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1987 Newspaper clippings

This item contains:

  • Post-Colonial Oppressors (11.01.1987) The New York Times: Book Review
  • Betrayed by all: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor (03/1987)
  • Bishops join hands in condemning Timor Tragedy (13.04.1987) The Asian Wall Street Journal
  • 40 Senators voice concern for Timor Fighting (09.08.1987) The New York Times
  • Senadores americanos protestam contra Jacarta (11.08.1987) Diario de Noticias (in Portuguese)
  • Eanes calls for Portugal to provide help for East Timor guerrillas (12.02.1987) The Anglo-Portuguese News
  • Pope inadequately informed on East Timor development (17.12.1987) Jakarta Post

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1987 Various documents

Various documents that include memorandums, letters and documents written in 1987.

This item contains:

  • Memorandum to Bishop Sullivan from Father Hehir (20.04.1987) Subj.: East Timor
  • Letter to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo from the Archbishop of New York (06.04.1987)
  • Letter to John Cardinal O’Connor from Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (30.10.1987)
  • Draft letter to Senator Pell (1987) | 2 pp.
  • Draft Senate letter to Secretary of State Shultz (1987) | 3 pp.
  • Draft Dear Colleague letter from Senator Durenberger (1987) | 2 pp.
  • Congressional Record - April 23, 1987
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from a Professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (08.03.1987)
  • Letter to Ambassador Robert T. Hennemeyer from David Lambertson (15.04.1987) | 2
    pp.
  • Letter to Mr. David Lambertson from Robert T. Hennemeyer (22.05.1987) | 3 pp.
  • “Conference Board Calls for Peace in East Timor” written by Robert Wonderly
    (31.03.1987) | 3 pp.
  • NCNews Service - Pope-Indonesia (14.12.1987)
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from Noam Chomsky (29.06.1987)
  • Dave Durenberger news: Durenberger leads 40 Senators in call on Reagan
    Administration to address Human Rights abuses in East Timor (09.08.1987) | 2 pp.
  • Letter to the Honorable George Shultz from 40 Senators (28.07.1987) | 5 pp.
  • Letter to Frank Monahan from Arnold Kohen (30.06.1987)
  • Commentary on Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar’s statements concerning August
    1987 letter of 40 U.S. Senators to Shultz (1987) | 2 pp.
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from Christopher Candland (07.05.1987)
  • Congressional Record - August 3rd, 1987 | 2 pp.
  • Letter to Rev. John L. May from the Apostolic Pro-Nuncio (08.04.1987)
  • Letter to Ambassador Robert T. Hennemeyer from David F. Lambertson (28.10.1987) | 2
    pp.
  • Memorandum from Franck Monahan & Bob Hennemeyer from William M. Lewers
    (10.08.1987) Subj.: U.S. Senators and East Timor

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1989 Various documents

Various documents that include memorandums, letters and documents written in 1989.

This item contains:

