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Agir pour Timor 1992-09

This newsletter includes:

  • Édito : Timor-Est n'est pas biodégradable (East Timor is Not Biodegradable)
  • À nos lecteurs (To Our Readers)
  • Chronologie des évènements depuis le 28 octobre 1991 (Timeline of Events Since October 28 1991)
  • Procès de militaires et procès de Timorais (Military Trial and Trial of the Timorese)

Agir pour Timor (France)

Agir Pour Timor 1993-12

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?]

Agir pour Timor (France)

Chega! A plain guide

A Plain Guide! sumamrizes the 5-volume Chega! final report.

Contents
1 │ Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
3 │ Preface by Rev. Agustinho de Vasconselos
5 │ Section 1: Background to the Commission
9 │ Section 2: The Work of the Commission
11 │ Section 3: The Final Report
12 │ Is there anything new in the Commission’s findings?
14 │ Frequently asked questions about the CA VR’s
death toll estimates
14 │ How many people died from conflict-related deaths in
Timor-Leste between 1974 and 1999?
14 │ When did the largest number of “excess” deaths due to hunger
and disease occur?
14 │ When did the largest number of unlawful killings and
disappearances occur?
15 │ Where did the killings take place?
15 │ How precise are the Commission’s estimates of the death toll?
19 │ Section 4: Human Rights Violations
19 │ Forced displacement and famine
21 │ Famine and displacement in the late 1970s: the evidence
24 │ Displacement and its impact in the 1980s
25 │ Displacement in 1999
26 │ Unlawful killings and enforced disappearances
26 │ Terror and impunity
27 │ Methods of execution
28 │ Unlawful killings related to military operations
30 │ Systematic killings and disappearances of targeted individuals
and groups
31 │ Collective and proxy punishment of civilians by ABRI/TNI
33 │ 1985–1998: a continuing climate of impunity
34 │ 1999
35 │ Arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment
36 │ Arbitrary detention
37 │ Conditions of detention
37 │ Torture and ill-treatment
38 │ Methods of torture
40 │ Sexual violence
41 │ Sexual violence inside Indonesian military installations
42 │ Sexual slavery
43 │ Political trials
45 │ Violations of children’s rights
46 │ Violations of the laws of war
46 │ Attacks on civilians and civilian assets
47 │ Mistreatment of enemy combatants
47 │ The destruction and theft of property and other assets
48 │ The use of illegal weapons
48 │ Forced recruitment
49 │ Economic and social rights
53 │ Section 5: Institutional Responsibility
53 │ The statistics of institutional responsibility
53 │ Indonesian security forces
54 │ The Resistance
54 │ UD T
55 │ Institutional responsibility of the Indonesian security forces
56 │ The responsibility of specific units of the Indonesian security
forces
57 │ Individual and command responsibility of the Indonesian security
forces and their auxiliaries
59 │ Responsibility for the mass violations of 1999
62 │ Institutional responsibility of the East Timorese political parties
62 │ The internal armed conflict
62 │ Principal findings on the responsibility of the Resistance
65 │ Forced displacement and famine
66 │ Principal findings on the responsibility of UDT
68 │ Principal findings on the responsibility of Apodeti
69 │ Section 6: State Responsibility
69 │ Responsibility of the State of Indonesia
71 │ Responsibility of the State of Portugal
73 │ Responsibility of the State of Australia
74 │ Responsibility of the United States of America
76 │ Responsibility of the United Nations
79 │ Section 7: Reconciliation
83 │ Section 8: Acolhimento and Victim Support
84 │ Public hearings at the national and sub-district levels
86 │ An Urgent Reparations Program for victims
87 │ Healing workshops at the Commission’s national
headquarters
87 │ Village-level participatory workshops, called Community
P rofile Workshops, to discuss and record the impact of the
conflict on communities
89 │ Section 9: Recommendations
90 │ Overview
93 │ Justice: an international approach
95 │ Reparations
97 │ A targeted reparations program to alleviate the plight of the
neediest
98 │ Acknowledgement
98│ Upholding human rights in Timor-Leste
100 │ Reconciliation
102 │ The Commission’s archives
102 │ The follow-on institution

Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation

Chega! The final report of the Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation

The final report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) was entitled Chega! (Portuguese for No More or Enough). It documents human rights abuses in the period 1975-1999. The report was completed in 2005; this version is the English translation, as published by Gramedia in 2013.

Contents to Volume 1
xix │ Map of Timor-Leste
xx │ Appreciation to donors
xxi │ Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate
xxii │ Preface by Aniceto Guterres Lopes, Chair CAVR

1 │ Presentation of the Report by CAVR National Commissioners
3 │ Part 1: Introduction
7│Background to the Commission
8 │ From colonialism to militarised occupation
12 │ Coming together: reconciliation
14 │ Organising principle of this Report
14 │ The truth
16│Origins of the Commission
16 │ The workshop and the CNRT Congress
17 │ Results of the Steering Committee’s community consultations
19 │ Choosing the name of the Commission
19 │ Regulation 10/2001, establishing the Commission
20 │ Interim office
20 │ The CAVR Advisory Council
21│Formation of the Commission
21 │ National Commissioners
25 │ Principles and mission of the Commission
26 │ Regional Commissioners
27│Operational issues and challenges
27 │ Practical challenges to the Commission’s work
28 │ The challenge of language
29 │ An integrated community-based approach
32 │ The strategic plan
34│Core programmes
34 │ Truth-seeking
42 │ Community Reconciliation
44 │ Reception and victim support
45 │ Final Report
47 │ Archives
48 │ The Commission’s obligations to participants in its core programmes
49│National and regional offices and staffing
49 │ National Office
51 │ The CAVR as a learning institution
52 │ Institutional development and capacity building
53 │ Gender and staffing
53 │ Regional offices and district teams
54 │ Gender in practice in district work
55 │ The role of international staff in the Commission
56│Management and administration
56 │ Management structure
56 │ Administration
57 │ Finance
57 │ Downsizing and restructuring
58│Building relationships for the future
58 │ Direct relationships
60 │ Media and information campaigns
61 │ The international community
62 │ Community outreach and public information

69 │ Part 2: The Mandate of the Commission
73│Introduction
74 │ Temporal boundaries
75 │ Issues of particular relevance
75 │ The meaning of “related to the political conflict”
75 │ Human rights violations
76 │ The Commission’s definition of “human rights violations”
77 │ Priority given to particular categories of violation
78 │ Inquiry-related powers
78 │ Liability of Commissioners and staff
79 │ Confidential information provided to the Commission
79 │ The use of specific names in the Report
84 │ Standards used in determining issues of responsibility and accountability
84 │ The Indonesian invasion of Timor-Leste
85 │ Justice of war and justice in war
86 │ Community Reconciliation Procedures
87 │ The community-based approach of the Commission
88│Annexe A: relevant legal principles
89 │ Introduction – international law relevant to the mandate

133│ Part 3: History of the Conflict
143│Introduction
145│Portuguese colonialism in Timor-Leste
145 │ Overview
146 │ The arrival of the Portuguese
147 │ Colonial consolidation
148 │ Portuguese governance and Timorese resistance
149 │ Portuguese Timor in the 20th century
150 │ The international movement for decolonisation and Portugal’s position
151 │ Portuguese development plans and growing anti-colonial sentiments
152│Changes in Portugal and the decolonisation process
152 │ Overview
152 │ The MFA and the Carnation Revolution
154 │ The impact of the Carnation Revolution in Portuguese Timor
155 │ The formation of political parties in Portuguese Timor
157│The international climate and Indonesia’s policy on Portuguese Timor
157 │ Overview
157 │ The United Nations and Portuguese Timor
158 │ Indonesia and the international community
160 │ Indonesian policy on Portuguese Timor
163│The decolonisation process and political parties
163 │ Overview
164 │ The dawning of political consciousness
165 │ The composition of the political parties
166 │ Internal developments and tensions
167 │ The political parties prepare for armed confrontation
169 │ Fretilin and the spectre of communism
171 │ Lack of political tolerance
172 │ Governor Lemos Pires’s “mission impossible”
173 │ The coalition between UDT and Fretilin
174│ Indonesia’s growing involvement in Portuguese Timor: destabilisation and diplomacy
174 │ Overview
175 │ Operasi Komodo and increased covert military operations
176 │ Indonesian diplomacy
182 │ The armed movement of 11 August and the internal armed conflict
182 │ Overview
183 │ UDT launches its 11 August armed movement
185 │ The failure to negotiate: internal armed conflict
187 │ UDT retreats to the border
187 │ Portugal’s response to the internal conflict
188 │ Indonesia’s response
189 │ Portuguese Timor under Fretilin administration
189 │ Overview
189 │ Fretilin fills the vacuum
190 │ Prisoners and political violence
192 │ Restoring order
193 │ Administration
195 │ Balibó: Indonesia increases intensity of military operations
196 │ Fretilin’s unilateral declaration of independence, and the response
196 │ Overview
197 │ Background to Fretilin’s unilateral declaration of independence
199 │ The declaration of independence
201 │ Reactions to the declaration of independence
203 │ Full-scale invasion imminent
203 │ Full-scale invasion
203 │ Overview
204 │ Indonesia’s decision to invade and conduct open warfare
205 │ Dili prepares its defence strategy
206 │ Indonesian military preparations: Operation Seroja (Lotus)
206 │ Invasion of Dili and Baucau
211 │ United Nations response to the full-scale invasion
212 │ Timorese experience of early occupation and Indonesia’s attempts to formalise integration
212 │ Overview
213 │ AB RI consolidates; Indonesia installs “Provisional Government”
214 │ Fretilin in retreat, the massacres of prisoners
214 │ ABRI advances, early 1976
215 │ East Timorese experience of the early occupation
216 │ Fretilin regroups
217 │ Indonesia formalises the integration
218 │ Operation Seroja continues – US -supplied OV-10 Bronco aircraft introduced
219 │ Military stalemate, late 1976
219 │ “Encirclement and annihilation”: the final stages of Operation Seroja 1977–1979
219 │ Overview
220 │ Civilian population in the mountains
220 │ ABRI capacity stretched and early Fretilin confidence
221 │ US leads re-arming of the Indonesian military
222 │ Fretilin: internal divisions and violent purge
223 │ ABRI intensifies military operations: encirclement and annihilation, August 1977 to August 1978
227 │ Surrender: coming down from Matebian
228 │ Surrender, resettlement and famine
228 │ Overview
229 │ Surrender and execution of prisoners
230 │ Transit camps
231 │ Longer-term detention camps and ABRI’s security strategy
231 │ A closed land
233 │ ICRC and CRS relief
234 │ Ataúro as a prison island
235 │ Detention camps close
235 │ Operation Security (Operasi Keamanan)
235 │ Overview
236 │ The situation in Dili and across Timor-Leste 1979–1980
237 │ The first uprising: Dili, June 1980
237 │ “Fence of legs”: Operasi Kikis
239 │ Consequences of the operation
241 │ Rebuilding the Resistance
241 │ Overview
241 │ Fretilin survivors of the 1978–1979 offensives
242 │ Regrouping
244 │ National Re-organisation Conference in March 1981
245 │ Growth of the Resistance
246 │ The Resistance under Xanana Gusmão: towards national unity
247 │ The Catholic Church
248 │ 1983 Ceasefire and its aftermath
248 │ Introduction
248 │ Indonesian national elections in Timor-Leste: 1982
249 │ Shake-up of Indonesian civilian and military personnel, and Resistance actions
250 │ New approach by the Indonesian military: negotiations
251 │ Ceasefire
251 │ Appointment of Benny Moerdani as ABRI commander-in-chief: 1983
252 │ Monsignor Lopes removed
252 │ Ceasefire undermined
254 │ The end of the ceasefire
255 │ Consolidation and the beginnings of change: 1984–1991
255 │ Overview
256 │ Development of the Resistance
258 │ Repression and imprisonment
259 │ The rise of the clandestine youth movement
259 │ The Catholic Church
260 │ The situation at the United Nations
261 │ The visit of Pope John Paul II
263 │ Jakarta opens Timor-Leste
263 │ International developments toward the end of the decade
264 │ Turning Points
264 │ Overview
265 │ The Santa Cruz Massacre, 12 November 1991
267 │ The international impact of Santa Cruz
268 │ The capture of Xanana Gusmão
269 │ The student clandestine network
271 │ CNRM Peace Plan and diplomatic initiatives
272 │ The International Court of Justice case: Portugal v Australia, 1991–1995
272 │ The Nobel Peace Prize, 1996
273 │ The United Nations
274 │ From Reformasi to announcement of the Popular Consultation
274 │ Overview
275 │ The fall of Soeharto
277 │ The CNRT and the diplomatic campaign
277 │ The impact of Reformasi in Timor-Leste
278 │ Emergence of the militias
280 │ Xanana Gusmão calls for tolerance
281 │ Negotiations on the autonomy package
283 │ Growing militia terror
284 │ The 5 May Agreements
285 │ Security arrangements under the 5 May Agreements
286 │ Popular Consultation
286 │ Overview
287 │ UNAM ET deployment
287 │ Electoral Commission
288 │ The choice
288 │ Indonesian government coordination for the Popular Consultation
288 │ International presence in Timor-Leste
289 │ East Timorese and Indonesian observers
289 │ Security for the ballot
290 │ TNI-militia violence: June–July
291 │ Dare II
292 │ Voter registration
293 │ The campaign
295 │ Declining security situation: August
297 │ Final preparations for the vote
297 │ The ballot
298 │ The count and the results
299 │ Indonesia departs: scorched earth
299 │ Overview
300 │ Violence following announcement of the results
301 │ TNI takes formal control
303 │ The UNAMET compound
304 │ Growing international pressure
306 │ Forced evacuation of population
307 │ Interfet arrives: TNI withdraws
308 │ The formation of UNTAET: Security Council Resolution 1272, 25 October 1999
308 │ Returning home

339 │ Part 4: Regime of Occupation
343│Introduction
344│The Indonesian armed forces and their role in Timor-Leste
344 │ Introduction
345 │ Background of the Indonesian armed forces
352 │ Organisational structures of the Indonesian armed forces in Timor-Leste
363│Militarisation of East Timorese society
363 │ Introduction
364 │ Pre-Indonesian militarisation of Timor-Leste
365 │ Indonesian militarisation of Timorese political parties before the occupation
367 │ Establishment of East Timorese combat battalions
368 │ Early paramilitaries, 1976–1981
368 │ Paramilitaries in the 1980s
369 │ Civil defence forces
372 │ “Three-month military men”, (Milsas) 1989–1992
372 │ Operations assistants (Tenaga Bantuan Operasi, TBOs)
373 │ ‘Intel’ – East Timorese spies
376 │ 1990s and a focus on youth
376 │ Death squads
377 │ Militias, 1998–1999
389│Civil administration
389 │ The Provisional Government of Timor-Leste

413 │ Part 5: Resistance: Structure and Strategy
417│Introduction
420│Fretilin and the bases de apoio
420 │ Organisation of civilians
423 │ Military organisation
426 │ Fretilin’s socio-economic programme
432 │ Strategy
435 │ Protracted people’s war
436 │ Internal conflict
442│The end of bases de apoio
447│Restructuring the Resistance 1981–1987
447 │ Reorganising the Resistance for the new situation
451 │ Strategy
456│Falintil after 1987
466│Clandestine liberation movement

