XANANA GUSMÃO’S TRIAL CONTINUES ...................................................................................................... 6
PORTUGUESE PARLIAMEN T: TRIAL IS ILLEGAL..............................................................................................6
XANANA LAWYER COURT STATEMENT...........................................................................................................6
XANANA REKINDLES EXPECTATION OVER HIS TRIAL IN DILI .......................................................................7
XANANA’S LAWYER USES ALATAS’S ARGUMENT............................................................................................8
RAMOS HORTA AGREES TO TESTIFY.............................................................................................................9
INDONESIAN UN MISSION CHIEF MEETS XANANA .....................................................................................10
FOUR WITNESSES HEARD AT XANANA TRIAL ON FEB. 15............................................................................10
XANANA’S LAWYER UNDER PRESSURE........................................................................................................10
GUSMÃO ADMITS ‘DEATH’ EVIDENCE..........................................................................................................11
XANANA CONFOUNDS HIS LAWYER ............................................................................................................11
AUSTRALIAN CASH SENT TO FRETILIN: WITNESS........................................................................................12
FORMER REBEL NOW “INDONESIAN CITIZEN”............................................................................................12
XANANA: A LEADER WHO DOES NOT APPEAR BEATEN ................................................................................12
FRETILIN ‘GOT AID FROM AUSTRALIA’ ........................................................................................................14
MATE-BIAN NEWS COMMENTS ON COVERAGE OF XANANA TRIAL ..............................................................14
XANANA: THE TRIAL OF JUSTICE.................................................................................................................15
RETICENT WITNESSES.................................................................................................................................16
TRIAL RESUMES TODAY...............................................................................................................................16
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SATURNINO DA COSTA BELO BRAVELY CRIES OUT .....................................................................................17
SOS RE: SATURNINO’S CONDITION ............................................................................................................18
BACKGROUND ON SATURNINO...................................................................................................................18
SATURNINO’S ‘TESTIMONY’ USED IN COURT...............................................................................................20
NOTHING DELIBERATE ABOUT DELAY IN TRIAL ..........................................................................................20
XANANA TRIAL DRAGS ON ..........................................................................................................................20
DEFENCE WITNESSES HEARD .....................................................................................................................21
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................................... 21
WHO’S WHO IN THE RESISTANCE...............................................................................................................21
CNRM CHRISTMAS MESSAGE......................................................................................................................21
STATE OF WAR: A DIARY..............................................................................................................................22
FIGHTING AND ARRESTS IN FIVE MUNICIPALITIES.....................................................................................26
ALIAS CORTHE.............................................................................................................................................26
VIDEO OF XANANA CIRCULATES AROUND TIMORESE SCHOOLS ................................................................27
THE OLD MISSIONARY’S MONOLOGUE .......................................................................................................27
BELO: TIMOR LIKE THE AZORES, MADEIRA, PUERTO RICO .........................................................................27
EAST TIMOR PADDY FIELDS NEGLECTED ....................................................................................................29
AROUND THE TRIAL.....................................................................................................................................30
SIX TIMORESE REBELS SURRENDER WITH BOWS AND ARROWS................................................................30
RESISTANCE LEADERS ANSWER QUESTIONS..............................................................................................30
MA’HUNU VOWS TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE..........................................................................................32
NEW BAR ON EAST TIMORESE GOING OVERSEAS? .....................................................................................33
LIKE IT OR QUIT TIMOR, GOVERNOR TELLS PRIESTS..................................................................................33
AUSTRALIAN INVESTS IN DILI GARMENT BUSINESS ...................................................................................34
EAST TIMOR’S CATHOLIC PRIEST AGAIN DENOUNCES ABUSES ..................................................................34
RESISTANCE GROUP DEN OUNCES INDONESIAN ATROCITIES ....................................................................34
PROPAGATION OF ISLAM IN DILI ...............................................................................................................35
INDONESIA TO CHANGE MILITARY ROLE IN EAST TIMOR...........................................................................35
MILITARY REDUCTION IN EAST TIMOR?......................................................................................................35
TIMORESE REBEL SURRENDERS TO INDONESIAN MILITARY ......................................................................35
FOUR INDONESIAN SOLDIERS KILLED BY “FRETILIN” (BBC).......................................................................36
EDI: TROOPS KILLED WON’T DELAY WITHDRAWAL.....................................................................................36
CNRM COMMUNIQUÉ ON XANANA, OSORIO...............................................................................................37
MORE INDONESIAN DEATHS IN TIMOR ......................................................................................................37
NEW TORTURE CHARGED AGAINST INDONESIA.........................................................................................37
SYAFEI BECOMES UDAYANA COMMANDER..................................................................................................38
DEMONSTRATION PLANNED IN DILI? .........................................................................................................38
YOUNG PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE IN DILI .....................................................................................................38
ARMY CHANGES IN TIMOR..........................................................................................................................38
MA’HUNU CAPTURED................................................................................................................................. 39
QUESTIONS SURROUND MA’HUNU CAPTURE..............................................................................................39
ACTION ALERT TO PREVENT MA HUNU TORTURE........................................................................................39
STATEMENT BY JOSE RAMOS-HORTA ..........................................................................................................40
FURTHER EXCERPTS FROM WIRES ON EAST TIMOR DEVELOPMENTS:........................................................40
REACTIONS TO MA HUNU CAPTURE ............................................................................................................40
HARSH BLOW TO THE RESISTANCE.............................................................................................................41
MA’HUNU CAPTURED IN BATTLE..................................................................................................................41
MORE WEAPONS FLOW TO INDONESIA.................................................................................................... 42
PORTUGAL PROTESTS LONDON-JAKARTA MILITARY PLANES DEAL.............................................................42
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SOUTHEAST ASIAN NAVIES GROWING BIGGER...........................................................................................42
INDONESIA NO THREAT TO ITS NEIGHBORS ..............................................................................................42
PORTUGAL PROTESTS AT GERMAN ARMS SALE ...........................................................................................43
GERMANY SELLS WAR SHIPS TO INDONESIA..............................................................................................43
KOHL IN TOKYO CHASTISED FOR ARMS SALE.............................................................................................43
NGOS PROTEST WARSHIP DEAL TO KOHL...................................................................................................44
PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE ARE UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS OF PEACE .......................................................44
DEMONSTRATION AT BRITISH AEROSPACE................................................................................................45
GERMAN EMBASSY REPLIES TO CANADA ....................................................................................................45
PROSPECTS FOR MORE HAWK SALES FROM BAE ........................................................................................45
SUHARTO “RE-ELECTED”, TRY IS NEW V.P............................................................................................. 46
PETITION SUPPORT SWELLS FOR SUHARTO ................................................................................................46
ENVOY AT UN TOLD TO CAMPAIGN FOR TIMOR ACCEPTANCE ....................................................................46
GEN. TRY KEEPS MUM ABOUT ACCEPTING V-P NOMINATION .....................................................................46
SUDRADJAT LOCALLY TRAINED...................................................................................................................47
NEW ABRI CHIEF A TIMOR VETERAN ...........................................................................................................47
STUDENTS DETAINED FOR DEMO ..............................................................................................................47
STUDENTS ARRESTED AS SUHARTO ACCEPTS TRY......................................................................................47
SUHARTO STILL SILENT ON VICE-PRESIDENT.............................................................................................48
TRY SUTRISNO IS TRUSTED SUHARTO MAN, DEVOUT MUSLIM ..................................................................48
THE END GAME FOR INDONESIA’S SUHARTO .............................................................................................48
SUHARTO ANNOUNCES NEW CABINET.......................................................................................................50
PROFILES OF KEY MEN IN NEW SUHARTO CABI NET ...................................................................................51
ABRI REASSERTS SELF.................................................................................................................................51
SUHARTO EXCLUDES ARMY FROM CABINET................................................................................................52
SUHARTO TO ATTEND G7 SUMMIT? ............................................................................................................52
INDONESIA’S NEW AMBASSADOR TO INDIA ...............................................................................................53
HUMAN RIGHTS: BACKGROUND PAPERS.................................................................................................. 54
INDONESIA/EAST TIMOR A NEW ORDER? HUMAN RIGHTS IN 1992 (AI)......................................................54
THE HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN EAST TIMOR: REGIONAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES..............................56
BACKGROUND TO THE CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION (FROM CANADA) .........................................59
INDONESIA’S JUSTICE SYSTEM VIOLATES BASIC RIGHTS ...........................................................................62
PRISONERS FACE TORTURE, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP........................................................................62
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW BODY RECEIVES AWARD ...........................................................................................63
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PASSES STRONG RESOLUTION .......................................................... 64
THE JAKARTA REGIME AND ITS GENEVA COMMITMENTS............................................................................64
EAST TIMOR REBEL LEADER PLEADS FOR U.N. SUPPORT............................................................................64
