This item contains:

• Atrocities in East Timor have been forgotten (25.01.1994) Asbury Park Press
• Congressional Record - March 2nd, 1994
• East Timor’s past won’t stay buried (23.04.1994) The Economist | 2 pp.
• Ending the agony of East Timor (11.05.1994) The Boston Globe
• Timorous on Timor (24.05.1994) The New York Times
• Australia doesn’t wink at East Timor abuses (08.06.1994) The New York Times
• Cartoon from The Guardian (07.06.1994)
• Human Rights Retreat (07.07.1994) The Washington Post
• Gentle about genocide (11.07.1994) The Boston Globe
• Press Freedom, Indonesian Style (13.08.1994) The New York Times
• A Clinton mission in Jakarta (12.11.1994) The Boston Globe
• End Indonesia’s Imperialist rule (13.11.1994) The New York Times
• A word for Justice at Indonesia’s Trade Summit (13.11.1994) Los Angeles Times
• Atrocities are bad for business (13.11.1994) The Washington Post
• Photo in the Herald International Tribune (14.11.1994)
• East Timor protests embarrass Indonesia (14.11.1994) Financial Times
• Indonesia’s embarrassment (15.11.1994) The New York Times
• Indonesia’s pebble (17.11.1994) The Wall Street Journal
• Roman Catholic Bishop denounces repression in East Timor (22.11.1994) The New York Times
• Rights and wrongs in Indonesia (25.11.1994) The Boston Globe
• Timorese worry world will now forget (28.11.1994) The New York Times

Ten Days in East timor and the case for talks
by David Scott, AO
"Poland, Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, the States of the Soviet Union, Namibia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Western Sahara, South Africa, the Middle East, now Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Bougainville -- East Timor... if not now, when?"

East Timor Talks Campaign

This document contains twenty-one separate documents.

1. A photograph entitled, “ETAN’s Second National Steering Committee Meeting” 17 September 1994: The steering meeting clarified the organization’s structure, mission and objectives. It included participants from across the USA, Timor-Leste, Canada, Portugal, The UK, and The Netherlands.

2. A photograph entitled, “Training for Lobby Days - Amnesty International Office” Washington DC, USA. Beginning in 1994, ETAN brought grassroots activists from across the USA to Washington for “Lobby Days” every year. After a weekend of training and briefings (as in the photo), experienced and new citizen advocates spread out across the halls of Congress, meeting with staffers, Representatives and Senators in between 60 and 200 of the 535 Congressional offices. Many Congressional staffers came to see this as their annual opportunity to learn about Timor-Leste, and Lobby Days usually resulted in Congressional resolutions or joint letters to U.S. and Indonesian government officials. In addition, from 1992 through 1998, Congress gradually tightened restrictions on U.S. military training and weapons sales to the Indonesian military.

3. A photograph from 1994, Korea: Demonstration by Korea Human Rights Network in front of Indonesian Embassy. They heard of Timor from Progressio Korea local partners, and from meeting JRH at the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993.

4. Campaign for Release of Xanana. 1994. In Japanese. | 4 pages.

5. A photograph entitled, “Osaka, Japan” 1994: João Dias and Aviano Fana visit Japan to give testimony to the Santa Cruz Massacre and the 2nd Massacre.

6. Two photographs. The first one is entitled, “Nagoya, Japan” 1994: Liga Ximenes and Inosensia Neves, speaking tour in Nagoya. The second is entitled, “Tokyo, Japan” 1994: Constancio Pinto at a meeting in Tokyo, appealing for support to the East Timorese asylum seekers.

7. A photograph entitled, “Tokyo, Japan” 1994: Bishop Soma, 1st President of APCET, reports his trip to East Timor in Tokyo.

8. A photograph entitled, “Karlsruhe, Germany” 1994: José Amorim Dias and Renato Constantino Jr. at a demonstration against the EU-ASEAN meeting because the meeting is on economic ties and does not consider Human Rights and Self-determination.

9. A photograph entitled, “Karlsruhe, Germany” 1994: Access denied at EU-ASEAN meeting.

10. A photograph entitled, “The Netherlands - Indonesian Embassy” Moluccan Youths living in The Netherlands express their solidarity with the Timorese students that occupied the USA Embassy in Jakarta.

11. A page with two photographs. 1994 Sri Lanka: Police blocks demonstration from approaching the Indonesian Embassy.

12. A page with two photographs entitled, “The Philippines - Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor” 1994: The members of the panel discussion are Jean Inglis, the late Bishop Soma of Nagoya, Japan and RC Constantino. Journalists are surrounding the foreign participants of the conference as they marched to the venue. Under Indonesian pressure the Philippines government banned the conference and did not allow foreigners to attend.

13. Two newspaper articles. Manila, The Philippines, 1994: Newspaper clippings about Sri Lankan activists Freddy Gamage Abuhamy and Henry Fernando Warnakulasurys who were denied twice to access The Philippines to attend the Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor.

14. A photograph entitled, “Paris, France” December 1994: Dozens of people march in support of people who live at risk due to oppression. The demonstration aimed East Timor, Papua, Amazone Region and Mapuche People. Many organizations participated, such as: Agir pour Timor, Survival, Amnesty International, Tribal Act, Lycra and others.

15. A poem entitled, “Two Hundred Thousand Reasons” written by Purnama in Utrecht 1994.

16. A document entitled, “International protest during the APEC - November 1994” | 3 pages.

17. A flyer entitled, “East Timor, Its future in the Asia Pacific” for a Public education conference at the University of Technology, Harris St.Ultimo. June 21 - 24 1994.

18. A pamphlet about East Timor entirely in Japanese. | 2 pages.

19. A booklet entitled, “Travesty of Justice” by East Timor’s Political Prisoners. Published by Australia-East Timor Association. | 10 pages. It contains:

    • The prisoners - The proposal for talks
    • Imprisoned in Semarang - East Timor at a glance
    • Imprisoned in Kupang - Prison conditions
    • Jailed in Jakarta
    • What can you do

20. A document entitled, “An Abiding Concern: why Gough must come clean on East Timor” | 2 pages.

21. A document entitled, “East Timor: It’s time to talk” British Coalition for East Timor, February 1994.

Title: Clinton heads to Indonesia

• “Only the US can tilt the scales our way”
• ETAN steering committee meets
• Congress limits arms sales and military training for Indonesia (Charles Scheiner)
• Guerillas offer ceasefire; Indonesia threatens offensive
• General Sintong Pankjaitan loses$14 million lawsuit over death of non-Timorese killed in the Santa Cruz massacre
• Amnesty launches Indonesia/ East Timor rights campaign
• Indonesia meets the resistance
• All in the family: Music for East Timor
• Indonesian scholar exposes occupation’s impact (Mathew Jardine)

XANANA GUSMÃO COMMUNICATES FROM PRISON.................................................................................... 6
XANANA: THE EAST TIMORESE MYTH ............................................................................................................6
INDONESIA ALLOWS FAMILY VISIT TO TIMOR’S XANANA..............................................................................7
COMMENT FROM TAPOL: ..........................................................................................................................7
“SEND A MESSAGE TO XANANA” CAMPAIGN .................................................................................................7
XANANA FOR TIME’S MAN OF THE YEAR ........................................................................................................8
XANANA LEAK PROBED .................................................................................................................................8
XANANA LETTER TO THOSE WHO SENT HIM POSTCARDS .............................................................................8
TWO LETTERS FROM XANANA GUSMÃO WRITTEN TO SUPPORTERS IN THE UK........................................9
INDONESIA BARS RELATIVES AND RIGHTS GROUP FROM VISITING DISSIDENT LEADER ............................9
LETTER FROM XANANA GUSMÃO TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS ...............................10
JAILED TIMORESE REBEL LEADER OFFERS TO SERVE LONGER SENTENCE ................................................12
LETTER FROM XANANA TO PRESIDENT SUHARTO ......................................................................................12
INDONESIAN ACTIVIST HITS RESTRICTIONS ON JAILED REBEL .................................................................12
TIMOR LEADER MAKES JAIL PLEA ...............................................................................................................12
EAST TIMOR REBEL SAYS MISTREATED IN INDONESIAN JAIL.....................................................................13
XANANA GUSMÃO SAYS HE WAS TORTURED; TIMORESE REFUGEE SEEKS SANCTUARY (RTP)................13
XANANA: “I WAS TORTURED” (PUBLICO).................................................................................................13
EAST TIMOR LEADER PUNISHED .................................................................................................................14
XANANA’S LETTER IN THE MEDIA................................................................................................................14
LBH TO REPRESENT XANANA GUSMÃO ......................................................................................................14
XANANA DENIES PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY REQUEST, REPORT SAYS ..................................................15
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Volume 26: December 13, 1993 - February 15, 1994
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UN OFFICIALS TO VISIT GUSMÃO IN JAKARTA PRISON ...............................................................................15
XANANA GUSMÃO SENDS TAPED MESSAGE TO EAST TIMORESE RESISTANCE............................................16
XANANA GUSMÃO PRISON LETTER: COMPLAINS OF LIFE IN CAPTIVITY AND ABOUT HIS LAWYER .............18
XANANA LETTER STIRS CONTROVERSY IN JAKARTA...................................................................................18
BAN ON VISITS TO XANANA TO BE LIFTED ..................................................................................................19
JAKARTA SUSPENDS VISITATION RIGHTS FOR REBEL LEADER ...................................................................19
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEEK VISIT WITH JAILED REBEL LEADER.........................................................19
JAKARTA WILL NOT FREE GUSMÃO .............................................................................................................19
JAKARTA TO FREE REBEL FOR A PRICE .......................................................................................................20
XANANA’S RELEASE SHOULD NOT LET INDONESIA OFF THE HOOK.......................................................20
IPJET APPEALS FOR XANANA AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS .............................................................20
EAST TIMOR LEADER XANANA NOT TO BE MOVED TO ISLAND JAIL............................................................21
REBEL LEADER FACES EXILE .......................................................................................................................22
EUROPEAN UNION SHOULD DEMAND XANANA GUSMÃO’S UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE.............................22
THE REAL STORY BEHIND GUINEA’S PROPOSAL .........................................................................................23
INDONESIAN MP’S ALLOWED TO MEET XANANA.........................................................................................23
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE XANANA........................................................................23
OTHER TIMORESE POLITICAL PRISONERS............................................................................................... 23
TIMORESE FLAG RIPPER SENTENCED TO 22 MONTHS ...............................................................................23
RELEASE OF EAST TIMORESE STUDENTS NOT A “CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURE”................................23
LISBON ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS RELEASE.................................................................................................24
TIMES OF ANGER: THE SEVEN STUDENTS TELL FOREIGN MINISTER OF THEIR ORDEAL IN TIMOR .......24
INDONESIA DEFENDS MASSACRE SENTENCES...........................................................................................24
M. SOARES TO APPEAL TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL..................................................................................25
RODNEY LEWIS (ICJ AUSTRALIA) ON SENTENCING DISPARITIES ..............................................................25
SIX PRISONERS WANT TRIALS DECLARED INVALID....................................................................................26
TIMORESE POLITICAL PRISONERS’ LETTER TO THE INT’L COMMISSION OF JURISTS ............................26
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................................... 28
VOICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS..................................................................................................................28
HEALTH IN EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................................29
VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS OF EAST TIMOR ..................................................................................................32
ALLEGED EAST TIMOR REBEL SURRENDERS IN INDONESIA.......................................................................35
OFFICER JAILED FOR PROTECTING XANANA ..............................................................................................35
HORTA: TIMORESE USED AS HUMAN SHIELDS BY INDONESIAN MILITARY.................................................35
JAKARTA DENIES REPORTS OF EAST TIMOR EXECUTIONS.....................................................................36
ARMY SAYS TWO GUERRILLAS KILLED ........................................................................................................36
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 36
SDSB HUMAN RIGHTS PROTESTERS RELEASED ..........................................................................................36
DEMONSTRATORS BEATEN UP BY ARMY OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT BUILDING................................................37
ANOTHER GROUP OF STUDENTS PROTEST AT THE HOUSE, JAKARTA.....................................................37
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS RAMPANT IN IRIAN JAYA, SAYS ACTIVIST.....................................................38
MASSIVE SURABAYA STUDENT PROTEST .....................................................................................................38
TAPOL URGENT ACTION: RELEASE THE 22 STUDENTS!................................................................................38
TAPOL WRITES TO UK FOREIGN SECRETARY..........................................................................................39
ASIA WATCH CONDEMNS STUDENT ARRESTS IN JAKARTA....................................................................39
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION ON 22 INDONESIAN STUDENT ACTIVISTS ........................40
PROSECUTORS TO PROCEED AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS..........................................................................41
INDONESIA ASSURES INTERNATIONAL GROUPS ACCESS TO EAST TIMOR .................................................41
US CONGRESSMEN SECURE PROMISE OF EAST TIMOR INSPECTION FROM SUHARTO ..........................41
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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TEAMS TO VISIT PROVINCES ......................................................................41
ADNAN BUYUNG REFUSES TO MEET DUTCH PARLIAMENTARIANS ..............................................................42
RIGHTS ACTIVIST ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY INSULTING SUHARTO...........................................................42
GOVERNMENT LASHES OUT AT EAST TIMOR BISHOP ..................................................................................42
ALATAS: EAST TIMOR GROUPS CAUSE INDONESIAN IMAGE PROBLEM .......................................................42
RIGHTS WATCHDOG ADAMANT IT HAS TEETH.............................................................................................43
ADITJONDRO: JAKARTA’S CONTRADICTIONS .............................................................................................43
GEORGE ADITJONDRO THESIS ABSTRACT .............................................................................................44
THE DEFORESTING OF IRIAN JAYA ............................................................................................................44
MORE SBSI ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ...............................................................................................................46
INDONESIAN MILITARY RESTRUCTURING ................................................................................................ 46
KALBUADI HAUNTED BY CRIPPLES, WIDOWS FROM ET CAMPAIGN ............................................................46
THEO SYAFEI REPLACED .............................................................................................................................46
SUHARTO URGES MILITARY TO REMAIN ALERT..........................................................................................46
MANY ABRI OFFICERS TRANSFERRED .........................................................................................................46
SLIMMING DOWN BAIS <MERAMPINGKAN BADAN INTELIJENS STRATEGIS>..............................................47
TIMORESE EXTERNAL RESISTANCE ......................................................................................................... 48
HORTA’S RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF 1993 DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLE..............................................................48
TIMORESE LEADERS: MORE UNITED THAN EVER ........................................................................................49
ASAHI INTERVIEWS MARI ALKATIRI ............................................................................................................50
NEW CNRM BROCHURE...............................................................................................................................50
TIMORESE RESISTANCE REITERATES PROPOSAL FOR TALKS WITHOUT PRE-CONDITIONS ........................52
COLLABORATORS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................... 53
EAST TIMOR: GALVÃO DE MELO WITH ALATAS ............................................................................................53
SUHARTO’S DAUGHTER TO VISIT LISBON....................................................................................................53
VISIT BY PORTUGUESE OFFICIAL WILL GO AHEAD WITHOUT OBSTRUCTIONS............................................53
MBAK TUTUT INVITES EAST TIMORESE CITIZENS IN PORTUGAL .................................................................53
DURÃO BARROSO: “I AM NOT SAYING I WILL NEVER RECEIVE THEM...”.....................................................54
LETTER FROM MNSGR. BELO, BISHOP OF DILI............................................................................................54
MELO: FALL OF FRETILIN ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.....................................................................................54
INDONESIA-PORTUGAL: A THAW IN RELATIONS SOON?.............................................................................54
INTOLERABLE ..............................................................................................................................................55
PORTUGUESE CUSTOMS CLEAR INDONESIAN COTTON ..............................................................................55
MELO: EAST TIMOR CAN’T AFFORD INDEPENDEN CE...................................................................................56
BISHOP OF DILI WILL NOT RECEIVE GALVÃO..............................................................................................56
INDECENT PROPAGANDA............................................................................................................................56
INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA..............................................................................................................57
LONDON “RECONCILIATION” TALKS......................................................................................................... 57
INDONESIA-SPONSORED EAST TIMORESE ‘DIALOGUE’ IN LONDON ..........................................................57
MORE ON LONDON TALKS ..........................................................................................................................57
LONDON TALKS SHROUDED IN SECRECY..................................................................................................58
EAST TIMORESE HOLD SECRET TALKS IN LONDON ....................................................................................58
TIMORESE MEET IN LONDON (SPONSORED BY JAKARTA)...........................................................................59
MORE ON LONDON TALKS ..........................................................................................................................59
BISHOP BELO ON THE “CONCILIATION” TALKS IN LONDON .......................................................................59
LONDON TALKS UPDATE .............................................................................................................................60
ABILIO ARAUJO INTERVIEWED AT TALKS ....................................................................................................60
BACKGROUND ON TALKS PARTICIPANTS ....................................................................................................61
ALATAS: EAST TIMORESE SLANDER CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDONESIA ........................................................61
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ABILIO ARAUJO CAN GO TO INDONESIA....................................................................................................61
VOICES OF HOPE ... OR OF OPPRESSION....................................................................................................62
DIVISIONS CONCERN TIMORESE LEADERS ................................................................................................63
INDONESIA’S PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN.......................................................................................... 63
INDONESIA DFA ON CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................63
PORTUGUESE RESPONSE (A MONTH LATER)...........................................................................................64
INDONESIA LAUNCHES HUMAN RIGHTS PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN ...................................................65
DEATH OF A NATION APPROACHES RELEASE; SECOND MASSACRE ALLEGED...................................... 65
TV FILM ON EAST TIMOR NEXT MONTH .......................................................................................................65
TIMORESE RESPONSE ............................................................................................................................65
ETRA’S RESPONSE..................................................................................................................................65
KEATING’S RESPONSE............................................................................................................................66

• TV COVERAGE.......................................................................................................................................66
  ABC TV COVERAGE - DEATH OF A NATION ..............................................................................................66
  FORCED BIRTH CONTROL IN EAST TIMOR ..................................................................................................67
  DILI, THE BLOODY AFTERMATH (STAHL)......................................................................................................67
  STAHL IN THE SUNDAY TIMES ON TIMOR...............................................................................................68
  THE WEST’S DIRTY WINK (PILGER)..............................................................................................................68
  LETTERS TO THE GUARDIAN ...................................................................................................................73
  WOUNDED VICTIMS OF TIMOR CARNAGE MURDERED IN MILITARY HOSPITAL ..........................................73
  EAST TIMOR REVISITED...............................................................................................................................74
  JAKARTA DENIES DILI EXECUTIONS...........................................................................................................74
  INDONESIA SAYS EAST TIMOR MASSACRE REPORT IS FALSE .....................................................................74
  ECONOMIC AND LABOR ISSUES................................................................................................................ 75
  INFID’S PERCEPTION OF THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES ...................................................75
  THE INDONESIA TEST..................................................................................................................................75
  BENTSEN ARRIVES IN JAKARTA...................................................................................................................76
  BENTSEN CALLS INDONESIA TO FURTHER IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS ........................................................76
  PARLIAMENTARIANS MEET BOUTROS-GHALI .......................................................................................... 76
  PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR EAST TIMOR MEET WITH UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ...........................................76
  PARLIAMENTARIANS MEMORANDUM TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL............................................................77
  UN PRESS RELEASE ON PET PRESS CONFERENCE......................................................................................79
  LAWMAKERS ASK INDONESIA TO PULL TROOPS OUT OF EAST TIMOR ........................................................80
  VOICE OF AMERICA: EAST TIMOR APPEAL ...................................................................................................80
  UN MISSION’S TRAVELS ............................................................................................................................ 81
  NEW UN INITIATIVE EXPECTED SOON ........................................................................................................81
  MANUEL MACEDO RECEIVED BY U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY ...............................................................................81
  JOLLIFFE ON U.N. MISSION ........................................................................................................................82
  UN ENVOY IN EAST TIMOR TALKS ...............................................................................................................82
  UN OFFICIALS TO SEE GUSMÃO ..................................................................................................................83
  UN OFFICIALS MEET XANANA GUSMÃO ..................................................................................................83
  FRANCESC VENDRELL OF THE UN VISITS INDONESIA................................................................................83
  UN ENVOYS SEEK GREATER HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING IN EAST TIMOR ..............................................84
  UN ENVOY SEEKS TALKS .............................................................................................................................84
  JUDGMENT WITHHELD: UN ENVOY TO JAKARTA MEETS TIMORESE IN AUSTRALIA.....................................84
  OTHER U.N. ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................ 85
  UN BID TO SETTLE EAST TIMOR ROW..........................................................................................................85
  HORTA: BAR INDONESIA FROM UN SECURITY COUNCIL.............................................................................85
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  UN DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE MEETS .................................................................................................85
  EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 86
  REVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN MEDIA COMMENTARY ON EAST TIMOR................................................................86
  LETTER TO SUHARTO AT DARWIN DEMONSTRATION ..................................................................................89
  CHALLENGE TO TIMOR GAP PACT TO GO AHEAD ........................................................................................90
  TIMOR GAP LEGISLATION CHALLENGE FILED IN AUSTRALIA COURTS ........................................................90
  EAST TIMOR LEADER DEFENDS GAP ACCORD.............................................................................................90
  BISHOP BELO SEEKS A CONCRETE SOLUTION ............................................................................................91
  RESPOND TO RICHARD WOOLCOTT............................................................................................................91
  THE ANACHRONISM THAT REFUSED TO BE.................................................................................................92
  MAN FLEES TORTURE IN EAST TIMOR, SEEKS ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA ........................................................93
  XIMENES: ALATAS LIES...........................................................................................................................93
  ALATAS SAYS DISSIDENT’S ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE RIDICULOUS....................................................93
  THE INDONESIAN CONNECTION (WITH KEATING)......................................................................................94
  EAST TIMOR: THE PROBLEM PERSISTS........................................................................................................95
  HUMAN RIGHTS NOT MARGINAL PROCESS.................................................................................................95
  “PONTIUS KEATING AND JUDAS EVANS WASH THEIR HANDS WHILE TIMOR IS CRUCIFIED...” ..................96
  “EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES AGAINST INDONESIAN BRUTALITY EAST TIMOR” .............................................96
  KEATING URGED TO ACT AT UNHRC ..........................................................................................................97
  DARWIN WOMEN MEET ANITA KEATING .....................................................................................................98
  EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 98
  RECENT ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA..........................................................................................................98
  TAPOL PROTESTS AT EPIFA REPORT............................................................................................................98
  THREE MP’S ATTEND SWEDISH SEMINAR ...................................................................................................99
  24-HOUR IRISH XMAS FAST FOR EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................99
  DUTCH POLITICIANS TO MEET SUHARTO .................................................................................................. 100
  GERMAN WAR EQUIPMENT TO INDONESIA............................................................................................... 100
  NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINATIONS......................................................................................................... 100
  FINLAND TO SELL MORTARS TO INDONESIA............................................................................................. 100
  EURO MP’S ANGRY WITH PORTUGAL......................................................................................................... 101
  “FOUR MONTHS FOR EAST TIMOR” CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE....................................................................... 101
  EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................. 101
  HUNGER STRIKER IN PLANES PROTEST.................................................................................................... 101
  CALL TO ACTION AGAINST BRITISH AEROSPACE....................................................................................... 101
  UK-RI RELATIONS UNDER SCRUTINY........................................................................................................ 102
  AID AGREED BEFORE 500M JET ORDER................................................................................................ 103
  EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 103
  PORTUGAL REJECTS “EMBASSY” IN JAKARTA............................................................................................ 103
  PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FULL ACCOUNTING OF DILI MASSACRE ........................................ 103
  DURÃO BARROSO INTERVIEWED .............................................................................................................. 103
  (TIMORESE STUDENTS) TOGETHER FOR TIMOR ........................................................................................ 104
  DA CRUZ: PORTUGAL CHANGES MAY MAKE EAST TIMOR SETTLEMENT EASIER ........................................ 104
  TIMORESE REFUGEES STOPOVER IN LISBON ON ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA................................................... 104
  EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 105
  CANADA GRANTS EAST TIMOR Rp 250M .................................................................................................... 105
  ETAN/CANADA UPDATE # 29 ...................................................................................................................... 105
  CANADA’S AID / MORALITY DILEMMA ....................................................................................................... 106
  INTERNATIONAL WEEK - SEMINAR ON ET IN CALGARY ............................................................................ 106
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  EAST TIMOR RECOGNIZED AT THE (MODEL) U.N....................................................................................... 106
  EVENTS IN JAPAN.................................................................................................................................... 107
  JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARIANS WRITE BOUTROS-GHALI.......................................................................... 107
  JAPANESE CITIZENS GROUP PETITIONS JAKARTA-BOUND GOVERNMENT TEAM...................................... 107
  EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 109
  CALIFORNIA ECUMENICAL COUNCIL SUPPORTS TIMOR ........................................................................... 109
  TIMORESE MARTYR REMEMBERED IN SAN FRANCISCO........................................................................... 109
  CALL TO ACTION: EAST TIMOR BETRAYED AGAIN...................................................................................... 110
  U.S. STATE DEPARTMEN T 1993 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON INDONESIA................................................. 111
  U.S. STATE DEP’T RELEASES REPORT ON WORLDWIDE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES ................................ 121
  U.S. REPORT RAPS CHINA, INDONESIA................................................................................................ 122
  RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 122
  GEOFFREY GUNN’S BOOK AVAILABLE SOON ............................................................................................. 122
  EAST TIMOR RADIO DOCUMENTARY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD ..................................................... 123
  ANTARA KITA AVAILABLE............................................................................................................................ 123
  SEASIA_INFO, INDONESIA BRIEFING BOOKS AVAILABLE .......................................................................... 124
  NEW BOOK ON EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................... 124
  MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 124
  ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR IN MANILA MAY 31 - JUNE 4............................................... 124
  MANDELA CRITICISED ON EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................... 125

