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East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-01

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Aftermath of Jan 17 demonstrations
  • Visits to East Timor by Moerdani and Prabowo
  • Resistance Military actions
  • Bishop Belo’s Christmas letter
  • January edition of “Neon Metin”
  • Deaths and disappearances
  • FRETILIN Australia rejects secretariat proposals
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Trade with Indonesia has increased since invasion of East Timor
  • Negotiations on visit by Portuguese parliamentarians continue
  • Portuguese communities support Timorese people
    International Issues:
  • Papal Nuncio refuses to take 1025 letters for Bishop Belo
  • EEC/PCA meeting defers debate on Timor
  • Australia – East Timor consultation and establishment of East Timor foundation
  • Questions to the European parliament
    Press release by Catholic Institute for International Relations on East Timor solidarity groups and the national resistance (Mar 11, 1990)

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-02

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Detentions
  • Bishop Belo
  • Changes in structure of Indonesian military
  • Jose Ramos-Horta proposes a Timor secretariat
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Portugal protests against Indonesia-Australia treaty on Timor sea off-shore oil
  • Portugal considers recourse to The Hague
  • Australian international law expert recommends Portugal takes case to Hague
  • University students show solidarity with people of Timor
  • Timorese priest describes situation of a Timorese in Portugal
    International Issues:
  • Australia and Indonesia agree on terms of Timor Gap Treaty
  • Protests to Australian embassy
  • US members of congress write to secretary of states
  • EC statements on Timor question
  • Statement from African Portuguese speaking countries on East Timor
  • MEPs protests to the EEC
    Dec 20, 1989
  • Political/ strategic importance of the Treaty for Indonesia
  • East Timor’s legitimate claim
  • Campaign strategy
  • Campaign against the Timor Gap Treaty
  • Australian recognition of annexation
  • A potentially lucrative deposit
  • Australian parliament and the treaty

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-03

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Description of Jan 17 demonstrations
  • Executions during 1989
  • Letter to H.J Princen from young people in the Bishop’s house in Nov
  • Incidents in Dili on Christmas eve
  • Bishop Belo’s movements restricted
  • FRETILIN meeting in Lisbon
  • Jose Ramos-Horta – “Perspectives on the roads to follow”
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Bishop of Setubal speaks out
  • Hague tribunal
  • EOJ condemns Indonesia
    International Issues:
  • EC presidency draws attention to ill treatment in East Timor
  • EC foreign ministers reply to question
    Translation of a letter from Bishop Belo, Apostolic Administrator of Dili (Jun 27, 1989) to D. Manual Martins, Bishop of Setubal, Portugal
    A tourist’s observation of recent demonstrations in Dili (Feb 17, 1990)

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-04

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Aftermath of Jan 17 demonstrations
  • Visits to East Timor by Moerdani and Prabowo
  • Resistance Military actions
  • Bishop Belo’s Christmas letter
  • January edition of “Neon Metin”
  • Deaths and disappearances
  • FRETELIN Australia rejects secretariat proposals
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Trade with Indonesia has increased since invasion of East Timor
  • Negotiations on visit by Portuguese parliamentarians continue
  • Portuguese communities support Timorese people
    International Issues:
  • Papal Nuncio refuses to take 1025 letters for Bishop Belo
  • EEC/PCA meeting defers debate on Timor
  • Australia – East Timor consultation and establishment of East Timor foundation
  • Questions to the European parliament
    Press release by Catholic Institute for International Relations on East Timor solidarity groups and the national resistance (Mar 11, 1990)

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-05

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Xanana favor Portuguese visit
  • Resistance military activity
  • Red cross visits prisoners in East Timor
  • Livestock epidemic in Los Palos
  • Figures for Timorese emigration
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Pope ignored East Timor during presidential visit
    International Issues:
  • “East Timor, Land of Hope” – Seminar at the Universityt of Oporto
  • Update on events at ACP-EEC assembly in March