URGE YOUR GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT EAST TIMOR AT THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION .............64
CLOSED EYES ON EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................65
UNHRC STATEMENT OF CONSTANCIO PINTO ..............................................................................................66
UNHRC STATEMENT BY ABE BARRETO SOARES ...........................................................................................67
CNRM UPDATE.............................................................................................................................................67
INDONESIA SUFFERS HUMILIATING DEFEAT AT UN ....................................................................................68
AUSTRALIA’S UN VOTE ‘A SURPRISE’ ..........................................................................................................69
UN SLAMS DILI KILLERS’ JAIL TERMS ........................................................................................................69
U.N. CRITICIZES INDONESIA ABOUT EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................69
INDONESIA REJECTS UNHRC RESOLUTION ON ET .....................................................................................70
INDONESIA, DESERVEDLY REBUKED ..........................................................................................................71
ACTION ALERT ON INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO UNHRC RESOLUTION .......................................................71
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INDONESIA LOSES GEN EVA VOTE..............................................................................................................73
SELECTIVE FOCUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS CRITICISED ...................................................................................73
UN ROUND-UP OF UNHRC SESSION ..........................................................................................................76
EUROPEAN POSITIONS AT UNHRC .............................................................................................................76
U.S. CONCERN OVER EAST TIMOR MAY SIGNAL ASIAN POLICY CHANGE ...................................................76
SOME TIMORESE BEING GROOMED FOR INDONESIA.................................................................................77
INDONESIA ASKS NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES TO SUPPORT REPRESSION .................................................77
CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ANNOUNCES SEVEN SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS..............78
TIMOR CONTROVERSY AT BANGKOK HUMAN RIGHTS MEETING ............................................................ 78
ROW OVER NGO ACCREDITATION...............................................................................................................78
GROUPS PLEDGE TO BOOST EAST TIMOR FIGHT.........................................................................................78
HUMAN RIGHTS MEETING IN BANGKOK - IS IT A SHAM?............................................................................79
HUMAN RIGHTS VALUES – EASTERN, WESTERN OR UNIVERSAL?................................................................79
NGOS BANNED FROM ASIAN MEETING......................................................................................................80
NEED FOR REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM STRESSED ................................................................81
HUMAN RIGHTS: INDONESIA HITS BACK AT CRITICS .................................................................................81
ASSISTANT S-G FOR HUMAN RIGHTS STRESSES ASIAN CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CONFERENCE ...........82
BANGKOK DECLARATION ............................................................................................................................82
ASIA-PACIFIC STATES SET STRONG AGENDA ..............................................................................................84
BBC ON BANGKOK DECLARATION AND TIMOR ...........................................................................................85
JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA SAYS HE PLANS TO RETURN TO EAST TIMOR.............................................................86
CONTINUING TALKS BETW EEN INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL................................................................... 87
JAPANESE GROUPS URGE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS ...........................................87
CHURCH TO MEDIATE TIMOR TALKS?.........................................................................................................88
ROME AWAITS THE TIMORESE.....................................................................................................................89
VATICAN MEDIATION NOT CONFIRMED BY FOREI GN OFFICE.....................................................................89
ALATAS STEPS “BACKWARD” TOWARDS ROME ?..........................................................................................90
INDONESIA SAYS PORTUGAL UNHELPFUL OVER TIMOR .............................................................................90
DIPLOMACY VERSUS LOGIC OF WAR..........................................................................................................90
AMOS WAKO RETURNS TO EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................. 91
SECRETARY-GENERAL TO SEND PERSONAL ENVOY TO INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR...............................91
JAKARTA ASKED TO REVEAL ALL FROM PROBE OF 1991 DILI INCIDENT.....................................................91
JAKARTA’S HANDLING OF THE AMOS WAKO VISIT......................................................................................92
AMOS WAKO’S RETURN VISIT TO INDONESIA.............................................................................................92
WAKO: “MY DOOR IS OPEN”........................................................................................................................93
AMOS WAKO MEETS XANANA AND MAU HUNU............................................................................................93
RADIO AUSTRALIA ON WAKO VISIT............................................................................................................93
UN ENVOY IN TALKS WITH XANANA...........................................................................................................93
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 94
FIVE DAYS IN EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................................................94
EAST TIMOR UPDATE FROM ETAN/TORONTO ..............................................................................................94
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ON XANANA......................................................................................................95
EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK / CANADA NEWSLETTER, FEB. 1993.............................................................96
UPDATE FROM EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK/CANADA..............................................................................98
EVENTS IN EUROPE; EUROPEAN LEADERS VISIT INDONESIA ................................................................. 99
SWITZERLAND’S POSITION ON EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................................99
LACK OF UNEQUIVOCAL SUPPORT FROM EC ............................................................................................. 100
MOREIRA INTERVIEW: PORTUGUESE GOV’T VIEWS................................................................................... 100
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KOHL TO RAISE TIMOR ISSUE WITH SUHARTO ......................................................................................... 102
LETTER TO FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY .................................................................................................. 102
POSSIBLE VOTE IN EP ............................................................................................................................... 102
NEW PAPAL AMBASSADOR TO LISBON ...................................................................................................... 102
EP: XANANA TRIAL ILLEGAL....................................................................................................................... 102
EAST TIMOR MOTION WINS UK COMMONS SUPPORT............................................................................... 103
FRETILIN SATISFIED WITH PORTUGAL ...................................................................................................... 103
DENMARK WANTS EC OBSERVER FOR EAST TIMOR .................................................................................. 103
EURO-MPS’ VISIT AWAITS GREEN LIGHT................................................................................................... 103
BRITISH FM DOUGLAS HURD TO VISIT JAKARTA....................................................................................... 103
WITH THE TIMORESE BUT WITHOUT FRETILIN AT EC HEARING................................................................ 104
REPORT FROM FRENCH SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT..................................................................................... 104
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................ 105
REPORT FROM EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK / U.S. TO THE SOLIDARITY MEETING.............................. 105
SILENT GENOCIDE: EAST TIMOR STRUGGLES FOR GLOBAL ATTENTION – AND FOR ITS LIFE ................... 105
SENATOR PELL STATEMENT ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................. 106
US STATE DEPARTMENT’S ANNUAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES IN INDONESIA................... 107
TIME TO END AN ATROCITY....................................................................................................................... 115
EAST TIMORESE WANT THEIR CONQUERORS OUT .................................................................................... 116
ACTION ALERT: THE LAST CHANCE FOR THE HOUSE HUNGER COMMITTEE !............................................ 116
SPEAKING TOUR: EAST TIMOR – A NEW GENERATION OF RESISTANCE.................................................... 117
TIMOR’S UNTELEVISED TERROR................................................................................................................ 117
ETAN/US NEWSLETTER # 5......................................................................................................................... 119
INÍCIO DA DIGRESSÃO TIMORENSE PELOS EUA....................................................................................... 120
EAST TIMOR: SOARES WRITES TO CLINTON .............................................................................................. 121
TIMORESE EXILE ACTIVITIES................................................................................................................. 121
THE “FREEDOM FOR XANANA, FREEDOM FOR TIMOR” COMMISSION ....................................................... 121
SOME EXILES: HORTA HAS NEVER BEEN MANDATED................................................................................ 121
FRETILIN/AUSTRALIA WANTS MOVEMENT RESTRUCTURED ...................................................................... 122
FRETILIN WITHOUT MAU HUNU................................................................................................................ 122
TIMORESE RESISTANCE TRIES TO AVOID DIVISIONS ............................................................................... 123
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 123
SYAFEI ON MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EAST TIMOR FROM 1975................................................................ 123
INFORMATION WANTED ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE INDONESIAN OCCUPATION ........ 123
EAST TIMOR COMPUTER WAR GAME ......................................................................................................... 124
AUSTRALIAN TV STARTS BROADCASTING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA................................................................. 124
PRESS COMMUNIQUÉ FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT............................................ 124
YEAR OF THE SANDALWOOD EXHIBITION, LISBON................................................................................... 125
EVANS FACES PROTEST OVER TIMOR........................................................................................................ 125
DEBATE: PORTUGUESE TEACHERS RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR ............................................................ 125
ASIA BOLDLY TAKING ON THE WEST......................................................................................................... 131
RELIGIOUS CONFLICT DISINFORMATION QUERY ..................................................................................... 132
LOBBYING FOR EAST TIMOR IN BRAZIL.................................................................................................... 132
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................. 132
TAPOL BULLETIN CONTENTS, APRIL 1993 .................................................................................................. 132
FIRST PLAY BY TIMORESE CULTURAL GROUP ............................................................................................ 133
AUSTRALIAN BID TO SAVE THE TETUM LANGUAGE.................................................................................... 133
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW PRIVATE ‘INDONESIA’ AND ‘EASTTIMOR’ LISTS............................................... 133