479 │ Part 6: The Profile of Human Rights Violations in Timor-Leste, 1974–1999
487│Introduction
488 │ Summary of key findings
490 │ Overview of the Commission’s information management and
data collection methods
491 │ Historical violation estimates in Timor-Leste and their
limitations
493│Fatal violations: analysis
493 │ Background and overview of statistical analysis of fatal violations
494 │ Objectives of analysis
xiv │ Chega! - Volume I
495 │ Overview of data and methods
496 │ Estimates of killings, deaths due to hunger and illness, and displacement
505 │ Descriptive statistical analysis of fatal violations reported to the Commission
525│Non-fatal violations
525 │ Introduction
525 │ Overview of statistical findings on non-fatal violations
528 │ In-depth descriptive statistical analysis of non-fatal violations
584│Mau Chiga case study
584 │ Introduction
584 │ Background to documentation effort
584 │ Limitations of the data
585 │ Historical background
586 │ Descriptive statistical analysis of violations reported to Mau Chiga Documentation Project
593│Summary and conclusion

Tables:
63 │ Milestones of the Commission
353│ Structure of military commands in Timor-Leste
377│ Militias in Timor-Leste, 1975–1999
390│ Indonesian administration structure, with Portuguese and Indonesian military
equivalents
395│ Composition of the Timor-Leste Provincial Assembly by Faction, 1980–1997
399│ District administrators by origin and affiliation, 1976–1999
421│ Fretilin regional structure since May 1976
422│ Fretilin administrative structure
450│ Military division of the territory at the National Reorganisation Conference
507│ Count of reported acts of civilian killing, 1975
510│ Reported acts of civilian killings and disappearances
513│ Percentage share of attributed responsibility for reported killings by phase,
1975–1999
523│ Reported violations & their detention context by district, 1974–1999
524│ Reported fatal violations & their detention context by violations, 1974–1999
525│ Reported fatal violations & their detention context by phase, 1974–1999
529│ Non-fatal violations by datasource, 1974–1999
530│ Relative distributions of victims per violation, the CAVR data
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531│ Relative distributions of victims per violation, Fokupers data
531│ Relative distributions of victims per violation, Amnesty International data
535│ Non-fatal violations reported to the CAVR
547│ Violations by district
551│ Pattern of victims by sex
552│ Pattern of victims by sex over time
553│ Pattern of victims by sex between district
554│ Pattern of victims by age
555│ Pattern of victims by age over time, 1974–1999
556│ Pattern of victims by age between districts
564│ Data distribution based on CAVR, Fokupers, Amnesty International databases
573│ Reported violations and their detention context, based on types of violations, 1974–1999
574│ Reported violations and their detention context, based on phases, 1974–1999
575│ Reported violations and their detention context, based on districts, 1974–1999
576│ Reported violations and their detention context, based on sex, 1974–1999
577│ Reported violations and their detention context, based on age, 1974–1999
588│ Distribution of reported duration periods of displacement events of Mau Chiga residents, 1982–1985
589│ Cross-tabulation of reported duration periods of displacement events of Mau Chiga residents by location, 1982–1985
591│ Distribution of reported fatal violations by political affiliation of victim, 1974–1999
592│ Distribution of reported fatal violations by political affiliation and geographic
location, 1974–1999

Graphics:
497│ Estimated total killings in Timor-Leste based on RMS
498│ Estimated total killings in Timor-Leste using HRVD and GCD data
500│ Estimated total deaths by hunger/illness in Timor-Leste based on RMS
501│ Estimated total deaths by hunger/illness in Timor-Leste using dual system
503│ Estimated displacement events in Timor-Leste (with error bands)
504│ Total displaced households in Timor-Leste by region
506│ Number of reported acts of civilian killings, 1974−1999
506│ Number of reported acts of disappearance, 1974−1999
508│ Count of reported violations, by type and district
508│ Count of disappearance by region over time, 1974−1999
509│ Count of civilian killings by region over time, 1974−1999
511│ Fatal violations over time, 1974−1999, committed by territorial units
512│ Fatal violations over time, 1974−1999, committed by non-territorial units
512│ Fatal violations over time, 1974−1999, committed by Civil Defence Forces
514│ Count of victims of acts of civilian killings by victim group size, 1974−1999
515│ Count of victims of acts of disappearance by victim group size, 1974−1999
516│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
516│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
518│ Number of reported acts of civilian killings, by age and sex, 1974−1999
518│ Number of reported acts of disappearance, by age and sex, 1974−1999
519│ Age-sex specific violation rate of civilian killings (per 10,000 persons),
1974−1999
519│ Age-sex specific violation rate of disappearance (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
520│ Reported acts of civilian killings by victim affiliation, 1974−1999
520│ Reported acts of disappearance by victim affiliation, 1974−1999
521│ Number of reported acts of civilian killings, 1974−1999
522│ Number of reported acts of detention, 1974−1999
532│ Number of reported acts of non-fatal violations, 1974−1999
533│ Count of reported acts of detention, torture & ill-treatment, 1999
534│ Violations over time, 1999
536│ Count of reported acts of non-fatal violations attributed to Fretilin, UDT and Apodeti, 1975
537│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
538│ Non-fatal violations over time committed by Civil Defence Forces, 1974−1999
538│ Violations over time committed by Kopassus, 1974−1999
539│ Non-fatal violations over time committed by Police, 1974−1999
539│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
540│ Violations over time, 1999
541│ Reported acts of detention attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries,
1974−1999
542│ Reported acts of torture attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries,
1974−1999
542│ Reported acts of ill-treatment attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries,
1974−1999
543│ Reported acts of detention attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries,
1974−1999
543│ Reported acts of torture attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries, 1999
544│ Reported acts of ill-treatment attributed to TNI, Police and Timorese Auxiliaries,
1999
545│ Count of reported acts of sexually-based violations attributed to TNI, Police and
Timorese Auxiliaries, 1974−1999
545│ Count of reported acts of sexually-based violations attributed to TNI, Police and
Timorese Auxiliaries, 1999
546│ Count of reported acts of property/economic violations attributed to TNI, Police and
Timorese Auxiliaries, 1974−1999
548│ Count of reported violations, by type and district (1)
549│ Count of reported violations, by type and district (2)
550│ Count of all reported non-fatal violations by region over time, 1974−1999
557│ Age-sex specific detention rate (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
558│ Age-sex specific torture rate (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
558│ Age-sex specific ill-treatment rate (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
559│ Age-sex specific violation rate of detention (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
559│ Age-sex specific violation rate of torture (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
560│ Age-sex specific violation rate of ill-treatment (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
560│ Number of reported acts of rape, by age and sex, 1974−1999
561│ Age-sex specific violation rate of rape (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
561│ Number of reported acts of sexual slavery, by age and sex, 1974−1999
562│ Age-sex specific violation rate of sexual slavery (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
562│ Number of reported acts of sexual violence, by age and sex, 1974−1999
563│ Age-sex specific violation rate of sexual violence (per 10,000 persons), 1974−1999
565│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
566│ Count of victims of acts of detention by victim group size, 1974−1999
567│ Count of victims of acts of torture by victim group size, 1974−1999
567│ Count of victims of acts of ill-treatment by victim group size, 1974−1999
568│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
569│ Reported acts of torture over time, 1974−1999
569│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
570│ Reported acts of threats over time, 1974−1999
570│ Reported acts of sexual based violence over time, 1974−1999
571│ Count of reported violations, by type and district
572│ Violations over time, 1974−1999
578│ Reported number of detainees on Ataúro, June 1980−October 1984
579│ Count of reported detentions, in and out of Ataúro, 1974−1999
579│ Reported acts of non-fatal violations by victim affiliation, 1974−1999
580│ Reported acts of non-fatal violations by victim affiliation, 1974−1979
580│ Reported acts of non-fatal violations by victim affiliation, 1980−1989
581│ Reported acts of non-fatal violations by victim affiliation, 1990−1998
581│ Reported acts of non-fatal violations by victim affiliation, 1999
582│ Number of reported acts of detention, by victim affiliation
582│ Number of reported acts of torture, by victim affiliation
583│ Reported acts of ill-treatment by victim affiliation, 1974−1999
583│ Reported acts of property/economic violations by victim affiliation,
1974−1999
587│ Number of reported displacement victims, by age and sex, 1974−1999
590│ Fatal violations over time, 1974−1999
593│ Number of reported hunger/illness deaths, by age and sex, 1974−1999

Contents to volume 2

595 │ Part 7.1: The Right to Self-Determination
601│ I ntroduction
601│ P reface
602│ The right of the people of Timor-Leste to self-determination
603│ O bligations of states
604│ The international context
606│ S ources
607│ The United Nations and the three major
stakeholders
607│The United Nations
609│Portugal
616│Indonesia
625│Australia
635│ The Security Council, its permanent members and Japan
635│The Security Council
642│China
645│France
648 │Russia (USSR)
651 │United Kingdom
657 │United States
667 │Japan
673 │Conclusion
675 │The Vatican
675 │Preface
675 │Background to the Vatican
676 │The Catholic Church in Timor-Leste
676 │Bishop José Joaquim Ribeiro (1966–1977)
677 │Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes (1977–1983)
680 │Dom Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB (1983–2003)
682 │Pope John Paul II’s visit to Timor-Leste in 1989
686 │Conclusion
686 │ The diplomacy of the resistance
687 │Political parties and umbrella bodies
703│The diaspora
706│Conclusion
708│Civil society
708│Preface
709│International civil society
732│Indonesian civil society
739│Conclusion
740│Findings
740│The international community
742│The key stakeholders
757 │ Part 7.2: Unlawful Killings and Forced Disappearances
769 │ I ntroduction
769 │ D efinitions
772 │ M ethodology
773 │ Quantitative overview
773 │ Killings and disappearances perpetrated by the Resistance
774 │ Killings and disappearances perpetrated by the Indonesian
security forces
776 │ U nlawful killings and enforced disappearances during
the internal conflict: 11 August–24 September 1975
783 │ U nlawful killings before the UDT armed action of 11 August
783 │ Killings on 11 August, the day of the UDT armed movement
786 │ U nlawful killings following the UDT armed movement, 12–17 August
790 │ U nlawful killings between 18–20 August
792 │ Killings between 21 August and 30 August, the major period of
the internal armed conflict
796 │ Execution of detainees and other killings in September
799 │ O ther killings
801│ U nlawful killings and enforced disappearances during
the Indonesian occupation (1975–1999)
801│ U nlawful killings by Indonesian military before the invasion in
December 1975
806│ U nlawful killings by Indonesian military during the invasion of
Dili 7–8 December 1975
825│ U nlawful killings by Fretilin after the Indonesian invasion
(December 1975 and February 1976)
838│ U nlawful killings and enforced disappearances by ABRI after the
Indonesian invasion, 1976–1979
854│ Killings after the fall of the bases de apoio
913│ U nlawful killings and enforced disappearances by Fretilin/
Falintil 1976–1979
944 │Unlawful killings and enforced disappearances by ABRI/TNI
1980–1984
1001│Unlawful killings and enforced disapperances by TNI 1985–1989
1005│Unlawful killings and enforced disappearances by Indonesian
security forces, 1990–1998
1045│Fatal violations committed by Fretilin/Falintil, 1980–1999
1058│Unlawful killings and enforced disappearances, 1999
1116│Findings
1118│Internal conflict, 1974–1976
1122│Indonesian Occupation 1975–1999
1165 │ Part 7.3: F orced Displacement and Famine
1173│ I ntroduction
1175│ D efinitions and methodology
1175│Displacement
1177│Famine
1179│Gathering information
1180│ D isplacement and famine caused by internal conflict
(1974–1975)
1180│Displacement due to political rivalries (1974–1975)
1181│Displacement caused by the internal conflict
1182│The flight to West Timor
1184│Forcible transfer to West Timor
1185│Refugee numbers in West Timor
1186│Conditions and humanitarian assistance in West Timor
1188│Food shortages and humanitarian assistance in Timor-Leste
1188│Hunger and deaths
1189│ D isplacement and famine during the Indonesian
occupation (1975–1979)
1189│Invasion, displacement and evacuation 1975–1977
1198│Life and death in the mountains (1976–1978)
1210│On the run (1976–1978)
1225│Surrender, camps and famine (1978–1981)
1238│Resettlement camps
1249│Emergency humanitarian response (1979–1980)
1262│ F orced displacement and localised famine in the 1980s
1274│Retaliatory internment and collective punishment: Ataúro and
other internment camps
1285│Alternatives to internment on Ataúro: Raifusa and Dotik
1292│ D isplacement before and after the Popular Consultation,
1999
1294│Initial turbulence (November 1998–March 1999)
1299│First mass displacements, April 1999
1308│The quiet before the storm (May–August 1999)
1313│Massive displacement and deportation, September 1999
1333│Refugees in West Timor
1337│Returning home
1338│ F indings
1340│The internal conflict August–September 1975
1341│The invasion
1343│Food crops and livestock destroyed
1344│Life and death in the mountains
1346│Camps and settlements under Indonesian military control
1347│Humanitarian aid
1348│Strategic relocation villages and internment
1349│Displacement before and after the Popular Consultation in 1999

