................................................................36
    SOARES MAKES LITTLE HEADWAY WITH BUSH (IPS)..................................................................................................................36
    GERMANY “ACCEPTS” KPN REPORT.......................................................................................................................................................36
    SINTONG, WAROUW INVESTIGATED ......................................................................................................................................................36
    MANTIRI INSTALLED...................................................................................................................................................................................36
    SUDRADJAT SHOWMANSHIP ....................................................................................................................................................................37
    CONTINUING REPORTAGE ON 12 NOV DILI INCIDENT; NEW REGIONAL COMMANDER NAMED..................................37
    INDONESIA REJECTS UN TEAM ................................................................................................................................................................37
    TIMOR, AGAIN... THEY MAY READ (PORTUGUESE TV CRITIQUE).................................................................................................37
    OFFICIAL VISITS TO HOLLAND CANCELLED IN AID CUT PROTEST...............................................................................................38
    ARMS TO INDONESIA DEBATED IN U.K. HOUSE OF LORDS...........................................................................................................38
    EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................................................................................................38
    DEATH FOR GREGORIO?.............................................................................................................................................................................38
    SPECIAL SYAFEI INSTALLATION (ANTARA) .........................................................................................................................................39
    BUSH “VERY AWARE” EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................................................................................39
    UN MUST INVESTIGATE THE DILI MASSACRE (TAPOL)....................................................................................................................39
    THE KPN REPORT ...................................................................................................................................................................................40
    CASUALTY FIGURE: ...............................................................................................................................................................................40
    CAUSES: .....................................................................................................................................................................................................40
    WITNESSES:...............................................................................................................................................................................................40
    VICTIMS:....................................................................................................................................................................................................40
    CONSEQUENCES......................................................................................................................................................................................40
    NEW 'GET-TOUGH' ARMY LEADERSHIP IN EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................40
    JAPAN CONTINUES AID ..............................................................................................................................................................................40
    EXCERPTED FROM KYODO, JAKARTA, JAN 15.............................................................................................................................40
    ALATAS REBUKES MANGLAPUS ON U.S. BASES..................................................................................................................................40
    EXCERPTED FROM AFP, JAKARTA, JAN 15.....................................................................................................................................41
    EVANS ORDERS CROSSES REMOVED .......................................................................................................................................................41
    EXCERPTED FROM AFP, CANBERRA, JAN 16..................................................................................................................................41
    OUTDOOR EMBASSY FOR E. TIMOR IN AUSTRALIA..............................................................................................41
    COURT ASKED TO LET CROSSES STAY.......................................................................................................................41
    TIMOR “LEAKED DOCUMENT” TRIAL....................................................................................................................................................42
    THREE WHO LEAKED STATE SECRETS TO PORTUGAL WILL SOON BE TRIED ...............................42
    31 ACCUSED..............................................................................................................................................................................................42
    JAPANESE TOURIST ACCUSED, DEPORTED..........................................................................................................................................42
    MAN SAYS JAKARTA OUSTED HIM FOR ALLEGED SPYING...............................................................................42
    JAWA POS - INTEL PAPER!....................................................................................................................................................................43
    WADA’S CONVERSATION WITH CONSUL GENERAL HARUTA..........................................................................43
    JAPAN - INDONESIA AID WILL CONTINUE DESPITE EAST TIMOR KILLINGS..............................................................................44
    REPORT: MEETING WITH SENATOR PELL..............................................................................................................................................44
    TIMOR GAP OIL.............................................................................................................................................................................................44
    MASSACRE SURVIVORS TO GO ON TRIAL IN DILI (TAPOL)..............................................................................................................44
    CDPM LISTS 37 TIMORESE TO BE TRIED IN DILI.......................................................................................................45
    A WOMAN GOES ON TRIAL IN DILI........................................................................................................................................45
    TIMORESE PLEADS “GUILTY”..................................................................................................................................................45
    BELO IMPLICATED IN TRIAL?...................................................................................................................................................46
    TIMORESE WOMAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS............................................................................................46
    NOTE REGARDING SOURCES:..............................................................................................................................................................46
    PORTUGAL LASHES OUT ............................................................................................................................................................................46
    TIMOR MEETING / ACTION ALERT - NEW YORK.................................................................................................................................46
    N.J. PROGRAM: INDONESIA IN EAST TIMOR: US ARMS AND GENOCIDE...............................................................................46
    THE TIANANMEN IN EAST TIMOR (NYT EDITORIAL)........................................................................................................................47
    DUTCH RESUME AID (REUTER) ................................................................................................................................................................47
    DUTCH WILL MAKE DEMANDS (AFP)............................................................................................................................................47
    AID RESUMES, UN FOLLOWS IN WAKE (IPS)...............................................................................................................................47
    CORRECTION JAN 24 FROM E.T.A.N., CANADA:............................................................................................................................47
    JAKARTA WELCOMES DUTCH RESUMPTION OF DEVELOPMENT AID................................................................................47
    AT LEAST 56 TIMORESE DETAINED.........................................................................................................................................................48
    TALKS WITH TIMOR RESISTANCE?..........................................................................................................................................................48
    INDONESIAN ASSASSINATION PLOTS? ...................................................................................................................................................48
    SOARES: TIMOR NOT GOA .........................................................................................................................................................................48
    Page 4 East Timor Documents, Volume 8. January 5 - 24, 1992.
    U.S., AUSTRALIA VIEW TIMOR DIFFERENTLY THAN EUROPE........................................................................................................48
    MASSACRE: ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG .......................................................................................................................................49
    (1) PORTUGUESE HOSTAGES: ..............................................................................................................................................................49
    (2) THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS: ...............................................................................................................................................49
    (3) ASSASSINATION OF BABIES:..........................................................................................................................................................49
    (4) TORTURE OF PRISONERS:...............................................................................................................................................................49
    OVERZEALOUS TIMOR PROSECUTORS...................................................................................................................................................49
    PORTUGAL ONE-UPS GREENPEACE.........................................................................................................................................................49
    CONDEMN TIMOR TRIALS, OTTAWA TOLD .........................................................................................................................................50
    SURVIVORS OF ATTACK BY SOLDIERS FACING LEGAL ACTION..............................................................................................50
    KOOIJMANS: TORTURE IN PARTS OF INDONESIA ROUTINE...........................................................................................................50

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 15, July 12 - Aug. 9, 1992

CGI MEETS IN PARIS; AID LINKAGES REJECTED ...................................................................................... 4
ACTU ON LINKED AID....................................................................................................................................4
WORLD BANK PROJECTIONS ........................................................................................................................4
JAPAN COALITION TO CGI.............................................................................................................................4
ASIA WATCH CAUTIONS DONORS ON HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................................................5
PRESSING INDONESIA..................................................................................................................................5
CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS STATEMENT FOR CGI..................................................................................6
CGI CONVENES .............................................................................................................................................7
FRANCE LECTURES INDONESIA ....................................................................................................................7
INDONESIA LASHES WEST, JAPAN ................................................................................................................8
REPORT ON THE CGI DEMONSTRATIONS......................................................................................................8
INDONESIA TRIUMPHS AT CGI......................................................................................................................9
BILLIONS IN AID FOR JAKARTA DESPITE HUMAN RIGHTS ROW .................................................................11
HUMAN RIGHTS HYPOCRISY.......................................................................................................................11
WATANABE PROBED ON THREATS TO INDONESIA ......................................................................................12
URGE LINKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS, INDONESIAN AID...............................................................................12
SUHARTO: NO POLITICAL STRINGS ON FOREIGN AID ................................................................................13
DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS JAKARTA .......................................................................................... 13
VAN DEN BROEK ARRIVES IN JAKARTA.......................................................................................................13
DUTCH FIRM ON HUMAN RIGHTS ..............................................................................................................13
DUTCH OPPOSE PORTUGAL’S POSITION .....................................................................................................14
ASEAN MEETS IN MANILA......................................................................................................................... 14
S.E. ASIA ARMS RACE..................................................................................................................................14
SPRATLYS RESTRAINT.................................................................................................................................15
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ASEAN BECOMES ‘SECURITY FORUM’ .........................................................................................................15
ASEAN OPPOSING LINKED AID?.................................................................................................................16
U.S. GIVES NOTICE TO TYRANTS AT ASEAN ................................................................................................16
ASEAN-EC RIGHTS CLASH ...........................................................................................................................18
EC/ASEAN TALKS HIT BY ROW ON EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................20
SOUTHEAST ASIANS, WEST AT ODDS OVER RIGHTS ...................................................................................20
ASEAN CLASHES WITH EC ...........................................................................................................................21
ASEAN: ‘SEE NO EVIL’ ..................................................................................................................................21
HUMAN RIGHTS-AID LINK DEBATED AT ASEAN ..........................................................................................22
HUMAN RIGHTS SCUTTLE ASEAN DISCUSSION ...........................................................................................23
STUMBLING BLOCK; INDONESIA-EC AGREEMENT DITCHED BY TIMOR ISSUE............................................23
ASIA SECURITY TALKS THIS FALL ...............................................................................................................24
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LIMITS AID TO ASEAN ...................................................................................... 24
RAMOS-HORTA CRITICIZES PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY OF EC .................................................................24
EC TALKS UP DEMOCRACY ..........................................................................................................................25
PORTUGAL BUCKS E.C. ON TIMOR .............................................................................................................25
PORTUGAL BLOCKS EC-ASEAN DEAL OVER EAST TIMOR...........................................................................25
PORTUGAL’S CONDITIONS ON EC/ASEAN ACCORD....................................................................................26
PORTUGAL WILL BLOCK FURTHER AID........................................................................................................27
ALATAS REGRETS EC DELAY OF ASEAN TALKS.............................................................................................27
EC ‘SALVAGING’ ASEAN PACT?....................................................................................................................28
MORE ‘CONDITIONALITY’ COMING?............................................................................................................28
UN DECOLONIZATION HEARING IN NEW YORK ........................................................................................ 29
INDONESIAN OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR CONDEMNED BEFORE UN COMMITTEE .................................29
TAPOL STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE...............................................................................30
ETAN/US STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE...........................................................................32
XANANA GUSMAO STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE............................................................33
ASIA WATCH STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE .....................................................................35
REPORT ON UN DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE HEARING .........................................................................37
INDONESIAN MILITARY RESTRUCTURED.................................................................................................. 38
MILITARY PROMOTIONS LINKED TO FUTURE CHANGES .............................................................................38
SUHARTO ON MILITARY AS ‘SOCIO-POLITICAL FORCE’ ...............................................................................38
INDONESIAN MILITARY TO SET UP TV STATION ..........................................................................................39
WISMOYO PROMOTED TO DEPUTY CHIEF-OF-STAFF...................................................................................39
SPOKESMAN ON UPCOMING MILITARY LEADERSHIP CHANGES .................................................................39
YOUNGER COMMANDERS STRENGTHEN MILITARY’S POWER GRIP ............................................................39
PROBLEMS IN THE INDONESIAN EMPIRE................................................................................................. 40
SEPARATISM IS DAMAGING NATIONAL PROSPERITY ..................................................................................40
MOLUCCANS’ FIELDS OF DREAMS..............................................................................................................40
INDONESIA REJECTS UNPO ........................................................................................................................41
ACEHNESE REFUGEES IN UNHCR: UPDATE.................................................................................................42
THE ACEHNESE DISAPPEARED ....................................................................................................................42
DIPLOS TALK ON ACEHNESE.......................................................................................................................42
ACEH’S MILITARY COMMANDER WARNS MALAYSIA ....................................................................................43
TWO WEST PAPUAN OPM SUPPORTERS SENTENCED ..................................................................................43
SUPPORT ACEHNESE REFUGEES IN MALAYSIA............................................................................................43
REFUGEES SUPPORT ACEH MERDEKA? .......................................................................................................44
INDONESIAN ‘DISINTEGRATION’ ANGST.....................................................................................................44
THE HIDDEN WAR (OPM IN WEST PAPUA) ..................................................................................................44
OPM REBEL SURRENDERS...........................................................................................................................46
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EVENTS IN THE U.S. .................................................................................................................................. 46
REPORT ON CONVERSATION WITH REP KOLBE (ETAN/SW) ........................................................................46
AMERICAN-INDONESIAN EXCHANGE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED ...........................................................46
U.S. URBAN SERVICES LOAN .......................................................................................................................46
AICC ENTERS TIMOR POLITICS! .................................................................................................................47
ETAN/US SENATE UPDATE...........................................................................................................................47
AICC WASHINGTON BRIEFING ....................................................................................................................48
REPRESSION AND EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................. 48
DEFENCE SPEECH OF GREGORIO DA CUNHA SALDANHA..........................................................................48
ARMY CHIEF VIEWS EFFECT OF DILI ON DECISION-MAKING....................................................................51
‘CLEARANCE TESTS’ FOR TIMORESE STUDENTS ..........................................................................................51
OPERATION TO END TIMOR RESISTANCE?.................................................................................................51
A.I. APPEALS AGAIN TO INDONESIA...........................................................................................................52
THREE REBELS KILLED BY TROOPS............................................................................................................52
THE TIMORESE ‘DISAPPEARED’ ...................................................................................................................52
SUHARTO RECEIVES REPORT FROM MILITARY CHIEF ................................................................................52
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON 28 OCTOBER?...............................................................................................53
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON EAST TIMOR..................................................................................53
MOST EAST TIMORESE WANT NATIVE AS NEXT GOVERNOR........................................................................54
SYAFEI: ‘MISSING’ TIMORESE BEST DEAD ..................................................................................................55
THE MILITARY TRIALS AND THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DILI MASSACRE (TAPOL) ...........................................56
BISHOP BELO PARTICIPATION IN TALKS - VATICAN AND XANANA SUPPORT?.............................................58
GOVERNOR CARRASCALAO A HERO - BISHOP BELO ...................................................................................58
INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP BELO IN MATRA..................................................................................................58
LETTER FROM TIMORESE JAIL....................................................................................................................59
NEW TIMOR OFFENSIVE?.............................................................................................................................59
ARMS SALES & BUSINESS IN INDONESIA ................................................................................................. 59
OFFICIAL ON U.S. ENVOY’S CRITICISM ON INVESTMENT............................................................................59
JOINT AIR EXERCISES WITH SINGAPORE LAUNCHED ................................................................................60
INDONESIA ORDERS ARMS FROM NETHERLANDS, U.S...............................................................................60
INDONESIA TO BUY LARGE PART OF FORMER EAST GERMAN NAVY ...........................................................60
KLM TO PURCHASE PART OF GARUDA........................................................................................................60
TOURISM UP, STILL LOW .............................................................................................................................60
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 61
ONTARIO REGIONAL EAST TIMOR CONFERENCE........................................................................................61
TORONTO GRANDMOTHER JAILED FOR EAST TIMOR PROTEST ..................................................................61
TORONTO TIMOR ACTIVISTS PROTEST SENTENCES: ...................................................................................61
EAST TIMOR UPDATE IN THE ACTIVIST, JULY-AUG. 1992.............................................................................61
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 62
LUCAS AND LIEBHEFF TO SELL AIRCRAFT PARTS TO INDONESIA................................................................62
PETITION PRESENTED TO DOWNING STREET .............................................................................................63
HOUSE OF LORDS DISCUSSES EAST TIMOR................................................................................................63
DEMO AGAINST SENTENCES IN LONDON ...................................................................................................63
INDONESIAN AIR FORCE NEGOTIATES TO BUY BRITISH HAWK FIGHTER PLANES......................................64
RESOURCES AVAILABLE ........................................................................................................................... 64
BOUGAINVILLE ‘GENOCIDE’ COMPARED TO EAST TIMOR IN NEW BOOK....................................................64
SOUTHEAST ASIA PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................64
EAST TIMOR ON STAGE ...............................................................................................................................65
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 65
REPORT FROM KUPANG ..............................................................................................................................65
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NEWSWEEK INTERVIEWS RAMOS-HORTA ...................................................................................................66
AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT.............................................................................................67
RAMOS-HORTA PLAN GETS QUALIFIED SUPPORT........................................................................................67
UDT RIFT DEEPENS .....................................................................................................................................68
FUND RAISING FOR RESISTANCE................................................................................................................68
DILI MADE HONORARY LUSOPHONE CAPITAL CITY ....................................................................................68
ANDERSON: EAST TIMOR WILL GET INDEPENDEN CE .................................................................................68
INDONESIA MAY FACE JURISTS .................................................................................................................68
NAM SUMMIT SHAPING UP..........................................................................................................................68
NUCLEAR POWER ON JAVA .........................................................................................................................69
VIETNAMESE PM VISITS JAKARTA...............................................................................................................69
PORTUGUESE RADIO APPEAL ON TIMOR’S PLIGHT.....................................................................................69
TIMORESE DEMONSTRATE AT EXPO ‘92 IN SPAIN .......................................................................................69
MANTIRI: TIMOR VIOLENCE “UN’S FAULT” ...................................................................................................69
U.S. STATE DEPARTMEN T TRAVEL ADVISORY ..............................................................................................70
SECRET PORTUGAL-INDONESIA EAST TIMOR TALKS IN NEW YORK?..........................................................70
HORTA FAULTS ABRI FOR TALKS FAILURE ...................................................................................................71
RUDINI ATTACKS GREEDY OFFICIALS ........................................................................................................71
TEMPO INTERVIEWS HORTA........................................................................................................................71