XANANA GUSMÃO SENTENCED TO LIFE ..................................................................................................... 6
XANANA APPEARS IN COURT.........................................................................................................................6
XANANA QUESTIONED ..................................................................................................................................7
XANANA GUSMÃO TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR SANTA CRUZ DEMONSTRATION .........................................9
LIFE DEMANDED FOR XANANA....................................................................................................................10
XANANA VERDICT MAY BE ‘HEAVIER’: SINGGIH..........................................................................................10
XANANA’S TRIAL THROWN INTO CONFUSION .............................................................................................10
XANANA GUSMÃO TRIAL MUST NOT CONTINUE ..........................................................................................11
XANANA WANTS TO CONTROL HIS OWN DEFENSE....................................................................................11
OBSERVERS KEPT FROM XANANA’S TRAIL...................................................................................................12
UN CONCERN AT XANANA TRIAL.................................................................................................................12
XANANA HANDS 26-PAGE DEFENSE PAPER .................................................................................................12
XANANA DEFENSE STATEMENT WILL NOT BE MADE PUBLIC......................................................................12
INTERPRETER FORCED ON XANANA ...........................................................................................................13
CONFUSION OVER JUDGE’S RULING .........................................................................................................14
JUDGE WARNS XANANA RE DEFENSE.........................................................................................................14
CNRM: XANANA’S TRIAL, INDONESIA’S SHAME...........................................................................................15
XANANA GAGGED. VERDICT ON FRIDAY....................................................................................................15
END THIS COURTROOM FARCE, FREE XANANA GUSMÃO!...........................................................................16
COMMENT ON LEGALITY OF XANANA’S GAGGING ......................................................................................16
DEFENCE PLEA OF XANANA GUSMÃO (EXCERPTS) ......................................................................................16
SEE AMOS WAKO SECTION ON ACCUSATIONS OF HIS INTERFERENCE IN THE TRIAL ................................20
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INDONESIAN LAWYERS CRITICIZE DILI COURT..........................................................................................20
ICJ LAWYERS CONDEMN GUSMÃO DECISION ............................................................................................20
ASIA WATCH: XANANA GUSMÃO DENIED FAIR TRIAL..................................................................................21
XANANA GETS LIFE......................................................................................................................................21
XANANA FACES LIFE....................................................................................................................................22
STATEMENT BY MR. JOSE RAMOS-HORTA ...................................................................................................22
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ADVICE TO EDITORS ........................................................................................24
LORD AVEBURY WANTS UK ACTION ON XANANA........................................................................................24
MEDIA COVERAGE.......................................................................................................................................25
IAN MACINTOSH ON XANANA TRIAL ..........................................................................................................25
XANANA SENTENCED TO LIFE BEHIND BARS ..............................................................................................25
DEFIANT XANANA REJECTS APPEAL ............................................................................................................26
XANANA GUSMÃO CONTINUES TO BE A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE BEHIND PRISON BARS..........................26
GUSMÃO IN JAIL BUT BATTLE IS FAR FROM OVER.......................................................................................27
TAPOL: ICRC MUST PROTECT XANANA ........................................................................................................28
XANANA: VIVA TIMOR LESTE .......................................................................................................................28
INDONESIAN PAPERS REACTION TO SENTENCE.........................................................................................28
CNRM: XANANA ON HUNGER STRIKE; CONCERN FOR HIS HEALTH ..........................................................29
AI: FEAR OF TORTURE..................................................................................................................................30
XANANA GETS LIFE SENTENCE...................................................................................................................30
EAST TIMOR, A VICTIM OF DESPAIR...........................................................................................................31
XANANA CONFIRMED ON HUNGER STRIKE AND ILL...................................................................................32
RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEW WITH ABC/AUSTRALIA .....................................................................................32
MILITARY CHIEF WANTS GUSMÃO OUT OF TIMOR.......................................................................................33
IAN MACINTOSH REPORTS ON XANANA......................................................................................................33
XANANA SENTENCE: REACTIONS............................................................................................................. 34
IN PORTUGAL ..............................................................................................................................................34
ROUND-UP OF OTHER RESPONSES TO THE XANANA VERDICT...................................................................35
TIMORESE AND OTHER REACTIONS TO THE LIFE SENTENCE......................................................................36
COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ......................................................37
MARIO SOARES: “XANANA WAS COURAGEOUS AND DIGNIFIED”................................................................37
PORTUGUESE PARLIAMEN T HALTS TO CONDEMN .......................................................................................38
INDONESIANS IGNORE PORTUGUESE REACTION .......................................................................................38
EVANS PLEADS FOR TIMOR LEADER...........................................................................................................38
QUESTION TIME IN THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMEN T ....................................................................................39
STATEMENT BY PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR EAST TIMOR (AUSTRALIA) ...........................................................39
JAPANESE REP. EDA’S STATEMENT..............................................................................................................39
CANADA ON XANANA GUSMÃO ...................................................................................................................40
XANANA SENTENCE: EDITORIALS............................................................................................................. 40
VANCOUVER SUN: INDONESIA’S SECRET....................................................................................................40
OBSERVER: SUHARTO’S CRIMES ................................................................................................................40
BOSTON GLOBE: INDONESIAN INJUSTICE.................................................................................................40
SMH: EAST TIMOR’S NELSON MANDELA.....................................................................................................41
AGE: A SHAM TRIAL, A BAD RESULT............................................................................................................41
NY TIMES: INDONESIA’S SILENCED ACCUSER ............................................................................................42
DUNN: THE MEANING OF XANANA GUSMÃO ...............................................................................................42
IRISH TRIB: INDONESIAN INJUSTICE IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................................43
XANANA SENTENCE: PROTESTS................................................................................................................ 44
DEMONSTRATION AT INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON .........................................................................44
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VICTORIA GROUP CALLS FOR ACTION ON XANANA ....................................................................................44
ACTION IN DARWIN ....................................................................................................................................44
RESPONDING TO THE CURRENT CRISIS: IDEAS FROM MELBOURNE..........................................................45
DEMONSTRATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK CITY ..........................................................................45
AGIR POUR TIMOR ON XANANA VERDICT...................................................................................................45
URGENT APPEAL ON XG HUNGER STRIKE...................................................................................................46
AGIR POUR TIMOR ON XANANA VERDICT...................................................................................................46
CDPM URGENT APPEAL ON HUNGER STRIKE.............................................................................................46
TIMORESE COMMUNITY PROTEST IN CANBERRA........................................................................................46
VICTORIA PROTESTS ...................................................................................................................................47
PROTEST AT INDONESIAN CONSULATE, DARWIN .......................................................................................47
ACTIONS IN SYDNEY ..................................................................................................................................48
TOKYO DEMO: FREE XANANA! .....................................................................................................................48
HUNGER STRIKE OUTSIDE INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON ................................................................49
PORTUGUESE ACTIONS TO FREE XANANA AND ALL TIMORESE POLITICAL PRISONERS .............................49
JONATHAN HUMPHREYS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE; THREE BEGIN IN LISBON ..............................................50
WHO DOES XANANA’S LAWYER REPRESENT? ......................................................................................... 50
SUDJONO: IN THE INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES’ SERVICE? .........................................................................50
SUDJONO’S DEVIOUS ROLE........................................................................................................................50
XANANA TO SEEK CLEMENCY: LAWYER.......................................................................................................51
INTERVIEWS WITH XANANA’S LAWYER SUDJONO, RODNEY LEWIS...........................................................51
XANANA TO SEEK PRESIDENTIAL CLEMENCY: LAWYER ..............................................................................53
XANANA ‘CLEMENCY PLEA’ A MONSTROUS DECEPTION..............................................................................54
CNRM DENOUNCES SUDJONO....................................................................................................................54
SUDJONO LODGES APPEAL FOR CLEMENCY...............................................................................................55
MORE SUDJONO DECEPTIONS....................................................................................................................55
CLEMENCY PLEA NOT SIGNED BY XANANA.................................................................................................55
OTHER EAST TIMORESE IN PRISON.......................................................................................................... 55
CAMPAIGN FOR SATURNINO’S RELEASE .....................................................................................................55
JAKARTA: EAST TIMOR REBEL (PINTO) CAUGHT. (NOT!)...............................................................................58
MA’HUNO: “THE WORD TRAITOR IS EASILY SAID” .......................................................................................58
APPEAL IN FAVOUR OF MAU HUNO.............................................................................................................61
MAU HUNU’S INCREDIBLE “ABOUT-TURN”...................................................................................................62
EAST TIMORESE PRISONERS REMOVED FROM TIMOR ................................................................................62
RED CROSS SUSPENDS VISITS TO EAST TIMOR POLITICAL PRISONERS.....................................................63
ICRC SUSPENSION OF PRISON VISITS IN EAST TIMOR JEOPARDIZES PRISONERS’ WELFARE ...................63
AMOS WAKO’S APRIL VISIT TO TIMOR; ACCUSATIONS ........................................................................... 64
U.N. ENVOY GETS NEW FIGURES ON DILI MASSACRE TOLL.......................................................................64
INDONESIA PROMISES NOT TO MISTREAT TIMORESE ................................................................................64
SYAFEI REFUSES TO MEET AMOS WAKO......................................................................................................65
JUWONO SUDARSONO ON AMOS WAKO VISIT............................................................................................65
TEMPO INTERVIEWS ALATAS ON WAKO, THE US AND EAST TIMOR.............................................................65
THE LATEST WAKO MISSION IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A THOROUGH-GOING INVESTIGATION ....................66
