A photograph with the description: “Mid 1975. FRETILIN students and Portuguese sympathizers express their concern about the APODETI influence on UDT. This picture was taken several months before the Indonesian invasion.” with a translation in Esperanto. The photographer was Francisco Freire.
Another photograph with the same description as above, but the photo is more zoomed in than the previous one.
A photograph entitled “Oecusse March 1975” by Helen Hill. It is a photo of the protest with a sign that reads: “Integration-never never and never the People is with Fretilin”
A photograph entitled: “Refugees from East Timor crowd the deck of the cargo vessel Macdili docked in Darwin on 15 August 1975. Courtesy National Archives of Australia”
Press statement entitled: “Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor” published on September 16th, 1975 | 4 pages (Some pages are blurry)
A booklet published by the Campaign for Independent East Timor entitled: ‘Independence or Death!’ East Timor’s border war eye-witness reports by Roger East. | 12 pages
A document entitled: “Don’t forget Timor” with the headline, “We appeal to the Australian people. Please do something to stop this invasion.” (1975) | 2 pages.
“Messages received by Bill Roberts via Telecom Darwin” September 1975 | 2 pages.
A document entitled: “The Timor Tragedy”, the documents are a little blurry but still legible | 2 pages
“Ballad for East Timor” by Phil Boyce, which is a song written about East Timor.
A newspaper article entitled: “Indonesia Attacks” published in The Age, November 1975
Various documents that include memorandums, letters and documents written in 1975.
Item list: This item includes:
Letter to the Support groups and fraternal organizations from the New York Information Office (Sue Nichterlein - República Democrática de Timor Leste) (27.02.1990) | 2 pp.
Statement by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for External Relations and Information of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor. (13.12.1975) | 3 pp.
Statement by Jose Ramos Horta, Minister for External Relations and Information of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor (20.12.1975) | 2 pp.
Letter to the Editor of The New York Times from Richard W. Franke, Member of the Timor Defense Committee, (26.12.1975)
Pacific News Service: “East Timor’s Cry for Help” by Robin Osborne (1975) | 4 pp.
Congressional Record - December 12th, 1975 | 4 pp.
Letter to Jacqui Chagnon from John Taylor, British Campaign for an Independent East Timor, (28.02.1976)
A resolution signed by embers of parliament (110 M.P.s signed) (09.12.1975)
Letter to. Jacqui Chagnon from Lenny Siegel, Pacific Studies Center, (02.02.1976)
Press Release - Timor Defense Committee Formed, created by the Timor Defense Committee (22.12.1975)
Letter to Mr. Mark Letter, Citizens’ Commission of Enquiry, from Sue Nichterlein (22.01.1977)
Letter to Ms. Jacqui Chagnon from Sue Nichterlein (22.01.1977)
Letter to Donald M. Fraser, Committee on International Relations, from Mr. Ken Fry (24.02.1977) | 2 pp.
Letter to Ms. Sue Nichterlein from Donald M. Fraser (22.02.1977)
Letter to Sue Nichterlein, New York Information Office, from Noam Chomsky (29.11.1976)
Letter to the East Timor News Agency from Jacqui Chagnon (03.03.1977)
Letter to Dennis and ETNA from Jacqui Chagnon (22.07.1977)
Visit of Jose Ramos Horta to Washington, D.C. - itinerary | 2 pp.
Letter to Ms. Susanne Nichterlein from John P. Salzberg, Special Consultant subcommittee on International Organizations (03.11.1976)
Letter to Jacqui Chagnon from Sue Nichterliein (05.10.1976)
Letter to Mr. Ernest DeMaid, Permanent Representative of WFTU to UN, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Matt Witt, Editor of the UMW Journal, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Leon David & Mr. Mo Falner, Hospital Workers Union, Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to James Lerner, Managing Editor of EK News, from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Harry Bridges from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976)
Letter to Mr. Boris H. Block from Jacqui Chagnon (07.04.1976) Letter to John Salsberg from Louis Wolf (17.03.1977)
A photograph entitled “Australia” with the description, “1976 Stanislau da Silva and an Australian supporter operating the clandestine radio link between Australia and Fretilin forces in East Timor” Courtesy of the da Silva family.
Two photographs. The first entitled “Moluccan hunger strike (Amsterdam, Netherlands)” with the description, “12 August 1976 Moluccans in The Netherlands on hunger strike in front of the church Westerkerk in Amsterdam to draw attention to the situation in East Timor. The activists are organized under the name Vrje Zuid-Molukse Jongeren (Free South Moluccan Youths) in Lunteren-Ede, The Netherlands. Photographer: Croes. The second is entitled “Moluccan hunger strike (Amsterdam, Netherlands)” with the description, “the activists had posted pictures of Mari Alkadiri, Nicolau Lobarto and Rosa Muki Bonaparte.
Newspaper article entitled “Four men facing firearms export charges” published in The News. September 17, 1976.
A page of six photographs taken in Australia in 1976. Two are graffiti on walls that say ‘Viva FRETILIN’ & ‘Independence for East Timor’. The other four are of various people photographed. The photos are a little blurry.
Another page of six photographs taken in Australia in 1976. The photos are all taken on the streets in some kind of protest or stand off.
Document entitled, “The Timor Story” by Helen Hill with the header, ‘Demand a public inquiry into the deaths of the six Australian Newsmen!’ 1976 | 2 pages.
A photograph taken in 1977 Darwin, Australia: Laurentino Pices & Rob Wesley-Smith, Radio Maubere. The photo is taken by Brian Manning.
A document entitled, “Offensive Fails” East Timor News, No. 3, March 24, 1977.
A document entitled, “Inside Occupied Dili” East Timor News, No. 3, March 24, 1977. | 2 pages.
A document written by William J. Armstrong, National Coordinator of the action for world development. The report gives a detailed account of the attempts made to reunite East Timorese families separated by a civil war in, and an Indonesian Government invasion of East Timor in 1975. (1977) | 2 pages.
A document entitled, “East timor: Refugees and Family Reunion.” The contents are The Current situation in East Timor, The origins of East Timorese refugees, Family Reunification (the context, first attempts at reunification, Australian/Indonesian negotiations on reunions, May 1977 - May 1978: no progress, recent developments), Sources and Footnotes. | 16 pages.
Report on talks with Timorese refugees in Portugal - The East Timorese Situation | 17 pages