Contents of volume 3
Part 7.4. Arbitrary Detention, Torture
and Ill-treatment
1379│Introduction
1380│Definitions and legal principles
1380│Arbitrary detention
1380│Arrest
1380│Detention and imprisonment
1381│Torture
1381│Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (ill-treatment)
1382│Distinguishing between ill-treatment and torture
1383│Prohibitions under domestic law on assault and mistreatment
1383│Patterns of detention, ill-treatment and torture over the mandate
period
1384│Patterns over time
1385│Patterns over space
1386│The victims
1387│Gender
1387│Affiliation
1387│Group size
1389│Institutional perpetrators
1391│Where people were detained
1391│Structure of the part and key findings
1392│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by UDT, 1975
1392│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by Fretilin, 1975
1392│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by Fretilin/Falintil, 1977–1979
1393│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian security
forces and collaborators, 1975–1979
1393│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian security
forces and East Timorese auxiliaries, 1980–1984
1393│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian security
forces and East Timorese auxiliaries, 1985–1998
1394│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian security
forces and East Timorese auxiliaries, 1999
1394│Detention and torture by UDT, 1975
1394│Introduction
1395│Statistical patterns
1396│Victims
1397│Arbitrary arrest
1398│Detention centres and cases of human rights violations
1398│Detention centres
1399│Dili
1401│Box: Manuel Agustinho Freitas, detention in Palapaço
1403│Ermera
1405│Box: Manuel Duarte, imprisoned in Aifu
1407│Bobonaro
1410│Manufahi
1410│Baucau
1411│Liquiçá
1412│Lautém
1413│Forced labour
1413│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by Fretilin,
August 1975–February 1976
1413│Introduction
1415│The Fretilin armed reaction
1415│The General Armed Insurrection
1416│Reasons for arbitrary detention
1417│Places of detention
1417│Dili
1419│Comarca Balide
1420│Aileu
1421│Manufahi
1423│Ermera
1425│Ainaro
1425│Baucau
1426│Lautém
1427│Liquiçá
1427│Viqueque
1428│Manatuto
1429│Bobonaro
1429│The period of Fretilin administration
1430│Continuing detention of UDT supporters
1431│The detention of Apodeti supporters and members
1432│Movement of detainees between detention centres
1434│Box: Life in Aissirimou
1436│Trials of Fretilin detainees
1438│Following the full-scale Indonesian invasion
1439│Box: Escaping the Balide Comarca, 7 December 1975:
Anselmo dos Santos and Frederico Almeida Santos
1441│The movement of prisoners from Dili to Aileu and then to Same
1443│Hola Rua (Same, Manufahi)
1444│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by Fretilin/Falintil, 1976–1979
1446│Justice under the Fretilin administration
1447│Reasons for detention
1447│Treason by planning to surrender or contacting people in ABRI
areas
1450│Box: Detention of Father Luis da Costa
1452│Internal armed conflicts
1452│Conflict between Helio Pina and José da Silva, October 1976
1454│Disputes in Iliomar, Lautém, November 1976
1454│Box: Fretilin internal conflict in Iliomar, November 1976
1456│Dispute between Francisco Xavier do Amaral and the CCF,
September 1977
1456│Box: The detention and torture of Francisco Xavier do Amaral
1459│Enforcing discipline
1460│Renals and other Fretilin detention centres
1462│Ermera
1462│Viqueque
1463│Lautém
1665│Aileu
1466│Box: The Nundamar Renal in Remexio, Aileu
1470│Box: The detention of Ambulan
1471│Manufahi
1471│Box: The detention of Tomé da Costa Magalhães
1473│Liquiçá
1474│Box: Violence in the Fretilin zones
1475│Arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian
occupation authorities, 1975–1979
1475│Introduction
1475│Profile of violations: 1975 to 1979
1477│Perpetrators
1479│Detentions during the invasion
1479│August–November, 1975
1480│Dili
1480│The invasion
1481│The days following the invasion
1484│Box: Detention centres in Dili
1488│Early patterns of detention
1490│Victims targeted for detention
1491│Box: Allegiance to Indonesia
1491│Interrogation, torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment
1492│Box: Interrogation in Dili
1494│Takeover of other areas
1495│Community divisions
1496│Detention outside Dili
1497│Box: Case study: detention centres in the city of Baucau
1499│Securing the territory, 1976–1979
1500│Development of intelligence networks
1501│Detention of Resistance fighters
1502│Detention for being part of a Falintil attack
1503│Box: Released but not free
1505│Detention of clandestine members
1505│Box: The breaking of a clandestine network
1508│Box: Interrogation of a clandestine member
1509│Detention due to family members in the forest
1511│Detentions after surrender or capture
1511│Early surrenders
1512│Box: Story of an East Timorese translator during interrogations
1514│Mass surrenders: 1978–1979
1517│Box: Detention in Uma Metan Camp, Alas, Manufahi
1519│Capture of communities: 1978–1979
1520│Detentions after returning home
1521│Box: Framing of a former Fretilin leader
1522│Conclusion
1523│Detentions by the Indonesian occupation authorities, 1980–1984
1523│Introduction
1524│Profile of violations
1528│The Marabia uprising (levantamento), Dili, 10 June 1980
1528│Arbitrary detention
1529│Torture and ill-treatment
1530│Box: The detention and torture of Bernardino Ximenes Villanova
1532│Transfer of political detainees to the island of Ataúro
1534│Box: Ataúro
1537│Operation Security (Operasi Keamanan), 1981
1540│After Operation Security
1541│Late 1982 – Falintil levantamento around Mount Kablaki
1542│Early arrests
1542│Following the levantamento
1542│Arrest
1544│Detention and interrogation
1544│Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment
1545│Village detention
1547│Forced displacement after the attacks
1548│Detention during the ceasefire, March to August 1983
1549│The breakdown of the ceasefire and Operation Unity,
August 1983
1550│Kraras
1552│Uato Carbau
1552│Iliomar
1553│Mehara
1555│Box: Maria’s story
1555│Torture and iIl-treatment
1556│Aftermath of the levantamento
1556│Transfer of detainees out of the area
1557│Village detention in Lalerek Mutin, Viqueque
1557│Mass detentions in Lautém
1558│Operation Security (Operasi Keamanan) in other districts of
Timor-Leste
1560│Aileu, 1983
1561│Box: Prisons in Indonesia, 1983 to the late 1990s
1563│Arrests of members of the urban clandestine movement
1565│Box: Arrest and interrogation in Dili late 1983
1566│Arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment in 1984
1569│Detentions and torture by the Indonesian occupation
authorities, 1985–1998
1569│Introduction
1570│Profile of violations
1570│Violations over space
1571│Detention and torture
1572│Perpetrator affiliation
1572│Detention of clandestine members
1573│1985 to 1998
1575│Box: Prisons in Timor-Leste
1577│1989 to 1998
1578│Box: Detention of a clandestine leader
1581│Box: Clandestine arrests in Dili
1582│The arrest of clandestine members in Indonesia
1582│Demonstrations
1583│Arrests in anticipation of a demonstration
1583│The visit of Pope John Paul II
1584│The Portuguese parliamentary delegation
1586│Arrests at or after an event
1586│The Mass at Tacitolu by Pope John Paul II
1587│Visit of the US Ambassador John Monjo
1588│SMPN IV School, Dili
1588│Santa Cruz demonstration
1590│Box: Detention for guidance
1591│Cancelled visit of the Portuguese parliamentary
delegation
1592│Box: The rise of the militias, 1985–1998
1595│Interrogation and torture of victims connected to demonstrations
1598│Box: Interrogation after the Santa Cruz demonstration
1599│Demonstration in Jakarta, 19 November 1991 and the Bali
arrests
1601│Untim demonstrations
1602│SARA and civil unrest
1604│Incidents after the award of Nobel Peace Prize
1605│Box: Ninja gangs and anti-ninja gangs
1606│The hunt for Falintil leaders in the 1990s
1608│Box: Xanana Gusmão’s arrest
1610│Box: Olga Corte-Real’s story
1611│Reprisals for Resistance attacks
1611│Baucau, October 1992
1612│Ermera, October 1996
1613│Attacks around the time of the 1997 Indonesian national election
1614│Arrests following the Dili attack
1615│Arrests following the attack in Quelicai (Baucau)
1619│Box: Police
1620│Liquiçá, July 1997
1621│Two Falintil incidents in Alas (Manufahi), late 1998
1621│The first attack
1623│The second attack
1623│Detention, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian
occupation authorities, 1999
1626│Statistical profile of detention, torture and ill-treatment in 1999
1626│Patterns over time for both detention and torture
1627│Patterns over space
1627│Length of detention
1627│Targeted groups in 1999
1628│CNRT members
1628│Clandestine members
1628│Student activists
1629│UNAMET staff
1629│Perpetrators
1631│Detention locations
1632│Reasons for detention and torture
1632│Forcible recruitment of militia
1633│Assertion of pro-autonomy forces’ authority over the community
1633│Retaliation against Resistance attacks
1633│Punishment of individuals who openly declared support for
independence
1634│Obtaining intelligence about pro-independence leaders and
structures
1634│Transportation of civilians and capture of those fleeing
1634│Detentions and torture, November 1998–March 1999
1634│Before the announcement of the Popular Consultation
1636│After announcement of two options
1637│Dilor, Viqueque, 20 March
1638│Maliana, Bobonaro, March 1999
1638│Zumalai, Covalima, March 1999
1638│Detentions and torture in April 1999
1639│Liquiçá, April 1999
1640│Ermera, April 1999
1641│Covalima, April 1999
1643│Cailaco, Bobonaro, April 1999
1644│Oecussi, April 1999
1645│Dili, 17 April 1999
1646│Viqueque, April 1999
1647│Molop, Bobonaro, 24 April 1999
1647│May 1999
1648│Falintil attack in Lolotoe, Bobonaro, May 1999
1650│Ermera, May 1999
1651│Continuing search for clandestine members
1653│Box: Identifying marks
1653│Manatuto, the involvement of the district administrator
1654│Detentions and torture between June and 30 August, the day
of the Popular Consultation
1656│Detentions and torture after the Popular Consultation
1657│After the Popular Consultation
1658│Punishment and revenge
1659│Cases of detention before evacuation
1659│Detention of individuals targeted for execution
1660│Release
1660│Reporting requirements
1661│Bribes
1662│Intervention by others
1662│Escape
1662│Torture and ill-treatment in 1999
1663│Humiliation and degradation
1663│Public violence
1664│Verbal abuse
1664│Other cruel and degrading treatment
1665│Conclusion
1665│Findings
1665│Detentions, torture and ill-treatment by UDT
1665│Detention
1666│Ill-treatment and torture
1667│Detentions, torture and ill-treatment by Fretilin
1667│During the internal armed conflict
1667│Detention
1669│Torture and ill-treatment
1671│1976–1979
1671│Detention
1672│Torture and ill-treatment
1673│Detentions, torture and ill-treatment by the Indonesian military,
police and agents
1673│Arrest and detention
1675│Conditions of detention
1678│Interrogation
1679│Torture and ill-treatment
1683│Release
Part 7.5. Violations of the Laws of War
1717 │ Introduction
1721 │ Relevant standards
1722 │ Violations of the laws of war by Indonesian military forces
1722 │ Attacks on civilians and civilian properties
1728 │ Box: The bombs came from the sky, or the coast and the ground
1731 │ Economic and property violations –collateral damage or
deliberate strategy?
1732 │ 1975–1977
1734 │ 1978–1979
1735 │ 1980s
1737 │ 1990s
1739 │ Destruction in 1999
1743 │ Mistreatment of enemy combatants
1743 │ Box: Status of Falintil
1746 │ Unlawful means of warfare
1751 │ Forced recruitment into military activity
1753 │ Patterns of recruitment
1755 │ Work as a TBO–risks and dangers
1757 │ TBOs in Operation Kikis, 1981
1758 │ Forced to look for family in the forest
1761 │ Tombak (Spear) Troops
1762 │ Forced night watch and patrol
1765 │ Violations of the laws of war by Fretilin/Falintil
1770 │ Attacks on civilian objects
1770 │ Findings
1770 │ Findings concerning the Indonesian armed forces
1773 │ Findings concerning Fretilin/Falintil
Part 7.6. Political Trials
1789 │ Introduction
1790 │ Legal framework
1791 │ Indonesian law
1792 │ International humanitarian law
1792 │ International human rights standards
1793 │ Analytical framework
1793 │ The first wave of political trials, 1983–1985
1793 │ Background
1796 │ Formal legal processes
1797 │ Informing defendants of their basic rights
1799 │ Torture and ill-treatment in detention
1800 │ Record of Interrogation (RoI)
1802 │ Trial
1802 │ Indictment
1805 │ Courtroom conditions
1806 │ Witness testimony
1807 │ The right to defence counsel of choice, and to an effective defence
1811 │ The presumption of innocence
1812 │ Independence and impartiality of the tribunal
1812 │ Right to appeal
1813 │ Conclusions
1815 │ The Santa Cruz trials, 1992
1815 │ Factual overview
1815 │ Background
1816 │ Findings of fact as determined by the court during the trials
1817 │ Facts according to independent sources
1817 │ Arrest
1818 │ Pre-trial
1818 │ Conditions at the Comoro Police headquarters (Polda)
1820 │ Investigation
1820 │ Information seeking
1821 │ Illegal methods of seeking confessions
1821 │ Fabrication of evidence
1822 │ Access to a lawyer
1825 │ Trial
1825 │ Indictment
1825 │ Courtroom conditions
1826 │ Witnesses
1828 │ Evidence
1829 │ Prosecution
1830 │ Defence
1833 │ Judges
1835 │ Decisions
1836 │ Appeal
1837 │ Imprisonment
1838 │ Trials and punishment of Indonesian security personnel
involved in the Santa Cruz massacre
1838 │ Conclusions
1842 │ The Jakarta trials, 1992
1843 │ Arrest
1843 │ Arrests in Jakarta
1844 │ The arrest in Denpasar, Bali
1845 │ Pre-trial detention
1846 │ Conditions of detention in Jakarta
1846 │ Conditions of detention in Denpasar, Bali
1847 │ Access to a lawyer
1848 │ Investigation
1849 │ Trial
1849 │ Indictment
1849 │ The charges against João Freitas da Camara
1850 │ The charges against Fernando de Araujo
1851 │ Courtroom conditions
1852 │ Witnesses
1852 │ Evidence
1852 │ Performance of defence counsel
1853│ Substance of the defence
1853 │ Decisions and sentences
1854 │ Appeal
1855 │ Conclusion
1856 │ The trial of Xanana Gusmão, 1993
1857 │ Pre-trial
1857 │ Arrest
1858 │ Pre-trial detention
1860 │ Investigation
1861 │ Access to a lawyer
1864 │ Trial
1864 │ Indictment
1865 │ Court-room conditions
1866 │ Language
1867 │ Witnesses
1869 │ Performance of defence counsel
1871 │ Xanana Gusmão’s defence plea
1873 │ Judges
1875 │ Application for clemency
1876 │ Judicial review
1876 │ The sentence
1877 │ Conclusion
1878 │ The Mahkota trial, 1997
1879 │ Arrest
1880 │ Pre-trial detention
1882 │ Access to a lawyer
1883 │ Investigation
1884 │ The trial
1884 │ Indictment
1886 │ The openness of the trial
1886 │ Witnesses
1887 │ Evidence
1887 │ Performance of defence lawyers
1888 │ The defence case
1889 │ Performance of judges
1890 │ Decision and sentences
1891 │ Appeal
1891 │ Conclusion
1892 │ Findings
Part 7.7. Rape, Sexual Slavery and Other
Forms of Sexual Violence
1913 │ Introduction
1916 │ Definition and methodology
1918 │ Culture of silence
1919 │ Rape
1921 │ Rape in the context of inter-party conflict (1975)
1921 │ Rape by UDT party members
1921 │ Rape by members of Fretilin and Falintil
1922 │ Rape during the Indonesian occupation (1975–1999)
1923 │ Rape by members of Falintil
1924 │ Rape by members of the Indonesian armed forces and their
auxiliaries: during the invasion and large-scale operations
(1975–1984)
1925 │ A. Rape at the time of surrender (1975–1979)
1927 │ B. Gang rape as part of military attacks
1928 │ C. Rape at military installations
1928 │ Box: Rape at the Uatolari Koramil (Sub-district Military Command Post)
1979–1981
1931 │ Box: Rape of male detainees
1934 │ Box: Rape of female detainees in the Flamboyan Hotel
1938 │ D. Other rapes
1940 │ Rape during consolidation of the occupation (1985–1998)
1940 │ A. Rape in detention
1942 │ B. Rape without legal recourse
1945 │ C. Rape in and around the victim’s home
1947 │ Box: Testimony and evidence from Mário Viegas Carrascalão on
violence against women from 1982 to 1992
1949 │ Rape and the Popular Consultation
1950 │ A. Rapes before the Popular Consultation (April–August 1999)
1954 │ B. Rapes after the announcement of the Popular
Consultation results (September–October 1999)
1957 │ Box: The rape and killing of ZE, 11 September 1999
1960 │ Box: Rape and sexual slavery after the Suai Church Massacre,
6 September 1999
1967 │ Sexual slavery
1969 │ The victim’s perspective
1970 │ Sexual slavery in the context of inter-party conflict
1971 │ Sexual slavery during the Indonesian occupation (1975–1999)
1971 │ Sexual slavery during the invasion and large-scale operations
(1975–1984)
1971 │ A. Military sexual slavery in military installations
1975 │ B. Military sexual slavery outside military installations
1976 │ C. Domestic sexual slavery
1979 │ D. Consecutive domestic sexual slavery
1982 │ E. Case study: rape and sexual slavery in Mau Chiga, Ainaro
1983 │ E.1 Internment in Dare, Ainaro
1990 │ E.2 Internment on the island of Ataúro, Dili
1991 │ E.3 Internment in Dotik (Alas, Manufahi)
1992 │ Box: Testimony of XH, Mau Chiga, Hato Builico, Ainaro
1995 │ Sexual slavery during consolidation of the occupation (1985–1998)
1996 │ Box: Testimony of MI, Lalerek Mutin, Viqueque
1999 │ Sexual slavery by members of Falintil
1999 │ Sexual slavery and the Popular Consultation (1999)
2000 │ Box: Rape and sexual slavery by Halilintar militia in Atabae,
Bobonaro
2006 │ Other forms of sexual violence
2006 │ Other forms of sexual violence in the context of inter-party conflict
2007 │ Other forms of sexual violence during the Indonesian occupation
(1975–1999)
2007 │ Sexual torture and humiliation in detention
2012 │ Box: Testimony of DK, Mehara, Tutuala
2015 │ Photographing of detainees
2018 │ Public sexual humiliation
2020 │ Sexual harassment
2022 │ The impact of sexual violations on victims
2023 │ Reproductive health
2024 │ Unsafe abortions
2025 │ Mental health
2027 │ Spiral of victimisation
2027 │ Self-blame
2028 │ Blaming the victim
2029 │ Loss of virginity, loss of marriage opportunities
2030 │ Survival and discrimination against children
2032 │ Marital separation or reconciliation
2033 │ Findings
2033 │ Sexual violations by members of Fretilin and UDT
2034 │ Sexual violations by members of Falintil
2034 │ Rape and sexual torture by members of the Indonesian security
forces
2037 │ Impunity for perpetrators of rape and sexual torture
2038 │ Sexual slavery
2039 │ Impunity for perpetrators of sexual slavery
2039 │ Sexual violations as a tool of terror and degradation
2040 │ Total number of victims of sexual violations
2040 │ Impact on victims
Part 7.8. Violation of the Rights of the Child
2055 │ Introduction
2059 │ Research methods
2059 │ Children in the armed political conflicts and the clandestine
movement
2061 │ Children as TBOs and on operations
2062 │ Patterns of recruitment of TBOs
2063 │ Box: The status of TBOs in the military
2064│ The number of child TBOs
2065 │ Why ABRI recruited children as TBOs
2067 │ Reasons for joining
2067 │ Coercion
2069 │ Duties
2070 │ Conditions and treatment
2071 │ Box: The everyday life of a TBO:
“If we died, it didn’t matter”
2072 │ Fatalities
2074 │ Payment
2074 │ Post-service
2075 │ Children on operations: Operation Security
2077 │ Children recruited by pro-autonomy militias
2078 │ Methods of recruitment
2081 │ Activities
2082 │ Child militia members killed or disappeared
2082 │ Impact
2083 │ Children in the clandestine network
2084│ How children became involved
2086 │ Reasons for joining the Resistance
2087 │ Impact
2087 │ Estafeta
2089 │ Children as spies and lookouts
2090 │ Campaigning
2093 │ Children in Falintil
2093 │ Recruitment
2093 │ 1975–1979
2097 │ 1980–1989
2098 │ 1990–1999
2098 │ Training
2099 │ Risks involved in joining Falintil
2100 │ Demobilisation and conversion to FDTL
2101 │ Arbitrary detention, killings and sexual violence perpetrated
against children
2101 │Arbitrary detention and torture
2101 │ Introduction
2101 │ Patterns of detention of minors
2104 │ Detentions by the Indonesian authorities
2104 │ 1975–1979
2106 │ 1980–1988
2108 │ Box: A child on Ataúro
2111 │ 1989–1998
2112 │ Box: The testimony of Naldo Gil da Costa
2113 │ 1999
2114 │ Detentions by UDT
2115 │ Detentions by Fretilin
2117 │Killings and disappearances
2117 │ Introduction
2117 │ Profile of violations
2120 │ Invasion and military operations
2120 │ 1975–1979
2122 │ 1980–1988
2123 │ 1989–1998
2124 │ 1999
2126 │ Killings of children by Fretilin and Falintil
2126 │ The period of party conflict
2128 │ 1975–1979
2129 │ Falintil attacks
2130 │Sexual violations
2131 │ Patterns of violations
2132 │ 1974–1979
2134 │ 1980–1989
2135 │ Box: Prosecution of rape of a minor, Dili Court, 1982
2138 │ 1990–1998
2138 │ 1999
2139 │ Box: ZM (as told by her aunt, ZM1, in November 1999)
2141│ The transfer of children to Indonesia
2143 │ The number of children sent to Indonesia
2144 │ Patterns over the mandate period
2144 │ 1976–1979
2144 │ Children taken by individual soldiers
2145 │ Box: The Seroja Orphanage
2147 │ Box: Yuliana (Bileki)
2148 │ Box: Abduction of a baby in Ermera
2150 │ Box: Forced adoption: Aida’s story
2150 │ Was the removal of children official military policy?
2151 │ Transfer by government officials and charitable
organisations
2152 │ Box: “The President’s Children”
2153 │ 1980–1989
2154 │ Box: The case of Thomas da Costa
2155 │ Religious institutions and the transfer of children
2156 │ 1990–1998
2156 │ Children taken by religious institutions
2157 │ Programmes of the Ministries of Education and
Manpower
2158 │ 1999
2161 │ Conditions for children living in Indonesia
2162 │ Loss of cultural identity
2163 │ Mistreatment
2163 │ Box: Alfredo Reinado Alves’ story
2165 │ Findings and conclusion
2166 │ Children in armed conflict and the clandestine movement
2166 │ Children used by the Indonesian military as TBOs (Operations
Assistants)
2167 │ Children in Falintil and in clandestine movement
2168 │ Children recruited by pro-autonomy militias in 1999
2169 │ Inhuman treatment of children
2169 │ Arbitrary detention
2171 │ Arbitrary killing of children
2173 │ Sexual violence committed against children
2175 │ The transfer of children to Indonesia
Part 7.9. Economic and Social Rights
2191│ Introduction
2194 │Box: The duties of an occupying power relating to social
and economic conditions
2195 │ The Commission’s work on economic and social rights
2195 │ Social and economic rights and other rights
2197│ The right to an adequate standard of living
2197 │ Development and government spending
2202 │ The coffee sector
2203 │ Management of the coffee sector under Indonesian administration
2204 │ The value of the coffee sector
2208 │ Military involvement in the East Timorese economy
2208 │ Right of a people to dispose of natural resources
2208 │ Sandalwood
2209 │ Forest cover
2210 │ The Timor Sea
2211 │ The right to food
2213 │ Box: Economic and social impacts of “resettlement camps”
2216 │ Housing and land
2219 │ Box: Economic effects of the 1999 scorched earth policy
2221 │ Right to health
2221 │ The meaning of the “right to health”
2222 │ Public health under Portuguese rule
2223 │ The Indonesian occupation
2223 │ Infant and mother mortality and child development
2224 │ Reduction of disease
2225 │ Access to health services
2226 │Box: Economic and social impact of displacement to
West Timor in 1999
2227 │ Coerced birth control
2233 │ Mental health and trauma
2235│ Box: Forced recruitment
2237 │ Right to education
2237 │ Box: The right to education
2243 │ Findings
2243 │ General findings
2244 │ Specific findings
2244 │ The right to an adequate standard of living
2244 │ Development and government spending
2244 │ Rights over natural resources
2245 │ The right to adequate food
22245 │ Housing and land
2245 │ Rights to health and education