SYAFEI SAYS WAKO INCITED XANANA .......................................................................................................67
BOUTROS-GHALI RESPONDS TO INDONESIAN CHARGES...........................................................................67
UN DAILY PRESS BRIEFING ON WAKO “INFLUEN CE” ..................................................................................68
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................... 68
TIMORESE STUDENTS APOLOGIZE FOR KILLINGS ......................................................................................68
TIM-TIM DOES NOT RESIST ANYMORE........................................................................................................69
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REBELS TO FIGHT ON DESPITE CAPTURE OF MA’HUNU...............................................................................70
FEAR AND REPRESSION STILL RULE AREA OCCUPIED BY INDONESIA........................................................71
A VOICE, OFTEN SILEN CED, TELLS OF EAST TIMOR’S FEAR........................................................................73
KOLAKOPS OFFICIALLY DISSOLVED ............................................................................................................74
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.........................................................................................................................75
RECENT APPEALS FROM EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................................75
ICRC DILI OFFICE AVOIDS CLOSURE ..........................................................................................................76
AI: STUDENTS ARRESTED, TORTURED? .......................................................................................................76
ABILIO OSORIO INTERVIEWED: EAST TIMOR AFTER KOLAKOPS .................................................................77
INDONESIANS WANT JOURNALISTS OUT, NOW! .........................................................................................78
INDONESIAN TIMORESE ATTACKS PORTUGAL ............................................................................................78
WEB OF TERROR TRAPS EAST TIMORESE ....................................................................................................78
SYAFEI DEFYING JAKARTA ..........................................................................................................................79
TIMORESE ACTIVISTS ABROAD ................................................................................................................ 80
JOINT DECLARATION FROM EXTERNAL RESISTANCE..................................................................................80
EXILED EAST TIMORESE RESISTANCE LEADER (HORTA) PLANS RETURN ....................................................81
HORTA IN BRISBANE: CAPTURES HAVE NOT WEAKENED MOVEMENT.........................................................82
JOÃO CARRASCALÃO INTERVIEW...............................................................................................................82
ABILIO ARAUJO MEETS WITH PATRIARCH ...................................................................................................83
CONSTÂNCIO PINTO: THE STRUGGLE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION ...........................................................83
MARI ALKATIRI INTERVIEW .........................................................................................................................85
INDONESIANS TRY TO SECURE SEAT AT THE TABLE....................................................................................86
UDT POSTPONES CONGRESS ......................................................................................................................86
RAMOS-HORTA OPTIMISTIC ON UN VOTE ...................................................................................................87
INDONESIAN WEAPONS PURCHASES OPPOSED ....................................................................................... 87
PURCHASE OF U.K. HAWK JET FIGHTERS REMAINS IDEA .........................................................................87
STOP THE SALE OF U.S. JET FIGHTER PLANES FROM JORDAN TO INDONESIA...........................................88
INDONESIA TO BUY 39 GERMAN WARSHIPS ...............................................................................................90
INDONESIAN MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT............................................................................................. 92
COVER ARTICLES ON ABRI PROMOTIONS...................................................................................................92
TEMPO INTERVIEWS THEO SYAFEI .............................................................................................................93
SUDRADJAT GIVING UP TOP ABRI POST “IN THE NEAR FUTURE’.................................................................94
LOPEZ DA CRUZ BECOMES SPECIAL AMBASSADOR.....................................................................................94
WHITHER EAST TIMOR?...............................................................................................................................95
INDONESIA’S ECONOMY .............................................................................................................................95
ALATAS: “IF THAT WERE THE UN’S DECISION...”..........................................................................................96
ON A BACKGROUND OF TENSION BETWEEN MILITARY AND MOSLEMS ......................................................97
TIMORESE STUDENTS “MUST GO HOME”....................................................................................................97
INDONESIA TOUCHY ABOUT U.N. ACTIVITIES IN JAKARTA..........................................................................98
SUHARTO REJECTS CLINTON MEETING .....................................................................................................98
ARMY WINS ANOTHER SKIRMISH WITH SUHARTO......................................................................................99
INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL MEET IN ROME............................................................................................ 99
TIMOR: DANGEROUS NEGOTIATIONS .........................................................................................................99
RESISTANCE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT ROME TALKS........................................................................................ 100
EAST TIMOR: THE (PORTUGUESE) STRATEGY............................................................................................. 101
TIMORESE WANT TO DEFINE NEW STRATEGY IN ROME............................................................................ 102
LITTLE EXPECTED FROM TALKS BETWEEN LISBON AND JAKARTA............................................................. 103
LETTER TO BOUTROS-GHALI FROM EUROPEAN POLITICIANS ................................................................... 104
PORTUGAL ON TALKS: TOTAL CONTRADICTION ........................................................................................ 104
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SECRETARY-GENERAL HOLDS TALKS WITH FOREI GN MINISTERS OF INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL ......... 105
SELF-DETERMINATION ‘SHELVED’............................................................................................................. 105
INDONESIA AND PORTUGAL HOLD TIMOR TALKS..................................................................................... 106
ROME TALKS PRODUCE NOTHING ............................................................................................................ 106
TALKS BETWEEN LISBON AND JAKARTA YIELD LITTLE RESULT................................................................. 106
POPE PRAYS LEADERS FIND PEACEFUL SOLUTION FOR EAST TIMOR ....................................................... 107
POPE RAISES EAST TIMOR ISSUE WITH INDONESIAN OFFICIAL ............................................................... 107
JOSE RAMOS-HORTA ON ROME TALKS...................................................................................................... 107
NO PROGRESS IN TALKS ON TIMOR ........................................................................................................ 108
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATES ............................................................................................................... 109
NON-ALIGNED NATIONS SEEK COMMON FRONT TO FACE WEST.............................................................. 109
ASIA-PACIFIC NGO CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................. 109
NORTH, SOUTH AND EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 110
RESPONSE TO THIRD WORLD NETWORK FEATURES................................................................................. 111
BUYUNG: INDONESIA COULD BECOME YUGOSLAVIA................................................................................ 112
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 113
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTIONS ON XANANA............................................................................... 113
IRISH SENATOR RAISES TIMOR AT INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION ......................................................... 113
PRO-RI ASSOCIATION IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMEN T................................................................................... 113
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF JOURNALISTS’ RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR................................. 114
BARROSO: AN “OCEAN” SEPARATES PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA............................................................. 114
DURÃO BARROSO IN MOSCOW: ANGOLA & TIMOR REVIEWED ................................................................. 114
FRIDAY VIGIL AT LISBON’S ‘SPACE FOR EAST TIMOR’ ............................................................................... 115
SOLIDARITY SHOW IN PARIS .................................................................................................................... 115
LETTER FROM THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY ...................................................................................... 115
BELGIAN-INDONESIAN AGREEMENT ON AID POSTPONED ....................................................................... 115
BRITISH TO INCREASE INVESTMENT IN INDONESIA................................................................................. 116
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 116
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA RESOLUTION ............................................................................................. 116
EAST TIMOR POETRY PROJECT.................................................................................................................. 117
PORTUGUESE CANADIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR ...................................... 117
CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS LETTERS.................................................................................................. 117
CANADIAN MPS JOIN IN CALLS FOR PRESSURE ON INDONESIA.............................................................. 118
CANADA BACKS EAST TIMOR SENTENCES DESPITE OUTCRY .................................................................... 118
EVENTS IN THE U.S.A. ............................................................................................................................. 119
CONGRESSMEN PONDER VISIT TO EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................... 119
LETTERS EXCHANGE IN WASHINGTON POST............................................................................................ 119
PRESSURE THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION TO CUT OFF GSP TRADE BENEFITS TO INDONESIA...................... 120
HARD LABOUR – DISPUTE OVER WORKERS’ RIGHTS SOURS US-INDONESIA TIES.................................... 120
TIMORESE VISIT CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE................................................................................... 121
INDONESIAN PUBLIC RELATIONS IN U.S. STEPPED UP ............................................................................ 122
ALATAS: CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ACCEPTS INTEGRATION .................................................................. 122
CLINTON TO SUPPORT DEMOCRATIZATION IN INDONESIA? .................................................................... 122
VICE PRESIDENT ALBERT GORE SPEAKS OUT ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................ 123
CLINTON PUSHES FOR TOP UN POST ON HUMAN RIGHTS........................................................................ 124
ETAN/US NETWORK NEWS ISSUE NO. 6 MAY 1993................................................................................... 124
PELL: INDONESIAN ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES IN EAST TIMOR............................................ 130
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EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 131
AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN TIMOR’S TRAGEDY ................................................................................................. 131
PROPOSED MOTION BY AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN ......................................................................... 132
EAST TIMOR RELIEF ASSOCIATION............................................................................................................ 132
FRETILIN 19TH ANNIVERSARY IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................ 133
AUSTRALIA WANTS U.S. MILITARY IN REGION .......................................................................................... 134
ABC RADIO TALK-BACK ON EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................... 134
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 134
BBC DOCUMENTARY AND PICTURES OF TIMOR IN AFRICA ....................................................................... 134
A ROAD TO TIMOR..................................................................................................................................... 135
INDONESIAN ANNEXATION DISCUSSED BY PALOP SUMMIT..................................................................... 135
EAST TIMOR AND A FILM ABOUT ACEH ...................................................................................................... 136
JUST RELEASED: “XANANA"- A DOCUMENTARY......................................................................................... 137
ALGERIA’S DIPLOMACY ............................................................................................................................. 137
U2 CONCERT IN LISBON............................................................................................................................ 137