  • Stenographic transcript of hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United
    States Senate - Nomination of John Cameron Monjo, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to
    the Republic of Indonesia (12.05.1989) Washington, DC | 16 pp.
  • Letter to Ms. Susan Mayne, Projects officer from the Asia Partnership fro Human
    Development from Arnold Kohen (03.08.1989) with a project proposal application
    attached | 15 pp.
  • Tony Hall News: “UN population award to Suharto questioned” (08.06.1989)
  • Tony Hall News: “114 House Members express concern over reports of arrests and
    torture following Pope’s visit to East Timor” (17.12.1989) | 2 pp.
  • Tony Hall News: “Hall warns that Indonesians are ‘stage-managing’ Pope’s visit to East
    Timor” (12.10.1989)
  • Congress of the United States from Tony Hall, Member of Congress (13.11.1989)
  • “Message to church and humanitarian agencies and persons of good will” from Martinho
    da Costa Lopes (10/1989)
  • Memorandum to John Carr, Tom Quigley, Jerry Powers, Bob Dumas, and Nancy Wisdo
    from Robert T. Hennemeyer (06.10.1989) Subj.: Visit by Priests from East Timor
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from the Human Rights Watch (04.04.1989)
  • Letter to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo from Rev. Reinaldo M. Cardoso (14.11.1989) (in
    Portuguese)
  • Tony Hall News: “118 House Members raise concern over East Timor” (09.06.1989) | 3
    pp.
  • Multiple interviews (22.02.1989) | 7 pp.
  • Phone calls (02.11.1989)
  • Letter to Noam Chomsky from Arnold Kohen (15.11.1989) | 3 pp.
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from Carol Bernstein (07.07.1989)
  • Letter to Arnold Kohen from Steve Alston (07.11.1989)
  • Minutes of APHD UK consultation held at the CAFOD offices. (12.09.1989) | 6 pp.
  • To Do lists (14.11.1989) | 2 pp.
  • East Timor Research Project: Financial Report For 1989
  • Memo from Arnold Kohen to Sidney Jones (15.11.1989) Subj.: The memo to Bishop
    Moore - attached is Kohen’s draft memo to the Bishop | 3 pp.
  • A proposal for a One-Day Workshop on East Timor (1989) | 9 pp.
  • “Pope calls for protection of religious freedom in Indonesia by Victor L. Simpson
    (10.10.1989)
  • “Human Rights, Catholic-Moslem relations dominate Pope’s Asian Trip Eds: Leads with
    4 grafs to Update with departure.” by Victor L. Simpson (06.10.1989) | 2 pp.
  • “Indonesia denies reports of arrests, torture in East Timor” (21.10.1989)
  • Amnesty Concerned about East Timor Arrests (19.10.1989)
  • Congressional Record - October 12th, 1989 | 4 pp.
  • Expression of support for the Apostolic Administrator of Dili by the clergy of East Timor
    (07/1989)
  • Memo for Bishop Moore written by Arnold Kohen (1989)
  • Letter to Carol Bernstein Ferry from Arnold Kohen (11.07.1989) | 2 pp.
  • Congress of the United States - Tony Hall (18.05.1989) | 2 pp.

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1991 Newspaper articles

This item contains:

  • Indonesia urges Iraq to pull out of Kuwait (31.01.1991) International Herald Tribune
  • Quiet conquests (24.02.1991) Chicago Tribune | 2 pp.
  • Realism and Evil (06.12.1991) The New York Times
  • From Tiananmen to Timor (03.01.1991) The Economist
  • Indonesia is still oppressing East Timor (22.01.1991) The New York Times
  • Msgr. da Costa Lopes, East Timor Cleric, 72 [obituaries] (05.03.1991) The New York Times
  • Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes, Bishop of East Timor (05.03.1991) The Washington Post
  • Secret killing of a nation (07.04.1991) The Observer
  • Horrid silence over East Timor (19.11.1991) The Washington Post
  • Dead in East Timor (20.11.1991) The Washington Post
  • Tears in East Timor (21.11.1991) The New York Times
  • Indonesia’s ‘Tiananmen’ (09.12.1991) The Washington Post
  • Dead in East Timor (20.11.1991) The Washington Post
  • The Far East (18.10.1991) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
  • Clinton shift on East Timor sends ripples around Asia (03.03.1993) The Guardian
  • East Timor has oil by Noam Chomsky (27.12.1991) National Catholic Reporter
  • Making an Issue of East Timor by Arnold Kohen (10.02.1992) The Nation | 3 pp.

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1992 News Articles

This item contains:

  • A process for freedom in East Timor (04.01.1992) The Boston Globe
  • Tiptoeing through the Orient (07.01.1992) The Washington Post
  • The Tiananmen in East Timor (21.01.1992) The New York Times
  • Making an Issue of East Timor (10.02.1992) The Nation | 3 pp.
  • In House and Senate, Tsongas went his own way (25.02.1992) The New York Times
  • (28.02.1992) Wall Street Journal
  • The Cemetery called East Timor (25.09.1992) The New York Times
  • Washington, Oct 3, Reuter (1992)
  • East Timor’s captive leader (25.11.1992) The Boston Globe

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1992 News Clippings

Item contains:

