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Girl carrying corn, 1974

Photojournalist Elaine Briere was travelling the Southeast Asian “hippy trail” in 1974, a trip that brought her among other places to pre-invasion East Timor. She fell in love with the country. After its invasion, she found she had some of the very few high-quality images of pre-invasion East Timor. She shared them with solidarity groups around the world. Especially in Canadian activism, they became iconic. Some have even found their way back to independent Timor-Leste.

  • Girl carrying corn East Timor, 1974

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Early Timor Activism in Canada

Nova Scotia East Timor Group, 1983-onwards

When Dalhousie University in Halifax started considering a project in Indonesia, a group of local people formed the Nova Scotia East Timor Group. The group, led by Bill Owen, Audrey Samson and Ross Shotton, undertook a letter-writing campaign to the Canadian government, the first time Ottawa felt compelled to respond to letters from the public. Ten years after the 1975 invasion of East Timor, the NSETG was instrumental in the Canadian component of an Amnesty International to raise awareness about human rights in East Timor. Under Indonesian rule, AI reported, some 200,000 Timorese had died.

  • Bill Owen (crouching) at NSETG literature table and banner showing, Halifax

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Abé ho Aloz in performance

Abé ho Aloz in performance. Timorese-Canadian duo Abé Barreto Soares and Aloz MacDonald performed numerous shows across Canada in support of the Timorese cause.

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ETAN/Canada meeting, Toronto

ETAN conference of Ontario members, held in Toronto at the Canadian Auto Workers centre, College Street West.

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Agio Pereira concert, Toronto

Agio Pereira of the East Timor Relief Association performs in a concert presented by ETAN/Toronot at the 519 Church Street community centre.

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UN Special Committee on Decolonization 1987

Various statements at the 1987 United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization: session on East Timor.

  • Statement of Julia Morrigan of the Indonesian East Timor Program
  • Multiple poems in English and one in Indonesian

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Canada - Timor Church to Church Contacts

In 1983, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes became the first Timorese voice to speak in Canada since the 1975 invasion. He had recently been removed as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Dili – in de facto terms, head of the Timorese Catholic church – for being too critical of Indonesia’s human rights record. Msgr da Costa Lopes came at the invitation of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, meeting Canadian Catholics and also lobbying the government and speaking to the
Canadian media.

  • The same year also saw the release of Peter Monet’s film “Betrayed But Not Beaten,” the first documentary to be produced in North America about East Timor.
    -Image: screen shot of Martinho da Costa Lopes from the film

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UN Special Committee on Decolonization 1988

Various statements at the 1988 United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization: session on East Timor.

  • The right to self-determination of East-Timor by Elaine Briere
  • Statement by Dr. Roque Rodrigues (Member of the Central Committee of Fretilin before the UNDecol. cmte.)
  • East Timor meeting New York minutes (08/88)
  • Statement to the UN Decolonisation Committee by Bishop Finau.

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Textiles of Timor Exhibit

Various documents about the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. The Museum of Textiles is a non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1975.
This item includes
The Legend of the Crocodile
Examples of textiles from Timor
East-Timor; The Survival of a Vision
The Buffalo and the Princess (Timorese folktale)
A Swedish magazine: Forintesle i Paradiset
A story of a Quail and a Rat

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Textiles of Timor Exhibit

Various documents about the Museum for Textiles in Toronto. The Museum of Textiles is a non-profit educational organization incorporated in 1975.
This item includes

  • The legend of the crocodile
  • Examples of textiles from Timor
  • East-Timor; The Survival of a Vision
  • The Buffalo and the Princess (Timorese folktale)
  • A Swedish magazine: Forintesle i Paradiset
  • A story a quail and a rat

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UN Special Committee on Decolonization 1989

Various statements at the 1989 United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization: session on East Timor.

  • Statement to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization by Elaine Briere
  • Statement on East Timor by David Kilgour
  • Subject memo No. 3/89
  • Statement by Jose Luis Guterres (Member of Fretilin Central Committee)
  • Statement by the Timorese Democratic Union
  • Statement to UNDecol. cmte. session on East Timor by Bishop Aloisius Nobuo Soma

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Solidarity Activism 1997-99

Each year, a Canadian member of Parliamentarians for East Timor travelled to take part in international testimonies to the UN Decolonization Committee.
-Dan Heap MP at the United Nations with José Luis Guterres of Fretilin and Charles Scheiner of ETAN/US

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ETAN protest, Pratt and Whitney, Toronto

East Timor Alert network protesters attempt to block access to a loading bay at the Pratt and Whitney factory in Toronto. Pratt and Whitney was one company issued with military export licences to Indonesia. The protest aimed to highlight Canada's role in arming Indonesia as part of ETAN's campaign for an arms embargo on Indonesia. Photographer at right is one of the reporters who covered this event. The protesters were removed and arrested by local police.

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Bella Galhos, press conference, APEC, 1997

In Canada, solidarity activists rallied to try to make a “citizen’s arrest” of Indonesian president Suharto at the 1997 APEC summit, picking up on the example of Timorese activists who had put their country’s struggle at the centre of the 1994 APEC summit in Jakarta.
-Bella Galhos presents media with photos of torture in East Timor outside the APEC summit, Vancouver, 1997 (Photo: Elaine Briere)

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