XANANA IN PRISON...................................................................................................................................... 7
ABOUT THE TRIAL: TIMORESE UNAWARE.......................................................................................................7
XG’S FAMILY DENIES APPEAL........................................................................................................................7
UNFAIR POLITICAL TRIAL OF XANANA GUSMÃO ............................................................................................7
ORDER OF FREEDOM FOR XANANA.............................................................................................................14
LBH COMPLAINS TO THE INDONESIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ABOUT SUDJONO ............................................14
HORTA & TAPOL DISBELIEVE CLEMENCY APPEAL .......................................................................................15
MORE OF SUDJONO’S SCHEMING...............................................................................................................15
GUSMÃO’S DILI TRIAL A TRAVESTY- WORLD MUST WEEP FOR A MAN OF VISION AND COURAGE. .............15
XANANA’S HEALTH DECLINING? .................................................................................................................16
RAMOS-HORTA TELLS ALATAS: “SHOW XANANA GUSMÃO”..........................................................................17
ULTIMATE PENALTY - EAST TIMOR LEADER GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT......................................................17
REBEL LEADER TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE OUTSIDE EAST TIMOR...............................................................18
RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEW .........................................................................................................................18
STATEMENT OF INDONESIAN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON XANANA’S TRIAL............................20
REBEL ASKS FOR MERCY.............................................................................................................................22
“XANANA WILL NEVER FILE FOR CLEMENCY!” — RAMOS HORTA ...............................................................22
CLEMENCY PLOY FOR EAST TIMORESE YET ANOTHER TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE............................................22
MEDIA PUT WORDS IN XANANA’S MOUTH...................................................................................................23
JAILED XANANA WINS LIBERTY MEDAL.......................................................................................................23
XANANA MOVED FROM DILI........................................................................................................................24
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WILL ICRC SEE XANANA OR EAST TIMOR? .............................................................................................. 24
ICRC TO VISIT XANANA GUSMÃO?...............................................................................................................24
RED CROSS TIMOR VISIT ............................................................................................................................24
EVANS: JAKARTA WILL ALLOW ACCESS TO XANANA ‘WITHIN DAYS’ ...........................................................24
ICRC’S PROBLEMS IN EAST TIMOR NOT RESOLVED ....................................................................................25
RED CROSS VISITS XANANA GUSMÃO.........................................................................................................25
RED CROSS ‘DENIED ACCESS’ IN EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................25
ICRC “DEPLORES” LACK OF ACCESS ...........................................................................................................26
ICRC VISITS TO TIMORESE DETAINEES AGAIN SUSPENDED .......................................................................26
REACTIONS TO XANANA'S IMPRISONMENT.............................................................................................. 26
SAN FRANCISCO RESPONSE CLOSES INDONESIAN CONSULATE................................................................26
EVANS PUSHES FOR XANANA CLEMENCY ...................................................................................................27
INDONESIA’S SHAME ..................................................................................................................................27
JAKARTA UNDER PRESSURE ON XANANA ...................................................................................................27
CANADIAN WOMAN JOINS INTERNATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR........................................28
HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES IN THE HAGUE .............................................................................................28
TORONTO PRIEST CONTINUES HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR.............................................................29
PRESSURE ON EC REGARDING XANANA.....................................................................................................29
HUNGER STRIKE IN IRELAND .....................................................................................................................30
INDONESIA CHALLENGED TO ALLOW GUSMÃO A NEWS CONFERENCE......................................................30
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................................... 30
ALATAS SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY OF EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................30
JAKARTA HAS LONG WAY TO GO IN GAINING ACCEPTANCE OF ITS PRESENCE IN EAST TIMOR ................35
TIMOR OPPRESSION ‘INTENSIFIED’ ............................................................................................................37
REPORT FROM INSIDE ON MA’HUNO..........................................................................................................37
EAST TIMOR STUDENTS - ASSISTANCE NEEDED .........................................................................................37
BISHOP OF DILI UNDER SIEGE ...................................................................................................................38
A PROBLEM OF THE SOUL............................................................................................................................38
AN ISLAND OF EXILES .................................................................................................................................39
ONCE MIGHTY EAST TIMOR SEPARATISTS DYING BREED ...........................................................................40
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE NOT ALLOWED ON CATHOLIC RADIO IN TIMOR.................................................40
INTERVIEW WITH FR. DOMINGOS SOARES .................................................................................................41
US SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNTIM...................................................................................................................41
TWO MORE DILI MASSACRE SURVIVORS FOUND........................................................................................41
TIMOR HISTORY BOOKS ATTACKED ............................................................................................................42
INFANT MORTALITY HIGHEST IN WORLD ....................................................................................................43
EAST TIMOR REBELS CONTINUE STRUGGLE AGAINST INDONESIA.............................................................43
TROOPS BREAK UP DEMO IN DILI ...............................................................................................................43
BRADBURY TAPE SEIZED IN TIMOR.............................................................................................................44
INDONESIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN LOS PALOS..........................................................................................45
E.T. STUDENTS SEEK ASYLUM IN JAKARTA ............................................................................................. 45
SEVEN EAST TIMORESE STUDENTS SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM IN SWEDISH AND FINNISH EMBASSIES ......45
ASYLUM REQUEST TO FI NLAND AND SWEDEN ............................................................................................45
ASYLUM-SEEKERS ON HUNGER STRIKE......................................................................................................46
BIODATA OF EAST TIMORESE REQUESTING POLITICAL ASYLUM .................................................................47
SEVEN TIMORESE STUDENTS ASK FOR ASYLUM IN JAKARTA......................................................................48
FINNISH COMMITTEE OF 100 DEMANDS THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE TIMORESE.........................48
URGENT CAMPAIGN NEEDED FOR ASYLUM-SEEKERS.................................................................................48
LONG STANDOFF EXPECTED ON STUDENTS’ ASYLUM REQUEST.................................................................49
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FOUR LEAVE FINNISH EMBASSY..................................................................................................................49
SWEDEN SHOULD ARRANGE SAFE CONDUCT.............................................................................................50
PORTUGUESE POSITION ON EMBASSY TIMORESE ......................................................................................50
SEVEN LOSE ASYLUM BI D............................................................................................................................51
ETRA’S LETTER TO EMBASSIES ....................................................................................................................51
EAST TIMORESE IN JAKARTA SWEDISH EMBASSY UPDATE .........................................................................51
JAKARTA REFUSES EXIT TO EAST TIMOR ASYLUM-SEEKERS ......................................................................52
FINNISH COMMITTEE OF 100 QUESTIONS FINNISH DECISION ...................................................................52
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS...........................................................52
TIMORESE STUDENTS WANT TO GO TO PORTUGAL.....................................................................................53
TIMORESE IN EXILE APPEAL FOR SAFE PASSAGE FOR STUDENTS...............................................................54
JAKARTA COMMANDER OFFERS GUARANTEES ON SAFETY OF EAST TIMORESE..........................................54
SWEDEN, FINLAND “MORALLY RESPONSIBLE” FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS.......................................................54
TIMORESE STUDENTS DEFIANT IN DEMAND FOR SAFE PASSAGE...............................................................55
TIME, PATIENCE RUNNING OUT FOR TIMORESE STUDENTS .......................................................................55
THREE EAST TIMORESE HOLDING OUT AT SWEDISH EMBASSY ..................................................................55
THREE EAST TIMORESE SPEND FIFTH DAY AT SWEDISH EMBASSY.............................................................56
NO INDONESIAN PASSPORTS .....................................................................................................................56
PORTUGAL SAYS WILL ACCEPT EAST TIMOR STUDENTS..............................................................................56
JAPANESE DIET MEMBER EDA APPEALS TO SWEDEN ..................................................................................57
FARIA: “WE’RE BEING HOUNDED!” ..............................................................................................................57
PRESSURE ON SWEDEN AND FINLAND.......................................................................................................57
LETTER TO SWEDISH KING FROM WORLD SERVICE AUTHORITY ................................................................57
THREE TIMORESE AT SWEDISH EMBASSY IN JAKARTA CALL FOR HELP......................................................58
EAST TIMORESE STUDEN TS COMPLAIN OF SWEDISH EMBASSY HARASSMEN T...........................................58
SWEDEN CALLS EAST TIMORESE ASYLUM PLEA PROPAGANDA...................................................................59
ET STUDENTS IN SWEDISH EMBASSY..........................................................................................................59
TIMORESE DUE TO LEAVE EMBASSY 8 AM FRIDAY.......................................................................................59
ROUNDUP OF ASYLUM NEWS, JULY 2..........................................................................................................59
ASYLUM SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................60
EAST TIMORESE LEAVE SWEDISH EMBASSY IN JAKARTA............................................................................60
TIMORESE LEAVE EMBASSY: ROUNDUP BY TAPOL, JULY 2..........................................................................61
THREE ASYLUM SEEKERS APPEAL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT.............................................................61
THREE TIMORESE YOUTHS AND HJC PRINCEN’S FAMILY TERRORIZED......................................................61
INDONESIA CHARGES ASYLUM BID ENGINEERED BY AI.............................................................................61
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON ASYLUM-SEEKERS.........................................................................62
JAKARTA CLAIMS ICRC PROGRAMME IS DEFUNCT......................................................................................67
CNRM: ICRC REPATRIATION PROGRAM STILL IN OPERATION ....................................................................68
TENUOUS EXISTENCE AT PRINCEN’S HOME................................................................................................68
SWEDEN APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS OF THE JAKARTA MILITARY COMMANDER .......................................69
PRINCEN APPEALED TO SUHARTO ..............................................................................................................69
JAWA POS INTERVIEWS ASYLUM-SEEKERS.................................................................................................70
ASYLUM-SEEKERS MOVED...........................................................................................................................71
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 71
REMILITARIZED ZONE - ARMY STRENGTHENS ITS POLITICS ......................................................................71
INDON MOVE TO PUSH TIMOR PROGRESS .................................................................................................72
INDO NGO’S CALL FOR CHANGES IN HUMAN RIGHTS ................................................................................72
RAMOS-HORTA MALIGNED BY INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER ..........................................................................72
TIMOR APPEAL FAILS...................................................................................................................................72
YELLOW STARS IN INDONESIA....................................................................................................................72
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SSDI STATEMENT ON NEW STUDENT-ARMY CLASH ON JAKARTA CAMPUS .................................................73
RIGHTS GROUP CALLS INDONESIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION “SERIOUSLY FLAWED”......................73
SUHARTO DEFENDS ROLE IN EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................77
SWIFT RESPONSE TO INDONESIAN REPRESSION .......................................................................................77
SUHARTO: A SOFTER LINE ON EAST TIMOR?...............................................................................................77
A.M. FATWA RELEASED ................................................................................................................................78
NEW INDONESIAN AMBASSADORS TO US, FRANCE, SAUDI ARABIA, RUSSIA..............................................78
INDONESIA’S HIDDEN WAR IN NORTH SUMATRA.......................................................................................78
THE TIMORESE EXTERNAL RESISTANCE ................................................................................................. 80
UDT CONGRESS SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER ...........................................................................................80
RESISTANCE GROUP SHIFTS EMPHASIS TO DIPLOMACY ............................................................................80
WHO’S WHO IN THE CNRM .........................................................................................................................81
RESISTANCE MOVEMENT TO BE LED FROM ABROAD...................................................................................81
“THE RESISTANCE IS WITHOUT A LEADER” – ABILIO ARAUJO .....................................................................81