PRE-APEC BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................ 7
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE APEC REGION: 1994 ...............................................................................................7
AMNESTY SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON JAKARTA................................................................................................12
ON EVE OF ASIAN SUMMIT, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS ASSAIL ABUSES IN INDONESIA...............................12
CLINTON SET TO DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS ................................................................................................13
SUMMIT LIGHT SPILLS OVER ON TO EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................13
INDONESIA RIGHTS RECORD WATCH........................................................................................................14
INDONESIA RIGHTS ABUSE CITED .............................................................................................................15
CLINTON URGED TO PUT PRESSURE ON JAKARTA......................................................................................15
DISSENT JUST A RUMBLE AS SUHARTO BANGS APEC GONG.......................................................................16
JAKARTA UNEASY UNDER MEDIA GLARE.....................................................................................................16
COST OF CONFLICT: REPORT SAYS FUTURE GRIM FOR EAST TIMOR..........................................................17
AI: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CONTINUE THREE YEARS AFTER SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE......................17
SIT-IN AT U.S. EMBASSY IN JAKARTA ....................................................................................................... 18
EAST TIMORESE INVADE U.S. EMBASSY .....................................................................................................18
EAST TIMORESE WORKERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PETITION TO PRESIDENT CLINTON ......................................18
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TAPOL SUPPORTS EMBASSY OCCUPIERS....................................................................................................19
TIMORESE PROTESTERS SAY THEY WONT QUIT U.S. EMBASSY..................................................................19
AUSTRALIAN TV COVERAGE OF EMBASSY SIT-IN .........................................................................................20
VOA: TIMORESE DEMONSTRATE AT US EMBASSY........................................................................................20
TIMORESE BED DOWN AT EMBASSY............................................................................................................20
STUDENTS SETTLE DOWN FOR FIRST NIGHT ..............................................................................................20
DEMONSTRATORS STILL AT EMBASSY........................................................................................................21
EAST TIMORESE ACTIVISTS ASK TO MEET PRESIDENT CLINTON.................................................................21
CLINTON FACES RIGHTS SIDESHOW AT ASIAN PACIFIC SUMMIT ...............................................................21
EMBASSY FAILS TO CLEAR COMPOUND......................................................................................................22
‘WE LIVE LIKE IN HELL HERE – THE WHOLE OF EAST TIMOR IS JUST A JAIL’ ..............................................22
TWENTY-NINE TAKE REFUGE IN EMBASSY LOT..........................................................................................23
EAST TIMOR PROTESTS EMBARRASS INDONESIA........................................................................................23
TIMORESE IN U.S. EMBASSY “WANT ASYLUM IN LISBON” ...........................................................................23
RIGHTS PROTESTS UNDERCUT INDONESIA’S STANDING AT ASIA-PACIFI C FORUM....................................23
ASIA SUMMIT CLOUDED BY TENSIONS IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................24
TWENTY NINE EAST TIMOR YOUTHS REQUEST ASYLUM IN THE U.S...........................................................25
EMBASSY SIT-IN FORCES ISSUE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ..................................................................................25
U.S. JAKARTA EMBASSY PROTESTERS PONDER OPTIONS...........................................................................26
EAST TIMOR STANDOFF IN DILI AND JAKARTA ...........................................................................................26
TIMORESE PROTESTERS STILL HOLED UP ...................................................................................................26
INDONESIA SAYS TIMORESE FREE TO LEAVE COUNTRY .............................................................................26
EAST TIMOR PROTEST CONTINUES AT US EMBASSY....................................................................................27
US EMBASSY DISCUSSES ASYLUM WITH EAST TIMORESE..........................................................................27
UNWELCOME GUEST AT SUHARTO’S PARTY.................................................................................................27
TIMORESE REJECT ASYLUM.........................................................................................................................28
STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF INDONESIA.........................................................28
TIMOR’S OPPORTUNITY ...............................................................................................................................29
‘TO THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD’..................................................................................................................29
PROTESTER HOSPITALIZED.........................................................................................................................30
EAST TIMORESE EMBASSY PROTEST TO CLIMAX ON TUESDAY....................................................................30
EMBASSY TIMORESE OPT FOR PORTUGAL...................................................................................................30
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR APOLOGIZED .......................................................................................................31
EAST TIMORESE PROTESTERS LEAVE EMBASSY FOR EXILE.........................................................................31
ETAN/US PROTESTS U.S. GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY..................................................................................32
TWENTY-NINE IN EXILE AFTER PROTEST ENDS ..........................................................................................32
INDONESIAN “SPIES” ..................................................................................................................................32
AI: UPDATE ON 12 NOVEMBER PROTESTS ...................................................................................................33
LET EAST TIMORESE PROTESTORS EXPERIENCE EXILE: ALATAS.................................................................39
BBC INTERVIEW WITH EMBASSY PROTESTORS ...........................................................................................39
MANY ARRESTED IN JAKARTA................................................................................................................. 39
AI: FEAR OF TORTURE FOR DETAINED PROTESTORS...................................................................................39
CONCERN FOR FATE OF FORTY EAST TIMORESE.........................................................................................40
INFID LETTERS ON EAST TIMORESE STUDENTS DETENTION ......................................................................40
RELEASE STUDENTS, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP TELLS JAKARTA...................................................................41
AI: NOVEMBER 12 PROTESTERS IN DANGER OF TORTURE.........................................................................41
APEC ECONOMICS..................................................................................................................................... 44
APEC: WHAT’S AT STAKE IN JAKARTA MEETING?.........................................................................................44
VOA: APEC MINISTERS END TALKS.............................................................................................................45
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APEC: POLITICS GATECRASHING ON ECONOMIC SUMMIT..........................................................................46
ASIA-PACIFIC COUNTRIES NEAR AGREEMENT ON TRADE...........................................................................46
U.S. SIGNS DEALS AND PRESSES RIGHTS WITH INDONESIA......................................................................47
LEADERS AGREE ON FREE TRADE FOR THE PACIFIC...................................................................................47
HUMAN RIGHTS FORGOTTEN IN RACE FOR TRADE? ...................................................................................47
US AND INDONESIA ANNOUNCE $40 BILLION IN JOINT COMMERCIAL PROJECTS.....................................48
CHINA, INDONESIA DEFEND RECORD.......................................................................................................48
U.S. GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS ............................................................................................................. 49
PRE-APEC WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING............................................................................................................49
CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY.........................................................................................................................49
CLINTON LEAVES MANILA ...........................................................................................................................49
FREE TRADE MEETING FIGHTS SHY OF FREEDOM ......................................................................................50
CLINTON BILATERAL MEETINGS..................................................................................................................51
CLINTON NEWS CONFERENCE IN THE U.S. AMBASSADOR’S RESIDENCE...................................................51
CLINTON URGES GREATER FREEDOM FOR EAST TIMOR .............................................................................51
BACKGROUND BRIEFING ON PRESIDENT’S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT OF INDONESIA...........................52
CLINTON-SUHARTO BILATERAL MEETING ...................................................................................................55
SUHARTO, CLINTON DISCUSS EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................55
CLINTON WARNS SUHARTO ON RIGHTS .....................................................................................................56
VOA: CLINTON SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS LIMIT U.S.-INDONESIAN RELATIONS ...............................................56
CLINTON RIGHTS MESSAGE UNDERMINED ...............................................................................................56
CLINTON: BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ARE SEPARATE ISSUES.................................................................57
CLINTON ASSERTS HUMAN RIGHTS ...........................................................................................................57
VOA: U.S. PROMOTES INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ..................................................................................57
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 58
SPECIAL STATUTE FOR EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................................58
SALESIAN BISHOP IN THE FOREFRONT TO DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS .........................................................58
YOUTHS RAMPAGE IN DILI..........................................................................................................................59
BBC ON DILI AND JAKARTA EVENTS...........................................................................................................59
VOA: TIMORESE UNREST.............................................................................................................................60
FRETILIN SAYS VIOLENCE IN EAST TIMOR BIGGEST SINCE 1975 ..............................................................60
FOUR REPORTED KILLED IN DILI ...............................................................................................................60
TIMORESE RIOT AS APEC MEETS................................................................................................................60
PROTEST MARS START OF SUMMIT.............................................................................................................61
ARRESTS BEGIN ..........................................................................................................................................61
DOMINGOS SOARES INTERVIEWED BY BCET..............................................................................................62
SITUATION UPDATE .....................................................................................................................................62
VOA: TIMOR UNREST...................................................................................................................................62
UPDATE ON DILI & JAKARTA.......................................................................................................................63
RIOT-HIT EAST TIMOR CAPITAL RETURNING TO NORMAL...........................................................................63
EAST TIMOR PROTESTS UPDATE..................................................................................................................63
ARRESTS IN DILI .........................................................................................................................................64
EAST TIMOR CAPITAL HIT BY FRESH UNREST.............................................................................................65
ORDER RETURNS TO INDONESIA................................................................................................................67
TIMOR ‘NORMAL,’ ‘NOT PERFECT’...............................................................................................................68
UNIVERSITY FAILS TO OPEN........................................................................................................................68
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP CRITICIZES REPRESSION IN EAST TIMOR ......................................................68
TIMORESE WORRY WORLD WILL NOW FORGET THEM................................................................................69
VOA FROM EAST TIMOR: VOICES OF DISCONTEN T......................................................................................70
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LAND OF THE MAUHU..................................................................................................................................71
YEARNING FOR FREEDOM...........................................................................................................................71
INDONESIA TO PROSECUTE TIMORESE FOR ROLE IN RIOTS ....................................................................72
RENEWED CLASHES AT UNTIM...................................................................................................................72
POLICE CHIEF SAYS MORE TROUBLE LIKELY ..............................................................................................73
INDONESIA FAKES PRO-INDONESIA PROTEST IN DILI ...............................................................................73
ENFORCED “SHOW OF SUPPORT” AT GUNPOINT.........................................................................................73
EAST TIMOR POLICE ARREST FOUR DEMONSTRATORS ...............................................................................73
MAU HUNO ARRESTED ................................................................................................................................74
TIMOR UNREST ‘MASTERMIND’ ARRESTED..................................................................................................74
INDONESIA TO RELEASE EAST TIMOR DETAINEES......................................................................................74
XANANA ON THE JOB ................................................................................................................................ 75
XANANA’S STORY - WRITTEN BY HIMSELF..................................................................................................75
EAST TIMOR’S XANANA APPEALS TO CLINTON FOR HELP ...........................................................................80
TEXT OF XANANA LETTER TO CLINTON...................................................................................................81
U.S. TIMORESE LEADER APPEALS TO CLINTON FOR HELP......................................................................82
XANANA SENDS MESSAGE FROM PRISON...................................................................................................82
UN ENVOYS TO SEE XANANA.......................................................................................................................83
JOURNALISTS HARASSED IN INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR................................................................... 83
THE PRESS UNDER SIEGE: CENSORSHIP IN INDONESIA............................................................................83
I.F.J. CONDEMNS ABUSE OF MEDIA RIGHTS ..............................................................................................84
U.S. JOURNALISTS DETAINED WHILE TRYING TO ENTER EAST TIMOR .......................................................84
GOODMAN AND NAIRN EN ROUTE HOME AFTER VISITING EAST TIMOR.....................................................86
SUITED TO A Q&A........................................................................................................................................86
AUSTRALIAN TO BE DEPORTED FROM EAST TIMOR....................................................................................86
INDONESIA BARS FOREI GN REPORTERS IN EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................87
BRIEF OPEN WINDOW CLOSING .................................................................................................................88
JOURNALISTS EXPELLED FROM EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................88
FIFTH JOURNALIST EXPELLED FROM TIMOR...............................................................................................88
MEDIA-INDONESIA: CLOUDY FORECAST FOR PRESS FREEDOM .................................................................89
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 89
TIMORESE STUDENTS IN BALI SUFFER REPRISALS .....................................................................................89
INDONESIA JAILS LABOUR BOSS, U.S. EXPRESSES REGRET.....................................................................90
SENSITIVE INDONESIA CALLED IN THE P.R. EXPERTS...............................................................................91
INDONESIA’S MULTI -ETHNIC PRIDE ..........................................................................................................91
INDONESIAN ACTIVISTS FEAR POST-APEC CLAMPDOWN............................................................................92
EAST TIMOR STUDENTS IN BANDUNG PERSECUTED...................................................................................92
INDONESIAN PROGRESSIVES SUPPORT EAST TIMORESE...........................................................................92
ABILIO ARAUJO TO MEET SUHARTO ........................................................................................................ 93
ABILIO ARAUJO CRITICAL OF DURÃO BARROSO .........................................................................................93
THERE SHOULD BE DIALOGUE WITH ALL EAST TIMOR ANTI -INTEGRATION GROUPS —XIMENES...............93
INDONESIA’S SUHARTO TO MEET EX-TIMOR LEADER .................................................................................94
MEETING BETWEEN FRIENDS......................................................................................................................94
PIJAR STATEMENT ON EAST TIMOR TALKS.................................................................................................95
EXILED FRETILIN MEMBERS TO MEET WITH SUHARTO SOON ....................................................................95
THERE’S NO POINT HAVING DIALOGUE WITH ARAUJO ...............................................................................96
U.S. EDITORIALS AND OP-EDS................................................................................................................. 97
WHY NO INDONESIAN DEMOCRACY? .........................................................................................................97
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A CLINTON MISSION IN JAKARTA ..............................................................................................................97
ATROCITIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS.........................................................................................................97
END INDONESIA’S IMPERIALIST RULE ........................................................................................................98
INDONESIA’S EMBARRASSMENT.................................................................................................................99
A WORD FOR JUSTICE AT INDONESIA’S TRADE SUMMIT.............................................................................99
U.S. CAN HELP FREE EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 100
GRUBBY LITTLE SECRET ............................................................................................................................ 100
VOA: U.S. EDITORIALS ON INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS......................................................................... 101
INDONESIA’S PEBBLE................................................................................................................................ 101
INDONESIA’S OPPORTUNITY LOST........................................................................................................... 102
RIGHTS AND WRONGS IN INDONESIA...................................................................................................... 102
POST-APEC REPORTS .............................................................................................................................. 103
EAST TIMOR ANNEXATION NOT RECOGNISED BY U.N.............................................................................. 103
SOME THINGS LINGER: TIMOR PROTESTS OUTLAST APEC SUMMIT (FEER) ............................................... 103
EAST TIMOR RISES UP ............................................................................................................................... 104
REPORTS ON EAST TIMOR NOT YET NEUTRAL........................................................................................... 105
EVENTS IN THE UK AND IRELAND ......................................................................................................... 106
MP NICHOLLS DEFENDS JAKARTA AGAIN ................................................................................................. 106
PASS NOTES NO. 520: PRESIDENT SUHARTO ............................................................................................ 107
A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE BY THE INDONESIAN ARMY ................................................................................. 107
MAGUIRE TO ANNOUNCE NOBEL PRIZE NOMINEE ................................................................................... 108
DUBLIN PICKET TO MARK EAST TIMOR KILLINGS ..................................................................................... 108
UK IN SECRET £2 BILLION ARMS BID....................................................................................................... 108
MAKING A KILLING WITH BRITISH AID.................................................................................................... 109
MPS PLAN ATTACK ON HURD OVER AID................................................................................................... 111
LONDON DEMONSTRATION ...................................................................................................................... 111
HAWK AIRCRAFT ARE BEING USED IN EAST TIMOR .................................................................................. 111
PICKET AT US EMBASSY, DUBLIN .............................................................................................................. 112
HORTA: BRITISH GOVERNMENT COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.................................................................... 112
EASTERN FIST............................................................................................................................................ 113
SEND RIGHTS MONITORS TO EAST TIMOR NOW....................................................................................... 113
STOP THE HAWK DEAL INFO ..................................................................................................................... 114
MINISTER PLEDGES PROBE ON INDONESIA PLANES................................................................................ 115
PURCHASE OF TANKS FROM THE UK BEING PROCESSED ......................................................................... 115
PATRICK NICHOLLS WRITES TO THE GUARDIAN....................................................................................... 115
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 117
SWIMMING FOR TIMOR - DAY OF SOLIDARITY......................................................................................... 117
TROJAN HORSE (U.S. AMBASSADOR IN LISBON)....................................................................................... 117
CDPM APPEALS TO SOARES....................................................................................................................... 117
TIMORESE CALL FOR UN INTERVENTION ................................................................................................. 118
“THE INVISIBLE FRIEND” CAMPAIGN........................................................................................................ 118
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 120
UN REGISTER ON ARMS: INDONESIA........................................................................................................ 120
PICKET AT INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN NETHERLANDS .............................................................................. 120
EAST TIMORESE TAKE INDONESIA’S MADRID EMBASSY ........................................................................... 121
EU PARLIAMENTARIANS WANT AID TO JAKARTA TO END......................................................................... 121
A ROW ABOUT FINNISH ARMS TRADE TO INDONESIA............................................................................... 122
INDONESIA SEEKING WEAPONS FROM BRITAIN, GERMANY.................................................................... 122
SAINT MERRI EXHIBITION IN PARIS ........................................................................................................ 123
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EU PROTESTS AGAINST JAILING OF UNION LEADER................................................................................. 123
EVENTS IN AFRICA AND ASIA ................................................................................................................ 123
STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU ......................................................................................... 123
MURAYAMA LEFT EAST TIMOR UP TO KONO.............................................................................................. 124
TIMORESE MEET WITH JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTRY................................................................................... 124
TIMOR GAP OIL LEGALITIES................................................................................................................... 124
WORLD COURT TO OPEN TIMOR GAP CASE IN JANUARY.......................................................................... 124
AUSTRALIA TO BECOME LARGEST SEA EMPIRE WITH OCEAN CLAIM........................................................ 124
WHY WE WILL LOSE TIMOR ACTION: EX-JUDGE....................................................................................... 124
PROTEST PLANNED AGAINST THEFT OF EAST TIMOR’S OIL....................................................................... 125
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA AND AOTEAROA................................................................................................. 125
UPDATE ON ET SEMINAR SERIES AT NORTHERN TERRITORY UNIVERSITY ............................................... 125
VOA: NEW ZEALAND MPS CONDEMNATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS .............................................................. 126
THOUSANDS RALLY FOR A FREE EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................... 126
DILI MARTYRS REMEMBERED.................................................................................................................... 128
SEA FLARE THROWN IN PROTEST.............................................................................................................. 128
EVANS: EAST TIMOR TROOPS OUT NEXT YEAR.......................................................................................... 128
DILI MURDERS OUR CREDIBILITY ............................................................................................................ 129
NO PEACE IN EAST TIMOR......................................................................................................................... 129
KEATING SAYS WILL NOT LOWER FLAG ON HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................................. 130
LABOUR (ALP) SHAMED BY EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE ...................................................... 130
AUSTRALIAN ACTIONS FOR EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................... 130
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: PEACEMAKING INITIATIVES FOR EAST TIMOR................................................ 130
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 131
TIMORESE SEEKS ASYLUM IN CANADA .................................................................................................... 131
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT TO RAISE TIMOR AT APEC................................................................................ 131
CANADA URGED TO LINK TRADE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS AT APEC ............................................................ 131
1991 LETTER FROM JEAN CHRÉTIEN ........................................................................................................ 132
ETAN/CANADA LETTER TO CHRÉTIEN ...................................................................................................... 132
NOV. 12 ACTION IN OTTAWA ..................................................................................................................... 133
RIOTS SEND ANGRY MESSAGE TO ASIA-PACIFI C SUMMIT ....................................................................... 134
INDONESIA DESERVES CRITICISM; CHRÉTIEN SHOULD RAISE HUMAN-RIGHTS CONCERNS .................. 134
PM IGNORES RIOTING, SIGNS TRADE DEALS .......................................................................................... 134
NEW CANADIAN BUSINESS INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA........................................................................... 135
CANADIAN PM BALANCES HUMAN RIGHTS, $1B IN TRADE........................................................................ 135
ETAN: CANADA SELLS ITS SOUL – FOR $1 BILLION .................................................................................... 136
CANADIAN EDITORIAL OPINION ............................................................................................................... 136
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................ 137
CIA ADMITS BACKING SUHARTO REGIME ................................................................................................. 137
WHERE DID HUFFINGTON’S FORTUNE COME FROM?................................................................................ 138
INTERCHURCH SERVICE REMEMBERS CURRENT STRUGGLE IN EAST TIMOR ........................................... 138
ACTION ALERT FROM THE EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/US................................................................. 139
U.S. ACTIVISTS SUPPORT EMBASSY DEMONSTRATORS ............................................................................. 140
TIMOR NETWORK SAYS CLINTON STATEMENT REPRESENTS A STEP FORWARD ...................................... 141
US CONGRESSMEN SUPPORT EMBASSY STUDENTS .................................................................................. 141
SEVEN ARRESTED IN PROTESTS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WASHINGTON ................................................ 142
ACTION UPDATE FROM THE EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK.................................................................. 144
ACTIVITY IN LOS ANGELES........................................................................................................................ 145
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FEINGOLD WRITES CLINTON .................................................................................................................... 146
UPCOMING NEW YORK EAST TIMOR EVENTS........................................................................................... 146
US ASSURES RI OF MORE ARMS SALES .................................................................................................... 146
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 146
BOOK ON XANANA .................................................................................................................................... 146
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE RESISTANCE........................................................................................................ 146
CHOMSKY DOCUMENTARY AVAILABLE ON VIDEO ..................................................................................... 147
DANISH MAGAZINE................................................................................................................................... 147
APCET VIDEO AVAILABLE........................................................................................................................... 147
PROGRAM ON EAST TIMOR AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS ..................................................... 147
REVIEW OF RECENT BOOKS ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................ 147
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T ON THE COMPUTER NETS............................................................................ 153

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.