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 16, Aug. 10 - Oct. 4, 1992

SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE REVISITED .......................................................................................................... 4
KAMAL’S DEATH ‘EXPLAINED’........................................................................................................................4
TESTIMONIES ABOUT THE 12 NOVEMBER MASSACRE....................................................................................5
NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE ..................................................................................5
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................................. 6
REFUGEES REPORT INCREASED REPRESSION IN TIMOR............................................................................6
LETTER FROM AN EAST TIMORESE PRISONER...............................................................................................6
BISHOP BELO INTERVIEWED BY MATRA .......................................................................................................7
TIMOR GAP SEISMIC WORK PAST MID-STAGE.............................................................................................14
MORE TROOPS IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................................14
LBH TO OPEN DILI BRANCH OFFICE............................................................................................................14
OFFENSIVE TO CAPTURE XANANA...............................................................................................................15
FOUR BIG INDONESIAN COMPANIES UNITE IN EAST TIMOR VENTURE.......................................................15
SHIRLEY SHACKLETON AND THE CANBERRA JIGSAW.................................................................................15
REPORT ON RECENT TRIP TO EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................16
EAST TIMOR: INDONESIA’S KILLING FIELDS...............................................................................................19
TIMORESE SCHOLARS WRITE SOEHARTO ..................................................................................................20
ABRI ADMITS INDONESIAN CASUALTIES IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................20
MANY ARRESTS IN EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................................21
URGENT PLEA FROM EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................21
SIX FRETILIN MEMBERS CAPTURED ............................................................................................................21
SECURITY TIGHT IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM SUMMIT............................................................................21
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PORTUGUESE JOURNALISTS NOT ALLOWED TO VISIT EAST TIMOR ............................................................22
SIX BATTALIONS CONTROL DILI.................................................................................................................22
SYAFEI HOPES TO END MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EAST TIMOR NEXT MARCH..........................................22
ARRESTS AND HOUNDING OF EAST TIMORESE CITIZENS...........................................................................23
POSSIBLE INDONESIAN PARDONS FOR 13 EAST TIMORESE?......................................................................23
NEW GOVERNOR IN EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................. 23
GUBERNATORIAL INTRIGUE........................................................................................................................23
EAST TIMOR GETS PRO-JAKARTA GOVERNOR............................................................................................23
HARD LINE POLICY EXPECTED...................................................................................................................24
NEW GOVERNOR A SIGN OF TOUGHER LINE IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................................24
TIMOR CHIEF ACCUSES PREDECESSOR ......................................................................................................25
NEW GOVERNOR’S RESETTLEMENT PLANS ................................................................................................25
NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT IN JAKARTA ........................................................................................................ 25
NAM REJECTS ‘CONDITIONALITY’ ...............................................................................................................25
INDONESIA COVERS UP OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR AT NAM CONFEREN CE ..........................................26
NON-ALIGNED POLITICAL DECLARATION REFLECTS INDONESIAN CONCERNS .........................................26
SUHARTO MOVES TO ABOLISH HUMAN RIGHTS .........................................................................................27
TAPOL STATEMENT ON NAM SUMMIT .........................................................................................................27
INTIMIDATION STEPPED UP AS NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT OPENS IN INDONESIA.........................................28
TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE...................................................................28
XANANA GUSMAO OFFERS SUHARTO OLIVE BRANCH .................................................................................29
BBC INTERVIEWS MICHAEL LEIFER ON XANANA’S CALL FOR TALKS...........................................................30
ABRI CHIEF REJECTS FRETILIN PEACE OFFER.............................................................................................30
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS SUBCOMMISSION MEETS IN GENEVA .................................................................... 31
STATEMENT BY MRS. PASCOELA BARRETO ..................................................................................................31
STATEMENT OF MIGUEL SALDANHA ............................................................................................................31
UNITED NATIONS URGED TO MAKE REPORT PUBLIC ..................................................................................33
UN HUMAN RIGHTS SUBCOMMISSION ADOPTS EAST TIMOR RESOLUTION ................................................33
OPTIMISM OVER UN CONDEMNATION OF INDONESIA ..............................................................................34
CNRM MEMO ON UN RESOLUTION..............................................................................................................35
PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS ................................................................................ 35
BOUTROS-GHALI SETS PORTUGAL-INDONESIA TALKS ................................................................................35
RAMOS-HORTA CAUTIOUS ON UN TALKS INITIATIVE ..................................................................................35
PORTUGAL PREPARED TO LIFT TRADE BOYCOTT ON INDONESIA ...............................................................36
PROPOSED TALKS HAILED ..........................................................................................................................36
PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE QUESTION EAST TIMOR .................................37
GENERAL ASSEMBLY PUTS OFF TIMOR ACTION...........................................................................................38
INDONESIA WILLING TO TALK TO RESISTANCE.........................................................................................38
MEETING BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA CONFIRMED...................................................................39
UN COMMUNIQUÉ ON TALKS ......................................................................................................................39
INDONESIA, PORTUGAL AGREE TO CONTINUE DIALOGUE..........................................................................39
TALKS TO RESUME ON TIMOR FUTURE........................................................................................................40
A BREAKTHROUGH ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................40
U.S. CONGRESS CUTS MILITARY AID ........................................................................................................ 41
REPORT ON MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE JIM KOLBE (ARIZONA) .......................................................41
ETAN/CANADA WRITES U.S. SENATE..........................................................................................................41
AID CUT TO INDONESIA..............................................................................................................................41
SENATE TO DECIDE ON MILITARY AID TO INDONESIA NEXT WEEK...........................................................42
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ETAN/US ADVOCATES TOTAL AID CUTOFF...................................................................................................43
CONTACT SENATOR INOUYE TODAY ON IMET.............................................................................................43
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA CALLS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATION ..........................................43
IMET SENATE VOTE REPORT........................................................................................................................44
BACKGROUND ON THE U.S. MILITARY TRAINING FOR INDONESIA CONTROVERSY ...................................45
US CONGRESS CUTS MILITARY AID TO INDONESIA....................................................................................47
SUHARTO VISITS NEW YORK, U.N., JAPAN ............................................................................................... 48
SOEHARTO TO SPEAK AT UN FOR NAM........................................................................................................48
ETAN/US CONDEMNS SUHARTO BETRAYAL OF NAM, UN ............................................................................48
SUHARTO: UNFINISHED DECOLONIZATION (REUTERS) ..............................................................................49
PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER JOAO DE DEUS PINHEIRO ADDRESSES U.N.........................................49
SUHARTO UN SPEECH .................................................................................................................................49
INDONESIA OPPOSES SEIZURE OF TERRITORY OF BOSNIA - SILENT ON EAST TIMOR (AP) ........................51
NY TIMES EDITORIAL, ARTICLE, ADS..........................................................................................................51
SUHARTO’S HYPOCRISY (BOSTON GLOBE) ..................................................................................................53
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST INDONESIA’S OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR.......................................................53
SUHARTO VISIT PROTESTED IN NEW YORK CITY ........................................................................................53
WARM WELCOME AWAITS SUHARTO IN JAPAN DESPITE TOUCHY ISSUES ..................................................54
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 55
SOEHARTO DEFENDS ABRI ROLE ...............................................................................................................55
JAKARTA LIFTS NEWSPAPER BANS.............................................................................................................55
MILITARY DENIES TIMOR ‘OFFENSIVE’ ........................................................................................................55
SOEHARTO: SORRY, NO DEMOCRACY.........................................................................................................55
GOVERNMENT SETS UP RIGHTS BODY........................................................................................................56
114 KILLED BY POLICE SINCE 1989 ............................................................................................................56
MILITARY PRESSURE ON INDONESIAN NGOS.............................................................................................56
THE MAN TO WATCH: LT. GEN. WISMOYO ARISMUNANDAR ........................................................................56
“INDONESIA - FACING THE FUTURE": ABDURRAHMAN WAHID IN AUSTRALIA.............................................57
ABDURRAHMAN WAHID INTERVIEW............................................................................................................58
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK SUPPORTS INDONESIAN NGO’S ..............................................................61
SUHARTO WANTS A NEW LEADING ROLE....................................................................................................61
VEEPSTAKES................................................................................................................................................62
JAKARTA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS JAIL TERM FOR EAST TIMORESE STUDENT.............................................62
IN THE INDONESIAN EMPIRE .................................................................................................................... 62
ELEVEN ACEHNESE INCARCERATED UNDERGROUND IN PENANG .............................................................62
OPM CHRISTIAN SUPPORTER JAILED.........................................................................................................63
INDONESIA REWARDS IRIAN KILLER ..........................................................................................................63
WEST PAPUANS DEMONSTRATE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION ....................................................................63
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 64
FIGHTING BRITAIN’S HAWKS ......................................................................................................................64
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA MEETS IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER.............................................................................65
TIMOR ENVOY SUGGESTS IRISH F.M. ANDREWS AS MEDIATOR .................................................................65
INDONESIA MAY INVITE PORTUGUESE TO VISIT EAST TIMOR....................................................................66
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 66
CANADA AIDS INDONESIAN ARMY.............................................................................................................66
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY TOLD TO CANCEL INDONESIA PROJECT........................................................66
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 67
HUMAN RIGHTS, SENATOR EVANS AND TIMOR...........................................................................................67
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ICJ TIMOR REPORT OUT..............................................................................................................................68
ICJ LAWYER ON ‘DOUBLE AGENT’ CLAIM ....................................................................................................69
IN SALUTE TO FALINTIL...............................................................................................................................69
FAX-IN AGAINST INDONESIAN AIR SHOW IN OZ ........................................................................................70
AUST. PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO DILI CONFIRMED ........................................................................70
EVENTS IN THE USA .................................................................................................................................. 70
ETAN/US PETITION......................................................................................................................................70
ETAN/US TAKES ACTION ON EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................71
REPORT ON VISIT WITH NANCY YOSHIHARA, L.A. TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD .............................................72
LETTER TO NEWSDAY: RUN FROM INDONESIA ...........................................................................................72
LETTER TO LOS ANGELES TIMES: UN RESOLUTIONS...................................................................................72
ETAN NETWORK NEWS #2...........................................................................................................................73
INDONESIAN GENERAL SUED IN BOSTON COURT.....................................................................................74
RESOURCES AND EVENTS......................................................................................................................... 75
RESOURCES FOR SALE FROM EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK OF TORONTO................................................75
ART FOR TIMOR...........................................................................................................................................75
SENATE HEARING PUBLISHED ....................................................................................................................75
NEW CHOMSKY FILM INCLUDES EAST TIMOR............................................................................................75
ETAN/US VIDEO NATIONALLY DISTRIBUTED ...............................................................................................76
“COLD BLOOD” ON DISCOVERY CABLE TV..................................................................................................77
EAST TIMOR PROGRAMS IN LOS ANGELES AND WESTCHESTER (NY)..........................................................77
ETAN BENEFIT DANCE.................................................................................................................................77
LONDON GIG FOR EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................77
CALL FOR BUDDING LONDON STREET THEATRE ARTISTS...........................................................................77
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 78
THE POLL THAT INDONESIA DARES NOT HOLD (ECONOMIST) ....................................................................78
EAST TIMOR IGNORED AT ASIAN-EUROPEAN MEETING ..............................................................................78
U.S. AND JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARIANS APPEAL TO SECRETARY-GENERAL .............................................79
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T CRITICAL OF MALAYSIA TV DILI PROGRAM....................................................80
HILL AND KNOWLTON – SELLING DEATH ....................................................................................................81

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 17: Special on the Capture of Xanana Gusmao November 20 - 29, 1992

