Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Extracts from interview with Monag Belo
• President Suharto’s visit to East Timor sets off wave of arrests
• Xanana Gusmão surrounded by Indonesian troops
• Indonesian military offensive continues in East Timor
• Indonesian military chief spends Christmas in Dili
• List of documents received during the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Solidarity with ET on 15th anniversary of Indonesian invasion
• Statements by Abilio Araujo for the Timorese Nationalist convergence
  Indonesia:
• Possible replacement of Mário Carrascalão
• General Murdani goes into reserves list
• All Alatas intent on speaking of Timor in Stratsbourg
  International Issues:
• Iberian MPs demand adherence to resolutions on East Timor
• Asia watch report warning on situation in East Timor
• Timorese community in Australia 13 years after the invasion
• East Timor in European parliament
• President Soares speaks of East Timor in Athens

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Human rights violations in East Timor
• Military Situation
• The possible removal of Mário Carrascalão
• East Timor’s isolation continues
• Resistance forces attack on Dili
• Indonesia denies attack on Dili
• FRETILIN cause of causalities in Indonesian army
• List of documents received in period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Soares emphasises “growing support” for Timor cause
• Portuguese parliament prepares “Black Book” on Timor
• Law Faculty Association debate on East Timor
• Meeting of FRETILIN abroad
  International Issues:
• Open letter from Europe MP Beate Weber
• East Timor the subject of a BBC programme
• COA/ EEC assembly condemns Indonesian occupation of East Timor

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Violations of human rights in East Timor
• Press release from Xanana Cusmão
• Report on president Suharto’s visit to Dili
• East Timor’s governor denies wave of arrests
• List of documents received over the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Freedom after 13 years of retention
• Dutch foreign affairs minister focuses on ET in Libson
• Nationalist governance received by foreign affairs minister
• Timorese student escapes from Jakarta
• President of the republic receives Ramos Horta
  Indonesia:
• Indonesian foreign affairs minister visits Australia
  International Issues:
• USA’s Timor “dossier” to go into more depth
• Meeting of solidarity organisations in Denmark
  International Meeting
  National and International activities
  Self determination and human rights

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Reprisals against the family and friends of an escapee
• Reports on the situation in East Timor
• Timorese political prisoners denounce torture
• List of documents received during the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Statement by José Ramos Horta to the Diário de Notícias
• The Portuguese minister for foreign affairs visits South East Asia
  Indonesia:
• Indonesian Episcopal Conference
• Indonesia and Australia rescue bilateral talks
• Indonesia worried about public opinion concerning East Timor
  International Issues:
• USA state department report recognizes human rights violations in East Timor

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• The Bishop of Timor appeals for the intervention of the General Secretary of the UN and denounces torture in East Timor
• List of documents received during the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Debate on Timor under the initiative of the rector of the University of Porto
• Statements by Mario Soares in an interview
• Eas Timor in parliamentary session to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 25th April
• Interview with Abílio Araúio
  Indonesia:
• Vice president of US discusses human rights in East Timor, in Jakarta
  International Issues:
• Timorese demonstrate in Melbourne
• African countries salute the Portuguese action in support of East Timor
• Anti-Timor campaign on the increase in Australia

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• The Pope’s visit
• Mnsgr. Belo under surveillance and pressure
• Xanana Gusmão’s message to Mnsgr. Canalini
• List of documents received during the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Bishop of Setúbal’s pro-East Timor intervention
• Presdent Soares appeals on behalf of East Timor
• Christian peace movement’s solidarity with east Timor
• Presentation of book on Timor
  International Issues:
• UN meeting to prepare visit to Timor
• President Suarto awarded UN prize
• European parliament vote against Indonesia

Title: The Pope’s Visit to East Timor
Source: "A Paz é Possível em Timor-Lest" Group

• John Paul II in Dili
• The Vatican’s position on the East Timor problem

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• The Pope’s visit
• Mnsgr. Belo under surveillance and pressure
• Xanana Gusmão’s message to Mnsgr. Canalini
• List of documents received during the period
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Bishop of Setúbal’s pro-East Timor intervention
• Presdent Soares appeals on behalf of East Timor
• Christian peace movement’s solidarity with east Timor
• Presentation of book on Timor
  International Issues:
• UN meeting to prepare visit to Timor
• President Suarto awarded UN prize
• European parliament vote against Indonesia

