East Timor church leader says resistance to Indonesia remains strong.
Interview with Mgr. Martinho da Costa Lopes, recently re-sign Apostolic administrator of Dili East Timor. Text from Diario de Noticias and Libertar, Oporto and Lisbon, July 1983.
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.
This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP). Titled, Come-into Evaluation all of the University of East Timors’ Students, the document was published on October 31st, 1991 in Dilli by University of East Timors’ student. It begins with a welcome message to ambassadors and journalists. The message then expresses a desire for self-determination and freedom for East Timor. It elaborates conditions under Indonesian military occupation and asks foreign observers to help engender a referendum for the East Timorese people.
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.
This a publication of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, Trusteeship and Decolonization. It was published in August 1976 with a focus on the Issue of East Timor.
It is broken down in two parts:
Part one: The Political Evolution of Portuguese Timor
Part Two: The Question of Portuguese Timor in the International Arena
This articles contained within this document are dedicated to Senhor Jose Blanco, Administrator, Fundacao Caloustegul Benkien, and the people of Portugal.