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Girl carrying corn, 1974

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

  • Girl carrying corn East Timor, 1974

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Early Timor Activism in Canada

Nova Scotia East Timor Group, 1983-onwards

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

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

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Abé ho Aloz in performance

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

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ETAN/Canada meeting, Toronto

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

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Agio Pereira concert, Toronto

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

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Aid Rights Linkage

Item consists of a press release, reports, project summaries, handwritten notes, and correspondence. The documents discuss Canada's economic aid projects and economic interest in Indonesia.

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Arms Embargo

This item contains newspaper articles and paperwork regarding the arms embargo on Indonesia from Canada.

  • Participants in Canadian Arms Tour
  • Canada makes major military sale to Indonesia
  • Sale of military goods to Indonesia okayed
  • Canada considers closer military ties with Indonesia
  • Indonesian arms sales fuelling debate
  • Bill C-401
  • Export of Military goods from Canada - Annual Report 1994

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Textiles of Timor Exhibit

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

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

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Arms Embargo

This item contains articles and emails regarding the arms embargo on Indonesia.

  • Church, union leaders call for end to Indonesia sales
  • Sit-in ends in arrest for protesters
  • Canada to fund Indonesian military training
  • Canadian military sales to Indonesia; Indonesia's Military Regime; Canada's role
  • Jakarta pursues arms
  • Arms to Indonesia - the Liberal gov. is propping up a dictatorship
  • Groups to protest arms sales to Indonesia
  • Recommendations regarding the future of Canadian military goods production and export
  • Canadian arms flood world's war zones
  • Emails regarding Canadian arms sales to Indonesia
  • External Affairs silent on East Timor
  • Canadian arms sales to Indonesia condemned

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Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University (SFU) was providing grants to Indonesian Universities.

This document contains leaflets exposing SFU’s implication with Indonesia, newspaper articles, a flyer about a conference to educate students on the genocide in East Timor, news release that confirms SFU’s aid to Indonesia from 1986.

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Barreto Soares, Abe

TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic images.

Item consists of biographical information regarding Abé Barreto Soares, including press clippings, correspondence, a flyer for a fundraising event in Australia, and two graphic photographs depicting nudity and scenes of violence.

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UN Special Committee on Decolonization 1987

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

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

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U of G- Sulawesi Regional Development Project (SRDP)

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item contains

  • Various newspaper articles, including some from the University of Guelph’s campus newspaper
  • Handwritten correspondence to Elaine Briere and John McMurtry
  • The review of the Sulawesi project

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U of G- Sulawesi Regional Development Project (SRDP)

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item includes

  • Handwritten correspondence between Elaine Briere and John McMurtry
  • Newspaper articles
  • Correspondence between McMurtry and staff at the University of Guelph

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Canada - Timor Church to Church Contacts

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

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

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U of G- Sulawesi Regional Development Project (SRDP)

The University of Guelph was involved with a 37 million dollar project with the government of Indonesia. The project was called the Sulawesi Project. This project fueled controversy as Indonesia was not being punished for their human rights violations and continued to receive funding for various project.

This item contains:

  • Correspondence between Elaine Briere, John McMurtry and various faculty at the University of Guelph
  • Newspaper articles

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UN Special Committee on Decolonization 1988

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

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

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