17 WASTED YEARS – J.R. HORTA .................................................................................................................83
RAMOS-HORTA SPEECH AT LISBON TIMOR CONFERENCE..........................................................................84
INDONESIA'S SUPPORTERS: PUSHING INTEGRATION............................................................................... 86
NUNO ROCHA LETTER TO SOARES AND GOVERNMENT ON TIMOR.............................................................86
TIMORESE REJECT PROPOSAL FROM ABILIO ARAUJO.................................................................................87
INDONESIA PROPOSES TIMORESE TALKS...................................................................................................88
TALKS COULD BE IN TWO MONTHS.............................................................................................................88
CNRM REJECTS TALKS ................................................................................................................................89
ROUNDUP: JAKARTA ‘TALKS’ MOVE .............................................................................................................90
ALATAS: TIMORESE MIGHT BE INCLUDED IN TALKS....................................................................................90
EAST TIMORESE TO ATTEND TALKS .............................................................................................................91
INDONESIAN NGOS STATEMENT ON TALKS................................................................................................91
TAPOL ON JAKARTA’S LATEST ‘CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURE’.............................................................91
TIMORESE ‘RECONCILIATION’ TO TAKE PLACE IN BRUSSELS......................................................................97
‘NO’ TO TALKS WITH PUPPETS.....................................................................................................................97
TAPOL COMMENT ON ‘TALKS’ EXCHANGES, ................................................................................................98
“IT’S ABILIO’S WISH, NOT INDONESIA’S” SAYS LOPEZ DA CRUZ ................................................................99
LISBON ON JAKARTA-SPONSORED TALKS...................................................................................................99
TIMORESE TO VISIT THE POPE................................................................................................................. 99
MISSION TO THE VATICAN ANNOUNCED ....................................................................................................99
PRO-RI TIMORESE TO VISIT POPE............................................................................................................. 100
POPE ADDRESSES TIMORESE PILGRIMS IN PORTUGUESE........................................................................ 100
ECONOMIC AID ISSUES........................................................................................................................... 100
INDONESIA REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS LINK TO AID ................................................................................. 100
FEW INVESTORS TAKE UP INVITE TO EAST TIMOR .................................................................................... 100
PRE-CGI MEETING PRESSURE ON WORLD BANK...................................................................................... 100
WORLD DONORS SHOWER MORE AID ON RI............................................................................................ 101
PARIS CANDLELIGHT WAKE AT CGI MEETING........................................................................................... 102
LABOR RIGHTS IN INDONESIA; GSP THREATENED ................................................................................ 103
THE DOLLAR-A-DAY WORKERS WHO PRODUCE MICHAEL JORDAN’S $200 NIKE SHOES .......................... 103
REEBOKS, RAPPERS AND LOSERS............................................................................................................. 103
US TELLS INDONESIA: IMPROVE LABOR RIGHTS OR LOSE TRADE BENEFITS............................................ 105
INDONESIA RESPONDS ON LABOR RIGHTS .............................................................................................. 105
INDONESIAN WORKERS GROUP CONDEMNS ACTU.................................................................................. 106
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INDONESIA BARS LABOR CONGRESS........................................................................................................ 106
U.N. DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR IN PORT MORESBY............................................................................ 106
OUTSIDE PRESSURE ON UN DECOLONISATION COMMITTEE STAFF.......................................................... 106
CHALLENGE TO UN SPECIAL COMMITTEE OVER MELANESIAN RECOLONISATION .................................... 107
PACIFIC DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR CRITICIZED ................................................................................... 107
U.N. CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN VIENNA ................................................................................ 108
WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPRESSION REPORT........................................................... 108
ASIAN NGO’S ATTACK ALATAS ................................................................................................................... 108
ASIAN NGO’S PROTEST UN INTERFERENCE IN FORUM ............................................................................. 109
HUMAN RIGHTS: THIRD WORLD ACCUSES WEST OF DOUBLE STANDARDS .............................................. 109
THE ORGANIC GROWTH ............................................................................................................................ 109
PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA CLASH AT WCHR .......................................................................................... 110
ILLS OF THE WORLD JOSTLE FOR ATTENTION AT U.N. CONFERENCE....................................................... 111
EVANS-ALATAS AXIS IN VIENNA................................................................................................................ 111
INDONESIAN ACTIVIST COALITION CALLS FOR ASYLUM FOR EAST TIMORESE ACTIVISTS........................ 111
TIMORESE FEAR NEW WORLD ORDER WILL BURY THEIR CAUSE.............................................................. 111
EAST TIMOR: “NOT ANNEXED”................................................................................................................... 112
“NO HISTORICAL OR LEGAL CLAIM FOR INDONESIA TO OCCUPY EAST TIMOR” ....................................... 113
DECOLONIZATION HEARINGS IN NEW YORK ......................................................................................... 113
U.N. PRESS RELEASE ON DECOL. HEARINGS............................................................................................ 113
PETITIONERS TO U.N. DECOLONIZATION HEARING ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................... 113
CNRM UN STATEMENT............................................................................................................................... 114
FRETILIN UN DECOLONIZATION STATEMENT............................................................................................ 116
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT.................................................................................................... 118
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA............................................................................................................................ 123
CRACK INDONESIAN TROOPS (KOPASSUS) IN AUSTRALIA........................................................................ 123
NORTHERN TERRITORY AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR ................................. 123
AUSTRALIAN NGO’S DISAPPOINTED BY EVANS’ ADDRESS TO HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE.................. 124
TV COMMERCIAL ON EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................. 124
PICKETS AT GARUDA, MELBOURNE........................................................................................................... 124
“STILL A ‘GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM’ MR. EVANS?” ........................................................................................ 125
HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO TIMOR GAP LEGISLATION .......................................................................... 125
HIGH COURT CHALLENGE TO BE LODGED AGAINST TIMOR GAP TREATY ................................................. 126
SELF-DETERMINATION BASIS OF COURT MOVE ........................................................................................ 127
TIGHT SECURITY AS DARWIN INDONESIAN CONSULATE OPENED ........................................................... 127
TIMOR VIGIL IN MELBOURNE.................................................................................................................... 127
BASIC FLAW IN AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE TIES WITH INDONESIA ................................................................ 127
DEMONSTRATION AT OPENING OF CONSULATE IN DARWIN .................................................................... 128
INDONESIA IN NAVAL GAMES IN DARWIN................................................................................................ 128
RELATIONS WITH ASIAN ARMIES .............................................................................................................. 128
INDONESIAN TROOPS TRAINING DEFENDED ........................................................................................... 129
SOME ADVICE TO A PRESIDENT ON FREEING TIMOR ............................................................................... 129
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................. 130
WELCOME THE INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR TO LONDON ......................................................................... 130
BRITISH AEROSPACE GETS HAWK ORDER ................................................................................................ 130
TAPOL CONDEMNS WARPLANE SALE TO AGGRESSOR REGIME................................................................. 131
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................. 131
IN THE EC PORTUGAL “ISOLATES” INDONESIA ......................................................................................... 131
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SHIPS OCCUPIED IN FEAST FOR EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................... 131
UNION OF WESTERN EUROPE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY’S RESOLUTION.............................................. 132
APPEALS IN THE ITALIAN SENATE ............................................................................................................. 132
GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY AND TORTURE TIMORESE .......................................................................... 132
IRELAND MAY SEND GROUP TO EAST TIMOR............................................................................................ 132
EUROPEAN DELEGATION MIGHT VISIT TIMOR .......................................................................................... 133
IRISH PARLIAMENT’S RESOLUTION ........................................................................................................... 133
A VERY QUIET GREEN LIGHT ON A (SWISS) ARMS SALE TO INDONESIA................................................... 133
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................. 133
CANADIAN LIBERAL PARTY POSITION ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................. 133
ETAN/CANADA EAST TIMOR UPDATE......................................................................................................... 134
HUNGER STRIKE BEGINS IN VANCOUVER................................................................................................. 135
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................. 135
PORTUGAL PUTS PRESSURE ON EC AND UN ............................................................................................. 135
SOARES WANTS SOLIDARITY FROM EUROPE ............................................................................................ 135
XANANA GETS TOP LISBON AWARD .......................................................................................................... 135
HAMUTUK NAFATIN: “A TIMORESE STORY”................................................................................................ 136
“OLHO VIVO” IN OPORTO .......................................................................................................................... 136
PORTUGAL TO MAINTAIN VETO ON EC / ASEAN AGREEMENT................................................................... 136
PRO-JAKARTA LOBBY IN PORTUGAL.......................................................................................................... 136
83 PORTUGUESE FIRMS STILL TRADE WITH INDONESIA........................................................................... 136
GALVÃO DE MELO WANTS TO GO TO JAKARTA.......................................................................................... 137
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES............................................................................................................. 137
ETAN NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE.................................................................................................... 137
CLINTON CONCERNED OVER TIMOR ........................................................................................................ 137
SUHARTO AND CLINTON TO CONFER........................................................................................................ 137
INDONESIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................................................. 137
AGIO PEREIRA TO VISIT NORTHWEST US.................................................................................................. 137
JORDAN’S F5 SALE BLOCKED .................................................................................................................... 138
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION................................................................................................................ 138
US HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT .................................................................................. 138
PENTAGON WANTS TO RESUME TRAINING THE INDONESIAN MILITARY .................................................. 138
SENATORS WRITE CLINTON ON TIMOR..................................................................................................... 139
SENATORS: DON’T LET INDONESIA PURCHASE MILITARY TRAINING........................................................ 140
TELL CONGRESS TO END US ARMS SALES TO INDONESIA........................................................................ 140
EVENTS IN JAPAN.................................................................................................................................... 140
SUHARTO WILL GO TO JAPAN ................................................................................................................... 140
TOKYO SUMMIT PREVIEW.......................................................................................................................... 140
MERCHANTS OF DEATH, NO MORE GUNS FOR SUHARTO! ........................................................................ 141
TIMORESE, SUHARTO IN TOKYO ............................................................................................................... 141
CLINTON BROACHES EAST TIMOR PROBLEM WITH SUHARTO................................................................... 142
CLINTON ANNOUNCES APEC CONFERENCE.............................................................................................. 143
EVENTS IN ASIA....................................................................................................................................... 143
MALAYSIAN NGO’S CHALLENGE SUHARTO VISIT....................................................................................... 143
EAST TIMOR HIGH ON AGENDA IN EC-ASEAN TALKS................................................................................ 144
RESOURCES AVAILABLE ......................................................................................................................... 144
SLIDES ON EAST TIMOR AVAILABLE .......................................................................................................... 144
ART WITH TIMOR....................................................................................................................................... 144
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MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 144
IMAGINING EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................................................... 144
THE FAULTLINE IN JUSTICE LINKING TIMOR TO BOSNIA.......................................................................... 147