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-06

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Intensification of Indonesian military activity
  • Pressure of Timorese students in Bali
  • Problems at hospitals
  • Mysterious killings reported
  • Increased restrictions on freedom of movement
  • Asia watch report
  • US sate department report
  • Dili seminar postponed
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Question of parliamentary visit still unresolved
  • Portugal and Indonesia elected to UN human rights commission
    International Issues:
  • UN decolonization committee regards Timor Gap agreement as illegal
  • Cambridge specialists question validity of Timor Gap agreement
  • Council of Europe resolution condemns Indonesian occupation of East Timor
  • US interest in air base in East Timor
  • Criticisms of US position
    Appendix:
  • List of participants at Oporto seminar
  • Extracts from US state department 1989 annual report on human rights

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-07

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Human rights abuses in Viqueque region
  • Guerilla activity
  • Detentions and disappearances
  • Pressure on St. José School
  • Timorese students in Bali
  • Economic and social conditions in East Timor
  • New Timorese student resistance magazine
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Portuguese parliamentary visit to East Timor
  • Plan to appoint an East Timor High Commissioner
  • Indonesian ship in Lisbon
    International Issues:
  • Australia – Timor Gap treaty ratified but legal problems worry oil companies
  • Timorese demonstrations sentenced in Australia
  • Assessment of authenticity of Moerdani taoe
  • Socialist international resolution on East Timor
  • Guerilla military actions against Indonesian forces since Jan to May 1990

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-08

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Demonstration during anniversary mass
  • Tensions between Timorese priests and their bishop
  • Bishop Belo visits Rome
  • Death of US journalist denied
  • Reconciliation between Ramos-Horta and FRETILIN
  • Rift within UDT leadership
  • Social conditions within East Timor
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • UN mission to East Timor
  • Cavaco Silva UN address
  • Cavaco Silva visits Japan
    International Issues:
  • “The twelve” harden the EEC position on Timor at the UN
  • EEC-ACP assembly takes first step towards recognition of East Timor
  • Council of Europe decides to prepare report on East Timor
    Address by Portuguese Prime Minister, Cavavo Silva to the UN General Assembly (Sep 26, 1990)
    Compromise resolution on the situation in east Timor replacing resolutions 94, 106, 116, and 140 (Sep 26, 1990)
    Progress report of the Secretary-General, United Nations General Assembly (Sept 17, 1990)
    Reports of recent conflict in Dili, East Timor, Australian Coicil for Overseas Aid (Oct 22, 1990)

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-08

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • FRETILIN flags fly in Dali
  • Street fights in Dili at night
  • Human rights violations
  • Youth and student groups in East Timor
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Solidarity groups protest at governments “passivity”
  • Parliamentary mission
    International Issues:
  • Phillip Flood visits East Timor
  • Pax Christi International calls for UN visit
  • US senator concerns
    Indonesia:
  • Indonesia planning diplomatic confrontation at the UN

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1990-10

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Disturbances in Dili
  • Interview with Xanana
  • Military actions
  • Governor speaks out
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Update on UN visit to East Timor
    International Issues:
  • International media attention
    Indonesia:
  • Benefits of Timor Gap Treaty questioned
  • Ali Alatas hits out at Portugal
    “Aust playing dirty, says rebel leader” Sydney Morning Herald (25/10/90)
    Extracts from “First contact: an Australian visits Shanana’s camp”

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1991-07

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • New land regulations – “the second invasion”
  • Visit preparations: bogus guerillas
  • Civilian repression – appeal for increased red cross presence
  • Pressure on Xanana’s family
  • Amnesty condemns executions in East Timor
  • Photographs of prisoners
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Parliamentary visit one step nearer
  • Solidarity groups criticize EEC-ASEAN declaration
  • Portuguese intellectuals call for support for Timorese resistance
  • CDPM appeals to Dutch on Timorese rights
    International Issues:
  • UK military contract with Indonesia
  • Japanese parliamentarians visit put off
  • Australia aid to East Timor
  • Australian labor party criticized for position in East Timor
  • International federation for East Timor gets UN associate status
  • UN referendum plan for West Sahara – precedent for East Timor?
    Appendix
  • Excerpts from Portuguese Government on visit to East Timor
  • Projection for the Portuguese unilateral interpretive stamen

