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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

FUNU

FUNU - Boletim da Comissão para os Direitos do Povo Maubere (Bulletin of the Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People)
No. 12 - August 1985

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)

Letter Bishop Dom Carlos Filipe Ximenes (Administrator Apostolic of Dili) - Secretary General of UN 1989-02-06

Letter sent by Bishop Dom Carlos Felipe to the Secretary General of the UN to emphasize that the process of decolonization of East Timor is not yet concluded and cannot be left in oblivion. It calls for UN support by promoting a referendum in the country and reflects on the human rights situation.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Letter Bishop Dom Carlos Filipe Xiemenes 1989-03-12

Official title: Comentario a carta ao Secretario Geral das Nacoes Unidas de 6 de Fevereiro de 1989
Contents: Open letter to the population of East Timor clarifying that the previous letter sent to the Secretary General of the UN is not a letter in opposition to anyone, nor in favor of anyone, and is just the position of the Catholic Church in appealing to a neutral international organization to propose a referendum. The letter is not against Indonesia, nor against FRETILIN, nor against Portugal; it is simply a denouncement of economic interests overlapping the essential rights of the people.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Letter Virgilio dos Anjos - Capitan Stevenson 1984-03

Letter by Virgilio dos Anjos communicating the death of his father to Capitan Stevenson, an old friend of him. The death was a reprisal to the resistance movement and its last actions. It also exposes the relation between the Timor resistance movement and the Australian guerilla, punctuating, with details, persecutions and censure his family needed to deal with. It finishes asking to Capitan Stevenson to join the mobilization of Australia public opinion in favor of Timorese struggle.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

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 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)

Letter Bishops of Indonesia-Bishop Dom Carlos Felipe, priest, brothers and sisters from Dili 1983-11-17

Official title: Letter from the Bishop’s Conference of Indonesia
Contents: Letter from the Bishop of Indonesia to Dom Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, Priests, Brothers and Sisters of the diocese of Dili expressing his compassion, solidarity and friendship regarding the suffering of Timorese people and explaining that this compassion should not be seen as a support to any movement of any sides involved on the conflict, since the Indonesian Catholic Church cannot express a political position. The Indonesian Church offers to do their best to relieve the people of East Timor from suffering, which in practice meant: giving special attention to the education of children and youth in the Diocese of Dili by the revitalization of schools; sending medicine for the sick and wounded; providing tools and equipment to workmen, etc.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Other Voz de Maubere 1987-04-10

Official title: LPPS burla a Igreja de Dili-Timor Leste por varios anos
Contents: Document exposing the multiple narratives of a problem regarding the money addressed to humanitarian aid for East Timor, involving the Dili Dioceses, LPPS, and the Indonesian Church, and asking to spread this embarrassing scandal to make the world aware.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Letter Bishop M da Silva Martins-Unidentified 07-17

Letter from Bishop Silva Martins to an unidentified bishop regarding religious issues involved in the East Timor conflict.
Main topics: the inequality between the dioceses; his personal plea to the United Nations to defend Timorese rights against Indonesia; his plea for Bishops all over the world to write letters addressed to the UN in an effort to create pressure; his nomination by the Portuguese people as a Commissary to East Timor issues; etc.

Peace is Possible in Timor Leste Association (Portugal)

Open Letter CDPM – US Ambassador to the United Nations 2000

Open letter by CDPM to the US Ambassador of Human Rights thanking him for the support he had been giving to East Timor issues, specially concerning refugees, and reminding him that, 12 weeks after his declaration, "things need to change in the refugee camps or it would be obvious that the wrong people were still in power.” CDPM asks the ambassador to take all the steps possible, in partnership with the international community, to ensure that the dividing line between justice and impunity was made absolutely clear. CDPM welcomed the pressure to bring about Indonesian military reform that the US was applying to the Indonesian Army. Finally, CDPM appealed to the US to use its influence with the UN and international financial system to speed up the process of releasing funds and getting reconstruction underway.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Letter Luisa Teotônio Perreira (CDPM) – President of the Republic of Portugal 1999-04-19

Letter by Luisa Teotônio, CDPM, to the President of Portugal expressing deep concerns about Indonesian strategy in this difficult phase of the conflict. Regarding international negotiations, the letter states that either the process is a way to gain time in the international arena, guaranteeing the economic support to Jakarta and the dispersal of the international community, or there is a part of the regime that has no control over the other part of the regime, and in this case, the uncontrolled part of the regime keeps devastating Timorese lives. Jakarta has not accomplished what it promised internationally and the international value of compromise has not been the same for all the parts involved in the conflict. There is a deep concern by CDPM that Indonesian short term strategy is to avoid the signature of the deal that will open up space for a UN presence at East Timor, and in the long term, Indonesia's goal is to reaffirm the integration of East Timor. The letter accuses Portugal and the international community of being responsible for the chosen strategy of underestimating the situation, and now the issue is becoming uncontrollable and both Portugal and the international community have the responsibility of upholding the Timorese right to self-determination. The presence of the UN is indispensable, but CDPM also requests a military force with an international mandate to support the Timorese struggle, and Portugal should financially support this, as well as propose sanctions to press for change in this critical phase.

Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM)

Letter CDPM/APPL - Madeline Albright (Secretary of State of United States of America) 1999-03-03

Letter from CDPM and APPL to the US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, appealing to the US Administration to exercise its influence on the Indonesian Government in order that it immediately halt its policy of arming civilians in the territory, and that it proceed to disarm them without delay, under international supervision. It also exposes the wish of the Timorese resistance movement to build a climate of reconciliation among all parties involved in the conflict.

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)

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