East Timor: it's time for action (newsletter)

• Introduction
• Xanana Gusmão and the Resistance
• The role of the United Nations
• Indonesian pro-democracy movement
• A Peace Plan for East Timor
• Women in East Timor
• Timeline - a brief history of East Timor
• Indonesian Military
• The New Zealand Government
• Books and Videos
• Transmigration and economic exploitation
• Solidarity groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Lobby your MP and Others
• Resources on the net
• Contact the Free East Timor Coalition
• No blood for oil
• The Catholic Church
• Days of Action

Nettalk newsletter, Update 8, May 1997

• NZ Politicians sign East Timor Register
• Pro-democracy movement in Indonesia
• Torture
• The East Timor Human Rights Centre, Melbourne [a]nd Human Rights
• Recent Events in East Timor
• Addendum
• Financing the Invasion
• International News (United Nations Commission on Human Rights; the European Union; Brazil; United States; China and Vietnam; Australia; Portugal; Sweden; Japan; the Philippines; Netherlands; Britain; Ireland; South Africa; Germany)
• Jose Ramos-Horta visits New Zealand
• Asylum Seekers
• Local News
• Infant Mortality
• Donations

Nettalk newsletter, Update 9, Spring 1997

• National Coalition Launched (Free East Timor Coalition)
• Inside East Timor - Briefs (Initiative by Nobel Peace Laureates; Intel Kills Couple; East Timor Health Damned; Guerrilla Leader David Alex Captured, Killed)
• Solidarity Action - Aotearoa (Military Co-Operation With Indonesia; Major Benefit Concert to Feature East Timor)
• Inside Aotearoa (NZ Government - a glimmer of hope?; Robin Cook Shoots Down Human Rights; Recent Documentaries)
• International (Nelson Mandela Weighs In)
• Inside Indonesia (Nico Warouw - PRD International Representative; Indonesian Pro-Democracy Movement)
• International News Briefs (Australia; Brazil; Norway; United States; Canada; Sweden; Britain)
• Women Inside East Timor (Women In East Timor - Report; East Timor's "Comfort Women" - Research Report; Enforced Sterilization Continues)
• Bureaucracy Delays Embassy Asylum Seekers
• Cultus Petroleum - NZ in for Timor Sea Oil
• East Timor for Beginners

Nettalk newsletter, Update 10, January 1998

• George Aditjondro National Tour: 1-14 February 1998
• News Briefs (Abductions in Indonesia; Asylum seekers in the Austrian Embassy; New Movement; Death Penalty Imposed; University of East Timor re-opens; Jose Ramos Horta - unilateral cease-fire call)
• Yes - even schoolgirls [torture, sexual abuse, killing]

This newsletter contains:

• Introducing the East Timor News Agency
• Indonesians Lose 525 in Battle
• Brief Reports
• 'Shut Up' Refugees Told
• Freedom Fighters' Radio
• Timor Link Keeps Hope Alive (by Kerry Sharp)
• Men Found Guilty of Illegal Exports to East Timor
• ACTU Lifts Ban on Chile Wheat (from Keith Martin)
• Roger East's Body Burned
• Timor Probe Sought
• Jakarta Gets Our Old Jets (from Michael Richardson)
• Indonesia Accused of Mass Murders in East Timor (by David Watts)
• Fretilin says Hard to Crush, Malik
• Peacock Gets Poll on Timor (by Peter Game)
• Jakarta Loses Plane in Timor Attack (from Hamish McDonald)
• Timor Appeasement Must End (by Michael Hodgman)
• Boat Gift to Indonesia
• Inside Occupied Dili
• Offensive Fails

The East Timor Concerns Group in Hog Kong published its East Timor News Dossier on an irregular schedule. Currently three issues are available - these are the three that were mailed out internationally as part of an exchange of newsletters beyween solidarity groups.

Heading: Vol. 1, No. 3, May 1987
Title: “Democracy in East Timor”

• Editorial
• Christian response to the East Timor Issue
• News: East Timor Students Still in Danger
• Living in a State of Fear
• Dutch Responsibility
• Portugal’s Diplomatic Offensive
• Why the Portuguese Government changed her attitude
• Portugal in the European Community
• Elections in East Timor

Heading: Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1987
Title: "East Timor News Dossier"

• Editorial
• Xanana Appeal to the Church
• April "Elections"
• News: The UN initiative: Talks stutter
• Desecration of Catholic shrines
• The Governor

Heading: Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1988
Title: “East Timor News Dossier”

• Editorial
• Asian Pacific East Timor Consultation
• News: Statement of the US Council of Churches
• US Catholic Bishops Call for Peace in Timor
• The Resistance’s Response to Anacoreta Correla
• Letters to the BBC and Radio Netherlands
• Pressures in the Church
• France’s Attitude on the East Timor Question
• Senator’s Letter to George Schultz

• Title: East Timor Update, April 1991
  Contents: UN chief speaks out on East Timor
• EC criticizes East Timor human rights violations
• Australian oil theft on
• Indonesian group wants E. Timor referendum
• Land seizures protested
• 13-year old tortured
• East Timor Alert Network Resources

• Title: East Timor Update, June 1991
  Contents: East Timor and Kuwait
• Army tortures students
• Offensive fails to capture resistance leaders
• Pope remembers E. Timor
• Stop Arming Indonesia!

• Title: East Timor Update, July/August 1991
  Contents: Portuguese human rights mission to visit Timor
• Council of Europe supports East Timor
• Soccer players defect
• Canadian MPs speak out
• E. Timor at IPB conference
• Xanana

• Title: East Timor Update, October 1991
  Contents: Terror in Timor
• World peace network supports Timor talks bid
• Remapping history
• Canadian gov't unmoved
• Protest? What protest?
• More students detained

Title: East Timor Update, November 1991

Contents: Fear of reprisals after MP mission

• Senate supports Timor
• Ramos Horta back

• Title: East Timor Update no. 28, November 1993
  Contents: New resistance leader speaks out for peace
• Human rights prize for people of East Timor
• Torture, killing go on
• Canadian solidarity
• New! The Indonesia kit
• Indonesia out of East Timor!

Title: East Timor Update, January 1992

Contents: Canada slashes aid to Indonesia

• Massacre inquiry blames victims
• Bishop renews peace call
• Action of the Month
• Available from ETAN

• Title: East Timor Update no. 8, February 1992

Contents:

• Cruise, crosses highlight Timor actions
• Guelph U. rethinks aid
• Massacre survivor jailed
• Journalists fired for reporting
• Media watch
• Action of the Month
• The Indonesia Kit