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Aftermath of Jan 17 demonstrations
• Visits to East Timor by Moerdani and Prabowo
• Resistance Military actions
• Bishop Belo’s Christmas letter
• January edition of “Neon Metin”
• Deaths and disappearances
• FRETILIN Australia rejects secretariat proposals
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Trade with Indonesia has increased since invasion of East Timor
• Negotiations on visit by Portuguese parliamentarians continue
• Portuguese communities support Timorese people
  International Issues:
• Papal Nuncio refuses to take 1025 letters for Bishop Belo
• EEC/PCA meeting defers debate on Timor
• Australia – East Timor consultation and establishment of East Timor foundation
• Questions to the European parliament
  Press release by Catholic Institute for International Relations on East Timor solidarity groups and the national resistance (Mar 11, 1990)

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Detentions
• Bishop Belo
• Changes in structure of Indonesian military
• Jose Ramos-Horta proposes a Timor secretariat
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Portugal protests against Indonesia-Australia treaty on Timor sea off-shore oil
• Portugal considers recourse to The Hague
• Australian international law expert recommends Portugal takes case to Hague
• University students show solidarity with people of Timor
• Timorese priest describes situation of a Timorese in Portugal
  International Issues:
• Australia and Indonesia agree on terms of Timor Gap Treaty
• Protests to Australian embassy
• US members of congress write to secretary of states
• EC statements on Timor question
• Statement from African Portuguese speaking countries on East Timor
• MEPs protests to the EEC
  Dec 20, 1989
• Political/ strategic importance of the Treaty for Indonesia
• East Timor’s legitimate claim
• Campaign strategy
• Campaign against the Timor Gap Treaty
• Australian recognition of annexation
• A potentially lucrative deposit
• Australian parliament and the treaty

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Description of Jan 17 demonstrations
• Executions during 1989
• Letter to H.J Princen from young people in the Bishop’s house in Nov
• Incidents in Dili on Christmas eve
• Bishop Belo’s movements restricted
• FRETILIN meeting in Lisbon
• Jose Ramos-Horta – “Perspectives on the roads to follow”
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Bishop of Setubal speaks out
• Hague tribunal
• EOJ condemns Indonesia
  International Issues:
• EC presidency draws attention to ill treatment in East Timor
• EC foreign ministers reply to question
  Translation of a letter from Bishop Belo, Apostolic Administrator of Dili (Jun 27, 1989) to D. Manual Martins, Bishop of Setubal, Portugal
  A tourist’s observation of recent demonstrations in Dili (Feb 17, 1990)

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Aftermath of Jan 17 demonstrations
• Visits to East Timor by Moerdani and Prabowo
• Resistance Military actions
• Bishop Belo’s Christmas letter
• January edition of “Neon Metin”
• Deaths and disappearances
• FRETELIN Australia rejects secretariat proposals
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Trade with Indonesia has increased since invasion of East Timor
• Negotiations on visit by Portuguese parliamentarians continue
• Portuguese communities support Timorese people
  International Issues:
• Papal Nuncio refuses to take 1025 letters for Bishop Belo
• EEC/PCA meeting defers debate on Timor
• Australia – East Timor consultation and establishment of East Timor foundation
• Questions to the European parliament
  Press release by Catholic Institute for International Relations on East Timor solidarity groups and the national resistance (Mar 11, 1990)

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Xanana favor Portuguese visit
• Resistance military activity
• Red cross visits prisoners in East Timor
• Livestock epidemic in Los Palos
• Figures for Timorese emigration
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Pope ignored East Timor during presidential visit
  International Issues:
• “East Timor, Land of Hope” – Seminar at the Universityt of Oporto
• Update on events at ACP-EEC assembly in March

Title: The Pressures on Bishop Belo
Sources: The international press and sources within East Timor. “A Paz é Possivel em Timor Leste”

• The Bishop’s Christmas Pastoral letter
• Missionaries prevented from entering East Timor
• Following the Pope’s visit
• Telephone interview with Bishop Belo by journalist from Lisbon newspaper “Publico”

