East Timor Alert network protesters attempt to block access to a loading bay at the Pratt and Whitney factory in Toronto. Pratt and Whitney was one company issued with military export licences to Indonesia. The protest aimed to highlight Canada's role in arming Indonesia as part of ETAN's campaign for an arms embargo on Indonesia. Photographer at right is one of the reporters who covered this event. The protesters were removed and arrested by local police.

Li-lien Gibbons at ETAN/Vancouver protest, December 1991 (Photo by Elaine Briere).

In Canada, solidarity activists rallied to try to make a “citizen’s arrest” of Indonesian president Suharto at the 1997 APEC summit, picking up on the example of Timorese activists who had put their country’s struggle at the centre of the 1994 APEC summit in Jakarta.
-Bella Galhos presents media with photos of torture in East Timor outside the APEC summit, Vancouver, 1997 (Photo: Elaine Briere)

The Asia- Pacific Conference on East Timor was held in May of 1994 in Manila. The goal of the conference was to bring into focus the Timorese's people's right to self-determination and consolidate its support network in the Asia-Pacific region.

This item contains:

• New York Times editorials regarding the conference
• An update from APCET including what other countries are doing in solidarity for East Timor
• A proposal of a creative visual presentation popularizing the East Timorese issue to the Filipino general public
• Message of solidarity to political prisoners in the Philippines
• Second APCET conference in November of 1996
• Thailand tries to muzzle APCET III (email correspondence)
• Newspaper articles
• Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor leaflet and documents

This item contains newspaper articles and paperwork regarding the arms embargo on Indonesia from Canada.

• Participants in Canadian Arms Tour
• Canada makes major military sale to Indonesia
• Sale of military goods to Indonesia okayed
• Canada considers closer military ties with Indonesia
• Indonesian arms sales fuelling debate
• Bill C-401
• Export of Military goods from Canada - Annual Report 1994

Item consists of correspondence and reports regarding the Darwin East Timorese Tetun School project from about 1989 to 1995. Many of the documents focus on support offered by Japanese allies for this project.

Various documents from ETAN including

• National Constitution (ETAN) 1996/1997, ETAN's mission statement, conference minutes
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta newspaper article
• Team Timor Campaign: financial report

The Technical University of Nova Scotia awarded an honorary degree to the Indonesian minister of trade and industry. This file contains various newspaper article about the honorary graduate, Dalhousie University' support for the graduate and the distaste from Canadians and Nova Scotians regarding the honorary degree.

Includes:

• Linking Aid to Human Rights in Indonesia: a Canadian perspective

Barbara McDougall was the Secretary of State of External affairs for Canada who met with the Indonesian Foreign Minister in Seoul in 1991.

This item contains:

• a request for the transcript of the complete meeting between Barbara McDougall and the Indonesian Foreign Minister.
• a letter from McDougall where she says that she told the foreign minister of Indonesia that she was upset with the recent shootings in East Timor and she suspended the approval to the new aid projects to Indonesia

Item consists of press clippings from 1991 to 1994 revealing the reactions of the Canadian public to the conflict between Indonesia and East Timor.

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item contains

• Various newspaper articles, including some from the University of Guelph’s campus newspaper
• Handwritten correspondence to Elaine Briere and John McMurtry
• The review of the Sulawesi project

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item includes

• Handwritten correspondence between Elaine Briere and John McMurtry
• Newspaper articles
• Correspondence between McMurtry and staff at the University of Guelph

Annual Report of the National Council of Maubere Resistance by Abé Barreto Soares.

Various documents about the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. The Museum of Textiles is a non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1975.
This item includes

• The legend of the crocodile
• Examples of textiles from Timor
• East-Timor; The Survival of a Vision
• The Buffalo and the Princess (Timorese folktale)
• A Swedish magazine: Forintesle i Paradiset
• A story a quail and a rat

Various statements at the 1987 United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization: session on East Timor.

• Statement of Julia Morrigan of the Indonesian East Timor Program
• Multiple poems in English and one in Indonesian

This item includes:

• Brief presented by ETAN to the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. (1994)
• Statement by Li-Lien Gibbons, ETAN (1992)
• Statement by União Democrática Timorense (1992)
• Statement by Jose Ramos-Horta, National Council of Maubere Resistance (1992)
• Intervencion de Jose Luis Guterres (1992)