Contents of volume 4
Contents
xi │ Map of Timor-Leste
2253 │ Part 8: Responsibility and Accountability
2262│Introduction
2261│State, institutional and individual responsibility
2264│Legal killings and detentions
2265│The focus on institutional responsibility
2265│Principal findings
2265│The State of Indonesia and the Indonesian security forces
2268│The systematic programme of violations in 1999
2269│Principal findings on the responsibility of Fretilin
2270│Principal findings on the responsibility of the UDT political party
2272│Principal findings on the responsibility of the Apodeti political
party
2272│Principal findings on the responsibility of the KOTA and
Trabalhista parties
2273│Methodology for identification of institutional
responsibility
2275│Perpetrator identification in the human rights violations
database
2276│Responsibility and accountability of the Indonesian
security forces
2277│Evidence relied on in this section
2277│Violations committed by members of the Indonesian security
forces
2315│Individual responsibility for widespread and systematic
violations
2315│High-level responsibility
2330│Responsibility and accountability of the East Timorese
political parties
2332│The responsibility and accountability of Fretilin/Falintil
2345│The responsibility and accountability of the UDT political party
2351│The responsibility and accountability of the Apodeti party
2352│The responsibility and accountability of the Trabalhista and
KOTA parties
2353│State responsibility
2353│Responsibility of the State of Indonesia
2355│Responsibility of the State of Portugal
2357│Responsibility of the State of Australia
2358│Responsibility of the United States of America
2360│Responsibility of the United Nations
2361│Annexe 1: Responsibility of the Indonesian security forces
for violations committed in 1999
2361│Introduction
2365│Responsibility of the TNI for the violations
2365│Members of the TNI as direct perpetrators of violations
2367│The responsibility of the TNI for the actions of militia groups
2378│TNI knowledge, threats and warnings before the mass violence
in September 1999
2379│The failure of the TNI to punish perpetrators/institutional
rewards to those involved
2381│The role of members of the Indonesian police
2382│Collaboration and participation of officials of the Indonesian
local and central government
2384│Findings and conclusions
2385│Conclusions
2386│Annexe 2: Command responsibility
2406│Annexe 3: Persons with high-level command responsibility
2413│Annexe 4: Careers of selected Indonesian officers who
served in Timor-Leste
2421 │ Part 9: Community Reconciliation
2427│Introduction
2427│Overview of this part
2429│Background
2434│Origins of the Community Reconciliation Process/CRP
2437│The Community Reconciliation Process
2437│Objectives of the process
2438│The procedural framework
2442│CRP’s reliance on both lisan and law
2442│Implementation of the CRP programme
2442│Staff
2443│Timeline
2443│Initial challenges
2444│Community involvement
2445│The CRP hearing
2453│The role of lisan in the hearings
2460│Results of the CRP programme
2460│Overall
2464│Number of deponents in a CRP
2464│Actions dealt with by CRP
2464│Acts of reconciliation
2466│The effectiveness of the CRP programme
2466│Reintegrating perpetrators into their communities
2468│Restoring the dignity of victims
2468│Establishing the truth about human rights violations
2471│Promoting reconciliation
2472│Lessons learned
2474│Broader impacts of the CRP programme
2474│CRP as a symbol of the end of the conflict
2475│Contribution to the fight against impunity
2477│CRP’s contribution to capacity building
2478│CRP: a unique approach to justice
2481│Reflections
2481│Conclusion
2482│Unfinished business
2483│The future of the CRP
2487 │ Part 10: Acolhimento and Victim Support
2493│Introduction
2494│Structure of the Unit
2494│Interpretation
2498│Reception and outreach
2498│Background
2500│Monitoring recent returnees
2503│Outreach to West Timor
2512│Restoring the dignity of victims
2512│Introduction
2513│Public Hearings
2526│Healing workshops
2536│Urgent reparations
2544│Community profiles
2560│Lessons learned
2567│ Part 11: Recommendations
2573│Introduction
2573│Recommendations
2575│Timor-Leste and the international community
2577│Timor-Leste and Portugal
2578│Human rights in Timor-Leste: promoting and protecting all
rights for all
2585│Human rights at home: promoting and protecting the rights of
the vulnerable
2588│Human rights at home: promoting and protecting human rights
through effective institutions
2593│Human rights at home: security services that protect and
promote human rights
2597│Justice and truth
2604│Reconciliation
2606│Reconciliation in the East Timorese political community
2607│Reconciliation with Indonesia
2610│Acolhimento (Reception)
2612│Reparations
2622│Follow-on institution to the CAVR

Contents of volume 5
2625 │ Annexe 1: Timor-Leste 1999:
Crimes against Humanity —
Report Commissioned by the United Nations Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA
2633│Preface
2636│ Executive summary
2637 │Method and mandate
2638│Outline and conclusions
2640│Historical and political context
2640│Indonesian invasion and occupation
2643│Resistance
2644│International response
2646│Breakthrough in Indonesia
2648│UNAMET and the Popular Consultation
2651│Indonesia: power and strategy
2652│The Indonesian Armed Forces
2656│The Militias
2658│The Indonesian Police
2659│The civilian government and the ‘socialisation’ campaign
2661│Pro-autonomy political parties
2662│Specialised government bodies
2664│Violations, victims and perpetrators
2665│Types of violation
2669│Chronology of violations: three periods
2672│Victims
2677│The perpetrators
2680│Patterns and variations
2680│Temporal variation – turning off the faucet
2685│Police inaction and complicity
2688│Militia modus operandi
2691│Geographical variations
2695│Six key documents
2695│Operation Clean Sweep
2697│The Tavares Document
2698│The Garnadi Document
2700│The East Timor Integration Savior Brigade Telegram
2702│Operation Pull-Out
2705 │Militias: history, formation and legal recognition
2706 │Historical patterns
2710 │Militia formation
2716 │Political and legal recognition
2721 │Militias: recruitment, training, operations and weapons
2721 │Recruitment and membership
2724 │Training
2726 │Operations
2729 │Weapons: testimonial evidence
2733 │Weapons: documentary evidence
2736 │Militias: funding and material support
2736 │‘Socialisation’ and militia funding
2740 │Sources of government funding
2745 │TNI funding and material support
2748 │FPDK as funding channel
2749 │Militia budgets
2752 │District summaries
2752 │Aileu (Kodim 1632)
2755 │Ainaro (Kodim 1633)
2759 │Baucau (Kodim 1628)
2762 │Bobonaro (Kodim 1636)
2768 │Covalima (Kodim 1635)
2771 │Dili (Kodim 1627)
2777 │Ermera (Kodim 1637)
2782 │Lautém (Kodim 1629)
2786 │Liquiçá (Kodim 1638)
2792 │Manatuto (Kodim 1631)
2797 │Manufahi (Kodim 1634)
2800 │Oecussi (Kodim 1639)
2802 │Viqueque (Kodim 1630)
2805 │Case studies: major human rights incidents
2806 │Liquiçá church massacre (6 April 1999)
2810 │Cailaco killings (12 April 1999)
2813 │Carrascalão house massacre (17 April 1999)
2818 │The killing of two students at Hera (20 May 1999)
2819 │Arbitrary detention and rape in Lolotoe (May-June 1999)
2821 │Attack on UNAM ET Maliana (29 June 1999)
2824 │Attack on humanitarian convoy (4 July 1999)
2828 │Murder of UNAM ET staff members at Boboe Leten (30 August 1999)
2831 │Forcible relocation and murder of refugees in Dili (5-6 September
1999)
2835 │Suai church massacre (6 September 1999)
2839 │Maliana Police Station massacre (8 September 1999)
2844 │The Passabe and Maquelab massacres (September-October 1999)
2846 │Rape and murder of Ana Lemos (13 September 1999)
2849 │The Battalion 745 rampage (20-21 September 1999)
2854 │Murder of Lospalos clergy (25 September 1999)
2856 │Individual and command responsibility
2857 │Individual criminal responsibility
2860 │Command responsibility
2871 │International responsibility
2871 │International responsibility
2876 │UN responsibility: the question of justice
2906 │Note on sources
2907 │Note on the author
2909 │ Annexe 2: Data and statistical methods
2915 │Introduction
2915 │Relevance of empirical data analysis to the Commission’s mandate
2916 │Data sources
2917 │The Human Rights Violations Database (HRVD)
2924 │Retrospective Mortality Survey (RMS)
2927 │Graveyard Census Database (GCD)
2928 │Methodological description of data editing, cleaning and
name normalisation techniques
2928 │Database cleaning and editing
2929 │Date editing and cleaning
2929 │Age editing and cleaning
2930 │Violation and relationship codes editing and cleaning
2930 │Geographic location code editing and cleaning
2930 │GCD de-duplication of cemeteries and graves
2931 │Name-cleaning processes
2934 │Data conversion
2935 │Record linkage overview
2935 │Matching rules
2938 │Intra-system matching
2941 │Inter-system matching
2944 │Data processing of reported violations involving groups
of anonymous victims
2946 │Statistical estimation techniques used in the analysis of
fatal violations and displacements
2946 │RMS weight calculations
2947 │RMS date assignment for displacement analysis
2948 │RMS weight adjustments for mortality estimates
2949 │Sensitivity analysis of assumptions in mortality re-weighting
2950 │Multiple Systems Estimation (MSE): motivation and theory
2952 │Allocating GCD by type of death
2953 │Sensitivity analysis of the loss of social knowledge: adjustments
for underestimates
2957 │ Annexe 3: Indictment Summaries
2964│Indictment summaries by district
2964│Aileu
2965│Ainaro
2967│Baucau
2968│Bobonaro
2978│Covalima
2986│Dili
2992│Ermera
2994│Lautém
2997│Liquiçá
2999│Manatuto
3000│Manufahi
3002│Oecussi
3007│Viqueque
3008│West Timor
3008│National indictment
3011 │ Annexe 4: Acknowledgements
3013│Introduction
3014│Donors
3015│Submissions
3016│Participants in National Public Hearings
3020│The CA VR Community
3040│Those who gave statements to CA VR
3040│Those who participated in CRP
3040│Participants in healing workshops
3047 │ List of Terms and Abbreviations
3071 │ Index

Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation

Death in East Timor

This document was sourced from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP).
Titled, Death in East Timor, the document is part of Third World Network Features and was received February 10th, 1992. It is an account of the experience of a mother, Helen Todd: a Malaysian freelance journalist whose son was killed by the November 12th, 1991 Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor. Her son, Kamal Bamadhaj, was the only foreigner killed during the shooting. Helen Todd emphasises her difficulty in discovering the reason for the fate of her son and expresses her belief that it demonstrates the misinformation and mendacity of Indonesia’s government. She also discusses Kamal’s observations of the Indonesian regime’s tactics to hide realities when discussing East Timor with foreigners. Next, she provides eye witness accounts of the shooting of the procession to the Dili cemetery. Finally, she presents Kamal’s observations of the attitudes of the Timorese, especially Timorese youth, before the march.

Pacific Peoples Partnership

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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

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

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CNRM EXTERNAL SPOKESPERSON VISITS LONDON (TAPOL, 11/9)............................................................................................ 3
MILITARY ‘ORDERED PURGE OF FRETILIN’ (AUSTRALIAN 10/31)................................................................................................... 3
INDONESIAN CRACKDOWN .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
BISHOP BELO’S ACCOUNT OF 28 OCTOBER INCIDENT (NOV. 13)................................................................................................... 3
BISHOP OF EAST TIMOR: CAMPAIGN OF TERROR HAS BEGUN (NEW TIMES) ............................................................................ 4
PORTUGUESE MISSION........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
MILITARY CRACKDOWN ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4
ROLE FOR THE UN ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
DILI MASSACRE UPDATE (TAPOL 11/12).................................................................................................................................................. 5
UP TO 20 REPORTED KILLED AS ARMY OPENS FIRE IN EAST TIMOR (REUTER).......................................................................... 5
THOUSANDS PROTEST IN EAST TIMOR, MANY KILLED (AP)............................................................................................................ 5
INDONESIAN TROOPS FIRE ON DEMONSTATORS IN EAST TIMOR (DPA) ................................................................................... 6
FRETILIN ASKS FOR U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING (AFP)....................................................................................................... 6
TROOPS FIRE ON DEMONSTATORS IN EAST TIMOR (UPI)................................................................................................................. 6
EAST TIMOR: INDONESIAN ARMY OPENS FIRE ON FUNERAL PROCESSION (IPS) ....................................................................... 7
ASIA WATCH CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO EAST TIMOR DEATHS....................................................................................... 7
INDONESIA: EAST TIMOR MASSACRE HIGHLIGHTS RIGHTS ABUSES (IPS)................................................................................... 8
MASSACRE SEEN CAREFULLY PLANNED BY INDONESIAN GENERALS (IPS)................................................................................. 8
E.C. CONDEMNS INDONESIAN ARMY MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS (IPS)............................................................................................ 9
E.C. DENOUNCES ARMY MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR (AFP) .............................................................................................................. 9
E.C. DECLARATION ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................................................................................................................... 9
INDONS ACCUSED OF DILI KILLINGS (AGE).......................................................................................................................................... 9
JILL JOLLIFFE REPORTS FROM LISBON:............................................................................................................................................ 9
PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT SOARES CONDEMNS TIMOR VIOLENCE (REUTER)........................................................................... 10
U.S. REPORTER, BADLY BEATEN IN TIMOR, SAYS SAW DOZENS KILLED (REUTER)................................................................. 10
U.S. REGRETS EAST TIMOR VIOLENCE (REUTER)................................................................................................................................ 10
PEREZ DE CUELLAR DEPLORES LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED IN EAST TIMOR................................................................................. 10
INDONESIA CONFIRMS DEATHS IN TIMOR UNREST (AFP).............................................................................................................. 11
BRITAIN CONSIDERS HUMANITARIAN AID FOR EAST TIMOR (REUTER)................................................................................... 11
FORGOTTEN CASE OF ANNEXED ISLE RESURFACES (AFP).............................................................................................................. 11
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW WITH AMY GOODMAN ....................................................................................................................... 11
FROM JOHN MACDOUGALL WED NOV 13 ............................................................................................................................................ 12
FROM CHARLIE SCHEINER TO: APAKABAR (JOHN M.) .............................................................................................................. 12
URGENT MISSING PERSON ENQUIRY REGARDING EAST TIMOR MASSACRE............................................................................ 13
KAMAL BAMADHAJ, TIMORESE MASSACRE VICTIM. ............................................................................................................... 13
FILM CREW REJECTS OFFICIAL RIOT STORY (TERRITORIAN) ........................................................................................................ 13
INDONESIAN ARMY KILLS AT LEAST 20 TIMORESE LBH TELLS ARMY TO INVESTIGATE (KYODO)................................... 13
BELO REFUSES TO ATTEND KWI ANNUAL MEE
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ARMY CRACKDOWN SPREADS IN EAST TIMOR (REUTER) .............................................................................................................. 15
UP TO 60 KILLED IN EAST TIMOR; INDONESIA'S FORCES GUN DOWN MARCHERS (WP) ....................................................... 16
AUSTRALIA SAYS IT DEPLORES REPORTED KILLINGS IN EAST TIMOR (REUTER).................................................................... 16
COMMUNIQUE OF THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN EAST TIMOR............... 17
EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS / FEAR OF TORTURE (A.I.)............................................................................................................. 18
INDONESIAN ARMY CLAIMS ABOUT 50 KILLED IN DILI SHOOTING (KYODO)....................................................................... 18
MORE MASSACRE VICTIMS DIE IN DILI (TAPOL)............................................................................................................................... 18
WORLDWIDE CALLS FOR AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY............................................................................................................. 18
INDONESIAN LEADERS "WILL PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES," SEPARATISTS SAY (AFP) .................................................................. 19
FRETILIN MAN SAYS NEW GUERRILLA OFFENSIVE COMING (AFP).............................................................................................. 19
INDONESIA BLAMES SEPARATISTS FOR TIMOR BLOODBATH (AFP) ........................................................................................... 19
HAWKE VISIT MAY BE CANCELLED (RADIO AUSTRALIA)............................................................................................................... 20
BLOODSTAINS ON CHAPEL WALLS AND CLOTHING ARE SILENT WITNESS TO SHOOTINGS (AFP) ..................................... 20
CHILDREN'S SCHOOLBOOKS AND DRIED BLOOD MARK TIMOR SHOOTING (REUTER) ......................................................... 20
CASUALTY FIGURES VAGUE A DAY AFTER EAST TIMOR SHOOTINGS (AFP) ............................................................................ 21
NZ ENVOY SENT TO TIMOR TO INVESTIGATE SHOOTING OF NEW ZEALANDER (REUTER) ................................................. 21
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR BREAKS WITH ARMY LINE (REUTER).................................................................................................... 21
U.N. DAILY HIGHLIGHTS -- 13 NOVEMBER 1991................................................................................................................................... 22
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CALL TO BOYCOTT INDONESIA (D. GEOFFREY) ................................................................................................................................. 22
HOOKA HAY............................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
IT'S A GOOD DAY TO DIE..................................................................................................................................................................... 22
PERSONAL FEELINGS ON THE EAST TIMOR MASSACRE............................................................................................................ 22
AUSTRALIAN PM URGES INDONESIA TO TALK (AGE)...................................................................................................................... 22
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CO-RESPONSIBLE FOR DILI MASSACRE (C.I.E.T)......................................................................... 23
A DISMAL DAY FOR INDONESIA (S.M.HERALD).................................................................................................................................. 23
CURFEW IN DILI: RELATIVES OF WOUNDED REFUSED ACCESS TO HOSPITAL (TAPOL 11/14)................................................ 24
HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS MEET DPR MEMBERS (TAPOL).................................................................................................................... 24
U.S. CALLS IN INDONESIAN ENVOY OVER EAST TIMOR MASSACRE (REUTER 11/14) ............................................................... 24
WASHINGTON DEFENDS MILITARY AID TO JAKARTA (AFP)......................................................................................................... 25
ALATAS: PEOPLE BEHIND EAST TIMOR SHOOTING WILL BE PUNISHED (AFP) ......................................................................... 25
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP SHELTERS 257 EAST TIMORESE AFTER DILI SHOOTING (AFP) .................................................. 25
PEACE HOPES DOGGED BY MILITARY SHOOTINGS (AGE)............................................................................................................... 26
DILI MASSACRE - AUSTRALIAN PRESS (CIET)...................................................................................................................................... 26
NEW ZEALANDER CONFIRMED KILLED IN EAST TIMOR SHOOTINGS (REUTER)...................................................................... 27
INDONESIAN FLAG BURNED DURING PROTEST AT CANBERRA EMBASSY (REUTER) ............................................................ 27
JAKARTA WILL NOT GIVE UP EAST TIMOR, INDONESIA'S BALTIC STATE (REUTER).............................................................. 27
INDONESIAN ARMED FORCES CHIEF WARNS OTHER COUNTRIES AGAINST "MEDDLING" (AP) ......................................... 27
INDONESIA ADMITS IT ERRED IN TIMOR, SAYS NEW ZEALANDER DEAD (REUTER) .............................................................. 28
SOLDIERS MISHEARS "DON'T FIRE" ORDER - JAKARTA. (SMH)...................................................................................................... 28
AMNESTY INT'L APPALLED AT MASSACRE CALLS FOR IMPARTIAL INQUIRY (A.I.)............................................................. 29
BOB MUNTZ PRESS CONFERENCE........................................................................................................................................................... 29
ANOTHER EYEWITNESS OF DILI MASSACRE SPEAKS.................................................................................................................. 29
TIMOR MORTIS (ECONOMIST)................................................................................................................................................................ 31
TENSION THROUGHOUT EAST TIMOR (TAPOL 15 NOV). ................................................................................................................. 31
257 TAKING REFUGE WITH BISHOP BELO (LBH) ................................................................................................................................. 31
RUNNING FROM THE BULLETS (AGE / MUNTZ)................................................................................................................................. 31
MALAYSIA SEEKS REMAINS OF STUDENT (NEW STRAITS TIMES) ................................................................................................ 32
EAST TIMOR AND THE INDONESIAN REFORMISTS: OUT OF THE TOO HARD BASKET? (AGE / FEITH).............................. 32
CENSORSHIP AND THE SCARCITY OF INFORMATION................................................................................................................ 32
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR LEADERS............................................................................................ 32

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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON INDONESIA FOR 1991........................................................................4
SECTION 1. RESPECT FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON ....................................................................................................... 5
INCLUDING FREEDOM FROM:............................................................................................................................................................. 5
SECTION 2 . RESPECT FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES...................................................................................................................................... 7
INCLUDING:............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
SECTION 3. RESPECT FOR POLITICAL RIGHTS: THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO CHANGE THEIR GOVERNMENT............. 8
SECTION 4. GOVERNMENTAL ATTITUDE REGARDING INTERNATIONAL AND NONGOVERNMENTAL
INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.................................................................................... 9
SECTION 5. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE, SEX, RELIGION, LANGUAGE, OR SOCIAL STATUS............................... 9
SECTION 6. WORKER RIGHTS................................................................................................................................................................ 9
TRANSCRIPT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE (DECEMBER 9, 1991) .......................................................................11
AMY GOODMAN.................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
ALLAN NAIRN......................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
ANTONIO PAIS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
JOSÉ LUIS GUTERRES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 14
BENEDICT ANDERSON.......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALI ALATAS AROUND THE WORLD ......................................................................................17
ALATAS, IN LONDON, RULES OUT EAST TIMOR VOTE (UPI)........................................................................................................... 17
FACE TO FACE BETWEEN ALATAS AND JOLLIFFE....................................................................................................................... 17
JOURNALISTS BY INVITATION ONLY (INDEPENDENT).............................................................................................................. 18
ALATAS, IN BRUSSELS, SHOCKED BY AMNESTY REPORT (REUTER)............................................................................................. 18
ALATAS TO VISIT JAPAN TO EXPLAIN MASSACRE (KYODO) ......................................................................................................... 18
LETTER TO ALATAS (FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION).................................................................................................. 18
WATANABE: AID NOT AFFECTED BY MASSACRE (REUTER) ................................................................................................... 19
ALATAS MEETS DIET MEMBERS FORUM ON EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................... 19
KILLINGS WON’T END JAKARTA AID, ENVOY TOLD (JAPAN TIMES)...................................................................................... 19
ALATAS VISIT SPARKS DEBATE ON CONTINUED AID FOR INDONESIA (IPS)....................................................................... 20
ALATAS ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON (AFP)............................................................................................................................................ 20
CALL TO DEMONSTRATE.................................................................................................................................................................... 20
ALATAS DC PRESS CONFERENCE (UPI)............................................................................................................................................ 20
AFP ACCOUNT........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
THE INDONESIAN COVER-UP (BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL)..................................................................................................... 21
ALATAS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
CANADA MAINTAINING SANCTIONS? (REUTER)........................................................................................................................ 21
ALATAS IN PARIS (AFP).............................................................................................................................................................................. 22
ALATAS IN THE HAGUE (AFP).................................................................................................................................................................. 22
ALATAS: BAN ON FOREIGN JOURNALISTS A ‘TEMPORARY’ MEASURE (IPS)...................................................................... 22
INDONESIA ‘COMMITTED TO JUSTICE’ (REUTER)...................................................................................................................... 23
GOINGS ON ABOUT CANADA.................................................................................................................................................................23
CANADA TO CONTINUE AID SUSPENSION (UPI)................................................................................................................................. 23
FARAWAY BLOODSHED LEAVES A STAIN ON CANADA (GIBBONS).............................................................................................. 23
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CANADA CONSIDERS LIFTING SANCTIONS (OTTAWA CITIZEN).................................................................................................. 24
OTTAWA PONDERS EASING SANCTIONS ON INDONESIA (MONTREAL GAZETTE).............................................................. 24
MACDOUGALL MAY LIFT INDONESIAN SANCTIONS (TORONTO STAR)............................................................................... 25
ACTION ALERT ON INDONESIAN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (ETAN/CANADA) ....................................................................... 25
U.N. ENVOY AMOS WAKO’S MISSION TO TIMOR.............................................................................................................................26
WAKO ARRIVAL REMARKS................................................................................................................................................................. 26
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST MEETS UN SPECIAL EMISSARY...................................................................................................... 26
AS LONG AS IT’S NOT INVESTIGATIVE (EDITOR) ......................................................................................................................... 26
U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY NOT TO PROBE EAST TIMOR SHOOTING, SAYS ALATAS.................................................................. 26
INDONESIA TO ALLOW U.N. ENVOY VISIT EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 26
ALATAS: WAKO CAN VISIT TIMOR................................................................................................................................................... 27
U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY TO MEET SUHARTO ON FRIDAY............................................................................................................... 27
U.N. ENVOY TO MEET INDONESIAN PRES. SUHARTO ................................................................................................................. 27
WAKO MEETS WITH MURDIONO...................................................................................................................................................... 27
WAKO ARRIVES IN DILI (AFP)............................................................................................................................................................. 28
WAKO MEETS CARRASCALAO........................................................................................................................................................... 28
UN ENVOY VISITS MASSACRE SITE, ENDS TIMOR TRIP.............................................................................................................. 28
SUHARTO TELLS OTHERS NOT TO IMPOSE THEIR VALUES ...................................................................................................... 28
FORCING FOREIGN VALUES ON OTHER COUNTRIES VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS: SUHARTO........................................ 29
WAKO: INDONESIA READY TO TRY SOLDIERS OVER TIMOR DEATHS................................................................................... 29
SUHARTO: SOLDIERS TO BE PROSECUTED ..................................................................................................................................... 29
U.N. ENVOY ENDS ITS SIX-DAY FACT-FINDING TRIP .................................................................................................................. 29
WAKO ENDS INDONESIAN VISIT (RADIO AUSTRALIA) ................................................................................................................. 29
SECURITY OPERATIONS IN DILI DURING WAKO VISIT (EDITOR)............................................................................................ 30
WAKO: I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE STAYED A LONG TIME (EDITOR)......................................................................................... 30
TEMPO ON WAKO’S DILI VISIT .......................................................................................................................................................... 31
JAKARTA WANTS TO CLOSE THE CHAPTER ON MASSACRE (IPS).......................................................................................... 31
PREPARING FOR THE PEACE BOAT ........................................................................................................................................................32
PROPOSAL: MISSION “PEACE IN TIMOR” .............................................................................................................................................. 32

