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Letter CDPM and APPTL - Sousa Lara 1991-07-24

Letter by the APPTL and CDPM offering to the Portuguese congressmen the updated information about several aspects of the Timorese reality before they traveled to the country on an attempt to understand the real situation there. Suggestions of topics to be provided by APPTL and CDPM to Portuguese Congressmen: geography, demography, sociology, religion, economy, language, culture, health, education, human rights, military situation, Indonesian administration, guerrilla forces, etc. The information would be relayed through a course with 3 or 4 sessions, to be given by professors, researchers, Timorese refugees and to be paid by the Assembly of Republic.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Other Unidentified 1991-10-11

Official title: Ideias principais
Contents: Handwritten telephone transcription detailing the main ideas regarding the conversation between Portugal and Indonesia at the United Nations with the participation of other civil society agents (Church, Timorese representatives, etc.) who wanted a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

The Right Hon. John Major MP

The East Timorese refugees writing this letter convey the following concerns to John Major: they ask why the situation in East Timor was not brought up during the Lisbon Summit; the writers ask that John Major ensures that Indonesia will not receive economic assistance from Britain until human rights violations in East Timor end; they urge that the British government does not agree to sell forty Hawk fighter-trainers to Indonesia; the writers call for the British Prime Minister to use his authority to aid those who have been imprisoned in the Santa Cruz Massacre.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Other Comite Ativo Nao-Violencia e Solidariedade Timorense 1992-10-12

Official title: Estatuto Organico e Programa de Trabalho do Comite Ativo Nao-Violencia e Solidariedade Timorense
Contents: Statute of the creation of the Comite Ativo Nao-Violencia e Solidariedade Timorense (Action Committee for Non-Violence and Timorese Solidarity), exposing the purpose of its creation (support and canalize other nations support and solidarity for East Timor), its mission: i. using the principles of International Law to guide their support (material, spiritual and moral) to people who were affected by the war; ii. educate people to end the conflict and to avoid violence; iii. Condemn and criticize any transgression of universal laws and their principles. The document also brings the establishment of the guidelines of the Committee’s work for the short and long term, pointing specifically to their actions (such as giving medical assistance to injured people, helping the young people to get in school, to find jobs, create a library, etc.) and specifically delineate the structure of the Committee (an organogram of functions, each one designated, period of the meetings, etc.).

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Letter Cristina Cruz (CDPM) - President of Guinea Bissau 1996-09-24

Letter by CDPM to the President of Guinea Bissau congratulating him on the 23rd anniversary of the Republic of Guinea Bissau and expressing strong protests to the visit of the Guinean Ministry of Youth and Sports to Indonesia, lest this visit symbolize the recognition of the Indonesian strategy for the annexation of East Timor. CDPM states that Guinea Bissau had adopted a pro-East Timor position in the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPTLT) and that CDPM would be grateful if Guinea could press Indonesia, either at CPTL or at an Islamic Conference.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report CDPM - Austrian Ambassador in Indonesia 1997-11-18

Report by CDPM of a letter to the Austrian ambassador in Indonesia appealing for solidarity with the Timorese who are refugees in the Austrian embassy in Indonesia and asking the Austrian ambassador not to give up on the cause, even with the mounting pressure from Indonesia. The document also states that CDPM directed an appeal to around 30 organizations from Portuguese civil society to ask for pressure on the Austrian ambassador in Portugal regarding the same situation. The appeal had two objectives: make them feel the pressure of Portuguese public opinion and give the Austrian government arguments to use with the Indonesians about sending the 6 refugees to Portugal.
Annexes: report of the meeting with the ambassador and briefing of the refugees' history.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Speech by Geraldo Magno, FRETILIN, to the 6th NFIP Conference

This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP).
Titled, Speech by Geraldo Magno, FRETILIN, to the 6th NFIP Conference, the conference took place from November 1-7, 1990 in Aotearoa. Geraldo Magno begins by acknowledging the conference’s occurrence on Maori land and emphasising East Timorese indigenous origins. He then describes East Timor’s political situation and discusses Indonesian policies of genocide in the country. Magno emphasises the consolidation of East Timorese identity since the Indonesian invasion and discusses his people’s armed struggle. He then presents victories of his movement and argues the signing of the Timor Gap agreement between Indonesia and Australia is a violation of East Timor’s right to self-determination. Finally, he calls for an end to nuclear testing in the Oceania region. At the end of the document is a draft resolution with nine points related to the content of the speech.

