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

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

Plenary Session of the UN Special Commission on Decolonisation

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor

• Indonesian Military Operations
• Resistance actions
• East Timor is being Islamicised
• Human rights violations
• Students joining guerilla movement
• News of a “disappeared” person
• President Suharto’s visit to East Timor
• List of documents received
  Administrating power: Portugal
• East Timor represented at a meeting of journalists writing in Portuguese
• Average Portuguese citizen’s view on East Timor
• Nationalist convergence (FRETILIN – UDT)
• The Timor Gap
  International Issues:
• Statements by FRETILIN’S Internat. relations secretary
• Friends of the Earth and the East Timor issue
• Meeting of the Maubere communities in Australia
• Moroccan PM and the East Timor question
• The European Community and East Timor
• USA: 47 senators and 182 congressmen write to Schultz
• State departments reply
• Portuguese reactions
• Timorese reactions

Title: Monthly Memo
Administrating power: Portugal

• Distribution of houses to Timorese refugees
  Indonesia:
• Indonesian MPs protest against US congress members letter
  International Issues:
• Exhibition on Timor
• Australian Northern Territory’s minister visits East Timor
• Council of Europe takes stand on East Timor
• Australian ABC Tv report shocks Timorese community
• Further dispatch of troops to East Timor
• Indonesia and Australia in secret military manoeuvres
• EC again in favor of Timorese people

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