Statements from the Indonesian Human Rights Forum, Berita Timur Timor, Amnesty International and Bob Muntz. Also includes the 1990 court testimony of Bambang Beathors Suryadi.
Includes records of formal Australian government statements on the massacre and records re NGO meetings with Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. Also includes transcripts of Australian parliamentary debates and the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (March 1992).
Organisational correspondence on an Australian parliamentarians joint-letter addressed to President Bush during his early 1992 Australian visit. Also includes correspondence concerning possible US Congressional letters directed to the Indonesian Government.
Mainly Australian peak bodies and individual union resolutions and correspondence. Also copy of letter to President Suharto from the Philippines Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Centre.
A distinctive, identifiable set of 'Santa Cruz'-labelled folders in the ACFOA Human Rights collection. Predominantly public and private reportage on the massacre event and its aftermath and records of Australian and international activist organisational responses.
Statements and correspondence between Australian politicians and political parties. Also includes long David Scott paper on the East Timor Talks Campaign.
Largely English-language reports from Jakarta on media coverage and events under the name “Berita Timur Timor" (East Timor News) issued by INFIGHT (Indonesian Front for the Defense of Human Rights). Includes particular focus on Timorese facing trials for subversion.
Initial Amnesty International reports and media releases on Santa Cruz massacre. Folder also includes the extensive AI report to the August 1991 UN Decolonization Committee on pre-massacre-period human rights violations.
Commentary, statements and correspondence. Include4s material from International Commission of Jurists, Helen Todd (mother of Kamal Bamadhaj), ACFOA, Community Aid Abroad, CDPM, Asia Watch, Bishop Belo, Australian Catholic Relief.
A wide variety of Australian and international individual and organisational responses to the massacre – especially in the days following the events in Dili.