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Press Release Christian Solidarity International 1985-12-18

Press release reporting a letter by Christian Solidarity International, an ecumenical entity concerned with East Timor issues, to the candidates for the Presidency in Portugal. The letter demonstrates deep concern with the disrespect for the Timorese ethnic, cultural, and religious identity being violated by Indonesia, and appealing to the candidates to contribute to finding a fair solution to the situation.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Press Release Comissão para os Direitos do Povo Maubere (CDPM) 1984-07-11

Press release concerning the meeting between CDPM and some Portuguese authorities where CDPM exposed its deep concerns. As they say, it is not enough that a few Portuguese organs of sovereignty manifest their solidarity with the Maubere people, instead, Portugal is a key actor in this struggle and should position itself as one. They also state that human rights violations in East Timor begin with the non-recognition of the Timorese right to self-determination and that Portugal should accept FRETILIN as the only movement to national liberation, aligning itself diplomatically to FRETILIN's efforts in the international arena.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report Amnesty International 1989-07-05

Official title: East Timor List of Persons Strictly Confidential 05.07.1989
Contents: List of Timorese people who were submitted to the following treatments: arrested; disappeared; death in custody; extrajudicial execution; ill treatment; political asylum; prisoner of conscience; political prisoner; torture. The list also contains the complete name, occupation, the date of the act, the sentence, the place, and the authority.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report APPTL and CDPM 1987-06-22

Official title: Proposition de Travail pour la Sous-Commission
Contents: Report with propositions for collaboration in the approval of a report in the Sub-Commission of Human Rights at the UN, regarding the importance it can have in the next meeting of the UN General Assembly. The document punctuates specific considerations that would be useful to achieving the final objective.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report Bishop Dom Carlos Filipe Ximenes 1994-07-31

Official title: The Document of the East Timor Catholic Church on East Timor nowadays
Contents: Document from the Catholic Church regarding Dili understanding that, although the Church was not allowed to have a political position, it did have a moral responsibility for the situation in Timor and wanted to express its deep concern about the violations of human rights, as well as offering suggestions to solve the problem. One of the suggestions was to ask for a referendum, where people would be able to make democratic choices. The Church report asks the Indonesian government to reduce its armed force, the troops, the extra-judicial authority on the territory and to cooperate with the UN Secretary to work towards an effective settlement to the situation

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

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)

Report CDPM / ISMUN 1985-10-14

Report by CDPM of a Conference held by the United Nations in El Puerto, Spain for young students from over 50 countries where they discussed themes related to peace, human rights, Third World economies, development, etc. During the meeting, the Movement of Young Students of the United Nations (ISMUN, in Portuguese) deliberated over a resolution where they asked Indonesia to immediately remove their army from Timor, to restart the negotiation process begun in 1983, and appealing to all associated members of ISMUN to support East Timor's self-determination at the level of UN and other international forums.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report CDPM et al. 1992

Official title: Statement for signature to be send to Secretary General of the UN – Urgent Appeal on the Situation of East Timor.
Contents: Urgent appeal to UN Secretary General, to the international community, to Portugal, and to Indonesia to take their respective roles on the issue of East Timor, regarding the end of human rights violations and to support the solidarity movement. Signatures: Japan, United States, United Kingdom and others.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report Dunisa Rubini (Direitos Humanos e Amigos de Justica e Paz no Timor Leste) 1991-01-12

Official title: Relatorio – Timor Leste
Contents: Report by Dunisa Rubini about several injustices to which the Timorese people are subjected; presenting military, political, economic and cultural realities after his trip to the country.
Main topics: Indonesian unsuccessful offensive to capture Xanana Gusmao; the intensification of Indonesian strategies against the Timorese struggle; civil rights violations by the militaries in Timor; the guerilla movement to recruit more people; and personal realities of human rights violations.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Report Unidentified 1986-06-28

Official title: El papel de Indonesia en el dispositivo estrategico USA para el Sudeste Asiatico
Contents: Report describing the role of Indonesia in the US strategic device to southeast Asia. The report contains: geographic, geopolitical and geostrategic aspects, sea routes and strategies, deep analyses of the geostrategic position of East Timor, military expenditures (contracts with Australia, South Korea, USA, Britain, France, Spain, Italy), accounting of military aid from 1974 to 1983.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization 1993-07-13

List of speakers in the Special Committee on Decolonization on East Timor of the United Nations in 1993. Between the speakers, there were the major names of those who lent support to the East Timor resistance movement. Speakers were from Canada, France, Portugal, UK, Japan, US, etc. The document details each of the twenty-one speeches in solidarity with East Timor

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Report Zeca Araujo (Secretary of the provisional Government in Dili) 1976-01-16

Official title: Linhas de orientacao para os contactos com a delegacao da ONU
Contents: Guidelines for Dili’s provisory administrators regarding the United Nations' visit to the capital. The document contains explicit restrictions on certain behaviors and symbols, and also certain places (those that were still under military activities) where they could not take the UN to visit. It also established a pattern of conversation that party leaders (APODETI, UDT, KOTA and LABOR) should follow with the UN delegation, mostly incriminating FRETILIN as communists. Provides answers to the possible questions the UN may have asked about the provisory administration in general.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Speech CDPM/APPTL 1985-12-07

Official title: Intervenção
Contents: Speech made during the event regarding the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of East Timor, exposing the reasons why they should keep the struggle alive and pointing to how these years symbolize a regression in human rights. The speaker invites guests to enjoy the cultural night offered by those who can still express their culture in freedom, even if it is not in their own country.

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)

Towards a Peaceful Solution in East Timor

Item is a transcript of the Chatham House Address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs given in London on April 23, 1996 by Jose Ramos Horta, published by the East Timor Relief Agency.

Contents:

  • About the Author
  • About CNRM (the National Council of the Maubere Resistance)
  • About ETRA (East Timor Relief Association)
  • Foreword by James Dunn
  • Introduction by Keith Suter
  • East Timor: The Struggle for Self-Determination and Its Future in Southeast Asia (Chatham House Address to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 23 April, 1996)
  • A Road to Peace in East Timor: Parallels with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 25 January, 1996)
  • The CNRM Peace Initiative and the Israeli-Palestinian agreement on self-government (A paper written for the Peacemaking Initiatives for East Timor conference held at the Australian National University on 10-12 July, 1995)
  • The Peace Plan for East Timor (Address to the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Bangkok on 19th November, 1993)
  • Appendix: CNRM Representatives and Contacts

East Timor Relief Association

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