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1991-10

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Visit preparations
  • Timorese workers protests against job conditions
  • Military activity
  • Romas-Horta nominated spokesperson
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Agreement for visit in Nov
  • EEC reaffirms its position at the UN General Assembly
    International Issues
  • European Parliament calls for Indonesian arms sales embargo
  • Oil firms keen to explore Timor oil fields

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo 1991-11

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Troops storm Motael Church
  • “Panic and terror” – Australian visitors
  • Military ordered “purge of FRETILIN”
  • Bishop’s fears of bloodbath
  • Guerilla surrender report denied
  • Abilio Arujo “proposal for a solution”
  • UDT Rift
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • PPD visit cancelation
    International Issues:
  • Bishops appeal to de Cuellar

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo, 1989-01

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Detentions
  • Bishop Belo
  • Changes in structure of Indonesian military
  • Jose Ramos-Horta proposes a Timor secretariat
  • Documents received
    Administrating Power: Portugal
  • Portugal protests against Indonesia-Australia treaty on Timor sea off-shore oil
  • Portugal considers recourse to The Hague
  • Australian international law expert recommends Portugal takes case to Hague
  • University students show solidarity with people of Timor
  • Timorese priest describes situation of a Timorese in Portugal
    International Issues:
  • Australia and Indonesia agree on terms of Timor Gap Treaty
  • Protests to Australian embassy
  • US members of congress write to secretary of states
  • EC statements on Timor question
  • Statement from African Portuguese speaking countries on East Timor
  • MEPs protests to the EEC
    Dec 20, 1989
  • Political/ strategic importance of the Treaty for Indonesia
  • East Timor’s legitimate claim
  • Campaign strategy
  • Campaign against the Timor Gap Treaty
  • Australian recognition of annexation
  • A potentially lucrative deposit
  • Australian parliament and the treaty

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Monthly Memo, Portugal

Title: Monthly Memo
East Timor:

  • Xanana radio interview
  • “Press for UN investigation” by Xanana solidarity groups
  • More shootings
  • Repression in rural areas
  • Interview with Fr Ricardo
  • Student prisoners transferred to Jakarta
  • Documents received

Administrating Power: Portugal

  • Three-point government strategy rules out direct aid to armed resistance
  • “Lusitania Express” to sail to Dili
  • “Peace is possible” booklet on massacre

International Issues:

  • Initial reactions to Commissions report
  • Vanuatu in UNGA: “Murder!”
  • Canada cuts aid
  • “East Timor embassy” opened in Canberra

Indonesia:

  • Preliminary report of Investigation Commission
  • Yogyakarta students outspoken statement

Appendix: A Message to all East Timor Solidarity Groups Throughout the World, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao (commander of FALINTIL)

Appendix II: Preliminary report: National Commission of Enquiry Incident of 12 November 1991, Dili – Extracts (Jakarta, Dec 26, 91)

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Subject Memo 1990-06

Title: The Pressures on Bishop Belo
Sources: The international press and sources within East Timor. “A Paz é Possivel em Timor Leste”

  • The Bishop’s Christmas Pastoral letter
  • Missionaries prevented from entering East Timor
  • Following the Pope’s visit
  • Telephone interview with Bishop Belo by journalist from Lisbon newspaper “Publico”

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor News Urgent Communique 1991-12

Title: Urgent Communique: Massacre at Santa Cruz cemetery

  • Events on Tuesday 12 November
  • Later events in the city of Dili and in other areas
  • Fresh shootings
  • Indonesian statements
  • Witnesses contradict Jakarta’s claims
    International reaction:
  • East Timor
  • United Nations
  • Portugal
  • Holland
  • Britain
  • USA
  • Australia
  • Japan
  • Indonesia

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

East Timor Report

No. 5 November 1983 - Jakarta's New Offensive

Contents:

  • Red Cross aid blocked at critical time
  • New army chief is a hardliner on Timor
  • UN defers Timor vote
  • Minister to Review Timor admissions policy

Australian Council for Overseas Aid

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