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Intensification of Indonesian military activity
• Pressure of Timorese students in Bali
• Problems at hospitals
• Mysterious killings reported
• Increased restrictions on freedom of movement
• Asia watch report
• US sate department report
• Dili seminar postponed
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Question of parliamentary visit still unresolved
• Portugal and Indonesia elected to UN human rights commission
  International Issues:
• UN decolonization committee regards Timor Gap agreement as illegal
• Cambridge specialists question validity of Timor Gap agreement
• Council of Europe resolution condemns Indonesian occupation of East Timor
• US interest in air base in East Timor
• Criticisms of US position
  Appendix:
• List of participants at Oporto seminar
• Extracts from US state department 1989 annual report on human rights

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Human rights abuses in Viqueque region
• Guerilla activity
• Detentions and disappearances
• Pressure on St. José School
• Timorese students in Bali
• Economic and social conditions in East Timor
• New Timorese student resistance magazine
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Portuguese parliamentary visit to East Timor
• Plan to appoint an East Timor High Commissioner
• Indonesian ship in Lisbon
  International Issues:
• Australia – Timor Gap treaty ratified but legal problems worry oil companies
• Timorese demonstrations sentenced in Australia
• Assessment of authenticity of Moerdani taoe
• Socialist international resolution on East Timor
• Guerilla military actions against Indonesian forces since Jan to May 1990

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Demonstration during anniversary mass
• Tensions between Timorese priests and their bishop
• Bishop Belo visits Rome
• Death of US journalist denied
• Reconciliation between Ramos-Horta and FRETILIN
• Rift within UDT leadership
• Social conditions within East Timor
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• UN mission to East Timor
• Cavaco Silva UN address
• Cavaco Silva visits Japan
  International Issues:
• “The twelve” harden the EEC position on Timor at the UN
• EEC-ACP assembly takes first step towards recognition of East Timor
• Council of Europe decides to prepare report on East Timor
  Address by Portuguese Prime Minister, Cavavo Silva to the UN General Assembly (Sep 26, 1990)
  Compromise resolution on the situation in east Timor replacing resolutions 94, 106, 116, and 140 (Sep 26, 1990)
  Progress report of the Secretary-General, United Nations General Assembly (Sept 17, 1990)
  Reports of recent conflict in Dili, East Timor, Australian Coicil for Overseas Aid (Oct 22, 1990)

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• FRETILIN flags fly in Dali
• Street fights in Dili at night
• Human rights violations
• Youth and student groups in East Timor
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Solidarity groups protest at governments “passivity”
• Parliamentary mission
  International Issues:
• Phillip Flood visits East Timor
• Pax Christi International calls for UN visit
• US senator concerns
  Indonesia:
• Indonesia planning diplomatic confrontation at the UN

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• Disturbances in Dili
• Interview with Xanana
• Military actions
• Governor speaks out
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Update on UN visit to East Timor
  International Issues:
• International media attention
  Indonesia:
• Benefits of Timor Gap Treaty questioned
• Ali Alatas hits out at Portugal
  “Aust playing dirty, says rebel leader” Sydney Morning Herald (25/10/90)
  Extracts from “First contact: an Australian visits Shanana’s camp”

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

• New land regulations – “the second invasion”
• Visit preparations: bogus guerillas
• Civilian repression – appeal for increased red cross presence
• Pressure on Xanana’s family
• Amnesty condemns executions in East Timor
• Photographs of prisoners
• Documents received
  Administrating Power: Portugal
• Parliamentary visit one step nearer
• Solidarity groups criticize EEC-ASEAN declaration
• Portuguese intellectuals call for support for Timorese resistance
• CDPM appeals to Dutch on Timorese rights
  International Issues:
• UK military contract with Indonesia
• Japanese parliamentarians visit put off
• Australia aid to East Timor
• Australian labor party criticized for position in East Timor
• International federation for East Timor gets UN associate status
• UN referendum plan for West Sahara – precedent for East Timor?
  Appendix
• Excerpts from Portuguese Government on visit to East Timor
• Projection for the Portuguese unilateral interpretive stamen