Pacific Peoples Partnership

Colonizing East Timor: Indonesia and Australia’s Oil Drilling Plans

This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP).
Titled, Colonizing East Timor: Indonesia and Australia’s Oil Drilling Plans, the article was written by Allan Nairn in the Petrochemical age section of the July/August 1991 issue of Multinational Monitor. The article argues that Australia is reaping rewards from Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor by extracting the oil of East Timor’s seabed through the Timor Gap Treaty. It signed the treaty with Indonesia in 1989. The article features a quote from Jose Ramos Horta that argues the hypocrisy of Australia as it concurrently joined a war against Iraq in the name of international law while saying that Indonesia was not precluded by international law from invading Timor. Next, the article presents the comments of Dick Woolcott, the Australian ambassador to Indonesia, on the Indonesian invasion of Timor. It then explains that oil company research in the early 1970s had estimated that the disputed waters between Australian and Timor could hold vast amounts of oil and natural gas. Finally, the article argues that the Timor Gap Treaty is the first international agreement that formally legitimizes the Indonesian annexation of Timor and presents Portugal’s challenge to Australia over the treaty in the World Court.

Pacific Peoples Partnership

Death in East Timor

This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP).
Titled, Death in East Timor, the document is part of Third World Network Features and was received February 10th, 1992. It is an account of the experience of a mother, Helen Todd: a Malaysian freelance journalist whose son was killed by the November 12th, 1991 Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor. Her son, Kamal Bamadhaj, was the only foreigner killed during the shooting. Helen Todd emphasises her difficulty in discovering the reason for the fate of her son and expresses her belief that it demonstrates the misinformation and mendacity of Indonesia’s government. She also discusses Kamal’s observations of the Indonesian regime’s tactics to hide realities when discussing East Timor with foreigners. Next, she provides eye witness accounts of the shooting of the procession to the Dili cemetery. Finally, she presents Kamal’s observations of the attitudes of the Timorese, especially Timorese youth, before the march.

Pacific Peoples Partnership

Indonesia

This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP).
Titled, Indonesia, the report addresses Canada-Indonesia bilateral relations in the context of the East Timor issue. It was created on December 22nd, 1992 by the Canadian Ministry of External Affairs Asia Pacific branch. The report begins by providing background on the shootings in Dili on November 12, 1991 and the actions taken by the Suharto regime following them. It then discusses the Canadian position on the Dili shootings and the country’s suspension of new development projects for Indonesia worth $30 million. Next, it discusses the Canadian delegation’s efforts at the UN Commission of Human Rights. (UNCHR) (A note is provided that sheds light on the information provided). Penultimately, it expresses positivity in regards to Indonesia’s response to the text released by the UNCHR. Finally, the document explains that Canada has not lifted its suspension of aid to Indonesia through the Consultative Group for Indonesia because of its observations in Timor and those of Amnesty International.

Pacific Peoples Partnership

Boston Globe

Item consists of seven articles from the Boston Globe in 1985 and 1986 relating to East Timor.

  1. East Timor: hidden genocide
  2. Rough Road to Summit: Misfortune follows Reagan (2 pp.)
  3. Springtime rite
  4. Rights record a cloud on Reagan trip
  5. Indonesia expels 3 journalists
  6. In East Timor, human rights are trampled upon... but Reagan is remaining silent
  7. Indonesia's human rights record a cloud on Reagan's 'freedom' tour

East Timor Human Rights Committee

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