NEWS REPORTS: INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.................................................................................................. 3
SOLDIERS IN EAST TIMOR CAPTURE REBEL LEADER (NEW YORK TIMES) .....................................................3
WIRE SERVICE ROUNDUP NOV. 20................................................................................................................3
MAU HUNO NAMED INTERIM LEADER?.........................................................................................................5
XANANA’S FAMILY RESPONDS.......................................................................................................................5
XANANA NEGOTIATIONS OFFER REJECTED ..................................................................................................5
INDONESIAN REGIME GLOATS......................................................................................................................5
AUSTRALIAN PROTESTS .................................................................................................................................6
BENNY MURDANI: XANANA TRIAL LIKELY ....................................................................................................6
AUSTRALIAN FM EVANS URGES INDONESIA NOT TO ILL-TREAT XANANA......................................................7
INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR SABAM: DEATH BLOW TO RESISTANCE.............................................................7
INTENSE TIMORESE INTEREST IN XANANA...................................................................................................8
THE WAR IS IN JAKARTA ...............................................................................................................................8
XANANA COULD BE EXECUTED .....................................................................................................................8
XANANA MOVED TO BALI...............................................................................................................................9
HORTA: BOUTROS-GHALI TO INTERVENE......................................................................................................9
IPS: CONCERN ABOUT XANANA.....................................................................................................................9
JAKARTA REJECTS ACCESS OVER XANANA .................................................................................................10
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A HORA DE TODAS AS VERSOES.................................................................................................................10
XANANA GUSMAO INCOMMUNICADO ........................................................................................................11
CARRASCALAO CAUTIONS REGIME .............................................................................................................11
NO ‘EXTRADITION’ FOR XANANA.................................................................................................................12
INDONESIAN MILITARY CAPTURES FRETILIN LEADER ...............................................................................12
PRESSURE BEING EXERTED ON XANANA THROUGH FAMILY MEMBERS .....................................................12
EAST TIMOR’S CAPTIVE LEADER ..................................................................................................................12
THE ABILIO ARAUJO CONNECTION .............................................................................................................13
XANANA CONFIRMED IN BALI .....................................................................................................................13
XANANA MISTREATMENT DENIED ...............................................................................................................13
ICRC WILL VISIT XANANA............................................................................................................................14
AUSTRALIA LUKEWARM ON ARREST OF EAST TIMOR REBEL LEADER .........................................................14
MURDANI: TIMOR’S ‘WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY’.......................................................................................14
XANANA DISMISSED AS STREET CRIMINAL.................................................................................................15
BRITAIN BACKS REBEL ROLE IN TIMOR TALKS............................................................................................16
MORE ARRESTED IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................................17
UPI: XANANA LEGAL RIGHTS THWARTED ...................................................................................................17
INDONESIA WON’T ALLOW FOREIGN LEGAL AID FOR JAILED REBEL LEADER ............................................17
NEWS REPORTS: INDONESIAN MEDIA...................................................................................................... 17
ROUNDUP FROM THE INDONESIAN PRESS 21 NOVEMBER .........................................................................17
INDONESIAN RADIO EXCERPTS ON XANANA CAPTURE.............................................................................18
XANANA’S UNDERGROUND HIDEOUT .........................................................................................................19
INDONESIAN PRESS ROUNDUP, NOV. 23....................................................................................................19
XANANA’S WIFE ACCUSES HORTA OF LEAKING HER HUSBAND’S HIDING PLACE.......................................21
BALI POLICE ADD TO CONFUSION ABOUT XANANA’S WHEREABOUTS.........................................................22
STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS BY HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOLIDARITY GROUPS........................................ 23
TAPOL CALLS FOR RELEASE OF EAST TIMOR RESISTANCE LEADER.............................................................23
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEWED ON BBC WORLD SERVICE .................................................................23
STATEMENT BY FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION .................................................................................24
ETAN/US CALL TO ACTION ..........................................................................................................................24
ACTION ALERT FROM EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK, CANADA...................................................................24
ASIA WATCH CALLS FOR ACCESS TO XANANA.............................................................................................25
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ...............................................................................................25
JURISTS PLATFORM WRITES TO UN............................................................................................................25
DARWIN PROTEST AFTER ARREST OF XANANA............................................................................................26
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR OVERSEAS AID ................................................................................................26
FREE EAST TIMOR RALLY IN TORONTO SATURDAY......................................................................................27
EAST TIMOR MASSACRE REMEMBERED WORLDWIDE.................................................................................27
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU CALLS FOR XANANA’S RELEASE..................................................................28
WHERE IS XANANA? ....................................................................................................................................28
JOSÉ AMORIM DIAS’ FORMER HOME RAIDED ............................................................................................28
RESOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUES ...................................28
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES AND REPORTS .................................................................................29
ACTIVITIES IN FRANCE ............................................................................................................................. 31
FROM AGIR POUR TIMOR, PARIS.................................................................................................................31
VISIT OF PRESIDENT SUHARTO IN FRANCE ................................................................................................32
FRANCE: ‘COMPREHENSIVE’ SOLUTION ......................................................................................................32
TIMOR ‘DOMINATES’ FRANCE TALKS ..........................................................................................................32
MITTERAND: INCLUDE TIMORESE IN TALKS................................................................................................33
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SOEHARTO’S PARIS APPOINTMENTS CANCELLED .......................................................................................33
SUHARTO AND MITTERRAND DISCUSS EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................33
LETTER TO SUHARTO FROM ASTO, PARIS...................................................................................................33
FRANCE TIMOR POLICY PUMMELED ............................................................................................................34
SUHARTO IN FRANCE FOR PRIVATE REASONS?...........................................................................................34
STATEMENTS FROM GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ....................................................................................... 35
PRESIDENT SOARES PHONES BOUTROS-GHALI ..........................................................................................35
JAPANESE DIET MEMBER SATSUKI EDA ......................................................................................................35
EVANS WELCOMES ASSURANCES................................................................................................................35
LORD AVEBURY: XANANA, A PRISONER-OF-WAR ........................................................................................35
US GETS ASSURANCES ON XANANA............................................................................................................36
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAUCUS CAUTIONS SUHARTO.......................................................36
BRITAIN WANTS TIMORESE IN TALKS.........................................................................................................36
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON XANANA.............................................................................................. 37
PROFILE OF XANANA GUSMAO ...................................................................................................................37
XANANA, A LIFE OF STRUGGLE AND DEDICATION .....................................................................................37
XANANA: PERSONAL BACKGROUND............................................................................................................38
XANANA INTERVIEW ON RTP.......................................................................................................................38
XANANA REPLIES FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF THE FATHERLAND...............................................................41
POEMS BY XANANA GUSMAO ......................................................................................................................42

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 18, Oct. 5 - Nov. 30, 1992

XANANA GUSMAO CAPTURED ..................................................................................................................... 6
TIMOR: TIME FOR RECONCILIATION .............................................................................................................6
TONE DOWN YOUR REPORTING, MEDIA TOLD.............................................................................................6
JAKARTA ALLEGES FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR REBELS.....................................................................................7
EAST TIMOR’S LOST LEADER .........................................................................................................................7
FRENCH COMMUNISTS SUPPORT XANANA....................................................................................................7
AMNESTY ALERT F.I. # 366/92 EAST TIMOR ARRESTS.....................................................................................8
HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDONESIA ................................................................................................................... 8
AMNESTY BARRED AGAIN..............................................................................................................................8
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S REQUEST TO VISIT EAST TIMOR REJECTED AGAIN .....................................9
ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CONDEMNED ......................................................................................9
THE EMILIA GUSMAO QUESTION.............................................................................................................. 10
EMILIA GUSMAO IN A CONFUSING NETWORK ............................................................................................10
ARAUJO: EMILIA GUSMAO SHOULD HAVE WAITED TO MEET WITH RAMOS-HORTA.....................................10
SCENES FROM A BAD TASTE “SOAP OPERA” ...........................................................................................11
EMILIA GUSMAO: WHO DOES SHE REPRESENT? .........................................................................................12
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL AND EUROPE ........................................................................................................ 13
LISBON STILL BLOCKING EC-ASEAN AGREEMEN T......................................................................................13
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EC-ASEAN FAIL TO RENEW ACCORD ..........................................................................................................13
PORTUGAL ABANDONS TIMOR REFERENDUM .............................................................................................14
PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS REUTERS REPORT A ‘MISINTERPRETATION’..............................14
TIMORESE PEOPLE IN PORTUGAL STUDY EAST TIMOR................................................................................14
EC-ASEAN MINISTERS CEMENT ECONOMIC RELATIONS, SIDESTEP HUMAN RIGHTS .................................14
PORTUGAL: DAY OF REFLECTION ................................................................................................................15
PORTUGAL REMEMBERS SANTA CRUZ .........................................................................................................15
PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT LEADS DAY OF MOURNING................................................................................15
NEW PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER ....................................................................................................16
STATEMENT OF THE TWELVE IN THE THIRD COMMISSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY......................16
JOHN MACDOUGALL: EC TIMOR STATEMENT TOO WEAK .......................................................................16
PORTUGUESE NGO LETTER TO BOUTROS-GHALI.........................................................................................16
LISBON THEATRE EVOKING THE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE..........................................................................17
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 17
UK: REMEMBERING THOSE WHO DIED IN EAST TIMOR ON 12 NOVEMBER 1991.........................................17
BURYING THE MEMORY OF A MASSACRE...................................................................................................17
UK HOUSE OF COMMONS MOTION ON TIMOR............................................................................................18
FOULKES: INDONESIA’S KILLING MACHINE................................................................................................18
VIGIL AND SERVICE IN LONDON ...............................................................................................................18
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................... 19
REPORT ABOUT TRIP TO EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................................19
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................20
MESSAGE FROM XANANA GUSMAO TO NAM................................................................................................22
SOARES AND SYAFEI: AMNESTY OFFER ......................................................................................................25
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR SPEAKS ABOUT TERRITORIAL OPERATIONS.........................................................25
PRISONERS TRANSFERRED, SCHOOL CLOSED ...........................................................................................26
GETTING IT WRONG IN EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................................26
ABILIO SAYS BELO SAYS..............................................................................................................................26
RECENT VISITOR TO EAST TIMOR’S IMPRESSION .......................................................................................26
REPLY TO EAST TIMOR QUESTIONNAIRE.....................................................................................................27
TIMOR CURRICULUM ‘REFORM’...................................................................................................................28
JAKARTA TO TEACH NATIONALISM IN EAST TIMOR....................................................................................28
SOARES: NO COVER-UP OF TIMOR PROBLEMS...........................................................................................28
BAUCAU INCIDENT EXPLAINED ..................................................................................................................28
URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SAVE EAST TIMOR .............................................................29
SYAFEI INTERVIEW: PREPARING FOR ANNIVERSARIES..............................................................................29
ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................................30
INDONESIA TIGHTENS SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR CAPITAL .......................................................................30
NEW ARRESTS .............................................................................................................................................30
BAUCAU: 7 KILLED, MANY ARRESTED .........................................................................................................30
‘FRETILIN PLOT’ FOILED ..............................................................................................................................31
SUHARTO TO ABILIO: HIRE TIMORESE.......................................................................................................31
ABILIO: NO TRAUMA LEFT FROM SANTA CRUZ.............................................................................................31
EAST TIMORESE AUTHORITIES CONDUCT IDENTITY CARD CHECKS...........................................................31
TAPOL CALLS FOR MONITORING IN TIMOR.................................................................................................32
FOR FIRST TIME, CENTRAL JAVA TRANSMIGRATES 25 FAMILIES TO EAST TIMOR........................................32
CONSTANTIO PINTO REACHES MACAO .......................................................................................................32
CONSTANTIO PINTO INTERVIEWED BY TAPOL........................................................................................33
HORTA’S CHARGES......................................................................................................................................33
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ABILIO SOARES: “WHY DID NOT ALL THOUSAND DIE?”...............................................................................33
SOARES COMMENTS CAUSE OUTRAGE IN AUSTRALIA.................................................................................38
SOARES’ DENIAL .........................................................................................................................................38
MARIO CARRASCALAO DANGLING IN WIND ..............................................................................................38
UN REPRESENTATIVE VISITS EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................39
TREAT: OPEN IT UP .................................................................................................................................39
AI: HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS........................................................................................................................39
TERROR IN EAST TIMOR AS MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES ........................................................39
REUTERS ALLOWED INTO DILI FOR 12 NOVEMBER .....................................................................................40
TIMORESE: RETURN THE BODIES...............................................................................................................40
DILI REPORTEDLY CALM .............................................................................................................................40
DILI TIGHTLY MONITORED..........................................................................................................................41
THE ‘HEARTS & MINDS’ WAR .......................................................................................................................41
MOURNING IN TIMOR .................................................................................................................................41
TIMORESE CHURCH UNDER SUSPICION ....................................................................................................42
ORCHESTRATED ‘COMMEMORATIONS’ IN DILI ...........................................................................................42
ABILIO: ‘PEACE’ REIGNS..............................................................................................................................42
ARMED TROOPS PATROL DILI STREETS.......................................................................................................42
WINNING BATTLES, LOSING WAR ..............................................................................................................43
JAWA POS: BANNED EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION (FITUN) DISSOLVES SELF........................................43
JAWA POS: VIGILANCE REMAINS AGAINST EX-MEMBERS OF FITUN ...........................................................44
CARRASCALAO: END DEMO BAN ................................................................................................................44
UNDERGROUND EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION OJEKTIL DISSOLVED ....................................................44
EXPLORING FOR TIMOR GAP OIL ............................................................................................................ 45
TIMOR GAP TREATIES AWARDED................................................................................................................45
US OIL: INTO THE GAP ................................................................................................................................45
MARATHON OIL POISED FOR TIMOR GAP EXPLORATIONS..........................................................................45
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 46
EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK/CANADA NEWSLETTER................................................................................46
SECRET CANADA-INDONESIA CONFERENCE IGNORES HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS......................................50
ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES KICK OFF EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN ..................................................50
CANADIAN ARMS TO BURMA .......................................................................................................................51
CANADIAN COMMITTEE FOR DARWIN SCHOOL ..........................................................................................51
12 NOVEMBER: EVENTS PLANNED IN CANADA............................................................................................51
SILENCE BESPEAKS DEATH IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................51
END ARMS SALES ON ANNIVERSARY OF TIMOR MASSACRE, CANADIAN PEACE GROUPS URGE.................52
CANADA CHOOSES PROFI TS OVER RIGHTS ................................................................................................53
MASSACRE MERITS MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE WRIST.............................................................................54
NOV. 12 IN CANADA ....................................................................................................................................54
REPORT ON FREE XANANA PROTESTS IN CANADA......................................................................................55
EVENTS IN THE USA .................................................................................................................................. 55
SUING SINTONG IN AMERICA .....................................................................................................................55
FEDERAL JUDGE IN BOSTON EXPECTED TO ORDER MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PAYMENT.......................55
PANJAITAN LEAVES US, ESCAPES LAWSUIT...........................................................................................56
EAST TIMOR ALUMNI ...................................................................................................................................56
FERNANDO DE ARAUJO GETS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ..............................................................................56
INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES WONT LET EAST TIMORESE PICK UP HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ...................56
US SENATORS TO SUHARTO: FREE FERNANDO ARAUJO .............................................................................57
TEMPO: NO MORE CAPTAINS TO AMERICA.................................................................................................57
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ETAN/US NEWSLETTER (EXCERPTS) ............................................................................................................57
NOV. 12 MASSACRE COMMEMORATION IN NEW YORK ..............................................................................59
NOVEMBER 12 COMMEMORATION IN LOS ANGELES.................................................................................59
DEMONSTRATION AT INDONESIAN CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO........................................................59
WE LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACK ................................................................................................................60
BILL CLINTON ON U.S. POLICY TOWARDS EAST TIMOR.......................................................................... 61
TIMORESE APPEAL TO CLINTON .................................................................................................................61
HORTA’S HOPES FOR CLINTON ..................................................................................................................61
BRUNO KAHN, AGIR POUR TIMOR.........................................................................................................62
CHARLES SCHEINER, ETAN/US ..............................................................................................................62
CARMEL BUDIARDJO, TAPOL: .................................................................................................................62
ALATAS: NO CONFRONTATION WITH CLINTON ...........................................................................................62
US PROBLEMS, INDONESIAN PROBLEMS (FK) .............................................................................................63
CLINTON, ASIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS (FEER)...............................................................................................63
HUMANITY WON’T WAIT ..............................................................................................................................63
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 64
ABRI COMMANDER GENERAL TRY SUTRISNO: NO NEED TO LIMIT PRESIDENTIAL TERM ...........................64
HIGH CIVILIAN TOLL IN ACEH.....................................................................................................................64
INDONESIA CALLS WEST RUDE AND MEDDLESOME...................................................................................65
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER ARRESTED IN SURABAYA....................................................................................65
ASIA WATCH PROTESTS INDONESIAN ARREST.......................................................................................66
UPDATE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ............................................................................................66
TWELVE STUDENTS AND ACTIVISTS DETAINED IN YOGYAKARTA................................................................66
UPDATE FROM TAPOL OCTOBER 29:........................................................................................................67
SUHARTO ASKED TO STEP DOWN ..............................................................................................................67
MORE ON STUDENTS’ STATEMENT..........................................................................................................67
‘PAPER TIGER’ ABRI EXERCISES..................................................................................................................67
TRY SUTRISNO: WE SHALL OVERCOME......................................................................................................68
HAKIM: WORSE ON THE WAY ......................................................................................................................68
MIDDLE-RANKING OFFICERS TRIED?.........................................................................................................68
WORLD BANK FUNDS INDONESIA...............................................................................................................68
EDI SUDRADJAT: CRUSH ALL REBELS ........................................................................................................68
ANTI-SUHARTO DEMO AT DPR!...................................................................................................................69
MILITARY BUDGET GOING UP .....................................................................................................................69
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 69
AUSTRALIAN MP’S TO VISIT INDONESIA, BUT NOT EAST TIMOR.................................................................69
ABC-TV NEWS ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR PLANS..........................................................................................69
EAST TIMOR OFF LIMITS FOR VISITING MPS ..........................................................................................69
INDONESIA BARS AUSTRALIAN MPS FROM EAST TIMOR ........................................................................70
INFIGHT’S OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN MPS ...........................................................................................70
SCHACHT: SUHARTO SHOULD LOOK AT EAST TIMOR ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR ........................................70
SENATOR BOURNE TELLS OF FEARS ON TIMOR .........................................................................................71
SCHACHT: AUSTRALIAN TRADE FOR EAST TIMOR DIALOGUE......................................................................71
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY TO BE OBSERVED IN SYDNEY......................................................72
EAST TIMOR CAMPAIGN WELCOMES AUSTRALIAN VISIT OF IRISH PRESIDENT..........................................72
IRISH PRESIDENT ASKED TO INTERVENE ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................................72
STATEMENT BY JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA TO SYDNEY CORRESPONDENTS .......................................................73
EXCERPT FROM AFP, SYDNEY, ROBERT HOLLOWAY, NOV. 5. .................................................................74
EAST TIMOR’S STRUGGLE CONTINUES ........................................................................................................75
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NEIGHBOURS NEED TO TALK TO EACH OTHER ...........................................................................................75
MILITANT PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................76
AUSTRALIA ON TIMOR AID LINK.................................................................................................................76
MORAL VICTORY IN OZ CROSSES CASE......................................................................................................76
NORTHERN TERRITORIES WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN TIMOR....................................................................77
TIMORESE BURN INDONESIAN FLAG! ........................................................................................................77
LIGHT OF MOURNING, LIGHT OF HOPE .....................................................................................................77
NEGOTIATIONS RESUME DECEMBER 17.................................................................................................. 78
RESISTANCE DEMANDS INCLUSION IN NEGOTIATIONS.............................................................................78
MOCHTAR: NO REFERENDUM......................................................................................................................78
XANANA: CEASEFIRE ACCEPTABLE..............................................................................................................79
EVENTS IN MALAYSIA AND JAPAN........................................................................................................... 79
MALAYSIA TV JOURNALIST PUNISHED ........................................................................................................79
LETTER FROM COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS..........................................................................79
JAPAN’S ET SPEAKING TOUR .......................................................................................................................80
TOKYO MASSACRE COMMEMORATIONS.....................................................................................................80
JAPANESE PEOPLE MOBI LIZE......................................................................................................................80
S.E. ASIAN TREATY OF AMITY AND COOPERATION ADOPTED BY UN ..........................................................80
12 NOV. COMMEMORATED IN MALAYSIA....................................................................................................81
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................... 81
EAST TIMOR RADIO DOCUMENTARY ...........................................................................................................81
TATA MAI LAU: NEW TIMORESE CENTER IN MACAO ....................................................................................82
PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON TIMOR AND BURMA, BANGKOK ............................................................................82
COMPUTER BOOK DEDICATED TO TIMORESE PEOPLE ..............................................................................82
BOOK REVIEW: TELLING, BY MITCHELL TURNER .........................................................................................82
NEW FRENCH BOOK ON EAST TIMOR BY GABRIEL DEFERT........................................................................83
EAST TIMOR CLIPPING SERVICE ................................................................................................................83
COMMENT ON LONELY PLANET SOUTHEAST ASIA TRAVEL GUIDE...............................................................83
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 84
DAVID WEBSTER ON STRATEGY AND TACTICS ............................................................................................84
WAR RESISTERS INTERNATIONAL 1992 PRISONERS FOR PEACE HONOUR ROLL........................................85
THE FOLLOWING ARE IMPRISONED IN DILI, EAST TIMOR AT THIS ADDRESS:......................................85
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE CASUALTY LIST................................................................................................. 87
KILLED....................................................................................................................................................87
WOUNDED ..............................................................................................................................................89
HOSPITALISED........................................................................................................................................91
DISAPPEARED.........................................................................................................................................92
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................... 95
EAST TIMOR’S HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .................................................................................................95
JAKARTA’S LINE ON TIMOR’S HISTORY ......................................................................................................97
TIMOR’S EARLY HISTORY AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ...............................................................................98
DEBATE ON THE COMPUTER NETWORKS .............................................................................................. 100
INDONESIA STUDENT NETS INFILTRATED................................................................................................. 100
ALT.CULTURE.INDONESIA ......................................................................................................................... 100
TIMORESE COMMENT: PORTUGUESE VS. INDONESIAN MEDIA................................................................. 100
POINT OF VIEW OF AN EAST TIMORESE ................................................................................................... 101
ANOTHER EAST TIMORESE COMMENT...................................................................................................... 105
PORTUGAL CLAIMS ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................................... 105