  1. GENERAL VIEW OF THE SITUATION............................................................................................................................................ 32
  2. STRATEGY............................................................................................................................................................................................ 32
  3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................................................................................................... 32
  4. PURPOSE............................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
  5. DATE: 27TH FEBRUARY 1992........................................................................................................................................................... 32
    ANNEX 1 ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
    INDONESIA READIES FORCE FOR PORTUGUESE ARRIVAL........................................................................................................ 33
    ‘ARMADA’ TO STOP PEACE SHIP?..................................................................................................................................................... 33
    PEACE MISSION COULD FAIL FOR LACK OF FUNDS (IPS) .......................................................................................................... 33
    WAR SHIPS TO HEAD OFF PEACE ENVOY........................................................................................................................................ 33
    MORE SHIP ACTIONS IN SOUTH PACIFIC........................................................................................................................................ 34
    OZ GOV’T WARY OF PEACE SHIP....................................................................................................................................................... 34
    ROW THE BOAT ASHORE? ................................................................................................................................................................... 34
    DELEGATION FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY ON BOARD THE “LUSITANIA EXPRESSO”....................................................... 34
    INDONESIAN NAVY ON LOOKOUT (AFP)........................................................................................................................................ 34
    SCORES ARRESTED IN TIMOR (JAKARTA POST)........................................................................................................................... 35
    PRESS RELEASE ON U.S. PARTICIPATION IN PEACE SHIP ........................................................................................................... 35
    SECURITY OFFICIALS PREPARED TO FACE PORTUGUESE SHIP (JAKARTA POST).............................................................. 35
    INDONESIA BANS PEACE SHIP (DPA)................................................................................................................................................ 35
    TIMOR SEA MILITARY EXERCISES.................................................................................................................................................... 36
    ONTARIO STUDENT JOINS PEACE SHIP........................................................................................................................................... 36
    CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WARNS AGAINST PEACE SHIP ....................................................................................................... 36
    PEACE SHIP DEFIES INDONESIA!........................................................................................................................................................ 36
    SINK PEACE SHIP, SAY JAKARTA MP’S (AGE)................................................................................................................................ 36
    INDONESIAN MILITARY THREATENS TO PREVENT LANDING (REUTER) ............................................................................ 37
    AUSTRALIAN UNIONS: PROTECT PEACE BOAT! (REUTER) ...................................................................................................... 37
    EANES TO JOIN PEACE SHIP................................................................................................................................................................ 37
    PEACE SHIP DEAD IN WATER (UPI)................................................................................................................................................... 37
    EAST TIMOR PEACE VOYAGE CALLED OFF (JAPAN TIMES)....................................................................................................... 37
    PEACE-BOAT MISSION NOT CALLED OFF (TAPOL)...................................................................................................................... 38
    PEACE SHIP BACK ON COURSE (REUTER, UPI) .............................................................................................................................. 38
    FRETILIN WARNS INDONESIA ON SHIP (REUTER) ....................................................................................................................... 38
    PEACE SHIP PINUP (REUTER)............................................................................................................................................................. 38
    TRIALS OF CIVILIANS.................................................................................................................................................................................39
    RUSHED ‘JUSTICE’........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39
    TIMORESE FACE DEATH (REUTER)......................................................................................................................................................... 39
    IMPENDING TRIALS OF TIMORESE (ACFOA) ....................................................................................................................................... 39
    SITUATION OF EAST TIMORESE DETAINEES IN JAKARTA AND DILI..................................................................................... 39
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    ACTION..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39
    AUSSIE FM: RELEASE TIMORESE! ............................................................................................................................................................ 40
    LAWYERS BARRED FROM QUESTIONING OF EAST TIMORESE DETAINEES (UPI) ..................................................................... 40
    LAWYER CALLS FOR DILI DETAINEES TO BE RELEASED (J.POST).................................................................................................. 40
    TIMORESE ‘SPY’ TRIALS............................................................................................................................................................................. 40
    TRIALS OF 13 NEAR (DPA).......................................................................................................................................................................... 40
    STOP THE SUBVERSION TRIALS, RELEASE ALL EAST TIMORESE POLITICAL PRISONERS! (TAPOL)..................................... 40
    PLEASE TAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTION:....................................................................................................................................... 41
    EAST TIMOR TRIALS TO START............................................................................................................................................................... 41
    TIMORESE PRISONER RELEASES (AFP)................................................................................................................................................... 41
    BANDUNG STUDENTS RELEASED (AFP) ................................................................................................................................................ 41
    BIG DILI TRIALS SOON (REUTER)............................................................................................................................................................. 41
    TRIALS OF MILITARY OFFICERS.............................................................................................................................................................42
    SOEHARTO PROMISES PUNISHMENT (AFP).......................................................................................................................................... 42
    E.C. URGES MILITARY TRIALS (REUTER)............................................................................................................................................... 42
    MILITARY COUNCIL DECISIONS (REUTER)........................................................................................................................................... 42
    MILITARY COUNCIL REPORT (FULL TEXT).......................................................................................................................................... 42
    ARMY PUNISHES OFFICERS (REUTER).................................................................................................................................................... 43
    PUNISHMENT STINGS ARMY (REUTER)................................................................................................................................................. 44
    US APPLAUDS PUNISHMENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 44
    PUNISHMENTS SATISFY DUTCH, UK...................................................................................................................................................... 44
    JAPAN PRAISES INDONESIAN MEASURES (JAPAN TIMES) ............................................................................................................... 44
    JAPAN LAUDS PUNISHMENT (REUTER) ......................................................................................................................................... 44
    U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MEETS IN GENEVA.................................................................................................................45
    PORTUGAL ESPOUSES EAST TIMOR’S CAUSE (GUARDIAN) ............................................................................................................ 45
    CLASH AT U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (AFP)....................................................................................................................... 45
    BLAMING THE VICTIMS: JURISTS CRITICISE INDONESIA’S RESPONSE......................................................................................... 45
    ICJ LAMBASTES INDON. (AFP)............................................................................................................................................................ 46
    JAPAN UNDER INCREASING CRITICISM IN U.N. (ETNA)................................................................................................................... 46
    AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMATS LOSE THEIR COOL (ETNA)...................................................................................................................... 46
    ALLEGED COLLABORATOR OF INDONESIAN SECURITY FORCES ATTENDS UNHRC (HORTA)............................................. 47
    CANADA BACKS INDONESIA AT UNHRC (SOUTHAM)...................................................................................................................... 47
    JOURNALISTS BARRED FROM TIMOR..................................................................................................................................................47
    ASIA WATCH BLACKLISTED (FEER).................................................................................................................................................. 47
    MARK OF DISPLEASURE ...................................................................................................................................................................... 47
    PETER S. GOODMAN EXPULSION AND ARTICLES .............................................................................................................................. 48
    U.S. JOURNALIST FORCED TO LEAVE EAST TIMOR (AP/AFP) ................................................................................................... 48
    REUTER..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 48
    DPA ON GOODMAN EXPULSION....................................................................................................................................................... 48
    EAST TIMORESE DEFY TERROR TACTICS IN THE FIGHT TO BE FREE (GOODMAN, TELEGRAPH).................................. 48
    EAST TIMOR TENSE, ARMY GETS TOUGH (GOODMAN, NEWSDAY)........................................................................................ 49
    GOVERNMENT TO CURB JOURNALISTS ENTERING INDONESIA AS TOURISTS (JAKARTA POST)................................... 49
    EXPECTING SHIP, TIMOR CLOSED TO JOURNALISTS (AFP)....................................................................................................... 49
    REUTER:.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
    U.S. SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE HEARING...........................................................................................................50
    ASIA WATCH SENATE TESTIMONY......................................................................................................................................................... 50
    EXECUTIONS AFTER NOV. 12.............................................................................................................................................................. 50
    ARRESTS AND TRIALS SINCE NOVEMBER 12 ................................................................................................................................. 51
    HOW CAN THE U.S. HELP?.................................................................................................................................................................... 51
    COMMENT ON ASIA WATCH STATEMENT BY C. BUDIARDJO, TAPOL.: ................................................................................................... 52
    ALLAN NAIRN’S TESTIMONY............................................................................................................................................................. 52
    U.S. SENATE HEARING ON TIMOR (AFP)......................................................................................................................................... 52
    U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT AND SENATE HEARING (IPS)............................................................................................................ 52
    ASSORTED ARTICLES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.....................................................................................................................53
    ABILIO ARAUJO PRESS CONFERENCE IN LISBON................................................................................................................................ 53
    FRETILIN APPEALS IN LISBON FOR A WIDENING OF THE NATIONALIST CONVERGENCE............................................... 53
    CRITICISM OF PARTS OF THE RESISTANCE.................................................................................................................................... 53
    HELICOPTERS AND ARMOURED CARS HUNT FOR XANANA ................................................................................................... 53
    SUDOMO: GOVERNMENT WILL ISSUE REGULATION ABOUT NGO’S............................................................................................ 53
    WOLF AND HALL SAY INDONESIAN AID COULD BE CUT OFF UNLESS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES CEASE.......................... 54
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    AUSTRALIAN ATTACHÉ: TERRITORIAL OPERATIONS GOOD FOR THE EAST TIMORESE (SUARA PEM BARUAN).......... 54
    INDONESIAN GENOCIDE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE QUINCENTENNIAL OF COLUMBUS’ VOYAGE.................................... 54
    AUSSIE TV ON TIMOR ................................................................................................................................................................................. 55
    8 FEB 1992. ABC-TV NEWS SYDNEY. CRAIG MCMURTRIE........................................................................................................... 55
    9 FEB 1992 . SBS-TV NEWS CANBERRA. ALAN SUNDERLAND .................................................................................................... 55
    9 FEB 1992 ABC-TV NEWS CANBERRA, BRENDA CONROY......................................................................................................... 55
    ACEH: INDONESIA’S FORGOTTEN TERROR (INDEPENDENT).......................................................................................................... 55
    COMMISSION OF INQUIRY NEEDED FOR ACEH (ASIA WATCH)............................................................................................... 56
    JERRY BROWN & PERTAMINA (LBO)...................................................................................................................................................... 56
    INDONESIAN CONNECTION................................................................................................................................................................ 56
    OPPOSITION DOUBTS UK GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT TO AID CONDITIONS (FINANCIAL TIMES) .............................. 57
    “WINDS OF CHANGE” IN THE AIR, SAYS GUERRILLA EXILE (IPS)................................................................................................... 57
    TIGHT MONEY HITS INVESTMENT (REUTER)...................................................................................................................................... 58
    E.C. TWELVE STATEMENT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 58
    INTERNATIONAL EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY MEETING ................................................................................................................... 58
    PRESS RELEASE, 17 FEBRUARY 1992. ISSUED IN GENEVA............................................................................................................ 58
    REPORT OF EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK - U.S...................................................................................................................... 58
    ANGER OVER SALE OF NAVY VESSEL TO INDONESIA (UK INDEPENDENT)................................................................................ 59
    TORIES DEFEND INDONESIA ON KILLINGS (LETTER TO LONDON TIMES).................................................................................. 59
    GAO REPORT ON TIMOR MASSACRE RELEASED ................................................................................................................................ 60
    MORE KILLINGS IN EAST TIMOR (ASA)................................................................................................................................................ 60
    EAST TIMOR UPDATE........................................................................................................................................................................... 60
    INDONESIAN INVESTMENT DISINCENTIVES (REUTER)..................................................................................................................... 60
    MORE DETAILS ON THE SITUATION IN EAST TIMOR AFTER 12 NOVEMBER MASSACRE (CNRM)...................................... 61
    OECF (JAPAN) FUNDS SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN TIMOR...................................................................................................................... 61
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY (BETHELEHEM, PA) CONFERENCE MARCH 3............................................................................................... 61
    THE HIDDEN GENOCIDE OF EAST TIMOR: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE MASSACRE............................................... 61
    PROVIDENCE, RI PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 13 ................................................................................................................................... 61
    WITNESS TO SLAUGHTER: A REPORT ON THE SILENT GENOCIDE IN EAST TIMOR........................................................... 61
    DA COSTA, SYAFEI REM ARKS (REUTER)............................................................................................................................................... 61
    DA COSTA COMMENTS (AFP) ............................................................................................................................................................ 62
    BRIG. GEN THEO SYAFEI: I WILL HUNT THEM DOWN (TEMPO)............................................................................................... 62
    DUTCH COLUMNIST HITS OUT AT SUHARTO (NRC HANDELSBLAD) ......................................................................................... 62
    LOS ANGELES INDONESIA BUSINESS PROMOTION AND DEMONSTRATION.............................................................................. 63
    EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK TO PROTEST AT INDONESIAN BUSINESS FORUM......................................................... 63
    REPORT ON DEMONSTRATION AT INDONESIA TRADE/TOURISM PROMOTION IN LOS ANGELES............................... 64
    INDONESIA NETS $2.4BN FOR TOURISM IN 1991 ................................................................................................................................. 64
    THE MOOD IN DILI (REUTER) ................................................................................................................................................................... 64
    CHIEF MINISTER OF N.T. (AUSTRALIA) ATTACKED OVER DILI VIDEO (AGE)............................................................................ 65
    BOYCOTT NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT! BOYCOTT DARWIN! BOYCOTT KAKADU! ................................... 65
    IPB APPEAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE................................................................................................................................................... 65
    TIMORESE FLUNKY FOR JAKARTA (RRI, BBC).................................................................................................................................... 66
    BOB MUNTZ SPEAKS IN JAPAN (JAPAN TIMES) ................................................................................................................................. 66
    EYEWITNESS TO DILI ATTACK RAPS JAKARTA............................................................................................................................ 66
    THE WAR NO LONGER FORGOTTEN (DARWIN REFUGEES, REUTER)........................................................................................... 66
    BISHOP BELO INTERVIEW IN INDONESIAN PRESS (AFP) ................................................................................................................... 67
    EAST WHAT? (WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL)................................................................................................................................ 67
    IRIAN JAYA FAMINE (REUTER)................................................................................................................................................................ 67