XANANA REMAINS IN PRISON .................................................................................................................... 6
INDONESIA TRANSFERS XANANA TO JAKARTA .............................................................................................6
EAST TIMOR’S RESISTANCE LEADER MOVED TO JAKARTA........................................................................6
POSTCARDS TO XANANA CAMPAIGN .............................................................................................................6
XANANA SPEAKS OF HIS HUNGER STRIKE....................................................................................................6
XANANA GUSMÃO - ONE YEAR IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY....................................................................7
CNRM CALLS FOR XANANA RELEASE TO APEC .............................................................................................8
INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS CONDEMN XANANA’S TRIAL...............................................................................8
REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOSÉ ALEXANDRE GUSMÃO IN DILI, EAST TIMOR, IN 1993.............................8
REPORT ON XANANA’S CONDITION ............................................................................................................12
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................... 12
SWEDISH MPS VISIT EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................12
EAST TIMORESE SENTENCED FOR NOTE DEMANDING GOVERNMENT COMPENSATION.............................13
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN EAST TIMOR ......................................................................................13
KONIS SANTANA WANTS TALKS WITH INDONESIA......................................................................................14
MILITARY SAYS ONLY ABOUT 100 GUERRILLAS REMAIN IN EAST TIMOR.....................................................14
SCHOLARSHIPS ENDED, EAST TIMORESE STUDEN TS UPSET .....................................................................14
RENETIL APPEALS FOR SOLIDARITY .......................................................................................................14
INDONESIAN TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN FROM EAST TIMOR?................................................................15
GUERRILLAS KILL SIX VILLAGERS, MILITARY SAYS.....................................................................................15
TIMORESE GUERRILLAS HUNTED ...........................................................................................................15
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Page 2 East Timor Documents, Volume 25. October 1 - December 12, 1993.
KOSTRAD TROOPS TO TIMOR.....................................................................................................................16
GOVERNMENT SOLDIERS CONTINUE THEIR HUNT FOR REBELS................................................................16
TROOPS LEAVING FOR EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................................16
TWO KOSTRAD BATTALIONS DEPART EAST TIMOR .....................................................................................16
INDONESIAN TROOP REDUCTION IN EAST TIMOR......................................................................................17
EAST TIMORESE GUERRILLA KILLED IN ARMED CLASHES ..........................................................................17
EAST TIMORESE BEING TRIED FOR RIPPING INDONESIAN FLAG ...............................................................18
PERTAMINA TO CONDUCT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................18
SECURITY TIGHTER IN TIMOR.....................................................................................................................18
MILITARY COMMANDER WARNS STUDENTS OVER DEMONSTRATIONS..................................................18
28 MILITARY ATTACHÉS VISIT EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................19
SOME ATTACHÉS DUBIOUS.....................................................................................................................19
EC MILITARY ATTACHÉS DID NOT VISIT TIMOR......................................................................................19
WHO KILLED PEOPLE IN OSOALA? ..............................................................................................................19
TIMOR TROOPS NUMBER CUT ....................................................................................................................20
INDONESIA PLANS TO WITHDRAW MORE TROOPS FROM EAST TIMOR..................................................20
INFANT MALNOURISHMENT IN TIMOR ........................................................................................................20
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR RULES OUT REFERENDUM ON AUTONOMY..........................................................20
TIMOR CHIEF OPPOSES POLL ON SELF-RULE.........................................................................................20
MILITARY PREPARES FOR PROTESTS ON ANNIVERSARY OF EAST TIMOR MASSACRE.................................21
JAKARTA STILL PAYING FOR DILI KILLINGS................................................................................................21
ARMY UNABLE TO END TIMOR’S RESISTANCE.............................................................................................21
TWO EAST TIMOR REBELS SURRENDER TO OFFICIALS................................................................................22
BIBILEU: GENOCIDE ON A MASSIVE SCALE.................................................................................................22
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 24
MARIO CARRASCALÃO TO RUMANIA............................................................................................................24
EAST TIMOR HERO SOUGHT........................................................................................................................25
ANC HAILS PLAN TO OPEN INDONESIAN CONSULATE IN SOUTH AFRICA...................................................25
AUSTRALIAN & INDONESIAN AIR FORCES EXERCISE AT MEDAN ................................................................25
WHAT DO INDONESIAN PEOPLE THINK OF EAST TIMOR?...........................................................................25
MUSLIMS IN JAKARTA OPPOSED MASSACRES.............................................................................................26
INDONESIA PROTESTS PORTUGAL’S ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES........................................26
WHITHER INDONESIAN POLITICS? .............................................................................................................26
THE TIMORESE EXTERNAL RESISTANCE ................................................................................................. 27
THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR AWARDED THE 1993 RAFTO HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE ......................................27
CNRM REP RECEIVES HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ......................................................................................28
LEADERS AND THE PUPPET LEADERS OF EAST TIMORESE?.........................................................................32
THE MASSACRE OF SANTA CRUZ AND THE NEW FACE OF SOLIDARITY .......................................................33
RAMOS-HORTA STATEMENT IN BANGKOK...................................................................................................34
REBEL LEADER CLAIMS 150 EAST TIMORESE KILLED .................................................................................35
ALKATIRI CLAIMS DISMISSED BY SYAFEI ...............................................................................................35
CNRM FUNDING APPEAL .............................................................................................................................35
EAST TIMOR PEACE PLAN ............................................................................................................................36
JRH: “THE MOMENT OF FREEDOM APPROACHES ........................................................................................36
1993 - A CHALLENGING YEAR FOR THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR ...............................................................37
INDONESIA MOVES ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT.................................................................................... 38
MANUEL MACEDO’S BUSINESS....................................................................................................................38
GALVAO DE MELO GOES TO INDONESIA...............................................................................................38
INDONESIA WANTS TO SETTLE CONFLICT WITHIN FIVE MONTHS ..............................................................38
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RECONCILIATION TALKS BOGGED DOWN...................................................................................................39
“ON GOOD TERMS WITH JAKARTA” .............................................................................................................40
DURÃO BARROSO RECEIVES INDONESIA’S FRIENDLY GENERAL ...........................................................40
LIURAI SUPPORT INTEGRATION ..................................................................................................................40
THE CLOCK CANNOT BE PUT BACK.............................................................................................................41
MARIO SOARES VISITS JAPAN................................................................................................................. 41
TIMOR IN SOARES-HOSOKAWA TALKS........................................................................................................41
HOSOKAWA, SOARES SHARE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERN IN EAST TIMOR ..................................................41
SOARES APPEALS TO JAPAN ........................................................................................................................42
SOARES URGES JAPAN TO PUT PRESSURE ON INDONESIA....................................................................42
JAPAN ASSURES SOARES OF SOLIDARITY WITH TIMOR..............................................................................42
SOARES: DEVELOPMENT AID CANNOT BE DISASSOCIATED FROM HUMAN RIGHTS....................................43
APPEAL FOR EAST TIMOR TO SEATTLE BOUND PM HOSOKAWA.................................................................43
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 44
KEATING FAILS TO CONVINCE CLINTON .....................................................................................................44
SENATOR JULIAN MCGAURAN RAISES TIMOR IN AUSTRALIA.....................................................................44
EAST TIMOR RALLY IN SYDNEY ..................................................................................................................45
CHRISTIANS IN SOLIDARITY WITH EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................45
PEACE ACTIVISTS IN RUBBER DINGIES AND KAYAKS CHALLENGE INDON WARSHIPS...............................45
FLARE FIRED AT INDONESIAN WARSHIP IN AUSTRALIA.........................................................................46
INDONESIA - SEEING NO EVIL....................................................................................................................46
UREN RECALLS WARTIME DEBT TO EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................46
PROBLEMS FOUND IN PUSH ON EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................47
SYDNEY SEMINAR ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................47
SYDNEY SEMINAR SUCCESSFUL.............................................................................................................47
RALLY IN SYDNEY ON 12 NOVEMBER .....................................................................................................47
12 NOVEMBER REMEMBRANCE IN DARWIN ................................................................................................47
DARWIN PROTESTS ON ANNIVERSARY...................................................................................................48
FORWARD LOOKING BISHOP PREACHES RECONCILIATION IN EAST TIMOR ..............................................48
ABC RADIO INTERVIEWS BISHOP BELO ..................................................................................................49
A FIGURE OF COURAGE IN THE MIDST OF EAST TIMOR’S AGONY..........................................................49
REPORT ON AUSTRALIA’S RELATIONS WITH INDONESIA............................................................................50
DECEMBER 7 DEMONSTRATION IN CANBERRA...........................................................................................51
REPORT FROM FRETILIN COMMITTEE OF NSW, DEC. 8 ..........................................................................51
TIMORESE WRITE TO AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER ............................................................................51
DARWIN PROTESTERS BURN INDONESIAN FLAG ........................................................................................51
THE LONG, HARD ROAD TO HOPE..............................................................................................................52
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 53
EURO MPS AND ACP SEEK TO PUT PRESSURE ON INDONESIA...................................................................53
INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR.................................................................53
SWEDEN TO END ARMS EXPORTS TO INDONESIA......................................................................................53
AN INDONESIAN SEMINAR FOCUSED ON EAST TIMOR AND WEST PAPUA ..................................................54
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 55
CHRIS COLE ON TRIAL FOR BAE PLOWSHARES ACTION .............................................................................55
BAE CASE GOES FOR RE-TRIAL..............................................................................................................55
HUNG JURY FOR “BRITISH AEROSPACE PLOUGHSHARES” PEACE ACTIVIST ..........................................55
CHRISTIAN PEACE ACTIVIST GOES FREE.... FI NALLY!.............................................................................56
PEACE ACTIVIST ‘DISARMED’ BAE WARPLANES ......................................................................................56
CAMPAIGN: EAST TIMOR TOUR IN BRITAIN.................................................................................................56
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THE FORGOTTEN WAR OF EAST TIMOR:..................................................................................................57
LONDON: TWO YEARS SINCE THE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE:..................................................................57
INDONESIA USED BRITISH FIGHTER JETS IN OCCUPIED EAST TIMOR ......................................................57
INDONESIAN AIR FORCE SAID EYEING 16 MORE HAWK JETS ....................................................................58
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................... 59
INDONESIA’S LINGUISTIC “SPELL”.............................................................................................................59
MANDELA MEETS TIMORESE RESISTANCE DELEGATION.............................................................................59
TIMORESE RESISTANCE DELEGATION ATTENDS SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING.............59
TIMOR IS A JUST CAUSE AND MNSGR. BELO DESERVES NOBEL PRIZE.......................................................60
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 60
EAST TIMOR AWARENESS BENEFIT IN OTTAWA...........................................................................................60
“MANUFACTURING CONSENT” & HORTA IN OTTAWA..............................................................................60
EAST TIMOR IGNORED ................................................................................................................................61
CANADA “ONE OF THE MOST HYPOCRITICAL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD” ................................................61
EAST TIMOR TOLL ...................................................................................................................................61
TORONTO VIGIL FOR PEACE IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................62
ETAN/CANADA EAST TIMOR UPDATE NUMBER 27........................................................................................62
NOVEMBER 12 IN OTTAWA...........................................................................................................................62
REFLECTIONS ON CANDLELIGHT VIGIL OUTSIDE INDONESIAN EMBASSY.............................................62
NOVEMBER 12 IN CANADA – SUMMARY OF COMMEMORATIONS.................................................................63
EAST TIMOR UPDATE, NUMBER 28...............................................................................................................63
EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.............................................................................................................. 64
MIT EVENT: THE FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY OF EAST TIMOR.............................................................................64
US, INDONESIA NEED OPEN DIALOGUE: AMBASSADOR .............................................................................64
U.S. COMMEMORATIONS OF DILI MASSACRE..............................................................................................64
NOVEMBER 12 IN SAN FRANCISCO.........................................................................................................65
NOVEMBER 12 IN LOS ANGELES.............................................................................................................65
TIMOR ADVOCATE TO LEAD NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES................................................................66
US SENATE VISITORS COMING....................................................................................................................66
U.S. OFFICIALS EXPECTED TO VISIT INDONESIA ........................................................................................66
APEC CONFERENCE MEETS IN SEATTLE.................................................................................................. 66
HIGHLIGHT EAST TIMOR AT APEC ..............................................................................................................66
ASIAN NATIONS TAKE OWN TACK ON RIGHTS ............................................................................................67
CLINTON: DON’T INDULGE DICTATORS AT APEC ........................................................................................68
SENATORS ASK CLINTON TO RAISE EAST TIMOR AT APEC ..........................................................................68
101 HOUSE MEMBERS PETITION CLINTON ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................69
APEC PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN PERSPECTIVE......................................................................70
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE APEC REGION ......................................................................................................71
PACIFIC RIM NATIONS SHARE ECONOMIC BOOM.......................................................................................74
REPORT ON ETAN ACTIVITIES AT APEC .......................................................................................................75
INDONESIA’S VIEW OF APEC.......................................................................................................................76
SUHARTO DISAPPOINTED AT APEC?...........................................................................................................76
DEBATE OVER U.S. ARMS SALES CONTINUES.......................................................................................... 76
JORDAN JET DEAL OFFICIALLY DEAD .........................................................................................................76
INDONESIA IS TEST CASE FOR EXPORT POLICY .........................................................................................77
CAN FEINGOLD SURVIVE AUSTRALIAN-INDONESIAN LOBBY?.....................................................................77
INDONESIAN ARMY EYES EUROPE FOR ARMS, SOURCES SAY ....................................................................78
INDONESIA SAYS IT WON’T BUY RUSSIAN-MADE MIG-29 JET FIGHTERS....................................................78
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A DIFFERENT MESSAGE TO JAKARTA...........................................................................................................79
COMMITTEE LIMITS WEAPONS FOR INDONESIA; SENATE FLOOR ACTION PENDING..................................79
THE NEGLECTED PROHIBITION: U.S. ARMS SALES.....................................................................................80
INDONESIAN MILITARY OFFICERS STILL TRAINED IN U.S. ........................................................................81
EXCERPTS FROM USIA FOREIGN PRESS CENTER BRIEFING, DECEMBER 8, 1993...................................81
CHOMSKY ON IMET ................................................................................................................................82
CULTURAL EVENTS AND RESOURCES...................................................................................................... 82
EAST TIMOR PAINTINGS EXHIBITION.........................................................................................................82
MY FRIEND THE SOLDIER ...........................................................................................................................83
INDONESIA MAGAZINES IN OZ ...................................................................................................................83
UPCOMING U.S. SHOWINGS OF MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA.................83
RESOURCES FROM THE EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/US ......................................................................84
AUTHORITARIAN STATE UNIONISM IN NEW ORDER INDONESIA................................................................84
TIMOR ET TREMOR ......................................................................................................................................84
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 85
TRAVELLING IN EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................................................85
A REFLECTION OF THE DILI MASSACRE .....................................................................................................86
INDONESIAN TYRANNY: A PRICE WORTH PAYING......................................................................................87
ANOTHER REVOLVING DOOR .................................................................................................................88