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 23, June 8 - July 31, 1993

XANANA IN PRISON...................................................................................................................................... 7
ABOUT THE TRIAL: TIMORESE UNAWARE.......................................................................................................7
XG’S FAMILY DENIES APPEAL........................................................................................................................7
UNFAIR POLITICAL TRIAL OF XANANA GUSMÃO ............................................................................................7
ORDER OF FREEDOM FOR XANANA.............................................................................................................14
LBH COMPLAINS TO THE INDONESIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ABOUT SUDJONO ............................................14
HORTA & TAPOL DISBELIEVE CLEMENCY APPEAL .......................................................................................15
MORE OF SUDJONO’S SCHEMING...............................................................................................................15
GUSMÃO’S DILI TRIAL A TRAVESTY- WORLD MUST WEEP FOR A MAN OF VISION AND COURAGE. .............15
XANANA’S HEALTH DECLINING? .................................................................................................................16
RAMOS-HORTA TELLS ALATAS: “SHOW XANANA GUSMÃO”..........................................................................17
ULTIMATE PENALTY - EAST TIMOR LEADER GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT......................................................17
REBEL LEADER TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE OUTSIDE EAST TIMOR...............................................................18
RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEW .........................................................................................................................18
STATEMENT OF INDONESIAN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON XANANA’S TRIAL............................20
REBEL ASKS FOR MERCY.............................................................................................................................22
“XANANA WILL NEVER FILE FOR CLEMENCY!” — RAMOS HORTA ...............................................................22
CLEMENCY PLOY FOR EAST TIMORESE YET ANOTHER TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE............................................22
MEDIA PUT WORDS IN XANANA’S MOUTH...................................................................................................23
JAILED XANANA WINS LIBERTY MEDAL.......................................................................................................23
XANANA MOVED FROM DILI........................................................................................................................24
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WILL ICRC SEE XANANA OR EAST TIMOR? .............................................................................................. 24
ICRC TO VISIT XANANA GUSMÃO?...............................................................................................................24
RED CROSS TIMOR VISIT ............................................................................................................................24
EVANS: JAKARTA WILL ALLOW ACCESS TO XANANA ‘WITHIN DAYS’ ...........................................................24
ICRC’S PROBLEMS IN EAST TIMOR NOT RESOLVED ....................................................................................25
RED CROSS VISITS XANANA GUSMÃO.........................................................................................................25
RED CROSS ‘DENIED ACCESS’ IN EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................25
ICRC “DEPLORES” LACK OF ACCESS ...........................................................................................................26
ICRC VISITS TO TIMORESE DETAINEES AGAIN SUSPENDED .......................................................................26
REACTIONS TO XANANA'S IMPRISONMENT.............................................................................................. 26
SAN FRANCISCO RESPONSE CLOSES INDONESIAN CONSULATE................................................................26
EVANS PUSHES FOR XANANA CLEMENCY ...................................................................................................27
INDONESIA’S SHAME ..................................................................................................................................27
JAKARTA UNDER PRESSURE ON XANANA ...................................................................................................27
CANADIAN WOMAN JOINS INTERNATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR........................................28
HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES IN THE HAGUE .............................................................................................28
TORONTO PRIEST CONTINUES HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR.............................................................29
PRESSURE ON EC REGARDING XANANA.....................................................................................................29
HUNGER STRIKE IN IRELAND .....................................................................................................................30
INDONESIA CHALLENGED TO ALLOW GUSMÃO A NEWS CONFERENCE......................................................30
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................................... 30
ALATAS SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY OF EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................30
JAKARTA HAS LONG WAY TO GO IN GAINING ACCEPTANCE OF ITS PRESENCE IN EAST TIMOR ................35
TIMOR OPPRESSION ‘INTENSIFIED’ ............................................................................................................37
REPORT FROM INSIDE ON MA’HUNO..........................................................................................................37
EAST TIMOR STUDENTS - ASSISTANCE NEEDED .........................................................................................37
BISHOP OF DILI UNDER SIEGE ...................................................................................................................38
A PROBLEM OF THE SOUL............................................................................................................................38
AN ISLAND OF EXILES .................................................................................................................................39
ONCE MIGHTY EAST TIMOR SEPARATISTS DYING BREED ...........................................................................40
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE NOT ALLOWED ON CATHOLIC RADIO IN TIMOR.................................................40
INTERVIEW WITH FR. DOMINGOS SOARES .................................................................................................41
US SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNTIM...................................................................................................................41
TWO MORE DILI MASSACRE SURVIVORS FOUND........................................................................................41
TIMOR HISTORY BOOKS ATTACKED ............................................................................................................42
INFANT MORTALITY HIGHEST IN WORLD ....................................................................................................43
EAST TIMOR REBELS CONTINUE STRUGGLE AGAINST INDONESIA.............................................................43
TROOPS BREAK UP DEMO IN DILI ...............................................................................................................43
BRADBURY TAPE SEIZED IN TIMOR.............................................................................................................44
INDONESIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN LOS PALOS..........................................................................................45
E.T. STUDENTS SEEK ASYLUM IN JAKARTA ............................................................................................. 45
SEVEN EAST TIMORESE STUDENTS SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM IN SWEDISH AND FINNISH EMBASSIES ......45
ASYLUM REQUEST TO FI NLAND AND SWEDEN ............................................................................................45
ASYLUM-SEEKERS ON HUNGER STRIKE......................................................................................................46
BIODATA OF EAST TIMORESE REQUESTING POLITICAL ASYLUM .................................................................47
SEVEN TIMORESE STUDENTS ASK FOR ASYLUM IN JAKARTA......................................................................48
FINNISH COMMITTEE OF 100 DEMANDS THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE TIMORESE.........................48
URGENT CAMPAIGN NEEDED FOR ASYLUM-SEEKERS.................................................................................48
LONG STANDOFF EXPECTED ON STUDENTS’ ASYLUM REQUEST.................................................................49
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FOUR LEAVE FINNISH EMBASSY..................................................................................................................49
SWEDEN SHOULD ARRANGE SAFE CONDUCT.............................................................................................50
PORTUGUESE POSITION ON EMBASSY TIMORESE ......................................................................................50
SEVEN LOSE ASYLUM BI D............................................................................................................................51
ETRA’S LETTER TO EMBASSIES ....................................................................................................................51
EAST TIMORESE IN JAKARTA SWEDISH EMBASSY UPDATE .........................................................................51
JAKARTA REFUSES EXIT TO EAST TIMOR ASYLUM-SEEKERS ......................................................................52
FINNISH COMMITTEE OF 100 QUESTIONS FINNISH DECISION ...................................................................52
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS...........................................................52
TIMORESE STUDENTS WANT TO GO TO PORTUGAL.....................................................................................53
TIMORESE IN EXILE APPEAL FOR SAFE PASSAGE FOR STUDENTS...............................................................54
JAKARTA COMMANDER OFFERS GUARANTEES ON SAFETY OF EAST TIMORESE..........................................54
SWEDEN, FINLAND “MORALLY RESPONSIBLE” FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS.......................................................54
TIMORESE STUDENTS DEFIANT IN DEMAND FOR SAFE PASSAGE...............................................................55
TIME, PATIENCE RUNNING OUT FOR TIMORESE STUDENTS .......................................................................55
THREE EAST TIMORESE HOLDING OUT AT SWEDISH EMBASSY ..................................................................55
THREE EAST TIMORESE SPEND FIFTH DAY AT SWEDISH EMBASSY.............................................................56
NO INDONESIAN PASSPORTS .....................................................................................................................56
PORTUGAL SAYS WILL ACCEPT EAST TIMOR STUDENTS..............................................................................56
JAPANESE DIET MEMBER EDA APPEALS TO SWEDEN ..................................................................................57
FARIA: “WE’RE BEING HOUNDED!” ..............................................................................................................57
PRESSURE ON SWEDEN AND FINLAND.......................................................................................................57
LETTER TO SWEDISH KING FROM WORLD SERVICE AUTHORITY ................................................................57
THREE TIMORESE AT SWEDISH EMBASSY IN JAKARTA CALL FOR HELP......................................................58
EAST TIMORESE STUDEN TS COMPLAIN OF SWEDISH EMBASSY HARASSMEN T...........................................58
SWEDEN CALLS EAST TIMORESE ASYLUM PLEA PROPAGANDA...................................................................59
ET STUDENTS IN SWEDISH EMBASSY..........................................................................................................59
TIMORESE DUE TO LEAVE EMBASSY 8 AM FRIDAY.......................................................................................59
ROUNDUP OF ASYLUM NEWS, JULY 2..........................................................................................................59
ASYLUM SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................60
EAST TIMORESE LEAVE SWEDISH EMBASSY IN JAKARTA............................................................................60
TIMORESE LEAVE EMBASSY: ROUNDUP BY TAPOL, JULY 2..........................................................................61
THREE ASYLUM SEEKERS APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT.............................................................61
THREE TIMORESE YOUTHS AND HJC PRINCEN’S FAMILY TERRORIZED......................................................61
INDONESIA CHARGES ASYLUM BID ENGINEERED BY AI.............................................................................61
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS.........................................................................62
JAKARTA CLAIMS ICRC PROGRAMME IS DEFUNCT......................................................................................67
CNRM: ICRC REPATRIATION PROGRAM STILL IN OPERATION ....................................................................68
TENUOUS EXISTENCE AT PRINCEN’S HOME................................................................................................68
SWEDEN APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS OF THE JAKARTA MILITARY COMMANDER .......................................69
PRINCEN APPEALED TO SUHARTO ..............................................................................................................69
JAWA POS INTERVIEWS ASYLUM-SEEKERS.................................................................................................70
ASYLUM-SEEKERS MOVED...........................................................................................................................71
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 71
REMILITARIZED ZONE - ARMY STRENGTHENS ITS POLITICS ......................................................................71
INDON MOVE TO PUSH TIMOR PROGRESS .................................................................................................72
INDO NGO’S CALL FOR CHANGES IN HUMAN RIGHTS ................................................................................72
RAMOS-HORTA MALIGNED BY INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER ..........................................................................72
TIMOR APPEAL FAILS...................................................................................................................................72
YELLOW STARS IN INDONESIA....................................................................................................................72
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SSDI STATEMENT ON NEW STUDENT-ARMY CLASH ON JAKARTA CAMPUS .................................................73
RIGHTS GROUP CALLS INDONESIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION “SERIOUSLY FLAWED”......................73
SUHARTO DEFENDS ROLE IN EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................77
SWIFT RESPONSE TO INDONESIAN REPRESSION .......................................................................................77
SUHARTO: A SOFTER LINE ON EAST TIMOR?...............................................................................................77
A.M. FATWA RELEASED ................................................................................................................................78
NEW INDONESIAN AMBASSADORS TO US, FRANCE, SAUDI ARABIA, RUSSIA..............................................78
INDONESIA’S HIDDEN WAR IN NORTH SUMATRA.......................................................................................78
THE TIMORESE EXTERNAL RESISTANCE ................................................................................................. 80
UDT CONGRESS SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER ...........................................................................................80
RESISTANCE GROUP SHIFTS EMPHASIS TO DIPLOMACY ............................................................................80
WHO’S WHO IN THE CNRM .........................................................................................................................81
RESISTANCE MOVEMENT TO BE LED FROM ABROAD...................................................................................81
“THE RESISTANCE IS WITHOUT A LEADER” – ABILIO ARAUJO .....................................................................81
17 WASTED YEARS – J.R. HORTA .................................................................................................................83
RAMOS-HORTA SPEECH AT LISBON TIMOR CONFERENCE..........................................................................84
INDONESIA'S SUPPORTERS: PUSHING INTEGRATION............................................................................... 86
NUNO ROCHA LETTER TO SOARES AND GOVERNMENT ON TIMOR.............................................................86
TIMORESE REJECT PROPOSAL FROM ABILIO ARAUJO.................................................................................87
INDONESIA PROPOSES TIMORESE TALKS...................................................................................................88
TALKS COULD BE IN TWO MONTHS.............................................................................................................88
CNRM REJECTS TALKS ................................................................................................................................89
ROUNDUP: JAKARTA ‘TALKS’ MOVE .............................................................................................................90
ALATAS: TIMORESE MIGHT BE INCLUDED IN TALKS....................................................................................90
EAST TIMORESE TO ATTEND TALKS .............................................................................................................91
INDONESIAN NGOS STATEMENT ON TALKS................................................................................................91
TAPOL ON JAKARTA’S LATEST ‘CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURE’.............................................................91
TIMORESE ‘RECONCILIATION’ TO TAKE PLACE IN BRUSSELS......................................................................97
‘NO’ TO TALKS WITH PUPPETS.....................................................................................................................97
TAPOL COMMENT ON ‘TALKS’ EXCHANGES, ................................................................................................98
“IT’S ABILIO’S WISH, NOT INDONESIA’S” SAYS LOPEZ DA CRUZ ................................................................99
LISBON ON JAKARTA-SPONSORED TALKS...................................................................................................99
TIMORESE TO VISIT THE POPE................................................................................................................. 99
MISSION TO THE VATICAN ANNOUNCED ....................................................................................................99
PRO-RI TIMORESE TO VISIT POPE............................................................................................................. 100
POPE ADDRESSES TIMORESE PILGRIMS IN PORTUGUESE........................................................................ 100
ECONOMIC AID ISSUES........................................................................................................................... 100
INDONESIA REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS LINK TO AID ................................................................................. 100
FEW INVESTORS TAKE UP INVITE TO EAST TIMOR .................................................................................... 100
PRE-CGI MEETING PRESSURE ON WORLD BANK...................................................................................... 100
WORLD DONORS SHOWER MORE AID ON RI............................................................................................ 101
PARIS CANDLELIGHT WAKE AT CGI MEETING........................................................................................... 102
LABOR RIGHTS IN INDONESIA; GSP THREATENED ................................................................................ 103
THE DOLLAR-A-DAY WORKERS WHO PRODUCE MICHAEL JORDAN’S $200 NIKE SHOES .......................... 103
REEBOKS, RAPPERS AND LOSERS............................................................................................................. 103
US TELLS INDONESIA: IMPROVE LABOR RIGHTS OR LOSE TRADE BENEFITS............................................ 105
INDONESIA RESPONDS ON LABOR RIGHTS .............................................................................................. 105
INDONESIAN WORKERS GROUP CONDEMNS ACTU.................................................................................. 106
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INDONESIA BARS LABOR CONGRESS........................................................................................................ 106
U.N. DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR IN PORT MORESBY............................................................................ 106
OUTSIDE PRESSURE ON UN DECOLONISATION COMMITTEE STAFF.......................................................... 106
CHALLENGE TO UN SPECIAL COMMITTEE OVER MELANESIAN RECOLONISATION .................................... 107
PACIFIC DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR CRITICIZED ................................................................................... 107
U.N. CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIENNA ................................................................................ 108
WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPRESSION REPORT........................................................... 108
ASIAN NGO’S ATTACK ALATAS ................................................................................................................... 108
ASIAN NGO’S PROTEST UN INTERFERENCE IN FORUM ............................................................................. 109
HUMAN RIGHTS: THIRD WORLD ACCUSES WEST OF DOUBLE STANDARDS .............................................. 109
THE ORGANIC GROWTH ............................................................................................................................ 109
PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA CLASH AT WCHR .......................................................................................... 110
ILLS OF THE WORLD JOSTLE FOR ATTENTION AT U.N. CONFERENCE....................................................... 111
EVANS-ALATAS AXIS IN VIENNA................................................................................................................ 111
INDONESIAN ACTIVIST COALITION CALLS FOR ASYLUM FOR EAST TIMORESE ACTIVISTS........................ 111
TIMORESE FEAR NEW WORLD ORDER WILL BURY THEIR CAUSE.............................................................. 111
EAST TIMOR: “NOT ANNEXED”................................................................................................................... 112
“NO HISTORICAL OR LEGAL CLAIM FOR INDONESIA TO OCCUPY EAST TIMOR” ....................................... 113
DECOLONIZATION HEARINGS IN NEW YORK ......................................................................................... 113
U.N. PRESS RELEASE ON DECOL. HEARINGS............................................................................................ 113
PETITIONERS TO U.N. DECOLONIZATION HEARING ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................... 113
CNRM UN STATEMENT............................................................................................................................... 114
FRETILIN UN DECOLONIZATION STATEMENT............................................................................................ 116
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT.................................................................................................... 118
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 123
CRACK INDONESIAN TROOPS (KOPASSUS) IN AUSTRALIA........................................................................ 123
NORTHERN TERRITORY AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR ................................. 123
AUSTRALIAN NGO’S DISAPPOINTED BY EVANS’ ADDRESS TO HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE.................. 124
TV COMMERCIAL ON EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................. 124
PICKETS AT GARUDA, MELBOURNE........................................................................................................... 124
“STILL A ‘GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM’ MR. EVANS?” ........................................................................................ 125
HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO TIMOR GAP LEGISLATION .......................................................................... 125
HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO BE LODGED AGAINST TIMOR GAP TREATY ................................................. 126
SELF-DETERMINATION BASIS OF COURT MOVE ........................................................................................ 127
TIGHT SECURITY AS DARWIN INDONESIAN CONSULATE OPENED ........................................................... 127
TIMOR VIGIL IN MELBOURNE.................................................................................................................... 127
BASIC FLAW IN AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE TIES WITH INDONESIA ................................................................ 127
DEMONSTRATION AT OPENING OF CONSULATE IN DARWIN .................................................................... 128
INDONESIA IN NAVAL GAMES IN DARWIN................................................................................................ 128
RELATIONS WITH ASIAN ARMIES .............................................................................................................. 128
INDONESIAN TROOPS TRAINING DEFENDED ........................................................................................... 129
SOME ADVICE TO A PRESIDENT ON FREEING TIMOR ............................................................................... 129
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................. 130
WELCOME THE INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR TO LONDON ......................................................................... 130
BRITISH AEROSPACE GETS HAWK ORDER ................................................................................................ 130
TAPOL CONDEMNS WARPLANE SALE TO AGGRESSOR REGIME................................................................. 131
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 131
IN THE EC PORTUGAL “ISOLATES” INDONESIA ......................................................................................... 131
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SHIPS OCCUPIED IN FEAST FOR EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................... 131
UNION OF WESTERN EUROPE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY’S RESOLUTION.............................................. 132
APPEALS IN THE ITALIAN SENATE ............................................................................................................. 132
GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY AND TORTURE TIMORESE .......................................................................... 132
IRELAND MAY SEND GROUP TO EAST TIMOR............................................................................................ 132
EUROPEAN DELEGATION MIGHT VISIT TIMOR .......................................................................................... 133
IRISH PARLIAMENT’S RESOLUTION ........................................................................................................... 133
A VERY QUIET GREEN LIGHT ON A (SWISS) ARMS SALE TO INDONESIA................................................... 133
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 133
CANADIAN LIBERAL PARTY POSITION ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................. 133
ETAN/CANADA EAST TIMOR UPDATE......................................................................................................... 134
HUNGER STRIKE BEGINS IN VANCOUVER................................................................................................. 135
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 135
PORTUGAL PUTS PRESSURE ON EC AND UN ............................................................................................. 135
SOARES WANTS SOLIDARITY FROM EUROPE ............................................................................................ 135
XANANA GETS TOP LISBON AWARD .......................................................................................................... 135
HAMUTUK NAFATIN: “A TIMORESE STORY”................................................................................................ 136
“OLHO VIVO” IN OPORTO .......................................................................................................................... 136
PORTUGAL TO MAINTAIN VETO ON EC / ASEAN AGREEMENT................................................................... 136
PRO-JAKARTA LOBBY IN PORTUGAL.......................................................................................................... 136
83 PORTUGUESE FIRMS STILL TRADE WITH INDONESIA........................................................................... 136
GALVÃO DE MELO WANTS TO GO TO JAKARTA.......................................................................................... 137
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 137
ETAN NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE.................................................................................................... 137
CLINTON CONCERNED OVER TIMOR ........................................................................................................ 137
SUHARTO AND CLINTON TO CONFER........................................................................................................ 137
INDONESIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................................................. 137
AGIO PEREIRA TO VISIT NORTHWEST US.................................................................................................. 137
JORDAN’S F5 SALE BLOCKED .................................................................................................................... 138
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION................................................................................................................ 138
US HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT .................................................................................. 138
PENTAGON WANTS TO RESUME TRAINING THE INDONESIAN MILITARY .................................................. 138
SENATORS WRITE CLINTON ON TIMOR..................................................................................................... 139
SENATORS: DON’T LET INDONESIA PURCHASE MILITARY TRAINING........................................................ 140
TELL CONGRESS TO END US ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA........................................................................ 140
EVENTS IN JAPAN.................................................................................................................................... 140
SUHARTO WILL GO TO JAPAN ................................................................................................................... 140
TOKYO SUMMIT PREVIEW.......................................................................................................................... 140
MERCHANTS OF DEATH, NO MORE GUNS FOR SUHARTO! ........................................................................ 141
TIMORESE, SUHARTO IN TOKYO ............................................................................................................... 141
CLINTON BROACHES EAST TIMOR PROBLEM WITH SUHARTO................................................................... 142
CLINTON ANNOUNCES APEC CONFERENCE.............................................................................................. 143
EVENTS IN ASIA....................................................................................................................................... 143
MALAYSIAN NGO’S CHALLENGE SUHARTO VISIT....................................................................................... 143
EAST TIMOR HIGH ON AGENDA IN EC-ASEAN TALKS................................................................................ 144
RESOURCES AVAILABLE ......................................................................................................................... 144
SLIDES ON EAST TIMOR AVAILABLE .......................................................................................................... 144
ART WITH TIMOR....................................................................................................................................... 144
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MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 144
IMAGINING EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................................................... 144
THE FAULTLINE IN JUSTICE LINKING TIMOR TO BOSNIA.......................................................................... 147

