Closing speeches of heads of delegations • Sadar M. Naim, Afghanistan • U Nu, Burma • Chou En-lai, China • Gamal Adbel Nasser, Egypt • Jawaharlal Nehru, India • Sunario, Indonesia • Jalal Abdoh, Iran • Mohammad Fadhil Jamali, Iraq • Tatsunosuke Takasaki, Japan • Katay D. Sasorith, Laos • Sami Solh, Lebanon • Momolu Dukuly, Liberia • Mohammed Ali, Pakistan • Carlos P. Romulo, Phillipines • Sayed Ismail El Azhari, Sudan • Khaled El Azm, Syria • Fatin Rustu Zorlu, Turkey • Pham Van Dong, Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam • Nguyen Van Thoai, State of Viet-Nam
Joint statement by the premiers of Indonesia and China
The state visits of Egypt and the people’s republic of China
Treaty of friendship between Indonesia and Afghanistan
Some important section of addresses of Heads of delegations • Sardar Mohammad Naim, Afghanistan • Sayed Ismail El Azhari, Sudan • Prince Wan, Thailand • Fatin Rustu Zorlu, Turkey • Nguyen Van Thoai, State of Vietnam
Various documents ranging from photographs, flyers, posters from protests, flags, drawings, letters, pamphlets or publication made in regards to Timor Leste (East Timor). Most the these documents were created by different solidarity groups.
This collection gathers a sample of records from Australians for a Free East Timor and associated groups based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Photographs were taken of documents retained by Robert Wesley-Smith, a longtime Darwin activist. This is a partial selection only, and has not been categorized by file or topic.
This item contains press releases, letters, newspaper articles published between 1974 to 1994.
It contains:
Letter to the editor of The Sun Terra from Robert Wesley-Smith, Darwin/World, (01/05/1984)
Notes by Robert Wesley Smith on organisation of Timor rally Darwin (12/11/1993)
Handwritten letter to Robert Wesley-Smith from Bruno Kahn
Article written by Robert Wesley-Smith (spokesperson for AFFET) about the series of public demonstrations held by the Liberal Party (11/1991)
“Why Target Paul Keating? East Timor Week” A flyer published by the East Timor Action Group in Darwin. (August 15th-21st 1994)
Press release: “Darwin Supporters for a Free East Timor” written by Robert Wesley-Smith (24/12/1992) | 2 pp.
“Statement by Bill Hayden, MP” Leader of the Opposition, (20/01/1978)
Letter to the Editor of the New Idea from Robert Wesley-Smith, Darwin (28/03/1994)
“The integrity of Ramos Horta needs to be doubted” by Wendy Holland (06/06/1995) | 5 p.
Fax with the attention for the Editors from Georgie Brown and Barbara Jamen (04.06.1993)
“I killed more than 10 people” Confessions of a Spy in New Idea (26/03/1994) | 4 p.
Letter to Mr. Robert Wesley-Smith, East Timor action Committee, from Grant Tambling, Senator for the Northern Territory (11/11/1992) | 2 pp.
Extract from the Weekly Senate Hansard, Parliamentary Database, “Matter of Urgency, East Timor”, (26/11/1991) | 4 p.
“Repressive regime in East Timor” in reply to Peter Hastings’ article, (27/04/1987)
Email from Charles Soheiner about “The Keating visit to Jakarta, October 1993”
Press Release: “More Indonesian Blackmail in. Darwin, like in Manila” written by Robert Wesley-Smith, Australians for a Free East Timor, (13/06/1994)
“Don’t undersell the extent of the East Timor Tragedy” (15/02/1994)
Press Release: “What a week it is in Darwin” written by Robert Wesley-Smith, Australians for a Free East timor (27/10/1993)
Press Release: “Timor causing Wooly thinking and Secret Government Deals” written by Robert Wesley-Smith, Australians for a Free East Timor (01/11/1993)
Press Release: “Is the NT becoming a Police State” written by the Australians for a Free Eat Timor (27/06/1993)
Public Statement: “Release of Political Prisoners in East Timor” written by Peter Wesley-Smith, Professor of Law and Dean at the University of Hong Kong (08/08/1993)
Press release: “NT Govt could really help East Timor medical needs now” written by Robert Wesley-Smith, Australians for a Free East Timor (04/07/1994) | 2 p.
Speech at Darwin rally 2nd anniversary of Dili Massacre by Rob Wesley-Smith (12/11/1993) | 2 p.
Letter to President Suharto, President of Indonesia from East Timor Supporters, Darwin (06/1994) | 2 p.
Press Release: “Rally to Free Pro-Democracy Political Prisoners in Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua” written by Darwin Supporters for Democracy in Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua (1994)
“One year of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights” (1994) | 2 p.
Letter to the Senior Presidente da Comissão Eventuel de Assembleia da republica para accepandanento da situação en Timor Leste from Jose Xanana Gusmão (no date) | in Portuguese
Speech given by Reza Muharam an Indonesian student who was a part of the Peace Mission to East Timor (no date)
Letter to Mr. Jose Manuel Ramos Horta from Adam Malik (17/06/1974)
A pamphlet of Xanana Gusmao, “Free Xanana - Free East Timor Campaign” (1992) | 3 p.
A drawing of two men: one holding a sign that says protesting and the sentence of 12 years and the other man is a soldier with the writing killing with the sentence of 17 months. The tag line says ‘Free East Timor’. On the back of the drawing, it has Xanana Gusmao’s biography. | 2 p.
‘Free Xanana! Free East Timor! Boycott Bali!’ written by East Timor Action Group in Darwin (1992) | 2 pp.
Press Release: “Welcome to visitors from nearby” written by Jose Gusmao, Goncalo Pinto & Rob Wesley-Smith (22/06/1993)
Press Release: ‘Labor moves Timor motion in Assembly’ written by John Bailey, Deputy Opposition Leader (14/11/1991)
‘Free Xanana Free East Timor’ written by East Timor Action Committee (05/1993) | 2 pp.
Minutes of ETRA meeting on the 5th of January 1994
Press Release: “Evidence Accumulates against Indonesian brutality East Timor” written by Australians for a Free East Timor (05/02/1994) | 3 p.
Press Release: “Demonstrations” written by Rob Wesley-Smith, Australians for a Free East Timor (11/03/1993)
Letter to Senator the Hon. Gareth Evans, Minister for Foreign Affairs from Warren Snowdon, Member for the Northern Territory. (26/11/1992) | 2 pp.
Photojournalist Elaine Briere was travelling the Southeast Asian “hippy trail” in 1974, a trip that brought her among other places to pre-invasion East Timor. She fell in love with the country. After its invasion, she found she had some of the very few high-quality images of pre-invasion East Timor. She shared them with solidarity groups around the world. Especially in Canadian activism, they became iconic. Some have even found their way back to independent Timor-Leste.