• Title: East Timor Update no. 37, November 1994

Contents: Renewed hope among new troubles in East Timor

• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Dili, East Timor
• Background: Dili Massacre
• Background: Human Rights in Indonesia
• Canadian Policy
• Action Requested

XANANA GUSMÃO STILL RESISTS IN PRISON ............................................................................................ 6
LAWYERS CAN’T VISIT XANANA, SAYS LAW MINISTER...................................................................................6
PAINTING BY XANANA GUSMÃO SENT TO SOARES........................................................................................6
XANANA VISITED BY LBH LAWYERS...............................................................................................................6
TIMOR REBEL XANANA REQUESTS RETRIAL ..................................................................................................6
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................................... 6
IN EAST TIMOR, TRUTH REMAINS BURIED ....................................................................................................6
INDONESIA ALLOWS FOREIGN JOURNALISTS INTO EAST TIMOR .................................................................7
INDONESIAN JESUIT SPEAKS TO JOURNALISTS ...........................................................................................7
INDONESIA VOWS FURTHER TROOPS OUT OF EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................8
TIMORESE PRIEST SUMMONED BY ARMY INTELLIGENCE .............................................................................8
MILITARY SAYS POVERTY THE ONLY WAR IN EAST TIMOR ............................................................................8
COMMENT FROM CONSTÂNCIO PINTO:....................................................................................................8
MASS RESISTANCE........................................................................................................................................9
UNTAMED TIMOR.........................................................................................................................................12
HUMAN RIGHTS STILL UNDER ATTACK IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................13
TIMORESE MAN TORTURED TO FORCE A FALSE STORY: BISHOP.................................................................14
TO DEAKIN: “DO NOT COME - THERE ARE TOO MANY SOLDIERS” .........................................................14
BBC’S NAPIER: TRUTH HARD TO FIND IN TIMOR.........................................................................................15
IN EAST TIMOR, INDONESIA GOES FOR HEARTS AND MINDS ....................................................................15
IN DILI, EVEN YOUR WAITER COULD BE A SPY ...........................................................................................16
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EAST TIMOR GUERRILLA LEADER KONIS SANTANA INTERVIEWED IN MOUNTAINS....................................17
THE GUERRILLA HAS REORGANISED......................................................................................................18
ENEMY NUMBER ONE ELUDES JAKARTA.................................................................................................18
YOGIE FORCES NON-TIMORESE VIQUEQUE REGEN T..................................................................................19
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR THREATENS TO RESIGN ..................................................................................19
US ATTACHÉ VISITS ADANG.........................................................................................................................20
MA’HUNU INTERVIEWED BY ABC TV ...........................................................................................................20
MANUEL CARRASCALÃO RECEIVES DEATH THREATS...................................................................................20
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EAST TIMORESE WORKER.....................................................................................21
A STONE STATUE OF CHRIST IS FOUND IN MATEBIAN ................................................................................21
OIL STRUCK IN TIMOR GAP....................................................................................................................... 21
WHOSE OIL?................................................................................................................................................21
TIMOR SEA EXPLORATION YIELDS 5,800 B/D OIL FLOW .............................................................................21
TIMOR GAP TREATY UNDER FIRE ................................................................................................................22
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 22
ALATAS: EAST TIMOR ISSUE ‘NOT IMPORTANT’............................................................................................22
INFIGHT OPEN LETTER TO THE SWEDISH PARLIAMENT..............................................................................22
INDONESIANS APPEAL TO SWEDEN .......................................................................................................23
FOUR-YEAR JAIL TERM FOR INSULTING SUHARTO......................................................................................23
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST JAILED, 21 OTHERS SET TO BE TRIED ...........................................................23
INDONESIAN NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PROTESTS ACEH DETENTIONS............................24
LOPA THREATENS TO RESIGN .....................................................................................................................24
INTERVIEW WITH THEO SYAFEI...................................................................................................................24
INDONESIAN ABROAD HAVE FREEDOM THREATENED ................................................................................25
INDONESIA’S INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS.................................................................................... 25
TIMORESE ON THEIR WAY TO DILI.............................................................................................................25
SERENO: AGITATORS CAUSE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE................................................................................25
M. MACEDO ACCUSED OF HIGH TREASON ..................................................................................................26
UDT & INTERNATIONAL JURISTS AGAINST TILMAN.....................................................................................26
RECONCILIATION MEETING - YET ANOTHER RESULT..................................................................................27
ARMY WARNING TO TIMORESE MISSION ....................................................................................................27
TIMOR VISIT................................................................................................................................................27
A VISIT TO INDONESIA BY GROUP OF PORTUGUESE NATIONALS OF EAST TIMOR ORIGIN.........................28
GEORGE ADITJONDRO SPEAKS OUT, REACTION..................................................................................... 28
INDONESIAN ACADEMIC’S BRAVE MOVE.....................................................................................................28
DILI MASSACRE EXPOSED......................................................................................................................28
I’M NO TRAITOR: ACADEMIC...................................................................................................................29
TRUTH FIRST CASUALTY OF SWIFT, BRUTAL INVASION...........................................................................29
LIFTING THE VEIL ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................30
MILITARY ACCUSED OF ABUSES IN TIMOR (AUSTRALIAN GOV’T RESPONSE) ..............................................30
INDONESIA DENIES ADITJONDRO ALLEGATIONS.......................................................................................30
INDONESIA DENIES ALLEGATION ON EAST TIMOR DEATH TOLL............................................................31
IF THERE IS PROOF, ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST HIM.......................................................................31
INFIGHT SUPPORTS GEORGE ADITJONDRO ...............................................................................................31
DR GEORGE ADITJONDRO’S INTERVIEW ON ABC/TV LATELINE, SYDNEY ..................................................32
HOOLIGANS ATTACK LECTURER’S HOME ....................................................................................................33
THREAT TO GEORGE ADITJONDRO .............................................................................................................33
ADITJONDRO DEFENDS THESIS AGAINST CRITICS.....................................................................................33
URGE DUTCH MINISTERS TO SUPPORT GEORGE ADITJONDRO..................................................................33
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OPEN LETTER TO SUPPORT GEORGE ADITJONDRO ....................................................................................33
COMMENTS ON DR. ADITJONDRO’S FINDINGS ..........................................................................................34
TWO MORE UKSW LECTURERS THREATENED ..............................................................................................35
CRITIC OF SUHARTO’S TIMOR POLICY HARASSED ......................................................................................35
ETAN/US SUPPORTS GEORGE ADITJONDRO...............................................................................................35
EDITOR ON GEORGE ADITJONDRO ............................................................................................................36
INDONESIA PRESS CLIPS ON GEORGE ADITJONDRO.................................................................................36
TO FRIENDS WHO RESPONDED TO AN ETAN APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH GEORGE ADITJONDRO.......37
“DEATH OF A NATION” PREMIERES.......................................................................................................... 37
KILLING THEM SOFTLY ................................................................................................................................37
UNDERCOVER IN TIMOR .............................................................................................................................38
ON HER MAJESTY’S BLOODY SERVICE........................................................................................................38
INDONESIA EMBASSY RESPONDS TO PILGER FI LM ...................................................................................41
PROTEST FOR EAST TIMOR MARKS LAUNCH OF JOHN PILGER’S FILM........................................................41
BBC WORLD SERVICE ON PILGER FILM.......................................................................................................41
NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE OTHER PART OF EAST TIMORESE STRUGGLE ...................................................42
SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE LAST NIGHT ...............................................................................................43
PORTUGUESE REACTION TO PILGER TIMOR DOCUMENTARY......................................................................44
INDEPENDENT REVIEWS PILGER FILM........................................................................................................44
“INDONESIA DESERVES BETTER” ................................................................................................................47
THE NATURE OF TRUTH IN AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON A BRUTAL REGIME.........................................47
LETTER FROM HONG KONG INDONESIAN CONSUL ....................................................................................48
VESTED INTERESTS HIDING TRUTH .......................................................................................................49
PILGER: AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN TIMOR TRAGEDY ........................................................................................49
GENOCIDE ON OUR DOORSTEP..................................................................................................................50
SYDNEY OPENING OF DEATH OF A NATION.................................................................................................52
TIMOR FILM ON SWEDISH TELEVISION.......................................................................................................52
DEATH OF A NATION IN HONG KONG..........................................................................................................52
DEATH OF A NATION IN IRELAND ................................................................................................................52
THE SECOND MASSACRE IN DILI, 1991.................................................................................................... 52
PRINCEN WANTS CLARIFICATION ...............................................................................................................52
SECOND MASSACRE EVIDENCE ..................................................................................................................52
AUSTRALIA UNCONVINCED OF NEW TIMOR MASSACRE CLAIMS.................................................................53
AUSTRALIA URGES INDONESIA TO CLARIFY THE NUMBERS...................................................................53
‘SMEAR CAMPAIGN’ CANNOT HIDE EVANS’ SHAMEFUL ROLE ON TIMOR ....................................................53
UNHRC TESTIMONY ON SECOND MASSACRE..............................................................................................54
RELIVING SANTA CRUZ IN LISBON..............................................................................................................54
STAHL: THERE ARE NEW FRONTS AND NEW GUERRILLAS ..........................................................................55
ECONOMIC AND LABOR ISSUES................................................................................................................ 56
LABOUR PANGS SIGN OF ADOLESCENT ECONOMY.....................................................................................56
INDONESIA AND CUBA AGREE TO BOOST TRADE TIES................................................................................56
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: AEROSPACE INDUSTRY GOES INTO ORBIT ...................................................................57
U. N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REACHES CONSENSUS .................................................................... 58
INDONESIA’S CONTEMPT FOR THE UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.................................................58
“FACT AND FICTION” FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ..............................................................................58
CANADA-ASIA WORKING GROUP REPORT...................................................................................................67
MORE DEATHS: UN REPORT........................................................................................................................70
DEVELOPMENTS AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN GENEVA ..........................................................70
DRAFT OF UNCHR CONSENSUS STATEMENT...............................................................................................71
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JAKARTA UNDER SCRUTINY OVER EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................71
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT TO UNHRC ...................................................................................72
EAST TIMOR AT U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ...................................................................................73
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CONSENSUS STATEMENT....................................................................76
EAST TIMOR WINS MAJOR VICTORY IN GENEVA.........................................................................................77
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 77
STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................77
VICENTE XIMENES GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS IN AUSTRALIA ..................................................................78
TIMOR INQUIRY CALL IN AUSTRALIA...........................................................................................................78
CRIMES, CREDIBILITY, CLINTON.................................................................................................................78
TIMORESE ASK KEATING TO BACK PEACE INITIATIVE.................................................................................78
AUSTRALIAN ENVOY URGED U.S. TO REASSESS INDONESIA ......................................................................79
ACTIVISTS USE SHOCK AD TO REFOCUS ON E. TIMOR................................................................................79
CONTROVERSIAL AD...............................................................................................................................80
BLOOD ON THE HANDS OF THE MATES.......................................................................................................80
SEMINARY WILL HELP SAVE CULTURE.........................................................................................................82
WHAT ON EARTH CAN EVANS DO? .............................................................................................................83
STAND FIRM ON RIGHTS .............................................................................................................................83
AUSTRALIA RESTORES DEFENCE TIES WITH BURMA...................................................................................84
INDONESIA FORCES EXPAND ADF LINKS ..................................................................................................84
TIMORESE PAINTER’S STORY OF SURVIVAL.................................................................................................84
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 84
VOLKER RUEHE IS NOT (GERMAN) MINISTER OF WAR ...............................................................................84
WILL JAKARTA AND BAGHDAD BECOME NEW SISTER-CITIES OF BERLIN?..................................................85
DUTCH MINISTER WELCOMES CONCEPT OF ASEAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE..............................................86
ARMS TRADE CONFERENCE IN ANTWERP, APRIL 22-24...............................................................................86
NORWAY RECOGNISES ANNEXATION OF EAST TIMOR?..............................................................................87
EVENTS IN IRELAND.................................................................................................................................. 87
IRELAND’S SPRING TO VOICE CONCERN OVER EAST TIMOR.....................................................................87
IRISH SENATE TO DEBATE EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................................88
LETTERS TO THE IRISH TIMES.....................................................................................................................88
TIMOR SUPPORTERS TO MEET IRISH LEADERS...........................................................................................88
TANAISTE SUPPORTS CALLS FOR ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST INDONESIA .......................................88
IRISH FM SUPPORTS SANCTIONS...........................................................................................................88
THE DAILY STAR IRELAND...........................................................................................................................88
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 89
TOUTING FOR TERROR................................................................................................................................89
UK ARMS-AID DEALS WITH INDONESIA NEED SCRUTINY...........................................................................90
GENOCIDE IN EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................................................90
COMMONS MOTION ON HAWKS..................................................................................................................91
PEACE PROTEST AT BAe HAWKS TO INDONESIA .........................................................................................91
FOUNTAINS OF BLOOD AT BRITISH AEROSPACE ....................................................................................91
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS ARMS SALES TO JAKARTA WILL CONTINUE.......................................91
LONDON DOES NOT WISH TO ISOLATE SUHARTO..................................................................................92
JOBS THAT ARE BOUGHT WITH LIVES .........................................................................................................92
LORD AVEBURY IN HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE ON AID...............................................................................93
WHERE AID REALLY ENDS UP .....................................................................................................................95
TRICKS OF THE AID TRADE .........................................................................................................................95
40 DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST 40 AIRPLANES - PROTEST IN BRISTOL........................................................95
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISEMENT IN BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.....................................................95
STORM OVER INDONESIAN ARMS SALES ....................................................................................................97
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................... 97
BISHOPS AND PROFESSORS SEEK MONEY FOR TIMOR ..............................................................................97
121 PORTUGAL-BASED COMPANIES TRADED WITH INDONESIA IN 1993.....................................................98
PORTUGUESE TRADE MINISTER WARNS IMPORTERS OF GOODS FROM INDONESIA..................................98
MORE MONEY FOR AFRICA, MONEY FOR A SEMINAR IN ET ........................................................................99
GOVERNMENT ASKS TOBACCO COMPANY FOR CLARIFICATION .................................................................99
COMMUNIST PARTY PROPOSES CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR .................................................................99
TIMORESE STUDENTS DEMAND INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY ........................................................................99
CAVACO SILVA CONFIDENT ABOUT PORTUGUESE ECONOMIC RECOVERY..................................................99
PORTUGUESE PRIME MINISTER TO RECEIVE LORD AVEBURY FOR DISCUSSIONS ABOUT EAST TIMOR .... 100
RETURN TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNER ........................................................................................................... 100
LUSITANIA GROUP FORMS ASSOCIATION ................................................................................................. 101
CAVACO SILVA MEETS PET......................................................................................................................... 101
BISHOP AND SOARES TALK ABOUT TIMOR ................................................................................................ 101
COMMISSION LXLT TO BRIEF EMBASSIES IN LISBON ............................................................................... 101
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................ 102
HALL RELEASES BELO LETTER ................................................................................................................... 102
ARMS SALES CODE INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS ..................................................................................... 102
MOYNIHAN FOR SELF-DETERMINATION.................................................................................................... 103
A NEW APPROACH TO U.S. FOREIGN AID.................................................................................................. 104
FOREIGN AID OVERHAUL LANGUISHES IN CONGRESS........................................................................ 104
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH / ASIA CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY................................................................. 105
INDONESIA MAY BUY U.S.-BUILT F-16 JET FIGHTERS............................................................................... 106
HIGH-LEVEL INDONESIA BUSINESS CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK............................................................ 106
APRIL 17-19: WASHINGTON LOBBY FOR EAST TIMOR................................................................................ 108
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 108
IPJET ANNUAL PRIZE................................................................................................................................. 108
EAST TIMOR GOPHER SET UP ON PEACENET ............................................................................................ 108
AETA RESOURCE LIST................................................................................................................................ 108
MISCELLANEOUS..................................................................................................................................... 109
JRH: INVASION HAD BEEN DECIDED IN APRIL 1974................................................................................. 109
COMPUTER WARGAME ON EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................... 110
INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS REPORT.................................................. 110
INVESTING IN INDONESIA: CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES REVIEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS...................... 111
PROTEST TENNIS TOURNAMENT IN JAKARTA............................................................................................ 112
DISCUSSION OF EAST TIMORESE GENOCIDE FIGURES ............................................................................ 113
FACING FACTS: THE WORLD SHOULD ACCEPT THAT EAST TIMOR IS A PART OF INDONESIA.................... 115
PETER GABRIEL FOR EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................. 115