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XANANA REMAINS IN PRISON .................................................................................................................... 6
INDONESIA TRANSFERS XANANA TO JAKARTA .............................................................................................6
EAST TIMOR’S RESISTANCE LEADER MOVED TO JAKARTA........................................................................6
POSTCARDS TO XANANA CAMPAIGN .............................................................................................................6
XANANA SPEAKS OF HIS HUNGER STRIKE....................................................................................................6
XANANA GUSMÃO - ONE YEAR IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY....................................................................7
CNRM CALLS FOR XANANA RELEASE TO APEC .............................................................................................8
INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS CONDEMN XANANA’S TRIAL...............................................................................8
REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOSÉ ALEXANDRE GUSMÃO IN DILI, EAST TIMOR, IN 1993.............................8
REPORT ON XANANA’S CONDITION ............................................................................................................12
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................... 12
SWEDISH MPS VISIT EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................12
EAST TIMORESE SENTENCED FOR NOTE DEMANDING GOVERNMENT COMPENSATION.............................13
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................13
KONIS SANTANA WANTS TALKS WITH INDONESIA......................................................................................14
MILITARY SAYS ONLY ABOUT 100 GUERRILLAS REMAIN IN EAST TIMOR.....................................................14
SCHOLARSHIPS ENDED, EAST TIMORESE STUDEN TS UPSET .....................................................................14
RENETIL APPEALS FOR SOLIDARITY .......................................................................................................14
INDONESIAN TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN FROM EAST TIMOR?................................................................15
GUERRILLAS KILL SIX VILLAGERS, MILITARY SAYS.....................................................................................15
TIMORESE GUERRILLAS HUNTED ...........................................................................................................15
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KOSTRAD TROOPS TO TIMOR.....................................................................................................................16
GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS CONTINUE THEIR HUNT FOR REBELS................................................................16
TROOPS LEAVING FOR EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................................16
TWO KOSTRAD BATTALIONS DEPART EAST TIMOR .....................................................................................16
INDONESIAN TROOP REDUCTION IN EAST TIMOR......................................................................................17
EAST TIMORESE GUERRILLA KILLED IN ARMED CLASHES ..........................................................................17
EAST TIMORESE BEING TRIED FOR RIPPING INDONESIAN FLAG ...............................................................18
PERTAMINA TO CONDUCT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................18
SECURITY TIGHTER IN TIMOR.....................................................................................................................18
MILITARY COMMANDER WARNS STUDENTS OVER DEMONSTRATIONS..................................................18
28 MILITARY ATTACHÉS VISIT EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................19
SOME ATTACHÉS DUBIOUS.....................................................................................................................19
EC MILITARY ATTACHÉS DID NOT VISIT TIMOR......................................................................................19
WHO KILLED PEOPLE IN OSOALA? ..............................................................................................................19
TIMOR TROOPS NUMBER CUT ....................................................................................................................20
INDONESIA PLANS TO WITHDRAW MORE TROOPS FROM EAST TIMOR..................................................20
INFANT MALNOURISHMENT IN TIMOR ........................................................................................................20
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR RULES OUT REFERENDUM ON AUTONOMY..........................................................20
TIMOR CHIEF OPPOSES POLL ON SELF-RULE.........................................................................................20
MILITARY PREPARES FOR PROTESTS ON ANNIVERSARY OF EAST TIMOR MASSACRE.................................21
JAKARTA STILL PAYING FOR DILI KILLINGS................................................................................................21
ARMY UNABLE TO END TIMOR’S RESISTANCE.............................................................................................21
TWO EAST TIMOR REBELS SURRENDER TO OFFICIALS................................................................................22
BIBILEU: GENOCIDE ON A MASSIVE SCALE.................................................................................................22
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 24
MARIO CARRASCALÃO TO RUMANIA............................................................................................................24
EAST TIMOR HERO SOUGHT........................................................................................................................25
ANC HAILS PLAN TO OPEN INDONESIAN CONSULATE IN SOUTH AFRICA...................................................25
AUSTRALIAN & INDONESIAN AIR FORCES EXERCISE AT MEDAN ................................................................25
WHAT DO INDONESIAN PEOPLE THINK OF EAST TIMOR?...........................................................................25
MUSLIMS IN JAKARTA OPPOSED MASSACRES.............................................................................................26
INDONESIA PROTESTS PORTUGAL’S ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES........................................26
WHITHER INDONESIAN POLITICS? .............................................................................................................26
THE TIMORESE EXTERNAL RESISTANCE ................................................................................................. 27
THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR AWARDED THE 1993 RAFTO HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE ......................................27
CNRM REP RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ......................................................................................28
LEADERS AND THE PUPPET LEADERS OF EAST TIMORESE?.........................................................................32
THE MASSACRE OF SANTA CRUZ AND THE NEW FACE OF SOLIDARITY .......................................................33
RAMOS-HORTA STATEMENT IN BANGKOK...................................................................................................34
REBEL LEADER CLAIMS 150 EAST TIMORESE KILLED .................................................................................35
ALKATIRI CLAIMS DISMISSED BY SYAFEI ...............................................................................................35
CNRM FUNDING APPEAL .............................................................................................................................35
EAST TIMOR PEACE PLAN ............................................................................................................................36
JRH: “THE MOMENT OF FREEDOM APPROACHES ........................................................................................36
1993 - A CHALLENGING YEAR FOR THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR ...............................................................37
INDONESIA MOVES ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT.................................................................................... 38
MANUEL MACEDO’S BUSINESS....................................................................................................................38
GALVAO DE MELO GOES TO INDONESIA...............................................................................................38
INDONESIA WANTS TO SETTLE CONFLICT WITHIN FIVE MONTHS ..............................................................38
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RECONCILIATION TALKS BOGGED DOWN...................................................................................................39
“ON GOOD TERMS WITH JAKARTA” .............................................................................................................40
DURÃO BARROSO RECEIVES INDONESIA’S FRIENDLY GENERAL ...........................................................40
LIURAI SUPPORT INTEGRATION ..................................................................................................................40
THE CLOCK CANNOT BE PUT BACK.............................................................................................................41
MARIO SOARES VISITS JAPAN................................................................................................................. 41
TIMOR IN SOARES-HOSOKAWA TALKS........................................................................................................41
HOSOKAWA, SOARES SHARE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERN IN EAST TIMOR ..................................................41
SOARES APPEALS TO JAPAN ........................................................................................................................42
SOARES URGES JAPAN TO PUT PRESSURE ON INDONESIA....................................................................42
JAPAN ASSURES SOARES OF SOLIDARITY WITH TIMOR..............................................................................42
SOARES: DEVELOPMENT AID CANNOT BE DISASSOCIATED FROM HUMAN RIGHTS....................................43
APPEAL FOR EAST TIMOR TO SEATTLE BOUND PM HOSOKAWA.................................................................43
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 44
KEATING FAILS TO CONVINCE CLINTON .....................................................................................................44
SENATOR JULIAN MCGAURAN RAISES TIMOR IN AUSTRALIA.....................................................................44
EAST TIMOR RALLY IN SYDNEY ..................................................................................................................45
CHRISTIANS IN SOLIDARITY WITH EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................45
PEACE ACTIVISTS IN RUBBER DINGIES AND KAYAKS CHALLENGE INDON WARSHIPS...............................45
FLARE FIRED AT INDONESIAN WARSHIP IN AUSTRALIA.........................................................................46
INDONESIA - SEEING NO EVIL....................................................................................................................46
UREN RECALLS WARTIME DEBT TO EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................46
PROBLEMS FOUND IN PUSH ON EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................47
SYDNEY SEMINAR ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................47
SYDNEY SEMINAR SUCCESSFUL.............................................................................................................47
RALLY IN SYDNEY ON 12 NOVEMBER .....................................................................................................47
12 NOVEMBER REMEMBRANCE IN DARWIN ................................................................................................47
DARWIN PROTESTS ON ANNIVERSARY...................................................................................................48
FORWARD LOOKING BISHOP PREACHES RECONCILIATION IN EAST TIMOR ..............................................48
ABC RADIO INTERVIEWS BISHOP BELO ..................................................................................................49
A FIGURE OF COURAGE IN THE MIDST OF EAST TIMOR’S AGONY..........................................................49
REPORT ON AUSTRALIA’S RELATIONS WITH INDONESIA............................................................................50
DECEMBER 7 DEMONSTRATION IN CANBERRA...........................................................................................51
REPORT FROM FRETILIN COMMITTEE OF NSW, DEC. 8 ..........................................................................51
TIMORESE WRITE TO AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER ............................................................................51
DARWIN PROTESTERS BURN INDONESIAN FLAG ........................................................................................51
THE LONG, HARD ROAD TO HOPE..............................................................................................................52
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 53
EURO MPS AND ACP SEEK TO PUT PRESSURE ON INDONESIA...................................................................53
INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR.................................................................53
SWEDEN TO END ARMS EXPORTS TO INDONESIA......................................................................................53
AN INDONESIAN SEMINAR FOCUSED ON EAST TIMOR AND WEST PAPUA ..................................................54
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 55
CHRIS COLE ON TRIAL FOR BAE PLOWSHARES ACTION .............................................................................55
BAE CASE GOES FOR RE-TRIAL..............................................................................................................55
HUNG JURY FOR “BRITISH AEROSPACE PLOUGHSHARES” PEACE ACTIVIST ..........................................55
CHRISTIAN PEACE ACTIVIST GOES FREE.... FI NALLY!.............................................................................56
PEACE ACTIVIST ‘DISARMED’ BAE WARPLANES ......................................................................................56
CAMPAIGN: EAST TIMOR TOUR IN BRITAIN.................................................................................................56
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THE FORGOTTEN WAR OF EAST TIMOR:..................................................................................................57
LONDON: TWO YEARS SINCE THE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE:..................................................................57
INDONESIA USED BRITISH FIGHTER JETS IN OCCUPIED EAST TIMOR ......................................................57
INDONESIAN AIR FORCE SAID EYEING 16 MORE HAWK JETS ....................................................................58
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................... 59
INDONESIA’S LINGUISTIC “SPELL”.............................................................................................................59
MANDELA MEETS TIMORESE RESISTANCE DELEGATION.............................................................................59
TIMORESE RESISTANCE DELEGATION ATTENDS SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING.............59
TIMOR IS A JUST CAUSE AND MNSGR. BELO DESERVES NOBEL PRIZE.......................................................60
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 60
EAST TIMOR AWARENESS BENEFIT IN OTTAWA...........................................................................................60
“MANUFACTURING CONSENT” & HORTA IN OTTAWA..............................................................................60
EAST TIMOR IGNORED ................................................................................................................................61
CANADA “ONE OF THE MOST HYPOCRITICAL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD” ................................................61
EAST TIMOR TOLL ...................................................................................................................................61
TORONTO VIGIL FOR PEACE IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................62
ETAN/CANADA EAST TIMOR UPDATE NUMBER 27........................................................................................62
NOVEMBER 12 IN OTTAWA...........................................................................................................................62
REFLECTIONS ON CANDLELIGHT VIGIL OUTSIDE INDONESIAN EMBASSY.............................................62
NOVEMBER 12 IN CANADA – SUMMARY OF COMMEMORATIONS.................................................................63
EAST TIMOR UPDATE, NUMBER 28...............................................................................................................63
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.............................................................................................................. 64
MIT EVENT: THE FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY OF EAST TIMOR.............................................................................64
US, INDONESIA NEED OPEN DIALOGUE: AMBASSADOR .............................................................................64
U.S. COMMEMORATIONS OF DILI MASSACRE..............................................................................................64
NOVEMBER 12 IN SAN FRANCISCO.........................................................................................................65
NOVEMBER 12 IN LOS ANGELES.............................................................................................................65
TIMOR ADVOCATE TO LEAD NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES................................................................66
US SENATE VISITORS COMING....................................................................................................................66
U.S. OFFICIALS EXPECTED TO VISIT INDONESIA ........................................................................................66
APEC CONFERENCE MEETS IN SEATTLE.................................................................................................. 66
HIGHLIGHT EAST TIMOR AT APEC ..............................................................................................................66
ASIAN NATIONS TAKE OWN TACK ON RIGHTS ............................................................................................67
CLINTON: DON’T INDULGE DICTATORS AT APEC ........................................................................................68
SENATORS ASK CLINTON TO RAISE EAST TIMOR AT APEC ..........................................................................68
101 HOUSE MEMBERS PETITION CLINTON ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................69
APEC PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN PERSPECTIVE......................................................................70
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE APEC REGION ......................................................................................................71
PACIFIC RIM NATIONS SHARE ECONOMIC BOOM.......................................................................................74
REPORT ON ETAN ACTIVITIES AT APEC .......................................................................................................75
INDONESIA’S VIEW OF APEC.......................................................................................................................76
SUHARTO DISAPPOINTED AT APEC?...........................................................................................................76
DEBATE OVER U.S. ARMS SALES CONTINUES.......................................................................................... 76
JORDAN JET DEAL OFFICIALLY DEAD .........................................................................................................76
INDONESIA IS TEST CASE FOR EXPORT POLICY .........................................................................................77
CAN FEINGOLD SURVIVE AUSTRALIAN-INDONESIAN LOBBY?.....................................................................77
INDONESIAN ARMY EYES EUROPE FOR ARMS, SOURCES SAY ....................................................................78
INDONESIA SAYS IT WON’T BUY RUSSIAN-MADE MIG-29 JET FIGHTERS....................................................78
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A DIFFERENT MESSAGE TO JAKARTA...........................................................................................................79
COMMITTEE LIMITS WEAPONS FOR INDONESIA; SENATE FLOOR ACTION PENDING..................................79
THE NEGLECTED PROHIBITION: U.S. ARMS SALES.....................................................................................80
INDONESIAN MILITARY OFFICERS STILL TRAINED IN U.S. ........................................................................81
EXCERPTS FROM USIA FOREIGN PRESS CENTER BRIEFING, DECEMBER 8, 1993...................................81
CHOMSKY ON IMET ................................................................................................................................82
CULTURAL EVENTS AND RESOURCES...................................................................................................... 82
EAST TIMOR PAINTINGS EXHIBITION.........................................................................................................82
MY FRIEND THE SOLDIER ...........................................................................................................................83
INDONESIA MAGAZINES IN OZ ...................................................................................................................83
UPCOMING U.S. SHOWINGS OF MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA.................83
RESOURCES FROM THE EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/US ......................................................................84
AUTHORITARIAN STATE UNIONISM IN NEW ORDER INDONESIA................................................................84
TIMOR ET TREMOR ......................................................................................................................................84
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 85
TRAVELLING IN EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................................................85
A REFLECTION OF THE DILI MASSACRE .....................................................................................................86
INDONESIAN TYRANNY: A PRICE WORTH PAYING......................................................................................87
ANOTHER REVOLVING DOOR .................................................................................................................88

