A distinctive, identifiable set of 'Santa Cruz'-labelled folders in the ACFOA Human Rights collection. Predominantly public and private reportage on the massacre event and its aftermath and records of Australian and international activist organisational responses.
A wide variety of Australian and international individual and organisational responses to the massacre – especially in the days following the events in Dili.
Organisational correspondence on an Australian parliamentarians joint-letter addressed to President Bush during his early 1992 Australian visit. Also includes correspondence concerning possible US Congressional letters directed to the Indonesian Government.
Organisational correspondence seeking signatures from 150 prominent Australian for a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans concerning his proposed Indonesia visit, 19 December 1991
Commentary, statements and correspondence. Include4s material from International Commission of Jurists, Helen Todd (mother of Kamal Bamadhaj), ACFOA, Community Aid Abroad, CDPM, Asia Watch, Bishop Belo, Australian Catholic Relief.
Initial Amnesty International reports and media releases on Santa Cruz massacre. Folder also includes the extensive AI report to the August 1991 UN Decolonization Committee on pre-massacre-period human rights violations.
Statements from the Indonesian Human Rights Forum, Berita Timur Timor, Amnesty International and Bob Muntz. Also includes the 1990 court testimony of Bambang Beathors Suryadi.