IRISH STUDENTS SUPPORT EAST TIMOR .....................................................................................................11
IRISH PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTS SANCTIONS .........................................................................................11
MUCH ACTIVITY, LIMITED PROGRESS, IN WASHINGTON ............................................................................12
EAST TIMOR'S CLANDESTINE RESISTANCE TO INDONESIAN INTEGRATION ...............................................13
GUELPH UNIVERSITY DEBATES AID.............................................................................................................15
IRELAND: BOYCOTT OVER EAST TIMOR DEMANDED. ..................................................................................15
IRELAND: INDONESIAN TRADE SUSPENSION URGED.................................................................................15
FRETILIN'S GENERAL STAFF MEETING IN LISBON TO SPLIT FROM "RECONCILIATION" GROUP..................16
JAKARTA ADMITS EAST TIMOR 'ERRORS' BUT TRIES TO SHIFT BLAME.........................................................16
ALATAS - HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO GET FREE ACCESS IN EAST TIMOR ....................................16
INDONESIA HITS OUT AT EAST TIMOR "AGITATORS" ...................................................................................16
INDONESIA TO MAKE FI LM TO POLISH EAST TIMOR IMAGE........................................................................16
MALAYSIA MAY BAN FILM ON EAST TIMOR ..................................................................................................17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH TIMES ........................................................................................................17
PICKETERS PROTEST INDONESIA'S OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR .............................................................18
OUTRAGE FADES; UT TIES TO FREEPORT, GENOCIDE PERSIST...................................................................18
CALIFORNIA SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................19
INDONESIA REDUCES SEPARATIST'S PRISON .............................................................................................20
CANADA-INDONESIA COOPERATION...........................................................................................................20
JOURNEY TO EAST TIMOR: LAND OF THE DEAD ..........................................................................................20
RELEASE OF REPORT SHOWING WORLD BANK FUNDING INDONESIAN MILITARY RULE............................22
DEMONSTRATION IN DILI ...........................................................................................................................22
ALATAS SPEAKS AT ASIA SOCIETY................................................................................................................23
U.S. ASSURES INDONESIA ON FUTURE ARMS SALES...................................................................................24
HEARING OF THE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC.........................24
WARREN CHRISTOPHER ON US-INDONESIA RELATIONS............................................................................25
POMBO ONE-MAN CONSUL FOR PORTUGAL ................................................................................................25
DEMONSTRATION IN DILI ...........................................................................................................................26
DEMO DEFIES JAKARTA AS PRESS VISITS EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................26
GOVERNOR CONFIRMS HIGH TIMOR DEATH TOLL......................................................................................26
FEINGOLD QUESTIONS WINSTON LORD ON EAST TIMOR...........................................................................27
EAST TIMOR ACTIVITIES IN AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND) .............................................................................27
THE MEDIA LOOKS AWAY. ...........................................................................................................................28
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................28
EAST TIMOR MILITARY ANGRY AT PRESS.....................................................................................................28
EAST TIMOR INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON INTERNET ................................................................................28
TIMOR CHIEFS ADMIT FAILURES .................................................................................................................28
ASIAWEEK STRONGLY CRITICISED..............................................................................................................29
SHONKY DARWIN BUSINESS DEALS............................................................................................................29
EAST TIMOR PROTEST MARS INDONESIAN PUBLICITY OFFENSIVE .............................................................30
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TORTURE UNDER A MOUNTAIN OF PROPAGANDA.......................................................................................30
PROTEST OVER TIMORESE DEATH ...............................................................................................................31
TWENTY SIX FOREIGN JOURNALISTS VISIT EAST TIMOR ............................................................................31
FRENCH CAMPAIGN '4 MONTHS FOR EAST TIMOR'......................................................................................31
SHATTERING THE SILEN CE..........................................................................................................................32
AUSTRALIAN ACADEMICS SUPPORT DR GEORGE ADITJONDRO..................................................................32
A VOICE THAT SHAMES THOSE SILENT ON TIMOR ......................................................................................33
AAAS UPDATE ON ADITJONDRO ..................................................................................................................34
BAE CAMPAIGNERS SERVED NOTICE...........................................................................................................39
FRETILIN CONFERENCE RESULTS................................................................................................................39
WORLD BANK ACCUSED OF BREAKING ITS OWN RULES.............................................................................40
SENATORS URGE TOUGHER HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY .................................................................................40
IRISH SENATE DEBATES EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................................40
PUT TIMOR ON OUR LIST.............................................................................................................................41
AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS SELL OUT TIMOR ...............................................................................................41
IMPOSSIBLE FOR MALAYSIAN TO REVEAL THE EXTENT OF MONEY POLITICS IN DR. MAHATHIR'S PARTY ..41
BACKGROUND ON EAST TIMOR AND US POLICY.........................................................................................42
CANADA'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................43
CODE OF CONDUCT ON ARMS TRANSFERS ACT..........................................................................................44
EAST TIMOR GOPHER NOW AVAILABLE .......................................................................................................46
INDONESIAN POLICE BREAK UP MEETINGS................................................................................................46
EAST TIMOR'S PAST WON'T STAY BURIED ....................................................................................................46
NGO DILI MTNG 'POSTPONED' ....................................................................................................................47
INDONESIA BANS LABOUR UNION'S ACTIVITY ............................................................................................48
ARMED FORCES COMMANDER CALLS LABOUR UNREST 'SUBVERSIVE'........................................................48
E. TIMORESE CHAFE UNDER FOREIGN YOKE; INDONESIA RESEN TED FOR 20-YEAR RULE.........................49
EAST TIMOR: ANOTHER LEBANON OR ULSTER?...........................................................................................50
INDONESIANS TRIED TO KILL BISHOP OF DILI ...........................................................................................50
DILI'S BISHOP EVOKES CHRIST'S PASSION.................................................................................................50
TIMORESE PRISONERS WRITE LETTER ........................................................................................................51
"INTEGRATED" TIMORESE PREPARE FOR FATIMA VISIT...............................................................................51
JAKARTA WANTS TO GET XIMENES OUT OF DILI .........................................................................................52
PORTUGUESE PARLIAMEN T ACCUSED OF "LACK OF ACTION" ON TIMOR ....................................................52
WIFE & CHILDREN WANT TO VISIT XANANA................................................................................................52
HOLLAND INTERCEDES FOR TIMOR ............................................................................................................52
DEAKIN: "WE KNOW THE MASSACRE HAS LASTED SINCE 1975"..................................................................53
TIMOR SEEN IN THE EYES OF THE NON-PORTUGUESE ...............................................................................53
XANANA GUSMÃO REQUESTS RETRIAL........................................................................................................54
CHARITY ALONE NOT EN OUGH TO HELP EAST TIMOR.................................................................................54
BRITISH AEROSPACE TAKES EAST TIMOR ON BOARD..................................................................................54
UDAYANA COMMANDER TO VISIT AUSTRALIA..............................................................................................55
INDONESIAN, U.S. WARSHIPS IN JOINT EXERCISE. ...................................................................................55
BRITISH JETS 'WERE USED IN TIMOR'.........................................................................................................55
LONG ROAD TO PEACE IN TIMOR................................................................................................................55
BBC FILMS DILI PROTESTS ..........................................................................................................................56
INDONESIA QUESTIONS DEATH TOLL AGAIN ..............................................................................................57
U.S. BANS SMALL ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA............................................................................................60
RADIO NETHERLANDS TO CUT INDONESIAN BROADCASTS ........................................................................60
IRISH FASHION MAGAZINE COVERS EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................60
TEMPO ON HORTA'S 'RESIGNATION' ...........................................................................................................60
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TESTIMONY OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN SHATTUCK...........................................................61
ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR (APCET).................................................................................63
INSIDE THE MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA....................................................................................................63
TIMORESE PROTESTOR DETAINED ..............................................................................................................66
NEW SOLIDARITY GROUP IN GENEVA .........................................................................................................66
INDONESIA SEEKS PROGRESS OVER TIMOR...............................................................................................66
INDONESIA SAYS STILL FAR TO GO ON TIMOR SETTLEMENT......................................................................66
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, IRISH TIMES, 2ND MAY 1994. .............................................................................66
XANANA ASKS FOR PROTECTION ................................................................................................................67
FRETILIN PUTS IDEOLOGY ON ICE..............................................................................................................67
AI: 100 LETTERS FOR SUHARTO ...................................................................................................................68
SONG DEDICATED TO EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................................68
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/ASIA ACCESS........................................................................................................68
CALL FOR XANANA'S RELEASE ON EVE OF TALKS........................................................................................68
INDONESIA TO ALLOW EXIT OF TWO EAST TIMORESE ................................................................................69
NEW ZEALAND MPS' PETITION ....................................................................................................................69
BRITISH EMBASSY ACCUSED OF MISLEADING PEOPLE OVER TIMOR..........................................................69
INDONESIA'S APPROACH : A CHALLENGE FOR THE EAST TIMORESE..........................................................69
NEW EAST TIMOR GROUP IN BENIN ............................................................................................................71
"WE WANT PORTUGAL AS ACCOMPLICE OF THE RESISTANCE"....................................................................71
THE "OTHER" FRETILIN................................................................................................................................71
SANTANA AGAINST ARAÚJO.........................................................................................................................72
INDONESIA CONSENTS TO RAPPORTEUR VISIT TO TIMOR..........................................................................72
LEADER OF MASSACRE PROMOTED .............................................................................................................73
AGIO PEREIRA ON RADIO NATIONAL ..........................................................................................................73
EXPOSING THE MYTHS OF EAST TIMOR <MEMBUKA MITOS TIMOR-TIMUR>................................................73
AUSTRALIA POLICE QUIZ CINEMA STAFF .....................................................................................................74
PORTUGAL, INDONESIA CONTINUE CONFIDENCE BUILDING TALKS ..........................................................74
UNSG STATEMENT ON THE QUESTION OF EAST TIMOR...............................................................................74
AUSTRALIAN ACADEMICS WRITE ON NUKU CASE........................................................................................75
CNRM LETTER TO RADIO NETHERLANDS ....................................................................................................76
XANANA REJECTS INDONESIAN RECONCILIATION MOVES.........................................................................76
ETAN/CANADA PRESS RELEASE ON TALKS..................................................................................................76
OVER 300 PROTEST INDONESIA'S ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR..................................................77
PILGER INTERVIEWED ON NZ TV1...............................................................................................................77
UPDATE ON USAID / INDONESIA EAST TIMOR ACTIVITIES..........................................................................79
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WELCOMES MINISTER OF FOREI GN AFFAIRS DIALOGUE ON HUMAN RIGHTS .80
INDIFFERENT DEATH ...................................................................................................................................80
JAKARTA-LISBON TALKS TO RESUME IN GENEVA NEXT YEAR .....................................................................82
REPORT OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL TO UNHRC ...............................................................................82
LOPES DA CRUZ ATTACKED .........................................................................................................................91
SAMPAIO REFERS TO DRAMA OF EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................91
UNITED CITIES ET RESOLUTION ..................................................................................................................91
IRISH PRESS ON MEDIA RESPONSE TO AGGRESSION ................................................................................92
IRISH CHALLENGE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO DEBATE...............................................................................92
FORUMS ON EAST TIMOR BANNED ..............................................................................................................92
INDONESIA ASKS THE PHILIPPINES TO STOP EAST TIMOR MEETING .........................................................92
AN END TO BLOODY PROFITS......................................................................................................................92
JUST A STONE'S THROW AWAY, SILENCE ENVELOPED THEIR HOMELAND, TIMOR .....................................93
REHEARSING LOBBYING TACTICS IN WASHINGTON ...................................................................................93
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LISBON GRANTS VISAS TO TIMORESE GOING TO FATIMA...........................................................................94
GREEK PRESIDENCY OF THE EU PROMISES TO INVESTIGATE ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA.......................94
INDONESIA REGRETS EAST TIMOR CONFERENCE.......................................................................................94
MILITARY CONFIRMS FI VE EAST TIMORESE PROTESTORS DETAINED .........................................................94
CNRM STATEMENT ON INDONESIA / PORTUGAL TALKS..............................................................................94
VICE-REGAL TILT AT INDONESIA.................................................................................................................98
UN DAILY HIGHLIGHTS PRESS RELEASE, 6 MAY 1994..................................................................................98
SECRETARY-GENERAL DISCUSSES EAST TIMOR WITH INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL...................................98
RESISTANCE STATEMENT ON FOURTH INDONESIA/PORTUGAL FOREIGN MINISTERIAL TALKS ..................99
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...........................................................................................................................100
TWO TIMORESE IN FAVOUR OF RECONCILIATION MEET XANANA.............................................................100
QUEEN'S REPRESENTATIVE RECOGNISES ANNEXATION OF TIMOR ..........................................................101
DAY FOR TIMOR IN OPORTO .....................................................................................................................101
XANANA GUSMÃO ISOLATED AND TORTURED ...........................................................................................102
SERENO: "WE HAVE TO BE READY FOR AN INDONESIAN 25TH APRIL"......................................................102
TIMOR & MACAU SHOULD RECEIVE MORE ATTENTION .............................................................................103
THE IRISH FAMILY WORLD REPORT ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................................103
ENDING THE AGONY OF EAST TIMOR........................................................................................................103
EAST TIMOR MEET CASTS SHADOW OVER TIES BETWEEN MANILA AND JAKARTA.....................................104
EMBARRASSMENT AVERTED ......................................................................................................................104
VOICES OF HOPE -- OR OF OPPRESSION ..................................................................................................105
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH TIMES, 13 MAY 1994.................................................................................106
UPCOMING PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM ON EAST TIMOR.............................................................................106
VICE PRESIDENT ASKS ORGANISERS TO HOLD EAST TIMOR CONFERENCE ELSEWHERE.........................106
JAKARTA RELIEVED AFTER FRENCH, PORTUGUESE FIRST LADIES REFUSE TIMOR SEMINAR ....................106
INDONESIANS FURIOUS ON EVE OF BOLGER TRIP ...................................................................................107
INDONESIA'S EVIL OCCUPATION IN NEW GUINEA CAN'T BE IGNORED ....................................................107
PRAGMATISM NOW RULES US-JAKARTA TIES ............................................................................................108
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: MANILA PLACATES JAKARTA ON EAST TIMOR MEETING..............................................109
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNOR-GENERAL COMMENTS....................................................................................109
AI CRITICIZES ADMINISTRATION POLICY IN INDONESIA .........................................................................110
MORE ARRESTS AND TORTURES IN DILI ...................................................................................................110
MANGLAPUS MISSION BETRAYS PHILIPPINE SOVEREIGNTY .....................................................................110
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT FIDEL RAMOS.................................................................................................110
ET MANILA CONFERENCE: STATEMENT OF RAUL MANGLAPUS ..................................................................111
JAKARTA TO INVITE MANDELA FOR VISIT TO INDONESIA.........................................................................111
U.N. DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE MEETS JULY 11 ................................................................................111
SAN FRANCISCO VIGIL FOR EAST TIMOR: CLERGY AND OTHERS REFUSE TO BE SILENT..........................112
ACT TODAY TO SUPPORT EAST TIMOR IN CONGRESS ...............................................................................112
THE ALLY THAT CAME FROM UP NORTH ....................................................................................................112
CONSTÂNCIO TO BE REUNITED WITH FAMILY ...........................................................................................113
MUSIC, SPEECHES AND INDIGNATION: DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF UN (GENEVA)............................113
DEATH FROM TORTURE IN TIMOR .............................................................................................................113
TIMORESE VISIT: RELIGION AND SIGHT SEEING ......................................................................................114
EAST TIMOR - ONE VOICE..........................................................................................................................114
XANANA AGAINST "RECONCILIATION" ......................................................................................................114
ALATAS' EMPTY THREATS - RAMOS HORTA'S REACTION ............................................................................114
ALATAS WANTS TO SUCCEED BOUTROS GHALI, ACCORDING TO SOCIALISTS...........................................115
TIMORESE RESISTANCE AWAIT OUTCOME OF GEN EVA MEETING..............................................................115
INTERVIEW WITH ALI ALATAS, INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER:............................................................115
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"EAST TIMOR" NGO TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES .................................117
FRANCE SELLS CANNONS TO INDONESIA.................................................................................................117
STUDENT ARRESTS FOLLOW ANTI -MILITARY DEMONSTRATION ................................................................118
USAID INDONESIA FY 1995 REQUEST........................................................................................................118
PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC UNION LAUNCHED IN JAKARTA..........................................................................119
INDONESIA NOT SATISFIED WITH EXPLANATION ON MEETING IN THE PHILIPPINES ..............................120
FRETILIN INTERVIEW: 20 YEARS OF STRUGGLE.........................................................................................120
NOAM CHOMSKY IN LISBON .....................................................................................................................121
INDONESIAN DEMONSTRATIONS, ARRESTS, SENTENCING, ET AL............................................................121
THE MANILA CONFERENCE........................................................................................................................121
MANGLAPUS STATEMENT AFTER RETURNING TO MANILA .........................................................................121
NZ PRIME MINISTER SHAPES HIS LINE ON TIMOR ...................................................................................122
INDONESIAN AGENTS AMID THE PILGRIMS..............................................................................................122
CARRASCALÃO CRITICISES LISBON'S "PATERNALISM"..............................................................................122
FOREIGN MINISTRY REGRETS INCIDENTS AND IS PREPARED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY ........................122
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EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................................. 7
BBC INTERVIEWS COL. SYAHNAKRI .............................................................................................................7
RECENT INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP BELO ......................................................................................................7
EIGHT KILLED IN EAST TIMOR CLASH, SOURCES SAY...................................................................................7
REBEL DIES IN EAST TIMOR CLASH..............................................................................................................8
SEVERAL CLASHES AND MANY CASUALTIES..................................................................................................8
CIDES SEMINAR ON EAST TIMOR SHOULD INVOLVE EAST TIMORESE..........................................................8
TIMOR GUERRILLAS DECLARE CEASEFIRE....................................................................................................9
INDONESIA REJECTS GUERRILLA CEASEFIRE........................................................................................10
EAST TIMOR REBELS READY TO CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST INDONESIA...............................................10
NEW RELIGIOUS INCIDENT IN TIMOR .......................................................................................................10
INDONESIA PREPARES TO QUELL EAST TIMOR UPRISING..........................................................................10
SOLDIER JAILED FOR IRREVERENCE..........................................................................................................10
JAKARTA SAID TO BE STERILIZING EAST TIMORESE...................................................................................11
INFORMED VISIT TO EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................................11
EAST TIMOR BISHOP ANNOUNCES ‘SPECIAL STATUS’ TALKS ON TERRITORY..............................................12
GUERRILLA ARRESTED, CLAIMS ARMY ........................................................................................................12
WAVE OF MIGRATION IS ALTERING EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................13
BISHOP BELO INVITED TO AUSTRALIA.........................................................................................................13
EAST TIMOR DEVELOPMENT FAILS TO STEM DISCONTENT.........................................................................13
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EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 14
MEDIA CENTRE TO TACKLE BIASED REPORTS.............................................................................................14
TIMORESE STUDENTS IN MALANG WARNED ...............................................................................................15
EDI SUDRAJAT: SOME NGOS FOMENT ISSUES TO EXERT PRESSURE ON STATES .......................................15
JOINT COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE OF EAST TIMORESE......................................................................15
CHANGE IN THE WIND: JAKARTA MAY BE RETHINKING ITS TIMOR POLICY ..............................................16
PRABOWO NEW DEPUTY COMMANDER OF KOPASSUS................................................................................17
TOTAL MEDIA CONTROL SOUGHT: EDITOR .................................................................................................17
INDONESIA EYEING EUROPE, NOT U.S., FOR WEAPONS.............................................................................17
MORE OPEN TO DISCUSSIONS?..................................................................................................................18
COLLABORATORS AT WORK ..................................................................................................................... 19
SECOND LONDON MEETING PLANNED ......................................................................................................19
EAST TIMORESE GROUPS TO MEET AGAIN IN LONDON .........................................................................19
RECONCILIATION II ON THE HORIZON ..................................................................................................19
GOVERNOR OF TIMOR PREPARED TO TALK TO HORTA, BUT NOT WITH XANANA........................................20
EAST TIMORESE CALL FOR BROADER TALKS ...............................................................................................20
SOME PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE FORTHCOMING ‘RECONCILIATION TALKS’ ...................................20
UPDATE: PEOPLE ATTEN DING THE TALKS...............................................................................................21
SECRETARY-GENERAL IS SENDING OBSERVER...........................................................................................21
U.N. OFFICIAL SITS IN ON RECONCILIATION TALKS...................................................................................21
ARAUJO WANTS TO EXTEND “RECONCILIATION” ........................................................................................22
LONDON TIMORESE TALKS DECLARATION..................................................................................................22
MORE TIMOR MEETINGS THIS WEEK .........................................................................................................23
MIXED RESULT TO TALKS ON TIMOR PEACE ..............................................................................................23
SELF-DETERMINATION NOT YET DISCUSSED ..............................................................................................23
SUHARTO WANTS TO MEET ABILIO ARAUJO ................................................................................................24
XANANA IS STILL IN CHARGE .................................................................................................................. 24
XANANA WRITES U.S. ACTIVISTS................................................................................................................24
MESSAGE FROM XANANA TO HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP ................................................................................25
INDONESIANS TALK TO XANANA OF REFERENDUM ....................................................................................26
XANANA: SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE .............................................................................................................26
TIMORESE RESISTANCE MEETS ALATAS ................................................................................................. 27
JAWA POS ON NEW YORK TALKS ...............................................................................................................27
ALATAS AND CNRM MEET IN NY.................................................................................................................27
CNRM STATEMENT ON MEETING WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER .................................................28
RESISTANCE HOLDS DIRECT TALKS WITH INDONESIAN ENVOY ...............................................................28
EAST TIMOR: TALKS AMONG THE OPPOSING PARTIES................................................................................29
RECONCILIATION, HORTA STYLE ...............................................................................................................30
JAKARTA LOSING ITS CLOUT.......................................................................................................................30
(HORTA IN ) LUANDA DISCUSSES TIMOR ....................................................................................................30
ALKATIRI: JAKARTA, CANBERRA TRY TO CONTAIN OPPOSITION ................................................................30
STEP BY STEP POLICY..................................................................................................................................32
FLIRTING WITH THE EN EMY – FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS EAST TIMOR SEPARATISTS ...............................32
THREE CONDITIONS IMPOSED ON JAKARTA .............................................................................................33
INDONESIA PREPARES FOR APEC............................................................................................................. 33
EAST TIMOR OPEN TO FOREIGNERS ...........................................................................................................33
INDONESIA TO PERMIT FOREIGN REPORTERS TO VISIT EAST TIMOR.........................................................33
NO ROOM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AT APEC ....................................................................................................33
MORE BANS ON THE INDONESIAN MEDIA..................................................................................................34
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INDONESIA: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT EAST TIMOR, BUT SHOULD .................................................34
EAST TIMOR BRACES FOR FOREIGN JOURNALISTS.....................................................................................35
REPRESSION TIGHTENS IN JAKARTA .........................................................................................................36
TIGHTENING UP IN INDONESIA BEFORE THE APEC SUMMIT......................................................................36
INDONESIA CLAMPING TIGHT SECURITY ON APEC SUMMIT.......................................................................40
SUHARTO’S FREE TRADE POLICY A DIPLOMATIC TRADEOFF?....................................................................40
INDONESIA’S PHONY CLEANUP ..................................................................................................................41
AI REPORT “OPERATION CLEANSING” AND HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE EVE OF APEC..................................41
AMNESTY SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON JAKARTA................................................................................................42
GEORGE ADITJONDRO INTERROGATED .................................................................................................. 42
INDONESIA SUMMONS CONTROVERSIAL ACADEMIC..................................................................................42
INDONESIAN ACADEMIC IN TROUBLE AGAIN OVER E.T..............................................................................43
INDONESIAN ACADEMIC FACES POLICE HARASSMENT..............................................................................43
INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE ADITJONDRO ...................................................................................................43
INDONESIAN ACADEMIC SAYS BEING MADE SCAPEGOAT ..........................................................................44
AI URGENT ACTION ON GEORGE ADITJONDRO..........................................................................................44
FOLLOW-UP FROM AI, OCTOBER 12. AI FI369/94 ....................................................................................45
ADITJONDRO GETS SECOND POLICE SUMMONS........................................................................................45
ACADEMICS BACK JAKARTA CRITIC ...........................................................................................................46
AAAS ALERT ON GEORGE ADITJONDRO.....................................................................................................46
UPDATE ON ADITJONDRO...........................................................................................................................47
HE TOUCHED ON VERY CRITICAL MATTERS ................................................................................................47
CHRONOLOGY IN ADITJONDRO CASE........................................................................................................48
ADITJONDRO INTERROGATED FOR SIX HOURS..........................................................................................51
NINE HOURS MORE FOR ADITJONDRO.......................................................................................................52
ARIEF BUDIMAN FIRED FROM UKSW..........................................................................................................52
URGENT ACTION APPEAL FOR DR. ARIEF BUDIMAN ...............................................................................52
SUPPORT ARIEF, SUPPORT DEMOCRACY................................................................................................53
INTERROGATION “PREVENTIVE”..................................................................................................................53
JOSÉ ANTONIO NEVES GOES ON TRIAL ................................................................................................... 53
NEVES ON TRIAL IN MALANG.....................................................................................................................53
INDONESIA TRIES TIMORESE UNDERGROUND LEADER .............................................................................53
DEFENCE REBUTTAL....................................................................................................................................54
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS ....................................................................................................... 55
AMNESTY REPORT: INDONESIA & EAST TIMOR: POWER AND IMPUNITY ....................................................55
MARKED DETERIORATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN RECENT MONTHS ...................................56
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN .............................................................................57
ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING PILOT PROJECT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GOES ON LINE...........................58
OPENNESS IS ILLUSION, SAYS AMNESTY ....................................................................................................59
AI: POWER & IMPUNITY — EXCERPTS .........................................................................................................59
PIERRE SANE SPEECH ON INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................64
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T COMMENTS ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ......65
AMNESTY REPORT GETS THUMBS DOWN ....................................................................................................65
DEATHLY SILENCE OF THE DIPLOMATS......................................................................................................66
TIMOR GAP TREATY .................................................................................................................................. 68
100 MILLION BARREL OIL STRIKE IN TIMOR GAP........................................................................................68
AUSTRALIA ON TRIAL...................................................................................................................................68
“BUS THE TIMOR GAP” PROTEST, DARWIN ..................................................................................................68
OIL FIND RAISES STAKES IN COURT BATTLE...............................................................................................68
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INDONESIA FLAUNTS EAST TIMOR’S RESOURCES .......................................................................................69
UNITED NATIONS ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................... 69
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS 158-ITEM AGENDA FOR FORTY-NINTH REGULAR SESSION ..........................69
PERSONAL COMMITMENT FROM GHALI ON TIMOR.....................................................................................70
EVENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES.................................................................................................................... 70
WHY DO THEY IGNORE THE TRUTH OF EAST TIMOR? .................................................................................70
SOLIDARITY IN PHILIPPINES ......................................................................................................................71
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 71
WILL INDONESIA LISTEN?...........................................................................................................................71
IRISH P.M. IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................72
TIMOR TALKS..........................................................................................................................................72
DILI PROTESTERS PICKET SUTRISNO.........................................................................................................72
TIMOR APATHY A TRAGEDY, SAYS AUTHOR.................................................................................................72
AUSTRALIAN MPS TO VISIT EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................................73
‘TIMOR PROSPECTS GOOD’ - ACTIVIST........................................................................................................73
TIMOR SOLIDARITY GROUPS MEET............................................................................................................73
CALL FOR TOUGHER LINE ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................73
CNRM ON THE A.L.P. NATIONAL RESOLUTION ............................................................................................73
GARETH EVANS INTERVIEWED ON E. TIMOR ..............................................................................................74
YESTERDAY EAST TIMOR WAS ON THE AGENDA .........................................................................................74
EVANS BACKS TOUGH WORDS ON EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................75
WHITLAM ON EAST TIMOR: DISTORTING THE TRUTH..................................................................................75
AUSTRALIAN DAY OF ACTION FOR EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................77
RALLIES FOCUS ON AUSTRALIAN COMPLICITY............................................................................................77
WRITE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TO RAISE EAST TIMOR AT APEC ...........................................................78
CHOMSKY TO CHAMPION TIMOR ...............................................................................................................78
UPCOMING A.N.U. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.....................................................................................78
EAST TIMORESE BARRED FROM CONSULATE ..............................................................................................79
INDONESIA DENIES VISAS TO EAST TIMORESE ..........................................................................................79
LABOR’S BETRAYAL OF EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................................79
SURVIVOR OF DILI MASSACRE SEEKS REFUGE...........................................................................................80
EVENTS IN AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)................................................................................................... 80
NEW ZEALAND MPS TO VISIT TIMOR..........................................................................................................80
INFORMATION ON NZ MPS FACT-FINDING MISSION .............................................................................81
MINISTER (ALATAS) DEFENDS EAST TIMOR SITUATION ...............................................................................81
NZ MPS SEE DILI PRISONERS .....................................................................................................................81
EVENTS IN JAPAN...................................................................................................................................... 81
JAPANESE TV DOCUMENTARY .....................................................................................................................81
AMNESTY PRODS JAPAN ON TIMOR...........................................................................................................82
JAPAN MPS VISIT EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................................82
EAST TIMOR: REPRESSION CONTINUES ......................................................................................................83
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN INDONESIA, THE BIGGEST ODA RECIPIENT COUNTRY .........................................84
ASAHI ON DIET ET VISIT “MISINTERPRETED”..............................................................................................85
JAPANESE MPS URGE MURAYAMA & KONO: RAISE EAST TIMOR ISSUE AT APEC ........................................86
EAST TIMOR ON JAPANESE TV....................................................................................................................87
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 87
ASEAN SET TO BOOST ECONOMIC, POLITICAL TIES WITH E.U. ..................................................................87
EU-ASEAN MEET TODAY IN KARLSRUHE......................................................................................................88
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DEMONSTRATION AT EU-ASEAN MEETING BANNED....................................................................................88
AMNESTY, IN BELGIUM, URGES CLOSE INSPECTION OF ISLAND................................................................89
INT’L PARLIAMENT OF WRITERS TO SEND MISSION TO EAST TIMOR..........................................................89
RACHLAND NASHIDIK ADDRESSES PORTO CONFERENCE..........................................................................90
SALEH ABDULLAH PORTO SPEECH ..............................................................................................................90
PORTUGUESE 12 NOVEMBER ASSOCIATION PLANS.....................................................................................91
CAVACO SILVA: “TALKS SHOULD INCLUDE TIMORESE” ...............................................................................91
PRESIDENT (SOARES) SPEAKS OF TIMOR IN POLAND.................................................................................91
ELIZABETH BAGLEY’S DEBUT (AS U.S. AMBASSADOR IN LISBON)................................................................91
NEW DIRTY LAUNDRY ON THE ARMS FRONT (IN SWEDEN).........................................................................91
STOP OUR ARMS EXPORTS TO INDONESIA ............................................................................................92
EVENTS IN THE U.K................................................................................................................................... 92
BRITISH LEGISLATORS TO VISIT EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................92
BRITISH MPS PROBE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EAST TIMOR.............................................................................92
MORE PRAISE FOR INDONESIA FROM BRITISH MPS ..............................................................................93
BRITISH MP PATRICK NICHOLLS ON TIMOR TRIP .......................................................................................93
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIAN: ABRI SHOULD RECRUIT EAST TIMORESE..................................................94
NICHOLLS: INDONESIAN RIGHTS ...............................................................................................................94
BCET AND AI RESPOND: .........................................................................................................................94
STOP EXCUSING TYRANNY.....................................................................................................................95
BRITISH TIMOR CAMPAIGNERS TARGET ARMS TRADE................................................................................96
MAGUIRE SLAMS UK GOVERNMENT............................................................................................................96
MAIREAD MAGUIRE SPEAKS UP AGAIN...................................................................................................97
BRITISH CAMPAIGN: FOUR WEEKS FOR EAST TIMOR..................................................................................97
BRITAIN AIMS TO SELL HAWKS, SCORPIONS TO INDONESIA .....................................................................97
TANJUNG CONFIRMS SCORPIONS DEAL ................................................................................................97
PROPOSED UK SCORPIONS SALE TO INDONESIA GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO AN AGGRESSOR STATE ......97
HUMAN WRONGS IN INDONESIA................................................................................................................98
EVENTS IN IRELAND.................................................................................................................................. 98
RIGHTS ACTIVISTS CASTIGATE UNIONISTS OVER TRADE MISSION ............................................................98
CONCERN ON EAST TIMOR EXPRESSED .....................................................................................................99
ARMS SUPPLY TO INDONESIA “INTOLERABLE” ............................................................................................99
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH IN DUBLIN..........................................................................................99
IRISH FM SPRING URGED TO ACT ON EAST TIMOR................................................................................... 100
IRISH MPS INVITED TO EAST TIMOR TALKS .............................................................................................. 100
SENATOR MEETS PORTUGUESE GROUP DESPITE ILLNESS........................................................................ 100
EVENTS IN FRANCE ................................................................................................................................. 100
FRENCH “FOUR MONTHS FOR EAST TIMOR” CAMPAIGN REPORT.............................................................. 100
FRENCH “FORUM TIMOR” FORMED .......................................................................................................... 101
NEWSBRIEFS IN FRENCH PRESS.............................................................................................................. 101
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 102
CANADA: SIX MONTHS FOR EAST TIMOR! ................................................................................................. 102
FALL ACTION CALENDAR (ONTARIO / QUEBEC)......................................................................................... 103
NOAM CHOMSKY, JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA TO SPEAK ON EAST TIMOR ......................................................... 103
OTTAWA EYES LINKING AID TO FOREIGN DEFENCE COSTS.................................................................... 104
CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE ON APEC................................................................................. 104
ETAN/CANADA MEDIA ADVISORY ON APEC .............................................................................................. 105
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EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 105
PORTUGUESE GOV’T HIRES LOBBY IN WASHINGTON ............................................................................... 105
DURÃO BARROSO: U.S. ATTENTIVE TO SITUATION IN EAST TIMOR ........................................................... 105
URGE REPRESENTATIVES TO SIGN LETTERS ............................................................................................. 106
SUPPORT WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN INDONESIA....................................................................................... 107
HUFFINGTON AND THE TORTURERS ......................................................................................................... 108
SIDEBAR: FEINSTEIN’S INDONESIA PROBLEM...................................................................................... 110
SUHARTO’S CANDIDATE (HUFFINGTON)............................................................................................... 110
US ‘DISMAYED’ OVER MAGAZINE SUSPENSION ........................................................................................ 110
AMERICANS TO INVEST IN TUNA FISHERY INFRASTRUCTURE IN EAST TIMOR.......................................... 111
CLINTON TO BRING EAST TIMOR TO SUHARTO ......................................................................................... 111
RESTART THE RIGHTS CLOCK IN INDONESIA........................................................................................... 111
P.R. FIRM PUSHES INDONESIA ................................................................................................................. 112
CALL CLINTON ON NOVEMBER 7: EAST TIMOR MUST BE FREE.................................................................. 112
NETWORK NEWS (ETAN/US NEWSLETTER), NOV. 1994.............................................................................. 112
NOVEMBER 14-16: CLINTON HEADS TO INDONESIA............................................................................. 112
ETAN STEERING COMMITTEE MEETS .................................................................................................... 113
CONGRESS LIMITS ARMS SALES AND MILITARY TRAINING FOR INDONESIA....................................... 113
INDONESIAN SCHOLAR EXPOSES OCCUPATION’S IMPACT.................................................................. 113
EAST TIMOR NETWORK URGES PRESIDENT CLINTON TO SPEAK OUT....................................................... 114
CLINTON WILL RAISE HUMAN RIGHTS WITH SUHARTO ............................................................................ 115
EAST TIMOR MAY BE RAISED AS SHAREHOLDER ISSUE ............................................................................ 115
SENATORS WRITE CLINTON ...................................................................................................................... 117
GEN. SINTONG PANJAITAN OWES $14 MILLION .................................................................................... 117
FEDERAL COURT IN BOSTON TO HEAR TESTIMONY ON 1991 MASSACRE.................................................. 117
HOLDING THE INDONESIA MILITARY ACCOUNTABLE ............................................................................... 118
MOTHER TO COLLECT DAMAGES FOR EAST TIMOR MASSACRE................................................................ 118
INDONESIAN SUED FOR ROLE IN EAST TIMOR MASSACRE....................................................................... 118
SPOTLIGHT ON 1991 EAST TIMOR MASSACRE ........................................................................................... 119
HELEN TODD’S SUIT HAS BROADER IMPLICATIONS............................................................................. 119
US COURT RULES $14 MILLION AGAINST INDONESIAN GENERAL ............................................................ 120
INDONESIA GENERAL SAYS COURT VERDICT A “JOKE” ............................................................................ 120
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 121
ALL IN THE FAMILY AVAILABLE IN U.S........................................................................................................ 121
TIMOR RAP ................................................................................................................................................ 121
TIMORNET: INTERNET INFORMATION RESOURCE ON EAST TIMOR .......................................................... 121
TIMOR IN MAINSTREAM FILM.................................................................................................................... 122
GEO ON EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................................. 122
NEW BOOKLET: STOP ARMING INDONESIA............................................................................................... 122
INNOVATIVE THEATRE TAKES UP EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................... 122
INT’L FEDERATION FOR EAST TIMOR........................................................................................................ 122