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METHODISTS SET EAST TIMOR POLICY ........................................................................................................ 8
CARNATIONS FOR XANANA .......................................................................................................................... 9
"INDONESIA OUT OF PORTUGAL" PETITION ................................................................................................. 9
MANILA CONFERENCE HAS OPENED A NEW PHASE IN TIMOR ISSUE .......................................................... 9
BEING DEMOCRATIC IN ASIA ....................................................................................................................... 9
TIMORESE KILLED BY INDONESIAN TROOPS ..............................................................................................10
U.S. SENATE VOTES TO STRIKE ARMS SALES CONDITIONS FOR EAST TIMOR .............................................10
ESCALATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INSIDE EAST TIMOR ...........................................................17
HOUSE VS. WHITE HOUSE: CLINTON CLASHES WITH CONGRESS ON INDONESIA POLICY ........................17
DECLARATION OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE................................................................................18
IRISH SENATOR DAVID NORRIS ON AID TO INDONESIA ............................................................................18
RAMOS EXPLAINS EAST TIMOR BAN TO SOARES .........................................................................................19
SON OF APCET (PHILIPPINE EDITORIAL) .....................................................................................................19
EAST TIMORESE FACE TRIAL........................................................................................................................20
INDONESIAN WARSHIP FIASCO ..................................................................................................................20
U.S. ARMY HANDBOOK: INDONESIA............................................................................................................20
THE BRUTAL TRAGEDY WE WONT FACE UP TO.............................................................................................24
INTERVIEW WITH MARI ALKATIRI................................................................................................................24
LETTER TO ALL PARTICIPANTS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR IN MANILA...............25
US NGO LETTER ON PRESS BAN IN INDONESIA..........................................................................................27
TIMORESE JAILED FOR RAISING FLAG ........................................................................................................27
NEWSLETTER FROM THE INDONESIAN DEPARTMEN T OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SELECTED NEWSBRIEFS) .....28
XANANA VISITED BY FAMILY........................................................................................................................28
INDONESIA KILLS CANADIAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT .............................................................................29
DEMONSTRATION AND PRESS CONFERENCE AT CGI MEETING..................................................................29
UN SENDS ENVOY TO EAST TIMOR..............................................................................................................29
CANADA SHOULD WITHOLD AID .................................................................................................................29
INDONESIAN ARMY APOLOGISES TO EAST TIMOR CATHOLICS...................................................................29
DONORS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER INDONESIA'S MEDIA BAN ..................................................................30
BELO PROTESTS PRESS BANS......................................................................................................................30
43 PROTESTERS ARRESTED IN JAKARTA......................................................................................................30
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DEPLORES ARRESTS AND BEATINGS OF PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS............30
WORLD BANK PRESS CONFERENCE............................................................................................................31
DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS FOR EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................31
TIMORESE BISHOP CONDEMNS JAKARTA ...................................................................................................31
EAST TIMOR'S CHURCH STILL UNDER SIEGE, SAYS BISHOP .......................................................................32
HUMAN RIGHTS RETREAT............................................................................................................................32
EAST TIMORESE DISSIDENT SENTENCED....................................................................................................33
THE COMPLICITY OF THE WEST IN THE RAPE OF TIMOR.............................................................................33
POLITICAN TELLS THE TRUTH! SHOCK HORROR AS CLARK BARES HIS SOUL! ............................................34
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LETTER TO MINISTERS RE. CGI ...................................................................................................................35
UN SPECIAL ENVOY SPEAKS AT PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER VISITING ET. .................................................35
MAX STAHL ON INDONESIAN TV .................................................................................................................36
INDONESIAN SOLDIERS COMMIT SACRILEGE.............................................................................................36
CANADA'S STATEMENTS AT CGI...................................................................................................................36
AID DONORS PLEDGE JAKARTA FIVE BILLION DOLLARS.............................................................................37
WORLD BANK AND IMF 'HELP GENOCIDE' ..................................................................................................38
XANANA REJECTED EXILE, SAYS SON .........................................................................................................39
XANANA ATTACKS AUSTRALIA OVER EAST TIMOR........................................................................................39
UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ENDS VISIT TO EAST TUNIR...............................................................................40
ABRI CRIMES IN ERMERA............................................................................................................................40
MORE ON TODAY'S ARMY VIOLENCE...........................................................................................................40
JOINT NAVAL EXERCISE PLANNED ..............................................................................................................41
TIMOR YES, BUT WITH WHO?.......................................................................................................................41
TALKS THROUGH UN ONLY..........................................................................................................................41
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS ABILIO ARAUJO RELATIVES ...........................................................................41
PROTEST AT LONDON EMBASSY..................................................................................................................42
BISHOP BELO ACCUSES THE WEST..............................................................................................................42
SNUBBING CANADA WILL COST INDONESIA...............................................................................................44
U.S. CONDEMNS JAKARTA FOR ARRESTS OF 42 OVER PROTEST OF PRESS CLOSURE.................................44
CLASHES IN DILI .........................................................................................................................................44
THAILAND BLACKLISTS TIMOR ACTIVISTS ...................................................................................................45
INJURIES REPORTED IN DILI COMMOTION ................................................................................................46
SECURITY FORCES PUT DOWN PROTEST IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................46
TENSION AFTER CLASH IN TIMOR ...............................................................................................................46
NEW ZEALAND: PAPERS SHOW EAST TIMOR "UNSETTLED" .........................................................................47
U.S. SENATE BANS LIGHT ARMS SHIPMENTS TO INDONESIA......................................................................47
VICTIMS OF MILITARY VIOLENCE AGAINST EAST TIMORESE.......................................................................48
TIMOR - A BELGIAN VIEW ............................................................................................................................48
AND INDONESIA GOES FOR TOURISM ........................................................................................................48
'IF YOUR CHILD WAS TIMORESE ...' CNRM LAUNCHES FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN.....................................48
SOONER OR LATER MACEDO.......................................................................................................................48
LEAHY-FEINGOLD AMENDMENT RESTRICTS ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA..................................................49
SENATE RECORD ON ARMS BAN..................................................................................................................49
THAILAND MAY BAN EAST TIMORESE ACTIVISTS .........................................................................................56
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST INDONESIAN MILITARY VIOLENCE- DARWIN..................................................57
INDONESIA REJECTS U.S. CONDITIONS ON ARMS SALES...........................................................................57
DILI UNIVERSITY STILL SURROUNDED BY POLICE:.....................................................................................57
KILLINGS IN EAST TIMOR MUST BE STOPPED .............................................................................................57
AGIO PEREIRA INTERVIEWED ON 2UE RADIO.............................................................................................58
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH TIMES ........................................................................................................59
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH TIMES PRINTED JULY 14TH 1994...............................................................59
INDONESIA SPURNS SEN ATE VOTE.............................................................................................................59
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FEINSTEIN IN LOS ANGELES ...........................................................................60
EAST TIMOR VIOLENCE ERUPTS AGAIN .......................................................................................................60
EAST TIMOR IS "HELL", SAYS CATHOLIC LEADER ........................................................................................61
INDONESIA DEFIANT OVER TIMOR..............................................................................................................61
THAI RIGHTS GROUPS TO GO AHEAD WITH SE ASIA MEET .........................................................................62
UPDATE ON 14 JULY DILI VIOLENCE VICTIMS .............................................................................................62
RADIO AUSTRALIA - TENSION IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................62
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PORTUGAL'S RESPONSE..............................................................................................................................63
DILI TROOPS BEAT STUDENT PROTSTERS ...................................................................................................63
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS MUST VISIT DILI IMMEDIATELY ....................................................................63
SACRILEGE, SAYS BISHOP...........................................................................................................................64
BRITISH GROUP DEMANDS ARMS EMBARGO ..............................................................................................64
CNRM STATEMENT ON INDONESIAN MILITARY VIOLENCE AND RELIGIOUS PROVOCATIONS ....................64
SEEKING FREEDOM FOR TIMOR..................................................................................................................65
THAILAND/HUMAN RIGHTS.........................................................................................................................66
ARMS STORY SINKS PRESS IN INDONESIA.................................................................................................67
EAST TIMOR: MILITARY DENIES RESPONSIBILITY .......................................................................................67
CAMPAIGN: DILI PRISONERS MOVED..........................................................................................................68
INDONESIA OFFERS TO NEGOTIATE............................................................................................................68
US URGES RESTRAINT IN TIMOR.................................................................................................................68
UPDATE FROM ETAN/CANADA.....................................................................................................................68
ALI ALATAS REACTS TO BISHOP BELO..........................................................................................................69
OZ REACTION TO INDONESIAN ARMY PARTICIPATION IN ARMY EXERCISES .............................................70
VIGIL FOR TIMOR IN CAMINHA ...................................................................................................................70
PORTUGUESE PILOTS ON JAKARTA LINE.....................................................................................................70
PRO-TIMORESE GROUP CALLS FOR EU INTERVEN TION ..............................................................................70
DISASTROUS TIMOR ACTION .......................................................................................................................70
INDONESIA - SEAT FACTORY DISCUSSIONS................................................................................................70
EUROPEAN UNION ON 14 JULY INCIDENT..................................................................................................70
SMOOTH SAILING FOR SUHARTO ................................................................................................................71
GENTLE ABOUT GENOCIDE..........................................................................................................................72
DILI QUIET, INDONESIA REJECTS U.S. SENATE VOTE .................................................................................72
ACTION ALERT FROM THE EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/U.S..................................................................73
PROTESTS ON BURMA AND EAST TIMOR IN BANGKOK................................................................................73
AMARAL ON PILGER FILM ............................................................................................................................74
TIMOR POLICY ATTACKED ...........................................................................................................................78
NGO BLACKOUT BY THAILAND.....................................................................................................................78
THAI MOVE TO BLOCK HUMAN RIGHTS CONFEREN CE BACKFIRES .............................................................78
INDONESIA REJECTS U.S. CONCERN OVER PROTESTS IN EAST TIMOR ......................................................78
BRITISH AID TO INDONESIA........................................................................................................................79
JAKARTA WARNS BISHOP ON TIMOR...........................................................................................................79
ALATAS CLAIMS 'PROGRESS' ON TIMOR: .....................................................................................................79
BRISBANE PROTEST CONDEMNS CRACKDOWN IN EAST TIMOR .................................................................80
1995 CGI PLEDGES TO INDONESIA..............................................................................................................80
LE MONDE'S NEWS ITEMS ...........................................................................................................................80
UNTIM RECTOR ON 14 JULY INCIDENT.......................................................................................................81
NINE FRENCH PARLIAMENTARIANS REACT TO "4 MONTHS" CAMPAIGN .....................................................82
NEITHER SCHOLARSHIP NOR A LIFE - TIMORESE STUDENTS AWAIT SUPPORT BY PORTUGAL....................83
POPULATION BACK REVOLT - ORDERS TO CRACK DOWN ON STUDENTS OVER-RULE POLICE CHIEF.........83
JAKARTA SIGNALS PHILIPPINE RELATIONS OK AFTER TIMOR CONFERENCE..............................................84
INDONESIA DENIES ABUSES IN TIMOR.......................................................................................................84
THAI HUMAN RIGHTS MEETING POSTPONED A DAY ...................................................................................85
LET'S STOP RATTING ON THE TIMORESE.....................................................................................................85
A FATHER'S DREAM TWICE BETRAYED IN EAST TIMOR................................................................................85
WHERE INDONESIA GETS ITS SMALL ARMS ................................................................................................86
TIMOR UNIVERSITY REJECTS OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF UNREST ...................................................................86
THAILAND DEPORTS 2 AUSTRALIANS, FILIPINO, .........................................................................................87
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CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM CLASHES IN EAST TIMOR RAISE TENSIONS, U.S. CONCERNS ....................................87
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE COUNCIL REITERATES HUMAN-RIGHTS PROPOSAL....................87
PRESSURE JAKARTA, AUSTRALIAN CARDINAL URGES .................................................................................88
CONFUSION ON DILI CLASH FUELS TENSION .............................................................................................88
EDITORIAL OPINION -STOP THE BEATING...................................................................................................88
EVAN'S INVECTIVE CAME FIRST - PILGER ....................................................................................................89