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 11, March 1 - April 3, 1992

“LUSITANIA EXPRESSO” BLOCKED FROM REACHING DILI................................................................................................................5
JAPANESE VOW TO DEFY EAST TIMOR SHIP BAN.................................................................................................................................5
PEACE SHIP EN ROUTE TO EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................................................................5
FIVE WARSHIPS OFF TIMOR.........................................................................................................................................................................6
PEACE MISSION STILL ON COURSE............................................................................................................................................................6
“WE WILL NOT GIVE UP THIS MISSION”...................................................................................................................................................6
TIMORESE STUDENTS ‘REJECT’ SHIP........................................................................................................................................................6
LUSITANIA EXPRESS UPDATE.....................................................................................................................................................................7
ABRI COMMANDER BANS BOAT ..............................................................................................................................................................8
PROTESTERS ARRIVE IN DARWIN .............................................................................................................................................................8
THE PEACE SHIPPERS.....................................................................................................................................................................................8
INDONESIAN STUDENTS NOT TO BOARD TIMOR PEACE BOAT.......................................................................................................9
ASHAMED TO BE CANADIAN......................................................................................................................................................................9
SYAFEI ON TRAITORS....................................................................................................................................................................................9
U.S. CONGRESSMEN SUPPORT PEACE BOAT...........................................................................................................................................9
PEACE SHIPPERS’ CAPTAIN........................................................................................................................................................................10
PEACE MISSION WILL NOT PROVOKE INDONESIAN ARMY..............................................................................................................10
“WE ARE NOT LIKE GREENPEACE” ..........................................................................................................................................................10
STUDENTS RESIST GOVERNMENT PRESSURE TO QUIT PEACE MISSION......................................................................................10
PEACE MISSION FEARS................................................................................................................................................................................11
INFIGHT ON THE ARRIVAL OF THE LUSITANIA EXPRESSO..............................................................................................................11
INDONESIA MONITORS PEACE SHIP........................................................................................................................................................11
EAST TIMOR PEACE MISSION REJECTS N.T. CHIEF MINISTER.........................................................................................................11
CANADIANS REFUSE TO LEAVE PEACE MISSION ................................................................................................................................12
PEACE SHIP IN DARWIN ..............................................................................................................................................................................12
INDONESIANS “BUZZED” PEACE SHIP ....................................................................................................................................................12
BIG WELCOME FOR PEACE SHIP IN DARWIN........................................................................................................................................13
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PEACE SHIP SAILS FROM DARWIN ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
WARSHIPS WAIT ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
BON VOYAGE, LUCY.................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
“IF NOT TODAY, TOMORROW”............................................................................................................................................................... 14
INDONESIAN PLANES BUZZ LUCY EN ROUTE TO DILI...................................................................................................................... 14
DAVID JENKINS ON LUCY.......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
LUCY AT SEA ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
LUCY BUZZED AGAIN................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
SHADOWING LUCY...................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
‘MOMENTS OF TRUTH’ AT DAWN.......................................................................................................................................................... 16
SYAFEI ‘PREPARED’ FOR PEACE BOAT (EDITOR) ............................................................................................................................... 17
U.N. CHIEF URGES RESTRAINT................................................................................................................................................................. 17
JAPAN EVINCES ‘CONCERN’...................................................................................................................................................................... 18
ASEAN CRITICIZES LUCY........................................................................................................................................................................... 18
LUSITANIA SHADOWED BY WARSHIP.................................................................................................................................................... 18
PEACE BOAT FORCED TO TURN AROUND, WAIT............................................................................................................................... 18
LUCY HALTS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
PORTUGAL WATCHES................................................................................................................................................................................. 19
LUCY RETREATS........................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
LUCY HOUNDED ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
PORTUGAL CONDEMNS............................................................................................................................................................................. 19
PORTUGAL HAILS LUCY............................................................................................................................................................................. 19
INDONESIA ACCUSES PORTUGAL........................................................................................................................................................... 20
VIEWS FROM LUCY...................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
PEACE SHIP TURNED BACK BY INDONESIAN NAVY.......................................................................................................................... 20
THOUGHTS FROM THE LUSITANIA EXPRESSO (LORNE RIDER) .................................................................................................... 20
EAST TIMOR PEACE BOAT TURNED BACK .......................................................................................................................................... 21
CANDLELIGHTS IN DARWIN ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21
LUCY IN DARWIN ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
INDONESIA DEMONSTRATES NEW NAVAL POWER........................................................................................................................... 22
INDONESIA HARDENS ON TIMOR (ANTARA) ...................................................................................................................................... 22
LUSITANIA OBEYS ORDERS AND RETURNS TO DARWIN (KOMPAS) ............................................................................................ 23
DARWIN PROTEST BY PEACE BEATERS SAID PROVOCATIVE (ANTARA) .................................................................................... 24
TIMOR PEACE SHIP RETURNS................................................................................................................................................................... 24
LUCY — PAWN IN THE GAME?................................................................................................................................................................. 25
LUCY’S OWNERS MAY SUE INDONESIA ................................................................................................................................................. 25
ANTARA STONED IN DILI .......................................................................................................................................................................... 25
INDONESIA SLAMS HYPOCRISY ON LUCY............................................................................................................................................. 26
GALP CONFIRMS LUCY FUNDING........................................................................................................................................................... 26
TAINTED LUCY HEADS HOME.................................................................................................................................................................. 26
PEACE MISSION TURNED BACK BUT FOCUSED ATTENTION ON MASSACRE............................................................................ 27
ABOARD THE TIMOR PEACE SHIP........................................................................................................................................................... 27
EAST TIMOR VOYAGE CLAIMS SUCCESS............................................................................................................................................... 28
TRIALS OF CIVILIANS................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
LBH: SEVEN DETAINED EAST TIMORESE NEED LAWYERS............................................................................................................... 29
SUBVERSION TRIALS IN DILI A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE (TAPOL) ................................................................................................... 29
TIMOR TRIALS TO START NEXT WEEK (ASIA WATCH) .................................................................................................................... 29
CALL FOR JOINT ACTION TO PROTEST THE TRIALS (TAPOL)........................................................................................................ 30
REPORT ON FRANCISCO BRANCO (EXPRESSO)................................................................................................................................... 30
17 EAST TIMORESE STUDENTS RELEASED, 5 TO FACE TRIAL IN JAKARTA................................................................................ 30
AUSTRALIAN ICJ LAWYER TO OBSERVE DILI TRIALS ....................................................................................................................... 31
FOCUS SHIFTS TO TRIALS.......................................................................................................................................................................... 31
EIGHT TRIALS FOR DILI.............................................................................................................................................................................. 31
INDONESIA SENDS ACEH MOSLEM REBEL TO JAIL............................................................................................................................ 31
INDONESIA STARTS TRIALS, BARS LAWYER........................................................................................................................................ 31
WORLD CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE TIMOR TRIALS (TAPOL) .......................................................................................................... 32
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LOS ANGELES DEMONSTRATION ON TRIALS.......................................................................................................................................32
LBH ON REPRESENTATION DISPUTE.......................................................................................................................................................33
LBH STYMIED IN DILI ..................................................................................................................................................................................34
ACFOA ON TRIALS........................................................................................................................................................................................34
TIMOR INDEPENDENCE TRIALS BEGIN..................................................................................................................................................34
WORLDWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST EAST TIMOR TRIALS ..................................................................................................................35
FRANCISCO BRANCO TRIAL HEAVILY GUARDED...............................................................................................................................35
EXCERPTS FROM THE ARAUJO INDICTMENT .....................................................................................................................................36
NEW JAKARTA DEMO TRIALS ..................................................................................................................................................................37
PORTUGAL: TRIALS RIGGED .....................................................................................................................................................................37
DEFENDANTS IN DILI DENIED CHOICE OF LAWYERS.........................................................................................................................37
24 PARTICIPANTS IN DILI INCIDENT TO BE INDOCTRINATED........................................................................................................37
LBH DA CUNHA TRIAL STATEMENT ......................................................................................................................................................38
DILI ‘SECRET DOCUMENTS’ CONVICTION ............................................................................................................................................38
ACEH ‘REBEL BUSINESSMAN’ JAILED.....................................................................................................................................................38
REPORTS OF DEMONSTRATIONS ABOUT TRIALS...............................................................................................................................38
LBH CHARGES HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS......................................................................................................................................41
EAST TIMORESE PRISONER GRAVELY ILL IN JAKARTA....................................................................................................................41
BRANCO’S NIECE TELLS HER STORY......................................................................................................................................................42
ICJ OBSERVER SLAMS TRIALS ...................................................................................................................................................................42
DA CAMARA DENIES CHARGES................................................................................................................................................................42
LBH WINS REPRESENTATION RIGHTS.....................................................................................................................................................43
COURT’S JURISDICTION REJECTED ........................................................................................................................................................43
TIMOR TRIALS BREAKTHROUGH............................................................................................................................................................43
LAST ‘SECRETS’ TRIALS CONVICTION....................................................................................................................................................44
FERNANDO ARAUJO’S FIRST COURT STATEMENT............................................................................................................................44
MORE TIMORESE ARRESTED.....................................................................................................................................................................46
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC URGENT ACTION .........................................................................................................46
PRINCEN TO TESTIFY IN TRIAL OF EAST TIMORESE YOUNGSTER................................................................................................47
PORTUGAL BLASTS INDONESIA FOR SENTENCING OF TIMORESE................................................................................................47
INDICTMENT OF VIRGILIO DA SILVA GUTERRES................................................................................................................................47
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ADOPTS WEAK ‘CONSENSUS’ IN GENEVA....................................................................49
AMERICANS AND JAPANESE BLACKMAIL PORTUGUESE (ETNA)..................................................................................................49
‘CONSENSUS’ STATEMENT AT UNHRC ..................................................................................................................................................49
AUSTRALIA’S IMAGE IRREPARABLY TARNISHED? (ETNA)..............................................................................................................50
DEALS AT UNHRC (AP)................................................................................................................................................................................50
PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA’S JOINT TEXT AT UNHRC (PUBLICO)..............................................................................................50
THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMISSION (GUARDIAN).....................................................................................................................................51
AN ATROCITY UNCHALLENGED (LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN RE UNHRC)..................................................................................51
UN GOES TO WATER ON TIMOR (GREEN LEFT ON UNHCR).............................................................................................................52
ANALYSIS OF EAST TIMOR IN UNHRC (RUSSELL ANDERSON) .......................................................................................................52
U.S. SENATE HEARING AND OTHER WASHINGTON EVENTS .........................................................................................................55
REPORT ON FEBRUARY 20 WASHINGTON DEMO................................................................................................................................55
ALLAN NAIRN SENATE TESTIMONY.......................................................................................................................................................55
U.S. GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR $2.3M TO TRAIN INDONESIAN ARMY...........................................................................................58
U.S. STATE DEPT. TIMOR TESTIMONY...................................................................................................................................................59
PORTUGAL CRITICIZES U.S. .......................................................................................................................................................................59
SENATOR PELL ON TIMOR, AND RESPONSES .......................................................................................................................................59
LAWYERS COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON U.S. ARMS CUTOFF...........................................................................................61
LETTER TO SENATOR CRANSTON (ETAN/LA) ......................................................................................................................................61
WASHINGTON UPDATE (ARNOLD KOHEN)...........................................................................................................................................62
AUSTRALIAN P.M. GRAPPLES WITH INDONESIA.................................................................................................................................63
AUSTRALIAN GOV’T: “MACRO-ECONOMIC” CORRUPTION!...........................................................................................................63
OZ FOREIGN MINISTER EVANS IN PORTUGAL (KOMPAS)................................................................................................................64
AUSTRALIAN PM KEATING TO VISIT INDONESIA .............................................................................................................................65
KEATING URGED TO RAISE RIGHTS ABUSES........................................................................................................................................65
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KEATING: NO AID/HUMAN RIGHTS LINK............................................................................................................................................. 66
OZ PM UNDER FIRE OVER TIMOR........................................................................................................................................................... 66
INDONESIA AND AUSTRALIA................................................................................................................................................................... 66
CANADA BACKS AND FILLS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 66
BLOOD-LETTING MARKS VISIT OF INDONESIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER (VANCOUVER SUN) .................................................. 66
TIME TO TIGHTEN THE PURSE STRINGS ON AID................................................................................................................................ 66
CANADA REVERSES ITS POSITION ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................................................... 67
CANADIAN PEACE GROUP TIMOR LEAFLET ....................................................................................................................................... 68
INDONESIA REJECTS DUTCH AID, IGGI................................................................................................................................................ 68
INDONESIA REJECTS AID FROM HOLLAND! ........................................................................................................................................ 68
DUTCH EFFECTIVELY LEAVE IGGI......................................................................................................................................................... 68
INDONESIA SEEKS “NEW IGGI”................................................................................................................................................................ 69
NETHERLANDS-INDONESIA ROCKY ROAD........................................................................................................................................... 69
EC DODGES RIFT FOR NOW (DPA)........................................................................................................................................................... 70
INDONESIA DISBANDS $4.75BN AID DONOR GROUP (FINANCIAL TIMES) .................................................................................. 70
ALL AUSTRIAN AID SUSPENDED ............................................................................................................................................................ 70
TAPOL CALLS FOR BRITISH AID TO INDONESIA TO BE SUSPENDED ............................................................................................ 70
INFIGHT’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DECISION TO HALT ALL AID FROM THE NETHERLANDS........................................ 71
COMMENTS ON NETHERLANDS-INDONESIA CLASH (MACDOUGAL).......................................................................................... 71
DUTCH PM TO DISCUSS IGGI.................................................................................................................................................................... 72
JAKARTA BELIEVES IT HAS TURNED THE TABLES ON CRITICAL DONORS (FT)....................................................................... 73
AID REFUSAL NOT ‘CONNECTED’ TO DILI (RRI)................................................................................................................................. 73
INDONESIAN AID DECLARATION: A CHALLENGE TO CANADA’S POLICY (ETAN).................................................................. 73
OZ PM SAYS JAKARTA AID WON’T BE TIED TO HUMAN RIGHTS (SMH)................................................................................... 74
ASSORTED ARTICLES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER..................................................................................................................... 74
MOZAMBIQUE GOV’T CONDEMNS TIMOR MASSACRE................................................................................................................... 74
KUALA LUMPUR SILENCES MEDIA OVER MALAYSIAN DEATH (THAI NATION)...................................................................... 74
MUNTZ SAYS SHOOTING ‘PREMEDITATED, UNPROVOKED’ (KYODO) ....................................................................................... 75
FOREIGN REPORTERS BANNED FROM EAST TIMOR (R. AUSTRALIA).......................................................................................... 75
JAKARTA DISMISSES OFFICERS OVER SHOOTINGS IN TIMOR (AWSJ).......................................................................................... 76
MOERDANI JUSTIFIES MASSACRE .......................................................................................................................................................... 76
LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE AUSTRALIAN (WHITCHURCH & RIDER)..................................................................................... 76
ATAURO ISLAND STARVATION............................................................................................................................................................... 77
MURDANI VIEWS MAKING EAST TIMOR ‘SPECIAL’ REGION (JAKARTA POST)........................................................................ 77
TIMOR RALLY IN ADELAIDE..................................................................................................................................................................... 77
IRIAN JAYA CLOSED AREAS...................................................................................................................................................................... 78
INDONESIA DEFENDED............................................................................................................................................................................... 78
AUSTRALIA TRAINS INDONESIA & PNG MILITARY (BULLETIN).................................................................................................... 78
OVERSEAS INDONESIAN ACTIVISTS — YOU CAN’T GO HOME!...................................................................................................... 79
LETTER FROM XANANA GUSMAO (PUBLICO).................................................................................................................................... 80
EYEWITNESSES WRITE TO THE LONDON TIMES ................................................................................................................................. 82
LUSOPHONE SUMMIT ON TIMOR ........................................................................................................................................................... 83
SOARES: FEAR DICTATORSHIPS!.............................................................................................................................................................. 83
TWO OF THE DILI VICTIMS TREATED IN GATOT SUBROTO HOSPITAL....................................................................................... 83
A CASE OF NERVES IN TIMOR? ................................................................................................................................................................. 83
ANOTHER PEOPLE SUFFERING UNDER ‘NATION OF MASTERS’ (L.A.TIMES)............................................................................. 83
“COLD BLOOD” BROADCAST IN JAPAN ............................................................................................................................................... 84
MURDANI: E. TIMOR TRAGEDY NOT CAUSED BY ARMY (JAKARTA POST)............................................................................... 84
WAROUW TO BECOME PANGDAM JAYA?............................................................................................................................................ 84
FURTHER DIPLOMACY TO FIGHT ‘PROVOCATIONS’ URGED (ANTARA).................................................................................... 84
POWER GENERATING UNITS INAUGURATED IN EAST TIMOR (ANTARA)................................................................................. 85
CALTEX ACCORD......................................................................................................................................................................................... 85
THE TIMOR TRAVESTY (D. RAYBECK LECTURE OUTLINE) ............................................................................................................ 85
TIMORESE GUERRILLA LEADER ESCAPES, SPOKESMAN SAYS ....................................................................................................... 87
RUMORS ABOUT NOV. 12........................................................................................................................................................................... 87
THE LUSITANIA REMINDS WORLD OF EAST TIMOR (THAI NATION EDITORIAL)................................................................... 87
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SUTRISNO ON ‘MEASURES’ DUE TO DILI INCIDENT (ANTARA)......................................................................................................88
SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL ON TIMOR ...............................................................................................................................................88
TIMORESE PARTY LOYALTIES PERSIST (ANTARA).............................................................................................................................88
ALATAS: FOREIGN POLICY TO BE MORE ASSERTIVE (J. POST)........................................................................................................89
NEW SOLIDARITY COALITION SET UP IN PORTUGAL........................................................................................................................89
EAST TIMOR EVENT AT UNIV. OF DELAWARE....................................................................................................................................89
OFFICIAL CLAIMS E. TIMOR FOOD SHORTAGES EASED (ANTARA) ..............................................................................................89
INDONESIA: A SYSTEM BUILT ON CORRUPTION (GREEN LEFT).....................................................................................................89
MORE OFFICERS REPLACED AFTER DILI INCIDENT...........................................................................................................................91
INTEL BIGSHOTS IN TROUBLE (AGE) ......................................................................................................................................................91
ALATAS ON SOUTH AFRICA......................................................................................................................................................................91
INDONESIA’S WIDE DIPLOMATIC HORIZONS (IPS) .............................................................................................................................91
MILITARY: TIMOR REMAINS “OPEN” AND “INSIDE”..........................................................................................................................91
DEPUTATION TO MEET NEW ZEALAND F.M.......................................................................................................................................92
ALATAS: IN PRINCIPLE, WE AGREE TO TRIPARTITE TALKS (KOMPAS) .....................................................................................92
INGI HUMAN RIGHTS MEMO....................................................................................................................................................................93
COMPUTER NETWORKS HELP ORGANIZE EAST TIMOR MOVEMENT..........................................................................................94
LETTER TO JERRY BROWN.........................................................................................................................................................................94
EAST TIMOR IN A STATE OF TERROR (TAPOL)....................................................................................................................................94
ANOTHER JOURNALIST DEPORTED .......................................................................................................................................................96
TOURISTS NOW BANNED IN TIMOR?.....................................................................................................................................................96
UK AEROSPACE FIRMS PLAN SALES DRIVE IN INDONESIA ..............................................................................................................96
SYAFEI: E. TIMOR SITUATION NOW VERY CALM (RRI)......................................................................................................................97
U. NSW SEMINAR: LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE EAST TIMOR CONFLICT (BRIAN BRUNTON) ......................................................97
PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER PINHEIRO INTERVIEWED ON TALKS (TEMPO)...................................................................97
ALI ALATAS INTERVIEWED (TEMPO)......................................................................................................................................................98
BELO SEEKS EXTENSION PERMIT FOR MISSIONAIRES.......................................................................................................................99
PDI ENDORSES TRY SUTRISNO FOR V-P.................................................................................................................................................99
GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN ‘PORTUGUESE SCHOOL’ IN DILI (JAKARTA POST)....................................................................99
INDONESIA TAKES HARD LINE ON EAST TIMOR (GUARDIAN NEWSWEEKLY) ..........................................................................99
INDONESIA’S REIGN OF TERROR (DENNIS SCHULTZ IN THE BULLETIN)...................................................................................101