Contents:

• East Timor: Interrupted Decolonization of a People with its Own Identity
• East Timor in the United Nations and the Portuguese Position Until 1986
• 1986, A Turning Point
• The First Symposium on Timor of Oporto University - September 1989 - and the Consolidation of Nationalist Convergence
• II Symposium on Timor of Oporto University - April-May 1990: - Strengthening Hope, In Spite of Difficulties
• III Symposium on Timor of OU - May 1991 - Or the Appeal to the Vatican for a More Coherent Commitment to the Defense of the Human and National Rights of the Timorese
• IV Symposium on Timor of OU - April 92 - and the Santa Cruz Massacre
• V Symposium on Timor of OU - July 1993 - From the Arrest of De Maximum Leader of the Maubere Resistance, Xanana Gusmào, to Cooperation with Indonesia Democrats
• The Asia/Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET), which took place in Manila - from 31 May to 4 June 1994
• The Iserlohn Conference - 30 September to 2 October 1994 - and the Development of German Solidarity with East Timor
• VI Symposium on Timor of OU - 4 October 1994 to 26 March 1995 - Portuguese Universities take on a Growing Commitment and Propose a Grater Degree of Internationalization

Nettalk newsletter, Update 5, October 1995

• Bella's Story (Bella Galhos)
• Commemoration of the December 7th Invasion of East Timor
• In East Timor: The Repression Deepens
• Another date to remember: 12 November [...] anniversary of the Santa Cruz Massacre
• NZ Policy
• New Zealand/Indonesia Military Training Links
• Concerns within Indonesia
• United Nations Action (UN organises first meeting of East Timorese)
• Jose Ramos Horta's visit
• About CNRM
• International News (Australia, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Great Britain, The US, Africa, Ireland, Holland, Canada, Norway)
• Timor Gap Oil - World Court "Indecision"
• Real Politik v. the Law of Nations
• News from around New Zealand... (Napier, Dunedin, Wellington, Whangarei, Auckland, Otautahi)
• From "Omomo Melen Pacific"
• About ETRA
• What you can do...
• What do you think of this letter?
• Carmel Budiardjo honoured
• Radio Programme in East Timor
• Keeping Informed (Recent Publications, Periodicals, Internet resources)
• Donations

EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................................. 4
SYAHNAKRI: “IF THEY COME OUT AGAIN, I’LL CUT THEM TO PIECES”.........................................................4
INDONESIA TO DEPORT JOURNALISTS FROM EAST TIMOR..........................................................................4
TIMOR BISHOP TELLS SECURITY FORCES TO BE HUMANE...........................................................................4
BBC SAYS DOZENS TORTURED IN DILI .........................................................................................................5
(CHINESE) BOAT PEOPLE FOUND IN E. TIMOR ..............................................................................................5
EAST TIMOR’S NEWSPAPER VANDALISED BY PRO-GOVERNMENT YOUTH GROUP .......................................5
FRUSTRATIONS OF A PARTICIPANT (MANUEL CARRASCALÃO).......................................................................6
THE REPRESSION WILL BE RESUMED IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS ...............................................................9
MORE OIL FOUND IN TIMOR SEA ...............................................................................................................12
FEAR FOR TORTURED TIMORESE ACTIVIST .................................................................................................12
EAST TIMOR’S BISHOP NOMINATED FOR NOBEL.........................................................................................12
INDONESIAN SOLDIER’S DIARY.................................................................................................................13
XANANA GUSMÃO END OF YEAR MESSAGE TO EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY SUPPORTERS .............................14
RIOTS ERUPT AS EAST TIMORESE TURN ON MIGRANT TRADERS ................................................................16
FIVE KILLED IN EAST TIMORESE UNREST....................................................................................................16
BISHOP REPORTS ON INDONESIAN REPRESSION ......................................................................................16
MORE BAUCAU DETAILS ..............................................................................................................................17
EAST TIMOR ON EVE OF THE TALKS ...........................................................................................................17
RADIO AUSTRALIA ON MONDAY’S EVENTS IN DILI .....................................................................................18
CNRM STATEMENT ON VIOLENCE AND TRANSMIGRATION .........................................................................18
24 ARRESTED IN DILI ..................................................................................................................................19
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Reprinting and distribution without permission is welcomed.
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Solidarity Campaign, and other activists and solidarity groups, but they are not responsible for edi -
torial comment or selection.
Page 2 East Timor Documents, Volume 34. December 1, 1994 - January 16, 1995.
WIDESPREAD TENSION IN EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................................19
AI URGENT ACTION ON DILI ARRESTS .......................................................................................................20
FOREIGN VISITORS TO BE SCREENED .......................................................................................................21
SIX TIMORESE PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE........................................................................................21
MORE INDONESIAN LIES: MILITARY MURDERS 6 EAST TIMORESE CIVILIANS; 4 ABRI TROOPS KILLED .....22
AI ALERT ON CELSO OLIVEIRA ...................................................................................................................22
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 23
VOA: RIGHTS SITUATION WORSENS – YLBHI...............................................................................................23
VOA: CHECHNYA AND EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................23
ABILIO ARAUJO TO THANK SUHARTO .........................................................................................................24
TIMORESE ARRESTED IN JAKARTA, WEST PAPUA........................................................................................24
RAP R.I.P. ....................................................................................................................................................24
ADITJONDRO HARASSMENT CONTINUES ................................................................................................. 24
INDONESIAN SUPPORTER OF EAST TIMORESE INDEPENDENCE ...............................................................24
UPDATE ON ADITJONDRO CASE.................................................................................................................25
ADITJONDRO TESTIFIES AT NEVES TRIAL ..................................................................................................25
NEW POLICE SUMMONS FOR ADITJONDRO...............................................................................................26
ADITJONDRO WANTS SUMMONS POSTPONED............................................................................................26
AI ALERT ON POSSIBLE ADITJONDRO ARREST............................................................................................26
COMPREHENSIVE ARTICLES & EDITORIALS............................................................................................ 27
COMING YEAR ‘CRUCIAL’ FOR EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................27
ASIAWEEK EDITORIAL: “TIMOR’S PAIN”.......................................................................................................28
EAST TIMOR — IT’S HOT BUT NOT BOILING................................................................................................29
EAST TIMORESE WOMEN TODAY ................................................................................................................31
EXPATRIATE TELLS OF CONTINUING HORRORS FACING EAST TIMOR ........................................................32
RAMOS HORTA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TIMOR’S FUTURE..................................................................................32
VOA: EAST TIMOR’S FUTURE........................................................................................................................32
INDONESIA- OUTLOOK: TEMPERED CELEBRATIONS IN 1995 ......................................................................35
KOMPAS REVIEWS THE YEAR FOR EAST TIMOR...........................................................................................35
APEC, THE UNITED STATES & EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................36
UN RAPPORTEURS REPORT, VISIT AGAIN................................................................................................. 39
RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS VISITS INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR..............................39
FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT BY THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR.........................................................................41
UN ENVOY TO GO TO EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................................53
TIMORESE WILL MEET ONLY AFTER JANUARY............................................................................................53
LOBBYING AT UPCOMING UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ....................................................................54
FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN GENEVA................................................................................................... 54
ALATAS: INDONESIA SEEKS COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT......................................................................54
VOA: ALATAS TIMOR COMMENTARY.............................................................................................................54
VOA: UNSG TIGHT ON TIMOR MEETING.....................................................................................................55
SMALL NOTES ON EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................55
VOA - TIMOR TALKS’ LIMITED OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................57
UNSG COMMUNIQUÉ ON EAST TIMOR TALKS..............................................................................................57
BBC ON GENEVA MEETING..........................................................................................................................58
INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL ‘MAKE PROGRESS’ IN TALKS..........................................................................58
INDONESIA, PORTUGAL AGREE TO NEW ALL-INCLUSIVE TALKS.................................................................59
LISBON SAYS OF EAST TIMOR THAT ‘TIME IS ON OUR SIDE’ .....................................................................60
JAKARTA WARY OF FULL INDEPENDENCE TALKS ........................................................................................60
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NOTES ON MEETING IN GENEVA.................................................................................................................60
ALATAS: HORTA CAN TALK (BUT NOT POLITICAL ISSUES) ............................................................................61
JIM DUNN’S THOUGHTS ON GENEVA MEETING..........................................................................................61
EVENTS IN ASIA......................................................................................................................................... 62
KOREAN DEMONSTRATION FOR EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................62
MALAYSIA’S ATTACK ON WEST LACKS BITE .................................................................................................63
CNRM MESSAGE TO WORLD YOUTH, MANILA .............................................................................................63
EVENTS IN UK AND IRELAND ................................................................................................................... 64
INDONESIA USES THE NICHOLLS DELEGATION..........................................................................................64
MOTION IN IRISH SENATE ..........................................................................................................................65
BRITISH PEACE ACTIVIST TO SPEAK AT DUBLIN COMMEMORATION VIGIL .................................................66
SOME ATROCITIES ATTRACT A BLIND EYE..................................................................................................66
HUGH O’SHAUGHNESSY ON RTE WORLD REPORT......................................................................................67
BRITISH ANTI-HAWKS COALITION MEETING...............................................................................................67
CATHOLIC CHURCH SELLS BAE SHARES ....................................................................................................68
JOURNALISTS IN THE LINE OF FIRE...........................................................................................................68
M.E.P CALLS FOR UN OFFICE IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................68
THE TRIAL OF THE “WARTON FOUR”...........................................................................................................68
TIMORESE STUDENT FOR N.U.S. HONORARY PRESIDENT...........................................................................68
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 69
HORTA GIVES PORTUGAL TWO MONTHS.....................................................................................................69
TIMOR DIFFICULT TO PASS IN COUNCIL OF EUROPE? ................................................................................70
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IN PARIS....................................................................................................................70
LETTER TO BILL CLINTON (FROM PORTUGUESE ACTIVISTS)........................................................................70
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 71
CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARY LETTERS ON EAST TIMOR...............................................................................71
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 71
PILGER CALLS FOR ESCALATION OF EAST TIMOR CAMPAIGN .....................................................................71
INTERVIEW: JOHN PILGER..........................................................................................................................72
DECEMBER 7 IN DARWIN AND AUSTRALIA..................................................................................................74
DARWIN AND DILI UNIVERSITIES TO COOPERATE......................................................................................75
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM............................................................................................................................75
INDONESIA AND REGIONAL CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION .........................................................................75
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.............................................................................................................. 75
(PORTUGUESE) GOVERNMENT PAYS (WASHINGTON) LOBBY.......................................................................75
DECEMBER 7TH: “A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY”... IN EAST TIMOR..................................................75
DECEMBER 7 PROTESTS TO MARK 19TH ANNIVERSARY ..............................................................................76
INDONESIA PICKING U.S. SITE FOR PLANE PLANT.....................................................................................76
CSM: KEEP PRESSING JAKARTA..................................................................................................................77
FORGETTING TIMOR....................................................................................................................................77
A WITNESS TO U.S. SUPPORTED HORROR (ALLAN NAIRN)..........................................................................77
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................... 78
“QUITO” - OPERA IN SYDNEY ......................................................................................................................78
AETA CALENDAR ..........................................................................................................................................79
EAST TIMOR EXHIBITION VISITS IPSWICH..................................................................................................79
EAST TIMOR AND THE MEDIA......................................................................................................................79