EAST TIMOR MARBLE POTENTIAL INVITES INVESTORS................................................................................89
EVANS BACKS INDON WAR GAMES IN DARWIN ..........................................................................................89
EVANS: INDONESIA HEAVY-HANDED ..........................................................................................................89
HORTA CRITICIZES ASEAN ..........................................................................................................................90
CLINTON & CO.: "WHAT EVIL LURKS?".........................................................................................................91
TIMOR ACTIVIST PREDICTS INDEPENDENCE SOON ....................................................................................91
TIMOR BISHOP CALLS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INSPECTION ...........................................................................91
REEBOK AND HUMAN RIGHTS.....................................................................................................................92
RAMOS HORTA VICTORIOUS........................................................................................................................92
EU CENSURES JAKARTA...............................................................................................................................92
SOARES PLEASED ........................................................................................................................................92
NO NEW EU - ASEAN AGREEMENT; GERMANY PRIORITIZES STRENGTHENING OF SE ASIAN RELATIONS ..93
AUSTRALIAN PRESS ACCUSED .....................................................................................................................93
AUSTRALIAN WANTS DILI CONSULATE ........................................................................................................93
PORTUGAL CONDEMNS INDONESIAN REPRESSION IN UNIVERSITY ..........................................................93
EVANS CRITICISES EFFORTS TO GAG TIMORESE.........................................................................................93
CHURCH V. STATE: CLANCY JOINS THE TIMOR DEBATE..............................................................................94
INDONESIA THREATENS ACTION AGAINST MAGAZINE................................................................................95
FRUSTRATED EAST TIMORESE SEARCH FOR MIDDLE PATH .........................................................................95
MILITARY IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW, OFFICER SAYS......................................................................................96
TIMOR ACTIVISTS DEAF TO OUR HUMAN RIGHTS VOICE.............................................................................96
EAST TIMOR: CHURCH SLAMS AUSTRALIA'S ROLE.......................................................................................97
EAST TIMOR STILL ON INTERNATIONAL AGENDA DESPITE CLAIM BY JAKARTA ..........................................98
U.S. SENATE URGES CLINTON TO BAR SMALL ARMS ...................................................................................98
EDITOR'S CAR BURNED IN EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................................99
LAWYERS ALLOWED TO VISIT XANANA........................................................................................................99
INDONESIAN-US MILITARY EXERCISE.........................................................................................................99
AUSTRALIA PLEDGED A$ 5.5 MILLION AID TO EAST TIMOR .........................................................................99
JOSE MARTINS III : THE TIMOR CONSPIRACY.............................................................................................99
EX-FRETILIN LEADER SPEAKS FOR INDONESIA AT UN COMMITTEE..........................................................100
INDONESIA PLAYS THE HEAVY ..................................................................................................................101
STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR.......................................101
BROAD CONSENSUS AFTER ASEAN MEETING (EXCERPT) ..........................................................................101
INDONESIA INTENSIFIES ATTACK ON BATTERED MEDIA...........................................................................102
AUSTRALIA OFFERS FORMULA TO BOOST DEFEN CE TIES ..........................................................................102
INTIMIDATION OF DILI PAPER...................................................................................................................103
INDONESIA'S ARMS SUPPLIERS ................................................................................................................103
KEATING IS HOSTAGE TO THE 'HELL' OF EAST TIMOR...............................................................................103
TIME FOR A CHANGE IN POLICY ON TIMOR ..............................................................................................104
HOW SUHARTO FAKED THE TRUTH............................................................................................................104
PEACENIKS WANT PEOPLE'S SECURITY FIRST...........................................................................................106
LAWYERS FOR REBEL LEADER GUSMAO RAISE HOPES OF REVIEW...........................................................107
TOKYO MEETING WITH UN HUMAN RIGHTS HIGH COMMISSIONER .........................................................107
HUMAN RIGHTS: ASEAN BRIDGES GAP WITH WESTERN ALLIES................................................................108
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ROCKERS RALLY TO ISLAND'S CAUSE .......................................................................................................109
INTERVIEWS WITH BISHOP BELO - BY ANDREW MCNAUGHTON, JULY 1994. ............................................111
TIMOR RIGHTS IMMENSELY BETTER: RAY .................................................................................................116
THE AMERICAN FRIEND.............................................................................................................................116
THE LOPES DA CRUZ VERSION ..................................................................................................................116
JAKARTA GIVES GROUNDS FOR COMMISSIONER .....................................................................................116
LISBON TIMORESE WRITE TO EUROPE......................................................................................................117
THE YEAR 2000 - PRESIDENT GUSMAO VISITS JAKARTA............................................................................117
HISTORY WILL NOT ABSOLVE ....................................................................................................................117
AMNESTY ON EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................................................117
ANOTHER BLOODY CRACKDOWN ON JOURNALISTS .................................................................................117
NEVES TO BE TRIED IN MALANG ...............................................................................................................118
JAKARTA BAN ON TIMOR PROTESTS..........................................................................................................118
INDONESIA BANS PROTEST IN TIMOR AHEAD OF JAPANESE VISIT...........................................................118
US, INDONESIA DISCUSS EAST TIMOR......................................................................................................119
SAHRDF RESPONSE TO THE ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS' COMMUNIQUE................................................119
TIMOR RIGHTS 'IMMENSELY BETTER'........................................................................................................119
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH TIMES ......................................................................................................120
KILLINGS IN BAUCAU, JAN 94....................................................................................................................120
VOICE OF TIMOR - IRELAND......................................................................................................................120
NEW NORTHERN IRELAND SUPPORT GROUP FOR EAST TIMOR ................................................................121
IRISH CAMPAIGN: ARMS EMBARGO ON INDONESIA.................................................................................121
DANCING WITH WOLVES ...........................................................................................................................121
AUSTRALIAN MILITARY AID INCREASING..................................................................................................122
RI SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT US THREAT TO LIFT GSP FACILITY ..........................................................122
LORD: OZ NOT 'UNDERMINING' U.S..........................................................................................................122
E TIMOR SITUATION NOT AS BAD AS ALLEGED BY FOREIGN PRESS..........................................................123
AUSTRALIA DEFENSE MINISTER ON EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................123
CONGRESS AGREES ON 13.7-BILLION-DOLLAR AID BILL ..........................................................................123
INDONESIA/EAST TIMOR: PROTESTERS BEATEN, DETAINED AND "DISAPPEARED" ..................................124
CHINA HUMAN-RIGHTS TACTIC SPREADS .................................................................................................124
AI FI198/94 INDONESIA TORTURE FEAR ....................................................................................................126
A LIGHT ON EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................................................126
JAPANESE MPS WANT TROOP WITHDRAWAL.............................................................................................127
JAPANESE MPS VISIT TO INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR: 2ND DAY............................................................128
AI ALERT: FEAR OF TORTURE.....................................................................................................................128
US ENVOY VISITS UDAYANA MILITARY COMMAND....................................................................................129
US NAVAL SHIP VISITS AMBON ..................................................................................................................129
INTERVIEWS FROM EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................129
IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR INDONESIA TO DEAL WITH EAST TIMOR CONFERENCE IN HONGKONG ........130
EAST TIMOR BISHOP HITS OUT AT INDONESIA .........................................................................................131
PILGER'S FILMS SMACK OF OPPORTUNISM...............................................................................................131
---------------- COMMENT FROM JONATHAN HUMPHREYS (BRITISH COALITION FOR EAST TIMOR) ............132
PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN CENTRE FOR PEACE STUDIES:..............................133
EAST TIMOR TENSE FOR ANNIVERSARY ....................................................................................................133
JAPANESE LAWMAKERS CALL FOR NEW PROBE OF 1991 EAST TIMOR SLAUGHTER ...................................134
AUSTRALIAN COURT RESERVES JUDGEMENT ON TIMOR GAP CASE..........................................................134
THE HIDDEN HORROR ..............................................................................................................................134
BISHOP CRIES OUT FOR JUSTICE IN EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................135
"BISHOPS URGED TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY"............................................................................................136
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ENDORSEMENT OF BISHOP BELO'S OPEN LETTER ON DETERIORATING EAST TIMOR SITUATION ............137
THREE TIMOR STUDENTS ARRESTED.........................................................................................................137
PRESS FREEDOM, INDONESIAN STYLE......................................................................................................137
PROTESTERS BEATEN, DETAINED,"DISAPPEARED"....................................................................................138
WINDOWS TO THE WORLD: FOREIGN AID HELPS FLOW OF INFORMATION ON TIMOR ............................140
EAST TIMOR: THE ANGER THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY.................................................................................141
DILI TROOPS BEAT STUDENTS PROTESTERS .............................................................................................142
INTELLIGENCE: PEACEKEEPER'S NEW ROLE .............................................................................................142
TIMOR IN POP CULTURE............................................................................................................................143
UPDATE ON TIMOR GAP CHALLLENGE IN HIGH COURT............................................................................143
BISHOP CALLS FOR POLL ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................143
URGENT ACTION: SBSI LEADER ARRESTED ...............................................................................................143
SUHARTO IS SITTING ON A TIMORESE POWDER KEG ...............................................................................144
HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO TIMOR GAP TREATY ....................................................................................145
CAMPAIGN TO REVOKE TIMOR GAP TREATY LAUNCHED ...........................................................................145
WEEKEND OF PEACEFUL PROTEST AT BRITISH AEROSPACE......................................................................145
SOFT SHOE DIPLOMACY ............................................................................................................................146
JAPAN'S SPEAKER SAYS DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER TIMOR ....................................................................146
SIXTH TIMORESE ON TRIAL FOR APRIL DEMONSTRATION ........................................................................146
INDONESIA LEADER DEFENDS RULE.........................................................................................................147
DARWIN 17 AUGUST DEMONSTRATIONS...................................................................................................147
END AMERICAN COMPLICITY WITH INDONESIAN CRIMES .......................................................................147
EAST TIMORESE CHALLENGE TO TREATY FAILS COURT TEST ....................................................................148
OZ HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO TIMOR GAP TREATY FAILS.....................................................................148
DARWIN DEMONSTRATION -- KEATING SUHARTO'S BACKSCRATCHER .....................................................148
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORKERS RESOLUTION ....................................................................................149
TIMOR GUERRILLAS OFFER UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE ................................................................................149
INDONESIA SAID TO LAUNCH EAST TIMOR INITIATIVE .............................................................................149
A SECRET WAR IN WHICH THOUSANDS HAVE DIED..................................................................................150
GUERILLAS NO THREAT - JAKARTA............................................................................................................150
MSGR DELAPORTE ON EAST TIMOR...........................................................................................................150
PHILIPPINES GROUP TO LAUNCH..............................................................................................................151
MILITARY REJECT CEASEFIRE OFFER ........................................................................................................151
BISHOP ATTACKS INDONESIA FOR REJECTING TIMOR OFFER ..................................................................151
TIMOR GAP RULING SETS BACK RESISTANCE ...........................................................................................152
OPEN LETTER TO THE ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ...........................................................152
AUSTRALIAN AUGUST 17 PROTESTS...........................................................................................................152
NORTHERN IRELAND CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED .................................................................................153
AUSTRALIA SEEKS TIMOR AUTONOMY.......................................................................................................153
TRY SUTRISNO TO OZ................................................................................................................................154
MILITARY WARNS OF 'CIVIL WAR' IN EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................155
EAST TIMOR AND CANADA'S FOREIGN POLICY .........................................................................................155
THE CHURCH IN EAST TIMOR - VOICE OF A SILENCED PEOPLE................................................................156
THE DOCUMENT OF THE EAST TIMOR CATHOLIC CHURCH ON EAST TIMOR NOWADAYS..........................160
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY?....................................................................................161
NEW EAST TIMOR E-CONFERENCE............................................................................................................162
NAIPOSPOS SPEAKS AT THE UN ................................................................................................................162
STUDENT MOVEMENT AWAKENS IN INDONESIA.......................................................................................163
NAIPOSPOS HAS MEETING WITH FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL...................................................................163
AUSTRALIA REFUSES TO CRACK DOWN ON TIMORESE DEMONSTRATORS................................................164
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EAST TIMOR BISHOP TO LAUNCH JUSTICE COMMISSION .........................................................................164
UN EAST TIMOR RESOLUTION NARROWLY DEFEATED...............................................................................164
'ILLICIT' ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA........................................................................................................165
SF INDONESIAN CONSULATE "UNCOMFORTABLE" ON INDONESIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY ......................165
TIMORESE GUERRILLAS WANT TRUCE BEFORE TALKS...............................................................................167
LETTER FROM FRIENDS OF EAST TIMOR....................................................................................................167