  • The Cemetery Called East Timor (New York Times, Sept. 25, 1992)
  • [U.S. cuts off military training aid to Indonesia] (Reuters, Oct. 3, 1992)
  • East Timor's Captive Leader (Boston Globe, Nov. 25, 1992)

1993 Newspaper articles

This item includes:

● E Timor trial 'staged’ (02.02.1993) The Independent (London)
● Time to end an atrocity (20.02.1993) The Boston Globe
● Four House select committees face extinction (03/1993) The Washington Post
● If selects eliminated, House committees won’t have to cut (04.03.1993) Roll Call
● For the Record (04.03.1993) The Washington Post
● U.N criticizes Indonesia about East Timor (14.03.1993) The New York Times
● Timor’s untelevised terror (14.03.1993) The Washington Post | 3 pp.
● House G.O.P wins bid to trim staff (17.03.1993) The New York Times
● Superimposing frills on a provocative career (17.03.1993) The New York Times
● New torture charged against Indonesia (31.03.1993) The New York Times
● U.N. envoy going to Timor to assess role of Indonesia (01.04.1993) The New York Times
● Clinton shift on East Timor sends ripples around Asia (03.04.1993) The Guardian
● Indonesia troops seize rebel leader in Timor (06.04.1993) International Herald Tribune
● Famine on Capitol Hill (11.04.1993) Boston Sunday Globe
● Injustice in East Timor (18.04.1993) The Washington Post
● Fear still reigns on Indonesian Island (21.04.1993) The New York Times | 2 pp.
● Rough Puffs (22.04.1993) Far Eastern Economic Review
● A voice, often silenced, tells of East Timor’s fear (24.04.1993) The New York Times
● Velvet fist: Jakarta opts for subtlety in its efforts to subdue Timor (29.04.1993) Far
Eastern Economic Review | 2 pp.
● Death and the peacemaker (30.04.1993) The Guardian
● Indonesia’s silenced accuser (29.05.1993) The New York Times
● British jets ‘may be used on Timor rebels’ (11.06.1993) The Independent
● Hawk deal provokes human rights row (11.06.1993) The Guardian
● BAe wins 500m order from Indonesia (11.06.1993) Financial Times
● Overrunning human rights (15.06.1993) The Washington Post | 2 pp.
● Indonesia and Human Rights (09.07.1993) The Washington Post
● East Timor’s chance for peace (20.09.1993) Viewpoint
● Indonesia: Official response to Swedish MPs’ comments on East Timor: Bishop of Dili
Speaks (27.09.1993) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
● A mortgage of conscience come due (18.10.1993) Our Sunday Visitor | 2 pp.
● A different message to Jakarta (01.11.1993) The New York Times
● Indonesia Military allowed to obtain training in U.S. (08.12.1993) The New York Times
● Closed eyes on East Timor (1993)
● Muffled voices: As Suharto tumbled, East Timor experienced a frisson of free speech -
tempered by the fear of return to the usual pogrom (July/August 1998) Index on
Censorship | 5 pp.
● East Timorese want their conquerors out (07.03.1993) The New York Times
● A leading Asian colonialist (05.12.1992) The Washington Post
● The cemetery called East Timor (25.09.1992) The New York Times
● Realism and Evil (06.12.1991) The New York Times
● Torture worsens in Timor: bishop (13.02.1993) The Age (Melbourne)
● Dili Bishop speaks of arrest and torture of Xanana Supporters (13.02.1993) BBC
Summary of World Broadcasts
● Time to end an atrocity (20.02.1993) The Boston Globe
● Rough Puffs (22.04.1993) Far Eastern Economic Review
● A voice, often silenced, tells of East Timor’s fear (24.04.1993) The New York Times
● Indonesia’s silenced accuser (29.05.1993) The New York Times
● Indonesia and Human Rights (09.07.1993) The Washington Post
● Successes marred by a failure (13.07.1993) Herald International Tribune
● United States: Timor Concern (16.07.1993) Far Eastern Economic Review
● East Timor bishop in U.S. to plead for human rights (27.07.1993) Catholic Voice
● Official response to Swedish MPs’ comments on East Timor; Bishop of Dili Speaks
(27.09.1993) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
● A different message to Jakarta (01.11.1993) The New York Times
● A figure of courage in the midst of East Timor’s agony (17.11.1993) The Age
(Melbourne)
● Arena Magazine: Imagining ‘east timor’ by Benedict Anderson | 6 pp.