HISTORICAL ISSUES.................................................................................................................................. 11
THE BALIBO DECLARATIONS - HOW MANY ARE THERE AND WHO WROTE THEM? ......................................11
THE BALIBO DECLARATION.....................................................................................................................12
INDONESIAN TERMS DILI KILLINGS AN “ACCIDENT”..................................................................................15
INVASION OF TIMOR: THE US “ANTENNA”...................................................................................................15
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 16
JOURNALIST EXPELLED FROM EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................16
ALL SEEING ARMY HOLDS FORT IN EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................16
UPDATE ON INTERNAL SITUATION OF EAST TIMOR.....................................................................................17
INTERVIEW WITH AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR ALLAN TAYLOR................................................................17
NINJA JUSTICE............................................................................................................................................18
DEJA VU ......................................................................................................................................................18
NEW APPROACH IN EAST TIMOR NEEDED ..................................................................................................19
INDONESIA STEPS UP MILITARY PRESENCE IN DILI ...................................................................................20
1995 MAY BE TIMOR WATERSHED................................................................................................................20
ABRI SETS UP GUARD TO DEFEND INTEGRASI ............................................................................................20
TENSION RISES AFTER UN RESCHEDULES TIMORESE TALKS......................................................................21
CIVILIANS TO RECEIVE MILITARY TRAINING...............................................................................................21
REPORT OF US PROTESTANT DELEGATION TO TIMOR.................................................................................21
INDONESIA’S “CLANDESTINE” LISTS ...........................................................................................................22
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on East Timor. Checks should be made out to “ETAN.”
The material is grouped by subject, with articles under each category in approximately chronological
order. It is also available on IBM-compatible diskette, in either Word for Windows or ASCII format.
Reprinting and distribution without permission is welcomed.
Much of this information is translated and supplied by TAPOL and BCET (London), Task Force Indonesia (USA), CDPM (Lisbon), CNRM, Free East Timor Japan Coalition, Mate-Bian News (Sydney), East
Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign, ETIC (Aotearoa), Australians for a Free East Timor (Darwin) and
other activists and solidarity groups, but they are not responsible for editorial comment or selection.
Page 2 East Timor Documents, Volumes 36-37. March 13 - June 26, 1995.
TWO EAST TIMOR REBELS KILLED IN SHOOT-OUT......................................................................................22
EARTHQUAKE IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................................22
NURSE FEARED FOR LIFE IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................23
EYEWITNESS REPORT ON OCCUPIED EAST TIMOR.................................................................................23
SOLDIER KILLED IN VIQUEQUE...................................................................................................................24
GUERRILLA CAPTURED ................................................................................................................................24
KILLED IN JAIL UNDER TORTURE - RUMOR FALSE......................................................................................24
FILOMENO DOS SANTOS IS NOT DEAD ..................................................................................................24
INDONESIA REPLACES EAST TIMOR MILITARY COMMANDER .....................................................................25
COL. M. SIMBOLON PLEDGES TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS ..................................................................25
SOCIAL PROBLEMS DOMINATE EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................................26
EAST TIMOR’S REQUEST FOR RIGHTS BRANCH HAILED ..............................................................................26
INDONESIA RIGHTS BODY TO OPEN OFFICE IN EAST TIMOR.................................................................26
PROTESTANT VOICE RAISED IN SUPPORT OF TIMOR ..................................................................................26
STATEMENT OF THE REVEREND ARLINDO MARCAL................................................................................27
POLICE WARN AGAINST PROTESTS DURING TALKS ....................................................................................28
INDONESIA PAPERS LOOK TO PAGE CUTS, PRICE RISES............................................................................28
TEACHING JOBS AT UNTIM..........................................................................................................................28
ALATAS DEFENDS HUMAN-RIGHTS RECORD IN E. TIMOR..........................................................................29
ALATAS SEEKS EAST TIMORESE YOUTH’S SUPPORT IN DILI ........................................................................30
ALI ALATAS: WOULD RAMOS HORTA REALLY DARE TO COME TO EAST TIMOR?...........................................30
RAMOS HORTA COMMENTS ON ALI ALATAS’ DILI INTERVIEW ................................................................31
TIMORESE LIVE IN POVERTY .......................................................................................................................31
INDONESIAN MILITARY ATTACK DILI RELIGIOUS PROCESSION .................................................................32
IMPROVE TIMOR SCENE: ALATAS ................................................................................................................32
RECENT ARRESTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS IN EAST TIMOR........................................................................33
THE “AUTONOMY” QUESTION ................................................................................................................... 33
HOME MINISTER RULES OUT SPECIAL STATUS............................................................................................33
SPECIAL STATUS FOR ET ?...........................................................................................................................33
SUHARTO ‘MOVEMENT’ ON TIMOR?.............................................................................................................34
EAST TIMOR - SUHARTO PROPOSES SPECIAL STATUS.................................................................................34
INDONESIA’S SUHARTO INCREASES AUTONOMY FOR SOME DISTRICTS ....................................................34
‘AUTONOMY’ FOR TIMOR DISTRICT ........................................................................................................34
EAST TIMOR: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATION ................................................................................................34
COMMENT FROM PAULO TEIXEIRA: ........................................................................................................36
LIQUICA KILLINGS REVERBERATE ........................................................................................................... 36
CIVIL SERVANTS IN LIQUICA FACE DISMISSAL ...........................................................................................36
MAJ. GEN. ADANG SPEAKS HIS MIND.........................................................................................................36
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES: COMMISSION TREADS SOFTLY ON TIMOR KILLINGS ....................................37
RUMOURED DISMISSAL OF 5 OFFICERS OVER LIQUICA..............................................................................38
MILITARY HONOUR COUNCIL VERDICT ON LIQUICA KILLINGS ..................................................................38
INDONESIAN ARMY CHIEF WARNS OF SECURITY THREATS ........................................................................39
INDONESIA COURT-MARTIALING TWO SOLDIERS.......................................................................................39
TWO OFFICERS FACE COURT MARTIALS .................................................................................................39
I KILLED TIMOR SIX: SOLDIER ....................................................................................................................39
LIEUTENANT ADMITS GIVING ORDER TO KILL DETAINEES .........................................................................39
OFFICER FACES JAIL IN TIMOR KILLINGS...................................................................................................40
SOLDIERS FACES SIX YEARS OVER LIQUICA KILLINGS..........................................................................40
SOLDIERS IN LIQUICA KILLING SEEK ACQUITTALS.....................................................................................41
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SOLDIER JAILED OVER LIQUICA KILLING...................................................................................................41
INDONESIAN SOLDIER JAILED FOR EAST TIMOR DEATHS.....................................................................42
XANANA GUSMÃO ACTIVE......................................................................................................................... 42
XANANA’S LETTER TO ASIA-PACIFIC CONFEREN CE ON EAST TIMOR...........................................................42
INDEPENDEN INTERVIEWS XANANA GUSMÃO ............................................................................................43
XANANA GUSMÃO AND THE PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT...................................................................45
XANANA LETTER TO AKSI ............................................................................................................................46
TO: WENDY ROBERTSON, RESISTANCE SOCIALIST YOUTH ORGANISATION, APRIL 23...........................46
XANANA ILL.................................................................................................................................................46
XANANA GETS CHECK-UP AT CAROLUS.......................................................................................................47
XANANA TO GET CHECK-UP....................................................................................................................47
REUTER ON XANANA CHECK-UP.............................................................................................................47
DETAINED INDEPENDENCE LEADER TRANSFERRED TO HOSPITAL........................................................47
XANANA GUSMÃO HEALTH UPDATE.............................................................................................................48
XANANA WRITES AKSI- EAST TIMOR DAY OF NATIONAL ACTION ................................................................48
XANANA GUSMÃO STATEMENT AT PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE.............................................................49
XANANA TO BE INDULTED? .........................................................................................................................54
CLEMENCY FOR XANANA NOT UNDER CONSIDERATION .......................................................................54
RESISTANCE LEADERS MEET AND SPEAK OUT ....................................................................................... 55
A PORTUGUESE CITIZEN (DOMINGOS SARMENTO ALVES INTERVIEW) .......................................................55
STUDENTS TAKE LEAD IN EAST TIMOR RESISTANCE..............................................................................57
CNRM ON DEATH PENALTY FOR FLOR CONTEMPLACION............................................................................58
TIMORESE SUMMIT MEETING......................................................................................................................58
DIPLOMATIC FRONT PREPARES FOR ACTION ..............................................................................................58
TIMORESE RESISTANCE CONFERENCE REINFORCES UNITY ..................................................................59
TIMOR’S INDEPENDENCE: XANANA AND XIMENES MUST BE INVOLVED ....................................................59
‘KEEP STRUGGLING’: THE SPIRIT OF THE EAST TIMORESE UNDERGROUND ..............................................60
ET STUDENT ORGANISATION CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY ................................................................................61
GENEROUS LIES..........................................................................................................................................61
RAMOS HORTA: ALATAS’S ALBATROSS.........................................................................................................63
ALATAS RESPONDS: TALL TALES .............................................................................................................64
BISHOP BELO IN EUROPE ......................................................................................................................... 64
BISHOP BELO TO VISIT PORTUGAL..............................................................................................................64
BELO: INDONESIANS ARE WORSE THAN COMMUNISTS AND ATHEISTS......................................................64
THE SHY BISHOP WITH MANY HEADACHES............................................................................................66
SOARES BACKS EAST TIMOR BISHOP .........................................................................................................67
BELO TO PORTUGAL AND SALZBURG “ON VATICAN ORDERS” ....................................................................67
BELO PRAYS FOR SALZBURG TALKS ............................................................................................................67
XIMENES BELO CAUTIOUS IN MADRID.......................................................................................................68
TIMOR - IN BETWEEN THE LINES ................................................................................................................68
DURÃO’S SECRET MEETING WITH XIMENES BELO ......................................................................................68
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE DYING OUT IN TIMOR – BISHOP.........................................................................69
BELO: NO RESOURCES TO REINTRODUCE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE.....................................................69
BISHOP WITH CHARISMA TO UNITE SQUABBLING TIMORESE FACTIONS....................................................71
BELO SEEN AS MISREPRESENTING STRUGGLE AS A RELIGIOUS WAR ...................................................71
JOHN PAUL II ADDRESSES NEW INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR ....................................................................72
EAST TIMORESE PRISONERS AND THEIR TRIALS ................................................................................... 72
COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ASKS FOR REDUCED SENTENCES FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS ..........72
TRIAL OF 13 TIMORESE DEMONSTRATORS STARTED...................................................................................72
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COURT TRIES DEMONSTRATOR ..............................................................................................................72
TIMORESE JAILED FOR JANUARY PROTEST.................................................................................................72
EAST TIMOR DISSIDENTS JAILED ...........................................................................................................72
INDONESIA POLICE ARREST 4 EAST TIMORESE ..........................................................................................73
17 EAST TIMORESE FACE TRIAL ON NINJA ISSUE........................................................................................73
JOSÉ ANTONIO BELO JAILED ......................................................................................................................73
INDONESIAN ‘LEGAL’ PROCESS (J.A. BELO TRIAL)..................................................................................73
30 EAST TIMORESE YOUTHS ARRESTED. .....................................................................................................74
LETTER FROM TIMORESE PRISONERS IN EAST JAVA (MALANG AND SEMARANG) .......................................74
HENRIQUE BELMIRO ON TRIAL ...................................................................................................................75
COURT SENTENCES THREE “NINJAS” TO FIVE MONTHS JAIL......................................................................75
TIMORESE REFUGEES TRY TO GET OUT .................................................................................................. 76
HONG KONG & TIMORESE REFUGEES ........................................................................................................76
THE PASSAGE TO FREEDOM ........................................................................................................................76
700 TIMORESE ASK ASYLUM IN OZ..............................................................................................................77
ABIDIN: NO LONGER CITIZENS..............................................................................................................77
EAST TIMORESE REFUSED ASYLUM ........................................................................................................78
CHINESE BUSINESSMEN LEAVE TIMOR.......................................................................................................78
EAST TIMOR ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ TO DARWIN.....................................................................................................79
NAMES OF YOUNG EAST TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE SEEKING REFUGE IN AUSTRALIA.............................79
HABIBIE ANGERED BY ARRIVAL OF EAST TIMORESE REFUGEES .................................................................79
EAST TIMOR REFUGEES POSE DILEMMA FOR CANBERRA............................................................................80
RED CROSS WARNS OTHERS MAY FOLLOW EAST TIMORESE......................................................................80
PORTUGAL SAYS E. TIMORESE AT RISK IF RETURNED HOME......................................................................81
DARWIN’S FIGHT FOR REFUGEES................................................................................................................81
EAST TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE MOVED FROM DARWIN TO ISOLATED LOCATION .......................................81
LETTER TO DARWIN’S IMMIGRATION DEPT. ................................................................................................82
LET THE EAST TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE STAY!.............................................................................................83
TIMORESE CAN RETURN: ARMY...................................................................................................................83
A BLOOD BOND PAID IN SHAME .................................................................................................................84
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 84
ARAUJO: “ENOUGH OF ALL THIS SUFFERING...”..........................................................................................84
PERSISTENT THORN IN THE FLESH.............................................................................................................86
SUHARTO’S NEW CRACKDOWN ...................................................................................................................87
MORE STUDENT LEADERS ARRESTED IN INDONESIA.................................................................................88
MARSINAH CASE FRAME-UP FOILED?..........................................................................................................89
MAY DAY MARCHERS BASHED IN INDONESIA ............................................................................................89
POLITICAL TIDE IS TURNING SLOWLY.........................................................................................................89
EAST TIMOR’S YOUTH TRAPPED IN TWILIGHT WORLD ................................................................................90
AN AMERICAN SCHOLAR INTERROGATED ...................................................................................................90
BOB HEFNER ARRESTED BY JAKARTA POLICE........................................................................................90
PORTUGUESE INVITED TO YOUTH MARCH ..................................................................................................91
INDONESIAN PRESS HARASSED................................................................................................................ 91
POLICE RAID AJI .........................................................................................................................................91
IFJ CONDEMNS INDONESIA ‘CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION’..................................................................91
JOURNALISTS’ ARRESTS SIGNAL NEW PRESS CRACKDOWN IN INDONESIA..........................................92
MEDIA AGAINST MEDIA, JOURNALIST AGAINST JOURNALIST.....................................................................92
JOURNALISTS ARRESTED IN JAKARTA ........................................................................................................93
GOVERNMENT ASKS EDITORS TO FIRE AJI JOURNALISTS ..........................................................................93
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BULLETINS VERSUS BULLETS: THE POLITICS OF THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN INDONESIA........................94
IFJ: CRACKDOWN CREATES FEAR ...............................................................................................................95
OPEN LETTER FROM IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS .......................................................................................95
JOURNALISTS WRITE FROM PRISON ......................................................................................................96
PRESS FREEDOM IN INDONESIA DETERIORATING.....................................................................................96
TEMPO WINS CASE AGAINST HARMOKO......................................................................................................97
TEMPO AND PRESS FREEDOM DAY .........................................................................................................97
TEMPO COURT ORDER............................................................................................................................98
THE HAZARDOUS BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM IN INDONESIA....................................................................98
PRAMUDYA’S BOOK ON BURU BANNED .......................................................................................................99
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BANNING OF INDONESIAN PUBLICATIONS MARKED ....................................99
PRESS CLOSURES IN INDONESIA ONE YEAR LATER...............................................................................99
OPPRESSION IN WEST PAPUA, FLORES .................................................................................................. 101
MINING PROTESTS MET WITH MASSACRE................................................................................................. 101
MORE KILLINGS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITHIN THE FREEPORT CONCESSION AREA ......................... 102
KILLINGS AND TORTURE IN FLORES ......................................................................................................... 103
MAUMERE RELIGIOUS PROVOCATIONS................................................................................................ 104
ANTI-CATHOLIC VIOLENCE IN INDONESIA........................................................................................... 104
FLORES RIOTS ...................................................................................................................................... 104
GREENS ATTACK INACTION ON WEST PAPUA KILLINGS ........................................................................... 104
GEORGE ADITJONDRO IN EXILE ............................................................................................................ 105
BORDERING THE UNREPRESENTED: OR, WHY IS THERE A FOURTH WORLD MOVEMENT ?...................... 105
SCHOLAR SPEAKS ON INDONESIAN DEMOCRACY.................................................................................... 106
RE-THINKING THE CONCEPT OF “MELANESIA” ......................................................................................... 107
LBH: ADITJONDRO MAY FACE TRIAL ......................................................................................................... 107
OZ ACADEMICS APPEAL FOR GEORGE ADITJONDRO................................................................................ 107
DEVELOPMENT? YES? HUMAN RIGHTS? NO! ............................................................................................. 108
INDONESIA TO ASK INTERPOL FOR HELP ON ACADEMIC......................................................................... 109
GEORGE ADITJONDRO INTERVIEW........................................................................................................... 110
ACTIVIST HANDOVER REJECTED............................................................................................................... 110
OZ SAYS NO TO GJA ARREST................................................................................................................ 110
TIMOR ACTIVIST IN BI D TO STAY HERE..................................................................................................... 110
CONFLICTING PRESSURES ON ACTIVIST ADITJONDRO ............................................................................ 111
U.N. ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSES .......................................................................................................... 112
INDONESIA CONTESTS UN REPORT ON TIMOR......................................................................................... 112
EYE ON ASIA: “A UN REPORT ON EAST TIMOR; 1991 SHOOTING WAS ‘A PLANNED MILITARY OPERATION’”112
ALATAS-BARROSO MEETING DELAYED ALSO (PROPOSED) ........................................................................ 113
TRIPARTITE UN TALKS ON EAST TIMOR POSTPONED ........................................................................... 113
BOUTROS-GHALI VISITS JAKARTA............................................................................................................. 113
ET LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY DECLARATION TO BOUTROS GHALI .......................................................... 114
SECURITY TIGHTENED FOR BBG VISIT ................................................................................................. 114
UN CHIEF BELIEVES EAST TIMOR TALKS MAKING PROGRESS................................................................... 114
UN SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT EAST TIMOR RESOLUTION............................................................ 114
TIMORESE MEET UN SECRETARY-GENERAL .............................................................................................. 114
UN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES REPORT OF PORTUGAL.......... 115
ALL-INCLUSIVE TIMORESE DIALOGUE................................................................................................... 115
UN BRINGS TIMORESE TOGETHER; MEETING SET FOR APRIL IN SALZBURG ............................................ 115
ABILIO ARAUJO CRITICAL OF UN.............................................................................................................. 115
TIMOR: TALKS IN JEOPARDY..................................................................................................................... 116
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TIMOR TALKS’ PARTICIPANTS .................................................................................................................... 116
ALATAS ON INTER-TIMORESE TALKS......................................................................................................... 116
JAKARTA BACKS TIMOR TALKS DESPITE UN PUSH: ALATAS.................................................................. 116
ANTI-UN DEMONSTRATION IN DILI TOMORROW ...................................................................................... 117
MOVE TO SABOTAGE UN TALKS ............................................................................................................ 117
EAST TIMORESE RALLIED TO OPPOSE TALKS ....................................................................................... 117
ADANG WARNS AGAINST CHAOS IN APRIL ............................................................................................... 117
INDONESIA’S LATEST EAST TIMOR MANOEUVRES: SALZBURG INTRA-TIMORESE MEETING POSTPONED . 117
HORTA: INDONESIA IS NOT INTERESTED IN INTER-TIMORESE TALKS ..................................................... 118
RESISTANCE CHALLENGE TO DURÃO ........................................................................................................ 119
“SETTLEMENT FOR TIMOR - ONLY WITH XANANA AND XIMENES” (RAMOS HORTA) .................................. 119
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE CITIES CONDEMN TALKS DELAY ...................................................................... 120
CRITICISM AND EXPLANATIONS ............................................................................................................... 120
BELO TO PARTICIPATE IN UN TALKS......................................................................................................... 121
INTERVIEW WITH MARIO CARRASCALÃO .................................................................................................. 121
FORMER EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR ON XANANA.................................................................................... 122
ALL-INCLUSIVE INTRA-EAST-TIMORESE DIALOGUE SCHEDULED FOR 2-5 JUNE IN AUSTRIA.................... 122
INDONESIAN CRITICS TO ATTEND UN’S TIMOR TALKS ............................................................................. 122
EAST TIMORESE WELCOME FRESH TALKS................................................................................................. 123
TIMOR RESISTANCE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT AUSTRIA MEETING .............................................................. 123
AN ASSESSMENT OF “ALL INCLUSIVE INTRA EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE” ................................................ 123
THREAT TO QUIT AT EAST TIMOR TALKS.................................................................................................... 125
CALL FOR INDONESIA PULLOUT AT EAST TIMOR TALKS............................................................................ 125
FORMER TIMORESE ENEMIES MAKE PEACE.............................................................................................. 126
EAST TIMOR ACTIVISTS UPBEAT AFTER TALKS IN AUSTRIA........................................................................ 126
E TIMOR TALKS RESULT IN CONSENSUS................................................................................................... 126
INTRA-EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE ADOPTS ‘BURG SCHLAINING DECLARATION’ ..................................... 127
TIMOR DIALOG ENDS, MORE TALKS AHEAD.............................................................................................. 127
LOPES DA CRUZ ON TALKS........................................................................................................................ 128
ALATAS CAUTIOUS ON NEW TIMOR DIALOG PROSPECTS.......................................................................... 128
ALATAS ON TALKS................................................................................................................................. 128
ALATAS: NO LOSER IN EAST TIMOR DIALOG......................................................................................... 128
LOPES DA CRUZ: “I WAS CHEATED BY RAMOS HORTA” ............................................................................. 129
ETRA REPORT ON AUSTRIA EAST TIMOR MEETING.................................................................................... 129
CNRM STATEMENT ON INTRA-EAST TIMORESE DIALOGUE AND ‘BURG SCHLAINING’ DECLARATION ....... 132
SELF CONFIDENCE VITAL OVER E TIMOR.................................................................................................. 132
EAST TIMOR NEGOTIATIONS COULD NOW BE ENTERING DECISIVE PHASE ............................................. 133
TIMOR GAP OIL AND OTHER CORPORATE INTERESTS .......................................................................... 133
MORE OIL DISCOVERIES IN TIMOR GAP ................................................................................................... 133
PETROZ: RELYING ON EAST TIMOR’S OIL.................................................................................................. 134
RTZ LINKS UP WITH FREEPORT: A MARRIAGE MADE IN HADES ................................................................ 134
CHURCH INVESTORS LOST IN RTZ’S MORASS........................................................................................... 135
CLAIMS OF BHP OFFER OF AID FOR TIMOR............................................................................................... 136
AUSTRALIA, THE TIMOR GAP AND THE WORLD COURT............................................................................. 136
CODDLING INDONESIA IN THE NAME OF BUSINESS ........................................................................... 138
TEXACO ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING REPORT ................................................................................ 139
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 141
CLOSER AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA TIES BUOY IPTN BID............................................................................. 141
INDONESIANS AND AUSTRALIANS IN JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES.......................................................... 141
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EAST TIMOR CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA PICKS UP PACE............................................................................ 141
INDONESIANS IN DARWIN........................................................................................................................ 141
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMEN T SUPPORTS CONVICTED MURDERER ............................................................. 142
PANJAITAN VISITING AUSTRALIA.......................................................................................................... 142
PANJAITAN VISIT A DISGRACE ............................................................................................................. 143
PROTEST FOR EAST TIMOR........................................................................................................................ 143
END THE ATROCITY IN EAST TIMOR......................................................................................................... 143
AUSTRALIA PART OF JAKARTA’S TIMOR WAR EFFORT................................................................................ 144
“ORDER OF AUSTRALIA” FOR ALI ALATAS .................................................................................................. 145
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMEN T SHAMELESSLY SUCKS UP TO ALATAS....................................................... 145
ARAUJO TO MEET WITH EVANS AT THE HAGUE ......................................................................................... 145
OZ SUBSIDY TO ICRC IN ET....................................................................................................................... 145
DARWIN ANZAC DAY INCLUDES EAST TIMORESE ..................................................................................... 145
ANZAC DAY IN DARWIN (HATUDO DALAN REMEMBERED).................................................................... 146
ADELAIDE CAMPAIGN FOR EAST TIMOR TAKES OFF.................................................................................. 146
PROTEST AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS...................................................................................... 146
MELBOURNE RALLY FOR EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................... 147
CONFERENCE: PEACEMAKING INITIATIVES FOR EAST TIMOR................................................................... 147
RALLIES DEMAND: FREE EAST TIMOR, END MILITARY TIES! .................................................................... 147
MANTIRI AS INDON. AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA ................................................................................... 148
INDONS OPPRESSIVE: EVANS................................................................................................................... 149
PICKET HABIBIE ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR .................................................................................................... 149
TOP INDONESIAN FLIES TO PERTH ...................................................................................................... 150
OVER 120 PICKET HABI BIE ON HIS ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA ................................................................. 151
BUILDING A STRONGER MOVEMENT FOR EAST TIMOR ............................................................................. 151
JAIL FOR TIMOR ACTION ........................................................................................................................... 152
DARWIN CONFERENCE: INDONESIA AND REGIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION ........................................ 152
TIMOR ACTIVISTS APPEAL HARSH SENTENCE........................................................................................... 152
NT STUDENT UNION ‘ADOPTS’ EAST TIMOR PRISONERS........................................................................... 153
MELBOURNE DEMO FOR EVANS AND INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR ........................................................... 153
EAST TIMOR, ASIA-PACIFIC RALLY TO OPEN RESISTANCE CONFERENCE ................................................. 153
NEW INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR TO OZ - EVANS STATEMENTS ............................................................... 154
EVENTS IN AOTEAROA ............................................................................................................................ 154
MCKINNON TO LOOK INTO ACTION ON INDONESIA ................................................................................ 154
ETIC SUPPORTS EFFORT TO COLLECT TODD AWARD ................................................................................ 154
EVENTS IN ASIA....................................................................................................................................... 155
INDONESIA-MALAYSIA AIRCRAFT SWAP .................................................................................................... 155
EAST TIMOR RAISED AT DINNER IN BEIJING............................................................................................ 155
EVENTS IN AFRICA .................................................................................................................................. 155
CHANGING TIMES - MAPUTO’S RENEWED INTEREST IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................... 155
MANDELA’S STRANGE LINKS TO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSER........................................................................ 156
EDITORIAL: GOING CHEAP: A FOREIGN POLICY .................................................................................. 157
SOUTH AFRICA - EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY GROUP ................................................................................... 157
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................. 158
TIMORESE STUDENT HONOURED.............................................................................................................. 158
DIRECT ACTION TO STOP HAWK FIGHTER AIRCRAFT LEAVING FOR INDONESIA...................................... 158
ACTION TO SUPPORT CHRIS COLE ....................................................................................................... 158
PLOUGHSHARES ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS .................................................................... 158
UK PACIFIST JAILED FOR ANNOYING BRITISH AEROSPACE................................................................. 159
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PROTESTS AT BRITISH AEROSPACE AGM PRESS REPORTS........................................................................ 159
MORE BLOOD FOR BAE......................................................................................................................... 160
DIE-IN LINKS LONDON WITH EAST TIMOR........................................................................................... 160
PILGER SAYS AUSTRALIAN LEADERS APOLOGISTS FOR BIG POWERS....................................................... 161
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 161
SPANISH LABELS ON INDONESIAN PINEAPPLE......................................................................................... 161
INDONESIAN COMPUTER COMPONENTS REJECTED BY PARLIAMENT....................................................... 161
SUHARTO’S DAUGHTER PAYS FOR “LUSO-INDONESIA” EVENING............................................................. 161
THE MEMORY OF TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 162
INDONESIA ROCKS THE CRADLE .............................................................................................................. 162
EAST TIMOR AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ............................................................................... 163
EAST TIMOR COULD BE CATALYST FOR INDONESIAN CHANGE – MINISTER......................................... 164
ANDERSON: MEMORIES, PREDICTIONS AND THE MAGIC NAME............................................................... 165
TIMOR ON THE MAP (JOURNADAS ENDS).................................................................................................. 166
YENI DAMAYANTI: XANANA HERO TO INDONESIA’S YOUTH .................................................................... 166
PORTUGUESE NATIONAL BANK FINANCED MANUEL MACEDO .................................................................. 167
PORTUGUESE SCHOOL IN JAKARTA AND OTHER PIFA FOLKLORE ............................................................ 168
TIMORESE WANT TO JOIN THE UCCLA...................................................................................................... 168
BASE STRATEGIES ..................................................................................................................................... 168
EXPO 98 - INDONESIA NOT INVITED ......................................................................................................... 169
NO MUSIC IN INDONESIA......................................................................................................................... 169
SUHARTO REAPS PROFITS......................................................................................................................... 169
LISBON DOUBTS JAKARTA WILL CHANGE POLICIES ................................................................................. 169
WHEN TO LEARN IS TO RESIST ................................................................................................................. 169
THE NEXT STEPS - AMBITIONS PLANS.................................................................................................. 170
PORTUGUESE DOORS OPEN TO INDONESIANS ........................................................................................ 170
PORTUGUESE DOCTORS MAY BOYCOTT WMA MEETING IN INDONESIA ................................................... 171
PORTUGUESE MEP JOÃO SOARES INDIGNANT......................................................................................... 172
NUNO ROCHA CRITICAL OF JAKARTA........................................................................................................ 172
WORLD PARLIAMENTARIANS MEET IN LISBON ......................................................................................... 172
PARLIAMENTARIANS WANT GUSMÃO FREED ........................................................................................ 173
PARLIAMENTARIANS ON SRI BINTANG PAMUNGKAS............................................................................ 173
INTERNATIONAL INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE “LISBON DECLARATION” .............................. 173
EVENTS IN IRELAND................................................................................................................................ 175
PILGER GETS AWARD FROM DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY ............................................................................ 175
PROTEST AT AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY IN DUBLIN ........................................................................................ 175
IRISH HIT AUSTRALIA ON TIMOR RIGHTS ............................................................................................ 175
IRISH DEMOCRATIC LEFT MOTION............................................................................................................ 175
IRISH TO PROTEST HABIBI ........................................................................................................................ 175
INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR IN IRELAND............................................................................................. 175
ENVOY AVOIDS TIMOR PROTEST.......................................................................................................... 176
HABIBIE IN IRELAND............................................................................................................................ 176
HUMAN RIGHTS AND WRONGS IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................................... 176
IRISH MEP LINKS EU GRANT TO RIGHTS IN INDONESIA.......................................................................... 177
IRISH SENATE TO DEBATE LISBON DECLARATION .................................................................................... 177
NORRIS CALLS FOR TRIBUNAL ON EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE ..................................................................... 177
EVENTS IN GERMANY - AND RETALIATION............................................................................................. 178
SUHARTO UNWELCOME IN WEIMAR.......................................................................................................... 178
GERMAN CITY DECLARES SUHARTO UNWELCOME GUEST ................................................................... 178
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PROTESTS AT THE HANOVER INDUSTRIAL FAIR........................................................................................ 178
PASTORS WRITE TO KOHL......................................................................................................................... 178
DRESDEN’S ROWDY WELCOME FOR SUHARTO ......................................................................................... 179
SUHARTO’S TROUBLES IN DRESDEN .................................................................................................... 179
SUHARTO’S VISIT TO DRESDEN ................................................................................................................. 179
PROTESTS AROUSE JAKARTA ANGER ........................................................................................................ 180
SUHARTO DIRECTLY THREATENS DISSIDENTS..................................................................................... 180
ASAHI ON SUHARTO’S CRACKDOWN......................................................................................................... 181
PROTESTERS ‘INSANE,’ SAYS SUHARTO .................................................................................................... 181
OPPOSITION THREATENED WITH JAIL IN INDONESIA.............................................................................. 181
GOENAWAN, BINTANG DENY INVOLVEMENT IN GERMAN PROTEST ......................................................... 182
BINTANG SUMMONED BY POLICE ............................................................................................................. 183
INDONESIA POLICE TO QUESTION MP ON TUESDAY............................................................................ 183
INDONESIAN MP FACES POSSIBLE DEFAMATION CHARGE .................................................................. 183
BINTANG INVITATION CONFIRMED ........................................................................................................... 183
INTERVIEWS YENI & OLTMANS ................................................................................................................. 183
GOVERNMENT ATTACKS INDIVIDUALS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS IN GERMANY ......................................... 184
PAMUNGKAS MP NAMED AS ‘SUSPECT’ ..................................................................................................... 184
SRI BINTANG PAMUNGKAS MP: FEAR OF ARREST................................................................................. 184
SUHARTO RETALIATES AGAINST CRITICS: OFFI CIAL REACTIONS TO DEMONSTRATIONS IN GERMANY.... 185
BINTANG TO FACE POLICE THURSDAY ...................................................................................................... 188
BINTANG QUESTIONING BOGGED DOWN ............................................................................................ 188
SRI BINTANG, SRITEX, AND HARMOKO:.................................................................................................... 189
ECONOMY, TRADE AND THE OMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................................. 190
THE CHARGES AGAINST SRI BINTANG..................................................................................................... 192
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 192
BUSINESS DEALS BETWEEN MADRID AND JAKARTA................................................................................. 192
SPAIN’S HIGHEST AWARD SECRETLY PRESENTED TO INDONESIAN GENERAL......................................... 192
MEETING TODAY IN FRANCE - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT-INDONESIA FRIENDSHIP GROUP...................... 193
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY MISSION TO ET............................................................................................ 193
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE - DUTCH ACTIONS................................................................................... 193
(WARSHIP) MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA................................................................. 194
BELGIUM - INDONESIA MILITARY RELATIONS........................................................................................... 194
TOWARD A EUROPEAN ARMS TRADE CODE............................................................................................... 195
REPORT: EAST TIMORESE SPEAKING TOUR IN FRANCE............................................................................ 195
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 195
BELLA’S STORY: EAST TIMORESE WOMAN SPEAKS OUT FOR JUSTICE....................................................... 195
CANADIAN EAST TIMOR UPDATE #40 ........................................................................................................ 196
CANADIAN EAST TIMOR UPDATE #41 ........................................................................................................ 197
ENJOY THE SHOE MUSEUM, BUT ... ... BOYCOTT BATA SHOES! ................................................................. 197
CANADA ABANDONS HUMAN RIGHTS TRADITIONS................................................................................... 198
HALIFAX G-7 SUMMIT AND EAST TIMOR ACTIONS..................................................................................... 198
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 198
CONGRESSMEMBERS WRITE CLINTON ..................................................................................................... 198
SENATE LETTER .................................................................................................................................... 199
FERRARO: DESPITE PROGRESS, UNHRC WORK “FAR FROM BEING DONE”............................................... 199
ASIA PACIFIC CENTER FORMED IN WASHINGTON; SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ................................... 200
WINSTON LORD: VOLUNTARY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES COMING IN ‘NEAR FUTURE’ .................................. 200
WINSTON LORD CALLS FOR IMET ............................................................................................................. 201
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TIMOR BIG PROBLEM FOR INDONESIA ..................................................................................................... 201
CONGRESS SLAMS US HR POLICY............................................................................................................. 202
U.S. PLEDGES TO SELL MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO JAKARTA...................................................................... 202
U.S. KEEN TO SELL WEAPONS TO INDONESIA...................................................................................... 202
IMET FOR INDONESIA IN 1996? ............................................................................................................ 202
INDONESIA WELCOMES U.S. PLANS ON WEAPONS SALES ................................................................... 203
SHATTUCK: ASIAN SOCIETIES SHIFTING AWAY FROM AUTHORITARIANS ................................................. 203
ETAN OPPOSES RENEWED MILITARY TRAINING AND ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA.................................. 206
U.S. OFFICIALS EXHIBIT DICHOTOMY IN POLICY ON INDONESIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS .......................... 206
ALATAS: WE WILL NOT BEG ....................................................................................................................... 207
EX-SECRETARY OF STATE BAKER SAYS US POLICY ON EAST TIMOR “A MISTAKE” ..................................... 207
IMET: THE US CONGRESS IS OBSTINATE, NOT THE GOVERNMENT........................................................... 208
COMPROMISING HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................................................. 208
METHODIST RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................... 209
ARMS AND THE MAN (SOLARZ).................................................................................................................. 209
THE BUDDY SYSTEM: CLINTON WANTS TO RESUME MILITARY TRAINING FOR INDONESIA...................... 209
U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL VISITS EAST TIMOR .................................................................................. 210
US RIGHTS OFFICIAL QUESTIONS TIMOR KILLINGS............................................................................. 210
SHATTUCK - REDUCE TROOPS, GIVE AUTONOMY................................................................................. 210
U.S. RIGHTS OFFICIAL SEEKS TROOP CUTS IN TIMOR ......................................................................... 211
SHATTUCK SEES REASONS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT, CONCERN IN INDONESIA................................... 211
VOA EDITORIAL: SHATTUCK IN INDONESIA ......................................................................................... 214
NO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INDONESIA’S SOLDIERS.................................................................................... 214
AI: NO IMET FOR INDONESIA.................................................................................................................... 215
SEN. LEAHY: A CHANCE FOR JUSTICE IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................. 215
F-16 SALE TO INDONESIA GAINS WIDER SUPPORT................................................................................... 215
SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES FEINGOLD AMENDMENT ON INDONESIA.................................................... 215
US SENATE RESTRICTS ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA............................................................................ 216
AI ON US MILITARY AID TO INDONESIA.................................................................................................... 216
U.S. REBUKED FOR INCREASING ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA............................................................ 217
U.S. LEADS IN ARMS SALES TO CONFLICT ZONES..................................................................................... 217
PROTESTS AT INDONESIA BUSINESS FORUM IN SAN FRANCISCO............................................................ 218
CALIFORNIA CLERGY CHALLENGE INDONESIAN TRADE OFFICIALS..................................................... 219
BACKGROUND ON EAST TIMOR AND US POLICY....................................................................................... 219
INDONESIAN AIRCRAFT TO BE BUILT IN ALABAMA.................................................................................... 221
URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT EAST TIMOR: NO IMET FOR INDONESIA.................................................. 221
PORTUGUESE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS LETTER ................................................................................ 222
LOWEY DENOUNCES AID TO INDONESIA............................................................................................. 224
INDONESIA’S LOBBYING EFFORTS ON IMET ............................................................................................. 224
SUHARTO ON FOREIGN AID ...................................................................................................................... 225
PETITION ON WORKER RIGHTS TO THE U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE .................................................... 225
AUSSIES ATTACK US OVER EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................... 229
AN IRISHMAN’S DAIRY .............................................................................................................................. 229
COMMENT FROM REV. MAX SURJADINATA........................................................................................... 230
ROBERT BARRY STATEMENTS .................................................................................................................... 230
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 230
DEATH OF A NATION ON BBC WORLD SERVICE TV.................................................................................... 230
NEW SERVICE PROFILES US/INDON TRADE ............................................................................................. 230
NEW INDONESIAN INFORMATION RESOURCE: INTEL............................................................................... 231
IPJET BOOK ON INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EAST TIMOR.......................................................................... 232
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THE AUSTRALIAN: TWO BOOK LAUNCHES AND A LECTURE....................................................................... 233
NEW WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES PUBLICATION ............................................................................... 234
MANUFACTURING CONSENT TO BE ON 27 US PUBLIC TV STATIONS ......................................................... 234
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T TO PUBLISH BOOK ON EAST TIMOR............................................................. 234