MESSAGE TO PHILIPPINE SOLIDARITY FOR EAST TIMOR AND INDONESIA.......................................168

EAST TIMOR WEEK IN DARWIN .................................................................................................................168
FUNCTIONS HONOUR EAST TIMOR'S STRUGGLE.......................................................................................169
TITLE: CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FOR EAST TIMOR FREEDOM .......................................................................169
MANDELA TO VISIT INDONESIA.................................................................................................................170
TIMORESE LEADER TELLS OF ATTACK........................................................................................................170
LUNCH ON THE GRASS: WITH GUERRILLAS ..............................................................................................171
GUSMAO PESSIMISTIC ABOUT AN EARLY END TO EAST TIMOR WAR .........................................................172
AFTER ARTICLE BY AUSTRALIAN REPORTER TIMOR FEARS THE WORST....................................................173
GERMAN WARSHIP SALE UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION....................................................................173
MANDELA TO MAKE PRIVATE VISIT TO INDONESIA...................................................................................174
LETTER ON MANDELA................................................................................................................................174
NELSON MANDELA ASKED TO RAISE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES WITH SUHARTO ........................................175
XANANA GUSMAO WRITES TO MANDELA...................................................................................................175
ETAN/CANADA UPDATE # 36.......................................................................................................................175
ETAN/L.A. FEINSTEIN DEMONSTRATION ...................................................................................................176
SWISS ARMS IN INDONESIA? ....................................................................................................................177
EU/ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING IN KARLSRUHE...................................................................................177
GERMAN MP ON VISIT TO EAST TIMOR......................................................................................................177
STATEMENT ON THE CAIRO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT.........178
MESSAGE FROM JOSE RAMOS HORTA TO THE FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION ...............................179
TIMOR STILL UNDER THE HEEL.................................................................................................................179
IRISH RADIO DOCUMENTARY ON EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................180
INDONESIA TO RELOCATE CATHOLICS TO EAST TIMOR ............................................................................180
AUSTRALIA EXPELS INDONESIAN OFFICIAL AFTER KNIFE INCIDENT........................................................180
SUHARTO POSITIVE OVER TIMOR DIALOGUE (WITH MANDELA) ................................................................181
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ON EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................181
TWO BATALLIONS WITHDRAWN FROM EAST TIMOR ..................................................................................182
TIMOR IS BEING GAMBLED IN JAKARTA (TOO) ..........................................................................................182
INDONESIA HOLDS TALKS WITH XANANA, SOURCES SAY.........................................................................182
SOCIALISTS TO DEBATE TIMOR .................................................................................................................183
"A FREE TIMOR DEPENDS ON A DEMOCRATIC INDONESIA"......................................................................183
UN HUMAN RIGHTS FAX IN GENEVA .........................................................................................................183
TRANSMIGRATING CATHOLIC TO TIMOR...................................................................................................183
INDONESIAN CONSIDERING 'SPECIAL STATUS' FOR EAST TIMOR ............................................................184
INDONESIA DISMISSES REPORTS OF TALKS WITH E. TIMOR REBEL LEADER............................................184
TIMORESE GUERILLAS STAND FIRM ..........................................................................................................184
INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA DENIED SUPPLY ARMS TO CAMBODIA...........................................................185
JOINT EXERCISES BY AUSTRALIAN AND INDONESIAN FORCES................................................................185
INDONESIA COULD STILL PARTICIPATE IN IMET PROGRAMS....................................................................185
EAST TIMOR A THORN IN THE SIDE OF INDONESIA'S DIPLOMATS............................................................185
EAST TIMOR IS NOT AS BAD AS OFTEN PORTRAYED..................................................................................186
INDONESIAN LEGAL AID FOUNDATION ALLOWED TO SEE 'XANANA' ........................................................186
AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSMEN INTEREST IN A TIMOR BASE CAMP ...............................................................186
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PORTUGAL PLANS CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................186
(BAE) STAFF PUT ON ALERT FOR PEACE PROTESTORS ...............................................................................186
THREE ARRESTED AT FARNBOROUGH .......................................................................................................187
UN RIGHTS BODY DROPS E. TIMOR RESOLUTION.....................................................................................187
IRISH LEADER REYNOLDS URGED TO DISCUSS EAST TIMOR DURING AUSTRALIA VISIT..........................187
INDONESIAN ARMY CAPTURES EAST TIMOR REBELS ................................................................................187
DEMOCRACIES BULLIED BY POWERFUL NEIGHBOURS..............................................................................188
BUYUNG NASUTION ACCUSES AUSTRALIA.................................................................................................189
SEMINARS ON EAST TIMOR AT NORTHERN TERRITORY UNIVERSITY ........................................................189
CNRM REPRESENTATIVE VISITING NZ.......................................................................................................189
PM TO GET PLEA FROM CAPTIVE E TIMOR LEADER....................................................................................190
MR GUTERRES SAID YESTERDAY NEW ZEALAND COULD PLAY A CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE ...........................190
TIMOR STILL AWAITS CROSS-TALKS..........................................................................................................190
TIMORESE RECONCILIATION.....................................................................................................................191
EAST TIMOR'S NEW COMMANDER .............................................................................................................191
EAST TIMOR CAMPAIGN GAINS MOMENTUM .............................................................................................191
EAST TIMOR: 20 YEARS OF ALP BETRAYAL .................................................................................................192
RIGHTS GROUP CONDEMNS INDONESIA FOR ALLEGED ABUSES..............................................................193
WRITERS CONCERNED ABOUT XANANA....................................................................................................194
PORTUGUESE TV TO REACH TIMOR ...........................................................................................................194
DAYS DEDICATED TO TIMOR DECENTRALISED .........................................................................................194
TIMOR NOT FORGOTTEN ...........................................................................................................................194
UN SG REPORT ON EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................194

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