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1994 Newspaper articles

This item contains:

  • Atrocities in East Timor have been forgotten (25.01.1994) Asbury Park Press
  • Congressional Record - March 2nd, 1994
  • East Timor’s past won’t stay buried (23.04.1994) The Economist | 2 pp.
  • Ending the agony of East Timor (11.05.1994) The Boston Globe
  • Timorous on Timor (24.05.1994) The New York Times
  • Australia doesn’t wink at East Timor abuses (08.06.1994) The New York Times
  • Cartoon from The Guardian (07.06.1994)
  • Human Rights Retreat (07.07.1994) The Washington Post
  • Gentle about genocide (11.07.1994) The Boston Globe
  • Press Freedom, Indonesian Style (13.08.1994) The New York Times
  • A Clinton mission in Jakarta (12.11.1994) The Boston Globe
  • End Indonesia’s Imperialist rule (13.11.1994) The New York Times
  • A word for Justice at Indonesia’s Trade Summit (13.11.1994) Los Angeles Times
  • Atrocities are bad for business (13.11.1994) The Washington Post
  • Photo in the Herald International Tribune (14.11.1994)
  • East Timor protests embarrass Indonesia (14.11.1994) Financial Times
  • Indonesia’s embarrassment (15.11.1994) The New York Times
  • Indonesia’s pebble (17.11.1994) The Wall Street Journal
  • Roman Catholic Bishop denounces repression in East Timor (22.11.1994) The New York Times
  • Rights and wrongs in Indonesia (25.11.1994) The Boston Globe
  • Timorese worry world will now forget (28.11.1994) The New York Times

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1995 News Articles

This item includes:

  • Q & A: East Timor’s Peace Proposals (20.02.1995) Herald International Tribune
  • Concern Expressed over East Timor Deaths (22.02.1995) Osseratore Romano
  • Pope John Paul II: The Biography by Tad Szulc (1995) | 2 pp.
  • Compromising human rights (08.04.1995) The Boston Globe
  • Persistent Thorn in the Flesh (29.03.1995) The Financial Times | 2 pp.
  • Buried alive: East Timor’s Tragic Oppression (10.12.1995) Boston Sunday Globe

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1995 Various documents

Contains various documents such as letters, emails, faxes and press releases that were written or published in 1995.

This item includes:

  • Fax to His Eminence Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris from Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Diocese of Dili (04.07.1995)
  • “Visit of Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo to Ireland” 30th June - 4th July 1995 | 2 pp.
  • Fax to Sergio Regazzoni from Arnold Kohen (02.07.1995)
  • Handwritten letter to Mgr. Delaurta, Head of Justice and Peace Commission from Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (02.07.1995)
  • Invitation from Arnold Kohen and Korinna Horta to an informal reception for Msgr. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B., Bishop of East Timor, where he will discuss current educational efforts in East Timor on Friday, June 9, 1995
  • “Notes on a visit to East Timor, September 1995” (18.09.1995) | 3 pp.
  • “Further report on September 1995 visit” - Public Health Situation of East Timorese People | 4 pp.
  • 1995 contacts - Bishop Belo visit with Arnold Kohen | 3 pp.
  • The Belo Visit: A Summary (06-07/1995)
  • List of meeting with Bishop Belo (06/1995) | 4 pp.
  • Trip Report The Belo Visit: A Summary | 8 pp.
  • Letter to Mr. President from Alfonse M. D’Amato, Connie Mack, Frank H. Murkowski, John H. Chafee, Craig Thomas, Patrick J. Leahy, Frank Lautenberg, Claiborne Pell and Russell D. Feingold, U.S Senators (15.02.1995) | 2 pp.
  • USCC International Justice & Peace: East Timor Update (02/1995) | 2 pp.
  • Letter to Ms. Mia Adjali, Women’s Division, United Methodist Church from Lauranne Jones Pazhoor, Assistant to the President
  • Letter his Eminence Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop of Paris from Arnold Kohen (1995) | 2 pp.
  • Fax message for Ms. Fran Carpenter, Parade from Arnold Kohen (30.08.1995)
  • Proposal for Funding: A Documentary on the Church in East Timor and The Life and Work of Bishop Belo (1995) | 4 pp.
  • Letter to a Senator from Rev. Drew Christiansen, Director, USCC Office of International Justice and Peace (30.06.1995)
  • Telefax to Bishop Belo from Gloria Ross-Wendelboe, Caritas Norway (22.06.1995) Subj.: Bishop Belo’s visit to Norway | 2 pp.
  • Letter to Det Norske Shortings Nobelkomite (Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament) from Tony P. Hall, Member of Congress | 3 pp.
  • Fax to Trocaire (Catholic Agency, Ireland-Dublin) from Arnold Kohen (1995) | 4 pp.
  • Press Release: Secretary-General holds sixth round of talks on East Timor in Geneva with Foreign Ministers of Indonesia and Portugal (10.07.1995) | 2 pp.
  • USCC: International Justice & Peace: East Timor Update (02/1995) | 2 pp.