HISTORICAL REVIEW .................................................................................................................................. 7
INDONESIA’S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO REVISE EAST TIMOR HISTORY (1959 PERMESTA SURVIVORS)..........7
INDONESIAN MILITARY CHIEFS KNEW (OF DILI MASSACRE IN ADVANCE) ...................................................7
CHRONICLE OF AN UNEXPECTED INVASION (OF US EMBASSY)..................................................................10
EAST TIMOR’S ILLEGAL INTEGRATION.........................................................................................................11
EAST TIMORESE SIGNATORY REJECTS INTEGRATION PACT......................................................................15
FROM ‘GANYANG MALAYSIA’ TO ‘GANYANG FRETILIN’................................................................................16
TIMOR: INVASION “BEGAN” 20 YEARS AGO .................................................................................................18
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 19
HORS LIGNE: ISLAND OF FEAR ..................................................................................................................19
ABRI DENIES KILLING OFFICIAL ................................................................................................................22
ICRC WARNS OF TENSION IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................22
BLOOD OATH (ET STUDENTS RESISTANCE) .................................................................................................22
‘RESISTANCE IS STRONG’............................................................................................................................23
ETCHRIET REPORT ON RECENT EVENTS .....................................................................................................23
INDONESIA PLANS TWO-BATTALION CUT IN EAST TIMOR.........................................................................23
AI UA: SABALAE FEARED ARRESTED AND TORTURED ..................................................................................24
EAST TIMORESE SAY FEAR RETURNS TO DILI.............................................................................................24
INDONESIA ARMY SAYS IT WILL NOT LEAVE ..............................................................................................25
BROCHURE ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST TIMOR .................................................................................25
COFFEE FARMERS PROTEST FOR HIGHER PRICES ......................................................................................26
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LATEST INDONESIAN ARMY ATTACKS, AND GROUND SETTING FOR FUTURE EAST TIMORESE CIVIL WAR..26
FOREIGN JOURNALISTS IN TIMOR..............................................................................................................27
ICRC EXPRESSES CONCERN TO FOREIGN JOURNALISTS ...........................................................................27
PEACE RETURNS TO TIMOR TOWN, BUT TRADERS STAY AWAY....................................................................27
INDONESIA CELEBRATES EAST TIMOR INTEGRATION .................................................................................27
INDONESIA PARADES CAPTURED REBEL.....................................................................................................28
RIOT TENSIONS LINGER IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................28
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED........................................................................................................................29
YEARS ON INDONESIA’S SIDE, COLONEL SAYS ..........................................................................................29
RENEGING ON BALIBO PACT MARS TIMOR ANNEXATION CELEBRATIONS..................................................29
INDONESIA MILITARY SAYS EAST TIMOR STABLE........................................................................................30
MEPS AND CONGRESS MEMBERS TO VISIT.................................................................................................30
JAKARTA’S CELEBRATIONS RING HOLLOW FOR EAST TIMORESE................................................................30
EAST TIMORESE YOUTHS ARRESTED AND TORTURED.................................................................................31
BISHOP OF DILI CELEBRATES TIMOR LEADER’S MARRIAGE........................................................................31
INDONESIAN PARLIAMEN TARIAN ASKS SPECIAL STATUS FOR ET...............................................................32
SUHARTO MAY VISIT EAST TIMOR NEXT YEAR.............................................................................................32
REPORTED INJURIES / KILLINGS IN BAUCAU.............................................................................................32
BAUCAU STILL TENSE AFTER RIOTING........................................................................................................33
FOUR KILLED IN TIMOR SHOOTINGS.........................................................................................................33
INCREASED NAVAL PATROLS OFF TIMOR ....................................................................................................33
ETCHRIET REPORTS RECENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS........................................................................33
INDONESIA MILITARY CHIEF SHOT IN EAST TIMOR....................................................................................34
TIMOR TO RECEIVE UNCENSORED RTP (PORTUGUESE TV) .........................................................................34
TIMORESE TOWN HIT BY COFFEE PROTEST.................................................................................................34
PAPER SHORTAGE.......................................................................................................................................34
SOLDIERS SHOOT DEAD TWO EAST TIMORESE...........................................................................................34
INDONESIA TO RELEASE 276 TIMOR PRISONERS........................................................................................35
TIMORESE INTEGRATION CEREMONIES MARRED BY CONTROVERSY.........................................................35
ETCHRIET HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON ERMERA VIOLENCE.......................................................................37
CNRM: AT LEAST 8 TIMORESE KILLED .........................................................................................................37
AI ALERT ON BAUCAU AND ERMERA ARRESTS.............................................................................................37
NINE TIMORESE ARRESTED IN VEMASSE....................................................................................................38
INTERVIEW OF KONIS SANTANA ................................................................................................................38
INDONESIAN MILITARY EAST TIMOR OPERATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS..............................38
US CONGRESSMEN END VISIT TO TIMOR ...................................................................................................39
AMNESTY PROMISED FOR REBELS.............................................................................................................39
TIMORESE CLAIM RESISTANCE LEADER CAPTURED....................................................................................39
SEVEN ARRESTS IN DILI..............................................................................................................................40
NEW WAVE OF REPRESSION .......................................................................................................................40
ETCHRIET: EAST TIMOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS................................................................................41
TIMORESE WOMEN WRITE WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN ...................................................................41
TWO SUMMARY EXECUTIONS......................................................................................................................41
XANANA’S ACTIVITIES............................................................................................................................... 41
JAKARTA PRISON RIOTS XANANA GUSMÃO’S SECURITY IN DANGER .........................................................41
DILI BISHOP SAYS AUTHORITIES DENYING HIM ACCESS TO XANANA........................................................42
XANANA WRITES AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCES............................................................................................42
WHO IS XANANA GUSMÃO?.........................................................................................................................42
TIMOR GUERRILLA LEADER TO LOSE THREE-MONTH REMISSION ..............................................................44
XANANA MAY BE ISOLATED IN CIPINANG..................................................................................................44
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EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 45
TRUTH AND STABILITY.................................................................................................................................45
LAWYERS SAY WORLD BANK PROJECTS ABUSED RIGHTS...........................................................................45
EAST TIMOR ART, CULTURE ON DISPLAY IN JAKARTA.................................................................................46
SUHARTO: WEST JEALOUS OF INDONESIA..................................................................................................46
PRAMOEDYA DENIED PERMIT TO TRAVEL ...................................................................................................47
ARBITRARY ARRESTS OF EAST TIMORESE IN JAKARTA................................................................................47
SPRIM POSITION PAPER ON INDONESIAN DEMOCRACY AND LIBERATION OF EAST TIMOR .....................47
LATIEF AND THE ‘GRASI’ ISSUE ..................................................................................................................52
INDONESIAN INTELLECTUAL (ARIEF BUDIMAN) WINS LEGAL BATTLE .........................................................53
NEW-STYLE MONITORING FOR EX-TAPOLS.................................................................................................54
THE 1965 POLITICAL PRISONERS – THE CASE FOR A GENERAL AMNESTY.................................................54
AI ON IMMINENT EXECUTIONS...................................................................................................................55
ALATAS DENIES EXECUTION REPORT.........................................................................................................56
NEW INDONESIAN ATROCITIES IN WEST PAPUA.........................................................................................56
INDONESIAN PROGRESSIVES RE-LAUNCH PRO-DEMOCRACY ORGANISATION .........................................57
INDONESIA TO SCRAP NEED FOR PERMITS FOR GATHERINGS ..................................................................58
INDONESIA PLANS INVESTMENT BOOST IN REMOTE EAST.........................................................................58
AJI JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL .................................................................................................................... 58
INDONESIA JOURNALISTS ACCUSE MINISTER ............................................................................................58
AJI TRIALS CONTINUE NEXT WEEK ............................................................................................................59
MAVERICK JOURNALISTS VOW TO FIGHT ON..............................................................................................59
INDONESIA: THE PRESS ON TRIAL.............................................................................................................59
PIJAR’S TRI AGUS SUSANTO ON TRIAL..................................................................................................... 61
ADVISORY FROM CNRM ..............................................................................................................................61
SPARKS OF STRUGGLE: A GLIMPSE AT PIJAR ..............................................................................................62
TRI AGUS GOES ON TRIAL...........................................................................................................................63
TRIAGUS TRIAL PROMPTS PROTESTS ..........................................................................................................64
TRIAGUS’ DEMURRER ..................................................................................................................................65
TRIAGUS SUSANTO REJECTS SOEHARTO REGIME’S OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR ..................................66
RENETIL SOLIDARITY FOR TRIAGUS...........................................................................................................67
INTRA-TIMORESE DIALOGUE FALLOUT.................................................................................................... 67
TIMOR SURPRISE: UNEXPECTED DECLARATION SHOCKS JAKARTA............................................................67
LOPES SUSPECTS FOUL PLAY AT VIENNA MEETING.....................................................................................68
INTRA-TIMORESE – WHAT NOW?................................................................................................................69
PORTUGUESE AND INDONESIAN MINISTERS MEET AGAIN...................................................................... 69
CNRM: JAKARTA SHOW PLOY AHEAD OF INDONESIAN/ PORTUGUESE MINISTERIAL MEETING................69
CHRONOLOGY OF MINISTERIAL MEETINGS SINCE 1992.............................................................................70
DURÃO BARROSO STATEMENT BEFORE GENEVA TALKS ..............................................................................70
ALATAS STATEMENT AFTER GENEVA TALKS .................................................................................................71
UN PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ ON EAST TIMOR TALKS.......................................................................................71
UN TIMOR TALKS STALEMATE......................................................................................................................71
NO NEW TIMOR DIALOGUE BEFORE JANUARY: ALATAS ..............................................................................72
NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL......................................................................................................73
HEADWAY IN E TIMOR TALKS......................................................................................................................73
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 74
FLEMISH NGOS ASK FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING TEAM IN DILI...............................................74
WORLD COURT DECIDES ON EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................74
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TIMORESE RESISTANCE IN BRUSSELS .......................................................................................................74
CHAINING AT PARIS AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY ...............................................................................................74
PROTESTS AT THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN MADRID..............................................................................75
GERMAN BISHOPS CONDEMN INDONESIA.................................................................................................75
QUEEN BEATRIX TO VISIT INDONESIA.......................................................................................................75
EP WARNS INDONESIA: FUTURE RELATIONS WILL DEPEND ON DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST TIMOR .............76
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INDONESIA MEETS IN PARIS ....................................................................... 76
DEMONSTRATION AT CGI IN PARIS, JULY 18 ..............................................................................................76
U.S. STATEMENT AT CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INDONESIA ......................................................................78
CANADA RAISES EAST TIMOR AT CGI ..........................................................................................................79
INDONESIA WINS $5.36 BILLION IN DEVELOPMENT AID ...........................................................................79
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................... 80
A SHOT FOR SUHARTO (INDONESIA IMPEDES PORTUGUESE ATHLETES)....................................................80
HORTA: PORTUGAL SHOULD SUPPORT TIMORESE GUERILLA RESISTANCE ................................................80
JOSÉ GUSMÃO: EAST TIMOR’S STRUGGLE MUST INSPIRE PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS........................80
HOLIDAYS PAID BY “FRIEND OF INDONESIA” ............................................................................................81
TIMORESE TAKE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PORTUGAL IN THE COURT OF THE HAGUE...............................82
RDP-INTERNATIONAL’S DAILY BROADCASTS TO TIMOR.............................................................................82
BOUTROS-GHALI VISITS PORTUGAL ........................................................................................................ 83
U.N. CHIEF OPTIMISTIC TIMOR DEAL CAN BE DONE...................................................................................83
SECRETARY-GENERAL MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER OF PORTUGAL ....................................................83
MARIO SOARES “CONDEMNS” THE UN FOR SILEN CE ON EAST TIMOR .......................................................83
BOUTROS-GHALI: “MY FUNCTION IS TO BE NEUTRAL ON THE QUESTION OF EAST TIMOR”........................84
POLICE INTERVENE IN TIMORESE DEMONSTRATION .................................................................................85
TIMOR DISCUSSED IN LISBON WITH UN ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL...............................................85
CARRASCALÃO SAYS GHALI GIVING IN TO JAKARTA...................................................................................86
EVENTS IN ENGLAND ................................................................................................................................ 86
A CLASS ACT TO FOLLOW ............................................................................................................................86
PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE AGAINST BRITISH AEROSPACE...........................................................................88
TIMOR AND PAPUAN FLAGS ON 17 AUGUST ................................................................................................88
EVENTS IN IRELAND.................................................................................................................................. 89
SPRING’S EAST TIMOR RECORD ‘DISAPPOINTING’ .....................................................................................89
IRELAND TO THE FORE IN SEEKING INTERNATIONAL ACTION ON EAST TIMOR.........................................89
IRISH EAST TIMOR GROUP STAGES PROTEST .............................................................................................90
PEACE WALK TO HIGHLIGHT WESTERN HYPOCRISY...................................................................................90
EVENTS IN ASIA-PACIFIC .......................................................................................................................... 91
EAST TIMOR REQUESTS OBSERVER STATUS AT OSAKA APEC MEETING.......................................................91
YWCA CALLS FOR INDONESIAN WITHDRAWAL ...........................................................................................92
PRAMOEDYA THANKS MAGSAYSAY FOUNDATION ......................................................................................92
NEW REPORT FROM FORUM-ASIA ..............................................................................................................93
ACET ON JAPAN’S ROLE IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................95
HORROR OF EAST TIMOR IN 1942 TO BE DISCUSSED .................................................................................97
EVENTS IN BRAZIL AND AROUND THE WORLD ........................................................................................ 97
BRAZILIAN JOURNALISTS SUPPORT ITAMAR’S SOLIDARITY ........................................................................97
BRAZIL’S FRANCO: A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE.........................................................................................98
BRAZIL WORRIED ABOUT TIMOR SITUATION...............................................................................................98
CHISSANO PROPOSES “SINGLE FRONT” .....................................................................................................99
MEXICO: TIMOR SELF-DETERMINATION A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE.............................................................99
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EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 99
RUNNING FOR COVER: DISSIDENT SEEKS ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................99
MEETING: EAST TIMOR – OIL OR JUSTICE..................................................................................................99
CIETSA CRITICIZES UPCOMING AUST.-INDO. MILITARY EXERCISES ........................................................ 100
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY – BHP’S ASIA MOTTO ...................................................................................... 101
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION: FOREIGN-POLICY MISSTEPS DIM EVANS’S POLITICAL LUSTRE ..................... 101
INDONESIAN SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED.................................................................................... 102
RI FORMALLY PROTESTS FLAG BURNING INCIDENT................................................................................. 103
CNRM WELCOMES AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER’S STATEMEN T ON PLANNED VISIT TO EAST TIMOR 103
AUG. 17. DEMO IN MELBOURNE................................................................................................................ 103
TWO DEMOS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA AGAINST GARETH EVANS / INDONESIA’S NATIONAL DAY ............ 104
EAST TIMOR, INDONESIAN SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION IN DARWIN.................................................. 105
POSITION AGAINST BURNING INDONESIAN FLAGS.................................................................................. 105
PROTEST AT AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY IN JAKARTA....................................................................................... 107
INDONESIA IMPORTERS WARN OF AUSTRALIAN GOODS BAN .................................................................. 107
“FLAG PROTESTS RAISE BURNING ISSUE” ................................................................................................ 108
TANJUNG AND SUDRADJAT EVADE OZ DEMONSTRATORS........................................................................ 108
BILL MAY BAR INDONESIA FROM AUSTRALIAN ARMY TRAINING.............................................................. 109
AUST.-INDON RELATIONS ‘UNHURT’ BY FLAG ISSUE................................................................................. 109
AUSTRALIA’S KEATING TO VISIT INDONESIA............................................................................................. 109
SYDNEY DILI MASSACRE COMMEMORATION ............................................................................................ 110
UN HAS FAILED – E TIMOR REPS .............................................................................................................. 110
CONTROVERSY OVER EAST TIMORESE REFUGEES IN AUSTRALIA ....................................................... 110
‘BOAT PEOPLE’ RELEASED, BUT NOT YET OK TO STAY ............................................................................... 110
FREED TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE ARRIVE IN MELBOURNE TONIGHT......................................................... 111
VISAS FOR TIMORESE RISK TIES: INDONESIA .......................................................................................... 111
EAST TIMORESE ‘BOAT PEOPLE’ FEAR TRIP BACK TO TORTURE................................................................. 111
BOAT PEOPLE RELEASED ........................................................................................................................... 112
TIMORESE BOAT PEOPLE RELEASED ........................................................................................................ 112
MORE ON ASYLUM SEEKERS ..................................................................................................................... 112
ILLEGALS LIKELY TO POUR IN: JAKARTA................................................................................................... 113
“WATERSHED” HOPE FOR TIMORESE REFUGEES....................................................................................... 114
MANTIRI REJECTED AS AMBASSADOR .................................................................................................. 114
MANTIRI APPOINTMENT ATTACKED IN OZ ................................................................................................ 114
THE MANTIRI APPOINTMENT..................................................................................................................... 114
FURY OVER MANTIRI APPOINTMENT......................................................................................................... 115
PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR EAST TIMOR (AUSTRALIA) WRITES GARETH EVANS........................................... 116
MANTIRI REMARKS IN ‘THE AUSTRALIAN’ ................................................................................................ 116
LABOR MP’S SAY STAND ON ENVOY ‘WEAK’ .............................................................................................. 117
AUSTRALIA: AMNESTY IN TIMOR PROTEST................................................................................................ 117
MANTIRI PUTS TIES FI RST AS PRESSURE MOUNTS.................................................................................... 117
MANTIRI CHOSEN FOR TIMOR EXPERIENCE............................................................................................. 117
INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR TO AUSTRALIA DEFIANT................................................................................ 118
MANTIRI INTERVIEWED............................................................................................................................. 118
EDITORIAL, JAKARTA POST ....................................................................................................................... 118
CONTROVERSIAL NEW INDONESIAN ENVOY MAY WITHDRAW ................................................................ 119
INDONESIA SCRAPS APPOINTMENT OF EN VOY TO AUSTRALIA................................................................ 119
“LOYAL SOLDIER” MANTIRI ACCEPTS ENVOY CANCELLATION................................................................. 119
MANTIRI NOT TO BE AMBASSADOR ........................................................................................................... 119
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VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE? .............................................................................................................. 120
INDONESIA AND TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 120
EAST TIMOR’S LONG REACH EXPOSED BY ENVOY ROW............................................................................ 120
EAST TIMORESE CLAIM TRIUMPH FOR AUSTRALIAN MORAL VALUES ........................................................ 121
JAKARTA POST ON MANTIRI WITHDRAWAL............................................................................................... 122
JAKARTA BOWS TO PROTEST OVER GENERAL AS ENVOY .......................................................................... 122
FOR THE SAKE OF A TANTRUM WE LOSE OUR STATUS IN ASIA ................................................................. 122
MANTIRI AFFAIR A TEST OF RI-AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS........................................................................... 123
JAKARTA, CANBERRA WILL OVERCOME PROBLEMS: ENVOY .................................................................... 123
INDON-AUSSIE TIES REMAIN STRONG DESPITE MANTIRI AFFAIR .......................................................... 123
“DIPLOMATIC BUNGLING” ON MANTIRI .................................................................................................... 124
MANTIRI AND RI AMBASSADORS............................................................................................................... 125
JAKARTA KEEN TO SEN D NEW ENVOY ..................................................................................................... 125
INDONESIA SAYS ENVOY CHOICE IN ITS HANDS ..................................................................................... 125
DARWIN CONFERENCE ON INDONESIA AND REGIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION ................................ 126
INFIGHT/LPHAM OPEN LETTER TO PARTICIPANTS.................................................................................... 126
XANANA GUSMÃO MESSAGE ..................................................................................................................... 126
SOLIDARITY MESSAGE FROM FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION ......................................................... 127
OPENING ADDRESS .................................................................................................................................. 128
SPRIM STATEMENT.................................................................................................................................... 129
STATEMENT BY INDONESIAN DELEGATION............................................................................................... 129
CLOSING STATEMENT................................................................................................................................ 130
DARWIN CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................................... 130
INDONESIAN REPORT: AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON EAST TIMOR ........................................................ 131
PIJAR LETTER TO CNRM ............................................................................................................................ 131
MELBOURNE MEETING ........................................................................................................................... 131
XANANA: INDEPENDENCE IS NEVER AN END IN ITSELF........................................................................... 131
WITNESS FROM DILI ................................................................................................................................. 132
MELBOURNE EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY CONFEREN CE .............................................................................. 135
EVENTS IN NEW ZEALAND ...................................................................................................................... 135
(NZ) GOVERNMENT INCONSISTENT, SAYS LEE.......................................................................................... 135
NZ PROTEST AT EXERCISE WITH INDONESIANS....................................................................................... 135
PROTEST ACTIVITIES IN NZ....................................................................................................................... 135
ETIC: JOINT AIR FORCE EXERCISE “SHAMEFUL” ....................................................................................... 136
NEW ZEALAND ENVOY CALLED IN OVER FLAG BURNING.......................................................................... 136
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 136
REP. JOHN PORTER ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................... 136
CALIFORNIA-NEVADA METHODIST 1995 RESOLUTION .............................................................................. 137
CONGRESS DISCUSSES IMET.................................................................................................................... 138
US AMBASSADOR PRAISES SITUATION IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................. 141
NEW US AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA NOMINATED................................................................................. 141
US ADMIRAL: OUT OF EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 141
HOUSE DEBATE ON REFUSAL TO DEBATE IMET......................................................................................... 142
HORTA TO RECEIVE PRIZE ........................................................................................................................ 144
INTEGRATION DAY: ETAN/LA DEMO......................................................................................................... 144
U.S. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENT....................................................................... 144
CORPORATE PREDATOR: FREEPORT-MCMORAN AT HOME & ABROAD ...................................................... 145
U.S. POST OFFICE DELETES EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................. 149
INTEGRATION DAY IN CALIFORNIA.......................................................................................................... 149
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS AND FINANCE: THE INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE....................................... 150
ADMINISTRATION PROPOSES COMPROMISE TO TRANSFER SOME WEAPONS TO PAKISTAN .................. 152
WHITE HOUSE HAS OFFERED TO TRANSFER F-16S TO INDONESIA IN THREE-WAY DEAL ...................... 152
DR. KISSINGER: WHAT ABOUT EAST TIMOR?............................................................................................. 154
IN CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE....................................................................................................... 156
FREEDOM, FOR SOME INDONESIANS ....................................................................................................... 156
AUGUST 17 IN LOS ANGELES.................................................................................................................... 157
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 157
ETAN/OTTAWA PROTEST JULY 17 ............................................................................................................. 157
CANADIAN MINISTER SEES IMPROVEMENTS ............................................................................................ 157
ETAN/CANADA OPPOSED NEW AID TO INDONESIA.................................................................................. 157
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 158
ACTIVIST KIDS HELP EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 158
MORTEN HARKET SINGS EAST TIMOR....................................................................................................... 158