Title: Xanana Gusmão captured: repression increases, but the struggle continues

• ETAN/ US passes first year
• Anniversary of Dili massacre marked
• Chomsky film - Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
• Aid Flores earthquake victims in the name of East Timor
• Timor peace talks in New York

Christianity & Crisis, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 1, 1993

"The Secret Sacrifice of East Timor" by Matthew Jardine

• Invasion and Independence
• Massacre at the Motael

• Resistance leader Xanana goes on trial
• Resistance still fighting
• Repression stepped up in East Timor
• Massacre remembered worldwide
• A lack of development in East Timor
• Making a mockery of human rights
• Timorese voices
• Action reports
• “Secret Indonesia conference ignores human rights groups” (Zuhair Kashmeri)
• “East Timor refugee speaks at WOSS” (Angela Blackburn)
• “Refugee considered ‘bad boy’ by Indonesian government”
• “Indonesian genocide”
• “Canada chooses profits over right” (David Webster)
• “Aid policy for Indonesia under fire” (Tim Harper)
• “Commerce outguns human rights in East Timor mess” (Mark Curtis)
• “Five days in East Timor” fear fuels paranoia in a land of military saturation, political surveillance and bitter young men” (Glenn Wheeler)
• “Independence leader goes on trial” (Nantha Kumar)
• “Tough talks on Timor” (Glenn Wheeler)
• “Masculine idealism fueling Timor independence dream”

International organizations department East Timor Division of Human Rights and Education

East Timor Human Rights Concerns

Working Paper submitted to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Commission on Human Rights
1 February - 12 March 1993

This document contains two letters. One letter (written in 1993-09-17) is written by Catherine Scott from the Catholic Institute for International Relations and sent to Luisa Pereira from CDPM. The letter by Catherine Scott contains a list of the people detained following the demonstration at Bishop Belo’s residence in East Timor. The other letter (written in 1993-09-10), which Catherine Scott had attached, is directed to Hillary Clinton from the Timorese mothers of those that have either disappeared, were captured or killed following the Santa Cruz Massacre. The mothers express their sorrow for their lost ones, state some human rights violations that are occurring in East Timor, and ask for recognition and action from the international community.

Title: “East Timorese mothers write to Hilary Clinton”

• “East Timorese prisoners update”
• Xanana held with common criminals”
• “Swedish and US visits to East Timor
• “Tricksters caught red-handed”
• “A leading human rights activist under attack”
• “The East Timorese – A people betrayed” (by Frank Horwood)
• “UN sponsored talks move forward… slowly”
• “Boycott Bali”

• East Timor Update no. 27, November 1, 1993

Contents: Canada accused of "hypocrisy" on Timor

• Thanks, Ray!
• Security tightened for massacre anniversary
• Flag dissent
• Red Cross returns
• Postcards to Xanana
• Remember East Timor Massacre

Title: Agir pour Timor

• “Pour memoire 7 December 1975: l’invasion Indonesienne” [To remember: December 7, 1975, the Indonesian Invasion]
• “Timor, 18ème année d’occupation” [Timor, 18th year of occupation]
• “Santa Cruz, 12 Novembre 1991: le massacre était-il nécessaire?” [Santa Cruz, 12 November 1991: was the massacre necessary?]

The East Timor Issue Since the Capture of Xanana Gusmao
by Herb Feith

East Timor Talks Campaign
December 1993

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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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

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

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

Title: Send congress a message – lobby for East Timor

• Documentary reveals new details of Dili massacre (Mathew Jardine and John M. Miller)
• Much activity, limited progress, in Washington (Charles Scheiner)
• Code of conduct on arms sales
• GSP update
• Parliamentarians meet with UN secretary general
• UN urges Indonesia to improve human rights
• Constâncio Pinto in the US
• ETAN protests in Seattle
• Indonesian academic describes ecological and cultural destruction
• Timor advocate to lead NCC Churches (Anne Treseder)

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