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20th Anniversary News Conference

This file contains correspondence between various companies and Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien regarding putting a trade embargo on Indonesia on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Indonesian invasion. Includes newspaper clippings regarding ending the trade.
Correspondence from:

  • Canadian Union of Public Employees
  • National Union of Public and General Employment
  • Canadian Auto Workers Union
  • United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
  • Public Service Alliance of Canada
  • United Steelworkers of America in Canada
  • Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
  • Canadian Union of Postal Workers
  • International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  • B.C Union
  • Telecommunications Workers Union
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour

A Small Island's Big War: East Timor's Revolutionary War

Book about the history of East Timor and Japan's involvement and responsibility in the matter.
Table of contents (see below for original Japanese):
• Japan’s Responsibility: Fretilin’s message to the United Nations
• Chapter 1: Do you know East Timor?
• Chapter 2: Details on the East Timor War
• Chapter 3: Fretilin and the people of East Timor
• Chapter 4: Indonesia and East Timor
• Chapter 5: Japan and East Timor
• Chapter 6: Each country’s response to the situation
• Chapter 7: The end— What we can do about it
Contains multiple graphs, the translated message of Fretilin to the United Nations, a letter from the Indonesian foreign minister Adam Malik to Jose Manuel Ramos Horta, and multiple pictures of the war.

Original Japanese:
目次
• 日本の責任― フレテリンの国連へのメッセージ
• 第一章:東チモールを知っていますか
• 第二章:東チモール戦争の経緯
• 第三章:フレテリンと東チモールの人々
• 第四章:インドネシアと東チモール
• 第五章:日本と東チモール
• 第六章:各国の対応と運動の状況
• 第七章:おわりに― わたしたちにできること
• 本と資料の紹介

Free East Timor! Japan Coalition

A summary of Amnesty International's concerns

Indonesia, The PRD Prisoners: A summary of Amnesty International's concerns
October 1997

It includes:

  • A summary of concerns
  • PRD Prisoner Case Studies
    • Budiman Sudjatmiko
    • Garda Sembiring
    • Suroso, Yacobus Eko Kurniawan and Ignatius Daminanus Pranowo
    • Petrus Hariyanto
    • Ken Budha Kusumandaru, Ignatius Putut Arintoko & Victor da Costa
    • Wilson Bin Nurtiyas
    • I Gusti Agung Anom Astika
    • Dita Indah Sari
    • Coen Husein Pontoh
    • Mochamad Sholeh

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Abé Barreto Soares CNRM 3

This item includes various speeches by East Timorese youth ambassadors during the tour of America in 1993. It also includes a list of Abé Soares' relatives in East Timor.

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Abé ho Aloz in performance

Abé ho Aloz in performance. Timorese-Canadian duo Abé Barreto Soares and Aloz MacDonald performed numerous shows across Canada in support of the Timorese cause.

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