BALIBO REMEMBERED ............................................................................................................................... 7
BALIBO MASSACRE BACKGROUND................................................................................................................7
THE 5 GHOSTS OF BALIBO RISE ONCE MORE TO HAUNT INDONESIA & US ................................................10
INDONESIA WON’T REOPEN BALIBO INVESTIGATION .................................................................................13
CHRIS HAVILAND MP TO MOVE PRIVATE MEMBERS MOTION ON BALIBO ...................................................13
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES “NOTICE OF MOTION”.............................................................................13
INDONESIAN TROOPS KILLED AUSTRALIAN NEWSMEN-RADIO..................................................................14
CALL FOR NEW INQUIRY INTO JOURNALISTS’ DEATHS IN EAST TIMOR......................................................14
TIMOR MURDERS PLANNED; SOLDIERS .................................................................................................14
RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS ............................................................................................................................. 15
PRO-CATHOLIC DEMONSTRATION IN DILI ..................................................................................................15
AMIEN RAIS: DON’T LET EAST TIMOR BECOME A PARASITE ........................................................................15
THE THREAT OF WIDER RELIGIOUS CONFLICT ...........................................................................................16
DILI’S BISHOP TO MEET THE POPE..............................................................................................................17
BISHOP BELO’S INTERVIEW WITH GATRA....................................................................................................17
MUSLIMS BACK HARD LINE ON EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................18
CARDINAL URGES GOVERNMENT TO WIN TIMORESE TRUST......................................................................19
BLASPHEMIES AGAINST CATHOLICISM IN EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................19
CATHOLIC LEADERS SAY RIGHTS COMMISSION TEAM DISTORTS RIOT ISSUE ...........................................19
INDONESIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS SEEK HELP FOR EAST TIMORESE..........................................................20
RENETIL: THE FLAME OF STRUGGLE WILL NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED ........................................................20
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100 ULAMAS WANT DIALOGUE WITH BELO ..................................................................................................21
BELO DENIES WANTING ‘CATHOLIC REGION’.............................................................................................22
EAST TIMORESE NEED TIME TO ADAPT .......................................................................................................22
ANTI-BELO DEMONSTRATION IN YOGYA.....................................................................................................23
YOUNG MOSLEMS AGAINST XIMENES BELO...........................................................................................23
JAKARTA PUTS PRESSURE ON THE POPE ....................................................................................................24
MILITARY PLEDGES OF CONSTANT RAIDS...................................................................................................24
NU & EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................................................................24
ET INTRA-RELIGIOUS FORUM......................................................................................................................25
CNRM STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS ...........................................................................................25
GOD AND COUNTRY: ATTACKS ON MUSLIMS IN TIMOR PROMPT BACKLASH..............................................26
INDONESIAN MINISTER TO FLY TO VATICAN ON TIMOR.............................................................................27
POPE MEETS INDONESIAN MINISTER .........................................................................................................27
SUHARTO URGES PEOPLE TO AVOID CONFLICT..........................................................................................28
RIOTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................... 28
PROTESTS ROCK TWO CITIES......................................................................................................................28
EAST TIMOR PROTESTS SEE THREE DETAINED.......................................................................................28
TWO CIVILIANS KILLED IN EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................28
RIOTS BREAKS OUT IN VIQUEQUE...............................................................................................................28
UNREST IN DILI: MANY ARRESTS ................................................................................................................29
MORE ON CURRENT UNREST IN DILI .....................................................................................................29
LUSA: DISTURBANCES IN DILI, 3 KILLED, SEVERAL ARRESTS ................................................................30
MORE ON DILI AND VIQUEQUE DISTURBANCES .........................................................................................30
POLICE ASSERT CONTROL IN EAST TIMOR AFTER RIOTS ............................................................................30
MILITARY APPEALS FOR CALM IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................31
MORE ON CONFRONTATIONS THROUGHOUT ET.........................................................................................31
RELATIVE CALM RETURNS TO TROUBLED EAST TIMOR................................................................................32
DILI UNDER CONTROL AFTER TWO DAYS OF VIOLENT RIOTING............................................................32
TIMORESE FEARED TORTURED AFTER RIOTS: RESIDENTS ..........................................................................32
AI: MORE THAN 50 DETAINED AFTER EAST TIMOR RIOTS............................................................................33
EAST TIMOR BISHOP SAYS RIOTS UNDERLINE UNHAPPINESS....................................................................33
BISHOP BELO RADIO AUSTRALIA INTERVIEW.........................................................................................34
TIME FOR THOUGHT....................................................................................................................................35
ALBRIGHT CONCERNED BY EAST TIMOR RIOTS ..........................................................................................35
SOEHARTO PLAYS DOWN DILI RIOTS..........................................................................................................35
CNRM STATEMENT ON EAST TIMOR YOUTH UPRISING ...............................................................................36
XANANA GUSMÃO’S STATEMENT OF SUPPORT TO EAST TIMORESE YOUTH UPRISING................................37
TEN PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR TORCHING MARKET IN DILI ..........................................................................37
AI: ARREST/TORTURE UPDATE ....................................................................................................................37
MILITARY SUPPORTS DIALOG TO EASE TIMOR TENSION ............................................................................38
CNRM UPDATE ON EAST TIMOR RIOTS........................................................................................................38
RIGHTS COMMISSION TO PROBE EAST TIMOR RIOTS.................................................................................39
BELO CRITICISES ABRI ON THE DILI RIOTS ................................................................................................39
ETCHRIET- URGENT ACTION 27 DETAINED .................................................................................................40
INDONESIA INCREASES MILITARY PRESENCE............................................................................................40
TIMOR MILITARY BUILD UP DENIED .......................................................................................................40
KWI BLAMES FRUSTRATION FOR RIOTS ......................................................................................................40
SUHARTO SAYS TIMOR RIOTS SHOULD NOT BE EXAGGERATED .................................................................41
TEAR GAS AND TORTURE HIT DILI STUDENT PROTESTORS.........................................................................41
AVERSION TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES SPARKED EAST TIMOR RIOTS ......................................................41
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‘PITCHED BATTLES’......................................................................................................................................42
EAST TIMOR RIOTS ‘BI D TO SHAKE OFF YOKE’ ............................................................................................42
RECENT ARRESTS........................................................................................................................................42
TWO DEAD: DILI TENSE...............................................................................................................................43
MORE SHOOTING IN DILI ...........................................................................................................................43
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR CALLS FOR ARMY TO RESTORE CALM ..................................................................44
SIMBOLON DENIES USE OF FIREARMS...................................................................................................44
SITUATION IN DILI VERY TENSE.................................................................................................................44
ARMY STRIKES HARD ..................................................................................................................................44
INDONESIA STAGES SHOW OF FORCE IN EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................45
INDONESIA SAYS RESTORES ORDER IN DILI, ARRESTS 120.......................................................................45
AI: UP TO 120 DETAINED AFTER NEW RIOTS IN DILI ...................................................................................46
COMORO POLICE PRISON ...........................................................................................................................46
VOA — ‘ORDER RESTORED’ .........................................................................................................................46
“PLEASE DO NOT MINIMISE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE HEROIC PROTESTS”........................................47
TIMOR: RESISTANCE SAYS 5 KILLED BY INDONESIANS..............................................................................47
MANUEL CARRASCALÃO ASKS FOR HELP ....................................................................................................48
DILI UNDER SIEGE......................................................................................................................................48
TIMORESE YOUTH ROUND-UP CONTINUES .................................................................................................49
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR DENIES REQUESTING SHOOTINGS .....................................................................49
WRONGFUL INTERPRETATION ................................................................................................................49
JAKARTA CRUSHES DILI PROTEST...............................................................................................................50
E. TIMOR GOVERNOR TO FIRE CIVIL SERVANTS .........................................................................................50
INDONESIA RELEASES MORE THAN 100 EAST TIMORESE............................................................................50
INDONESIA MILITARY SAYS RIOTS PURELY CRIMINAL ...............................................................................51
INDONESIA POLICE CONTINUE SEARCHES IN EAST TIMOR........................................................................51
OTHER EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................................. 51
EAST TIMORESE PRISONERS WRITE U.S. CONGRESS .................................................................................51
TIMORESE ON TRIAL FOR HELPING FALINTIL .............................................................................................52
“BEATING OUT” THE EN EMY ........................................................................................................................52
VILLAGE MADE TO PAY A HIGH PRICE.........................................................................................................53
MILITARY SAYS GUERRILLAS KILL THREE CIVILIANS..................................................................................54
TIMORESE WOMEN WANT FREEDOM FROM RAPE.......................................................................................54
TWO BATTALIONS WITHDRAWN ..................................................................................................................54
MILITARY TRAINING FOR CIVIL SERVANTS .................................................................................................54
EAST TIMOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS..................................................................................................54
KONIS SANTANA WANTS SABALAE CAPTURE INVESTIGATED.......................................................................55
TIMORESE SAY NO TO APPRENTICESHIP ....................................................................................................56
XANANA’S DRIVER’S TRIAL POSTPONED .....................................................................................................56
PRISONERS TO BE MOVED ..........................................................................................................................56
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR AND BIKERS ESCAPE SHOOTING.........................................................................56
FEAR STALKS THE STREETS OF DILI ...........................................................................................................57
TIMORESE BEAR THE SCARS OF REPRESSION ............................................................................................57
MORE INDONESIANS LEAVE TIMOR ............................................................................................................58
POLICEMAN FIRES ON SOLDIER .................................................................................................................59
EAST TIMOR GETS LOW COST HOUSES ......................................................................................................59
UNPRECEDENTED PRISONER EXCHANGE IN TIMOR ..................................................................................59
RESISTANCE DENOUNCES “COLLABORATORS” ...........................................................................................59
INDONESIA HOLDS TALKS WITH EAST TIMOR LEADERS .............................................................................59
JAKARTA WARNS TIMOR OFFICIALS .......................................................................................................60
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ARMED RESISTANCE NOT ‘MORIBUND’ .......................................................................................................60
FRETILIN IN REPLY TO LE MONDE...........................................................................................................61
TWO DECADES OF DEATH, DESPAIR & TORTURE IN INDONESIA’S ACHILLES HEEL ...................................61
LIVING IN DEATH’S SHADOW; THE LAST GUERRILLAS FIGHT ON ..............................................................63
EAST TIMOR AN UNCERTAIN PRIZE FOR INDONESIA..................................................................................63
EAST TIMOR VISITS RAISE HOPES ..............................................................................................................64
PRE-ANNIVERSARY CRACKDOWN RUMORED IN DILI .................................................................................65
EVENTS IN WEST PAPUA ........................................................................................................................... 65
FIRM “MORALLY INVOLVED” IN ALLEGED IRIAN KILLINGS .........................................................................65
NEW INTERNET RESOURCE ON WEST PAPUA..............................................................................................65
INDONESIAN MASSACRE CONFIRMED ........................................................................................................66
IRIAN JAYA REPORTS ..................................................................................................................................66
INDONESIA PROBES HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES ............................................................................................68
AID CANCELED FOR GOLD PROJECT IN INDONESIA ..................................................................................69
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 69
LIBERATING OUR COLONIAL MINDSET ......................................................................................................69
AJI JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL........................................................................................................................72
ACHMAD TAUFIK AND EKO MARYADI, TRI AGUS TRIALS ........................................................................73
INDONESIA SAYS WILL CHECK PORTUGAL’S TV PLAN................................................................................74
INDONESIA’S SUHARTO SEES NO PLACE FOR OPPOSITION........................................................................75
INDONESIAN JOURNALIST JAILED FOR “INSULTING THE PRESIDENT” ......................................................75
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T “FACTS” ON EAST TIMOR................................................................................75
INDONESIA’S BRASS POLISHES ITSELF.......................................................................................................77
HOW BAD IS BAD IN EAST TIMOR? .........................................................................................................78
INDONESIAN HOUSE TO HOLD PLENARY SESSION ON EAST TIMOR ..........................................................79
JAKARTA POST: THE EAST TIMOR ISSUE.....................................................................................................79
INDONESIA: DEALING CAUTIOUSLY WITH RUMORS ...................................................................................79
INDONESIA ACTS AGAINST PAMPHLETEERS...........................................................................................80
INDONESIA’S LEGACY OF SUPPRESSION CONDEMNED ON 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF COUP ........................80
ELEVEN INDONESIAN NGO’S ISSUE STATEMENT ON EAST TIMOR ..............................................................81
SURABAYA LBH CRITICISES NGO’S ON TIMOR .......................................................................................81
THE DYNAMICS OF THE INDONESIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT........................................................81
ABRI NAMES FACES BEHIND INCIDENTS ...................................................................................................86
UNIONIST, ACADEMIC DENY THEY ARE COMMUNISTS...........................................................................87
INDONESIA ETERNALLY ON ALERT TO COMMUNIST THREAT......................................................................87
ARMY RUMBLINGS OF COMMUNIST THREAT DEEMED DIVERSIONARY ..................................................88
INDONESIA SCHOLAR SAID IMMUNE FROM EXTRADITION.........................................................................89
INDONESIA HOLDS NAVAL WAR GAMES .....................................................................................................89
EAST TIMOR AT BEIJING CONFERENCE................................................................................................... 89
A MESSAGE TO THE BEIJING CONFERENCE FROM THE EAST TIMORESE WOMEN ......................................89
OMOMO MELEN PACIFIC.............................................................................................................................90
IFET’S GAL AT THE BEIJING NGO WOMEN’S FORUM ...................................................................................90
JAPANESE TV COVERAGE OF BEIJING.........................................................................................................91
UNITED NATIONS....................................................................................................................................... 91
UNSG PROGRESS REPORT ..........................................................................................................................91
GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MENTIONS EAST TIMOR IN OPENING STATEMENT.................................92
EAST TIMOR: U.N. PICKS UP THE PACE .......................................................................................................92
UNGA FOURTH COMMITTEE DISCUSSION BEGINS......................................................................................93
EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK CALLS FOR MORE FORCEFUL UN ACTION ON EAST TIMOR.......................94
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PROTESTORS FLOCK TO U.N. ANNIVERSARY GATHERING ..........................................................................94
SOARES BLASTS “OUTRAGEOUS SITUATION” IN EAST TIMOR......................................................................95
ALATAS’ RESPONSE TO SOARES’ UN SPEECH .........................................................................................95
UNITED NATIONS AT 50 AND EAST TIMOR: IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE............................................................95
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 96
NEON METIN IS BACK .................................................................................................................................96
OPEN LETTER TO NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER........................................................................................96
NORWEGIAN PM MEETS SUHARTO ..............................................................................................................98
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION .......................................................................................................98
INDONESIA CONDEMNED BY MEPS .......................................................................................................98
OH TIMOR! (PORTUGUESE SOCIALISTS COMMITTED TO ET)........................................................................98
BISHOP BELO NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.................................................................................99
“THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING”.............................................................................................................99
PEREZ DE CUELLAR ON INDONESIA ...........................................................................................................99
TIMORESE SEEK ASYLUM AT UK EMBASSY ........................................................................................... 100
TIMORESE SEEKING ASYLUM AT UK EMBASSY IN JAKARTA ...................................................................... 100
BRITISH COALITION FOR EAST TIMOR PRESS RELEASE ....................................................................... 101
ASYLUM BID ‘UNDER CONSIDERATION’.................................................................................................... 102
ANN CLWYD: ASYLUM MUST BE GRANTED ................................................................................................ 102
TIMORESE PLEAD FOR UK ASYLUM ........................................................................................................... 102
EAST TIMOR REBELS ASK BRITAIN FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM................................................................. 102
TIMORESE FLEE TO EMBASSY ............................................................................................................... 103
ASYLUM SEEKERS LEAVE TO PORTUGAL.................................................................................................... 103
EVENTS IN ENGLAND .............................................................................................................................. 103
BRITISH AID TO INDONESIA UNDER FIRE................................................................................................. 103
EAST TIMOR AND ARMS TRADE ON STAGE................................................................................................ 104
IRISH PRESIDENT ATTENDS PLAY ........................................................................................................ 104
RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD FOR CARMEL BUDIARDJO ............................................................................ 104
‘ALTERNATIVE’ NOBEL PRIZE TO HONOUR FOUR ACTIVISTS ................................................................ 105
JAKARTA: AWARD FOR CARMEL BUDIARDJO ‘A POLITICAL JOKE’ ........................................................ 105
INTERVIEW: RLA LAUREATE CARMEL BUDIARDJO ................................................................................ 105
EVENTS IN IRELAND................................................................................................................................ 107
PLAYING THE GAME AND RESISTING BRITISH ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA ............................................ 107
NEW WEST PAPUA CAMPAIGN IN IRELAND ............................................................................................... 107
SPRING AND ALATAS CUT SHORT MEETING.............................................................................................. 107
SPRING WALKED OUT ON INDONESIAN MINISTER OVER TIMOR......................................................... 107
ALATAS ATTACKS IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER............................................................................................. 108
CORRECTING ALATAS’S “INACCURACIES” ABOUT “TRANSMIGRATION” IN EAST TIMOR ....................... 109
ALATAS UPSET AT SPRING’S TIMOR WORDS.............................................................................................. 110
OFF THE BUS AND ON TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ROAD .............................................................................. 110
EVENTS IN ASIA-PACIFIC ........................................................................................................................ 111
APCET PROPOSAL: “LIGHT A FIRE” SYMBOLIC ACTIONS............................................................................ 111
NGO PARALLEL CONFERENCE TO THE APEC OSAKA SUMMIT.................................................................... 111
APEC OSAKA ET PRESS CONFERENCE....................................................................................................... 112
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 113
REALPOLITIK V: THE LAW OF NATIONS ..................................................................................................... 113
SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION ................................................................................................ 113
KEATING, SUHARTO TO DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS.................................................................................... 113
Page 6 East Timor Documents, Volume 40. Sept. 1 - November 3, 1995.
CANBERRA KEEPING ON JAKARTA’S RIGHT SIDE ..................................................................................... 114
KEATING HITS HUMAN RIGHTS BLOCK ON WAY TO BOOST JAKARTA TIES ............................................... 114
JAKARTA HINTS AT EN VOY MOVE............................................................................................................. 115
EAST TIMORESE PLEAD FOR UN ACTION .................................................................................................. 115
LEGAL MOVES AGAINST EAST TIMOR REFUGEES....................................................................................... 116
BACKSLIDING SHAMES AUSTRALIANS.................................................................................................. 116
REFUGEE TRIBUNAL WILL TREAT EACH CASE ON MERIT........................................................................... 117
HOSTAGES TO HISTORY ............................................................................................................................ 117
RECONSIDER TIMOR MOVE....................................................................................................................... 118
DIGGERS FIGHT FOR BOAT PEOPLE ..................................................................................................... 118
TIMORESE DISMISS CLAIM BY KEATING ................................................................................................... 118
LET THE TIMORESE REFUGEES STAY!........................................................................................................ 119
REFUGEE RULING SPARKS ANGER ........................................................................................................... 119
EAST TIMOR REFUGEES: LET THEM STAY!................................................................................................. 119
IN MEMORY OF DENIS FRENEY................................................................................................................ 121
EVENTS IN NEW ZEALAND ...................................................................................................................... 121
FLAG PROTEST........................................................................................................................................... 121
FLAG BURNING RESPONSES................................................................................................................. 121
NZ REGRETS REPEATED BURNING OF INDONESIAN FLAG ................................................................... 122
ET INDEPENDENCE COMMITTEE PROTESTS POLICE HARASSMENT OF MANU CADDIE........................ 122
TIMOR ACTION CALL ................................................................................................................................. 122
NEW ZEALAND VIGIL / JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA VISIT.................................................................................. 122
EVENTS INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES.............................................................................................. 123
AMBASSADOR ALBRIGHT IN JAKARTA ...................................................................................................... 123
THE DEBATE OVER U.S. TAX DOLLARS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................. 123
FEINGOLD AND STATE DEPARTMENT VIEWS ON IMET AND EAST TIMOR.................................................. 124
JIMMY CARTER TO LOOK INTO TIMOR ISSUE............................................................................................ 126
INDONESIA AND THE U.S.: 30 YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY ............................................................ 126
COMING NY EVENTS ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................... 127
NAIRN: FREE EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................................................... 127
ACTION ALERT: CALL CONGRESS ON IMET ............................................................................................... 128
CONGRESSIONAL LETTER ON IMET...................................................................................................... 128
CONGRESS LIMITS IMET FOR INDONESIA............................................................................................ 129
CONGRESSIONAL LETTERS TO CLINTON.................................................................................................. 129
CLINTON, SUHARTO MAY AVOID RIGHTS ISSUES ..................................................................................... 130
PRESIDENT CLINTON RAISED EAST TIMOR WITH INDONESIAN PRESIDEN T SUHARTO ............................ 131
CLINTON, SUHARTO TALK HUMAN RIGHTS .......................................................................................... 131
INDONESIA WOOS AMERICAN BUSINESS ................................................................................................. 132
FIVE NAMED FOR PRESS FREEDOM AWARDS............................................................................................ 132
INDONESIA BUYING U.S. F-16’S?............................................................................................................ 132
NO US ARMS SALES TO DICTATORS .......................................................................................................... 132
OWENS: US MAY LIFT F-16S SALES BAN.................................................................................................... 133
INDONESIA STILL STUDIES US OFFER TO SELL F-16S ............................................................................... 134
JET FIGHTERS DO NOT VIOLATE RIGHTS .................................................................................................. 134
INDONESIA PLAYS DOWN MILITARY PURCHASES ..................................................................................... 135
CLINTON OFFERS F-16S TO INDONESIA – NEWSPAPER............................................................................. 135
INDONESIA SEEKS U.S. EXPORT CREDITS FOR F-16S ............................................................................... 136
VOA — US F-16S TO INDONESIA? .............................................................................................................. 136
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RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 136
“EYEWITNESS” BOOK LAUNCH .................................................................................................................. 136
BOOK TO PORTRAY ‘91 MASSACRE ....................................................................................................... 137
TIMOR NET AROUSES INDONESIA’S CURIOSITY ....................................................................................... 137
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................... 138
NEW ET MONOGRAPH ............................................................................................................................... 139

This item includes:

• Q & A: East Timor’s Peace Proposals (20.02.1995) Herald International Tribune
• Concern Expressed over East Timor Deaths (22.02.1995) Osseratore Romano
• Pope John Paul II: The Biography by Tad Szulc (1995) | 2 pp.
• Compromising human rights (08.04.1995) The Boston Globe
• Persistent Thorn in the Flesh (29.03.1995) The Financial Times | 2 pp.
• Buried alive: East Timor’s Tragic Oppression (10.12.1995) Boston Sunday Globe

Demonstrators carry crosses with names of those killed at Santa Cruz massacre, Ottawa, 1995.

Nettalk newsletter, Update 4, March 1995

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