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 12, April 4 - May 7, 1992

TRIALS OF CIVILIANS.................................................................................................................................. 4
BRANCO ADDRESSES DILI COURT ...............................................................................................................4
CAMARA OUTLINES JUSTIFICATIONS FOR NOV. 19 DEMONSTRATION ..........................................................5
EAST TIMORESE (CAMARA) DISPUTE VALIDITY OF 1976 INTEGRATION..........................................................5
INDONESIAN STUDENTS GO ON TRIAL ON CHARGES OF SUBVERSION AND ‘SPREADING HATRED’ ............5
FRETILIN ‘JOURNALIST’ BROUGHT TO DILI COURT.......................................................................................6
GREGORIO: “I LED 12 NOVEMBER DEMONSTRATION” ..................................................................................6
GOVERNMENT URGED TO OPEN MARTIAL COURT FOR NOV 12 DILI INCIDENT............................................7
PRINCEN: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN EAST TIMOR REPORTED TO TRY .......................................................7
FIVE MOTAEL TIMORESE ON MURDER CHARGES ..........................................................................................7
EAST TIMORESE TRIED FOR FATAL BRAWL....................................................................................................8
ARAUJO IN THE WITNESS STAND..................................................................................................................8
HEAVY SENTENCE DEMAND ..........................................................................................................................8
CAMARA DEFENDS HIS PEOPLE ....................................................................................................................8
U.S. EVENTS................................................................................................................................................. 9
REPORT ON VISIT OF ETAN/L.A. WITH STAFF OF U.S. SEN. ALAN CRANSTON ...............................................9
HARVARD PROGRAM — MASSACRE IN EAST TIMOR: A CASE STUDY IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY...................10
SEATTLE PROGRAM – EAST TIMOR: A TEST OF CONSCIENCE ......................................................................10
TIMOR MEETING IN BERKELEY, CA: ............................................................................................................11
NYC PUBLIC FORUM TO MARK SIX MONTHS AFTER EAST TIMOR MASSACRE..............................................11
PLEASE CALL NIGHTLINE ABOUT TIMOR .....................................................................................................11
EAST TIMOR CONGRESSIONAL ACTION FACT SHEET ..................................................................................12
NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA ....................................................................................................13
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PELL, BOREN, CHENEY VISIT INDONESIA; SENATORS REFUSED ENTRY TO EAST TIMOR...................... 13
HIGH LEVEL OFFICIAL U.S. VISITS...............................................................................................................13
REQUEST FROM U.S. SENATORS TO VISIT EAST TIMOR REJECTED .............................................................14
ALATAS DISPARAGES SENATOR PELL ..........................................................................................................14
TIMOR MARS INDONESIA - U.S. TIES .........................................................................................................14
SENATOR PELL CALLS FOR PLEBISCITE.......................................................................................................15
SENATOR PELL’S VISIT, A P.R. DISASTER ....................................................................................................15
CHENEY: NO U.S. BASES IN INDONESIA.....................................................................................................15
AUSTRALIAN P.M. VISITS INDONESIA....................................................................................................... 16
“SECRET” AUSSIE MINISTERIAL VISIT TO EAST TIMOR ................................................................................16
INFIGHT’S OPEN LETTER TO KEATING........................................................................................................16
HOW TO ELIMINATE THE INDONESIAN ‘THREAT’ ........................................................................................17
OZ AID TO TIMOR........................................................................................................................................18
OPEN LETTER TO THE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER .................................................................................18
CHAMBERLAIN (KEATING): PEACE IN OUR TIME..........................................................................................18
PM KEATING ATTACKED ON AID TO JAKARTA .............................................................................................19
OZ STAKE IN INDONESIA............................................................................................................................19
KEATING WARMLY WELCOMED ...................................................................................................................20
SOEHARTO WARNS THE WORLD .................................................................................................................20
SLICK WILLIE (KEATING) OF OZ ..................................................................................................................20
AUSTRALIA SEEKS TO ENHANCE ASIAN ECONOMIC TIES............................................................................20
TIMORESE CROSSES IN CANBERRA.......................................................................................................... 21
TIMORESE MAKE A POINT WITH CROSSES..................................................................................................21
COURT REBUKES OZ FM ON CROSSES ........................................................................................................22
EAST TIMORESE CROSSES UP AGAIN AS COURT RULES GOV’T REMOVAL INVALID.....................................22
THREAT OF CHARGES FOR WAR CRIMES.....................................................................................................22
TIMORESE CROSSES AND EASTER CANDLE REMOVED AGAIN ....................................................................23
PROTESTERS VOW TO FI GHT FOR CROSSES ...............................................................................................23
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HEARING ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................... 23
TIMOR AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT......................................................................................................23
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDUCTS HEARING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST TIMOR.................................24
STATEMENT BY SIDNEY JONES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ASIA WATCH ........................................................27
STATEMENT BY LIEM SOEI LIONG, TAPOL AND FDI .....................................................................................29
STATEMENT BY JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF MAUBERE RESISTANCE..............................30
PUBLIC HEARING KEEPS EC’S ATTENTION ON INDONESIA.........................................................................32
EC BACKSLIDING ON RIGHTS?....................................................................................................................33
INDONESIA AND THE AID, IGGI CARD ...................................................................................................... 33
JAPAN TO CONTINUE SENDING DEVELOPMENT AID...................................................................................33
AUSTRIA DENIES REPORTS OF AID SUSPENSION .......................................................................................34
EC-ASEAN AGREEMENT DEBATE..................................................................................................................34
DUTCH-INDONESIA ROW A BOOST TO TOKYO’S PRAGMATIC AID POLICY ..................................................34
WORLD BANK TO CHAIR NEW INDONESIA AID FORUM ..............................................................................35
PORTUGAL PRESSURING NETHERLANDS TO RAISE ISSUE OF AID REJECTION...........................................35
TAPOL BRIEFING PAPER ON DISSOLUTION OF IGGI ...................................................................................35
GINANJAR DEFENDS FOREIGN LOANS .......................................................................................................37
BELGIUM BACKS CGI...................................................................................................................................37
ENVOY: JAPAN NOT TO LINK AID TO HUMAN RIGHTS.................................................................................38
SINGAPORE SUPPORTS FORMATION OF AID GROUP ..................................................................................38
WORLD BANK PLEDGES AID........................................................................................................................38
INDONESIA AND NETHERLANDS: DIFFICULT TIMES................................................................................ 38
INDONESIAN TRADE MINISTER ON REFUSAL OF DUTCH AID .....................................................................38
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250 DUTCH EXPERTS TO LEAVE BY END OF APRIL.......................................................................................39
EMBASSY PREPARES DUTCH WORKERS TO FACE POSSIBILITY OF LEAVING INDONESIA ...........................39
DUTCH FAMILY PLANNING PROJECTS TO CONTINUE .................................................................................39
PRONK STRIKES BACK ................................................................................................................................39
ALATAS SAYS ‘NO FIXED DATE’ ON DUTCH VISIT ........................................................................................40
END OF A DUTCH UNCLE.............................................................................................................................40
INDONESIA STOPS DEVELOPMENT AID FROM THE NETHERLANDS ............................................................40
DUTCH STRATEGY FAILS..............................................................................................................................42
THE EC AND THE AID QUESTION................................................................................................................42
DUTCH EMBASSY GREETS WORLD BANK-LED DONOR GROUP ...................................................................42
DUTCH TRADE LINK CONTINUES ................................................................................................................43
WORLD BANKS DENIES INVITING DUTCH...................................................................................................43
INDONESIA WANTS DUTCH TRADE .............................................................................................................43
DUTCH AID TO NGOS BARRED ....................................................................................................................43
SUHARTO WILL MEET DUTCH MINISTER .....................................................................................................43
INDONESIAN-DUTCH RELATIONS ...............................................................................................................44
DUTCH TO BOOST TRADE WITH JAKARTA DESPITE MASSACRE ROW ..........................................................44
ECONOMICS IN INDONESIA....................................................................................................................... 44
JAPANESE PARTICIPATION IN TIMOR GAP DEVELOPMENT.........................................................................44
SUHARTO-LINKED MONOPOLIES FACE CRITICISM .....................................................................................45
STRAINS OF GROWTH .................................................................................................................................46
COUNTING THE COST OF TIMOR................................................................................................................47
TRADE DEFICIT PRESAGES TOUGH YEAR ....................................................................................................48
JAKARTA DESPERATE FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS? ......................................................................................48
REPRESSION AND ABRI IN TIMOR ............................................................................................................ 49
EAST TIMORESE ARRESTED OVER LETTER...................................................................................................49
‘MODEL SOLDIERS’ IN TIMOR .....................................................................................................................49
TIMOR SURRENDERS ..................................................................................................................................49
TIMOR REBELS INFILTRATE TOWNS ............................................................................................................49
BACKLASH FEARED FROM NEW CRACKDOWN IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................49
TIMOR INTIMIDATION WORSE, SAYS CHURCH ...........................................................................................50
TIMOR IN ‘STATE OF FEAR’ ..........................................................................................................................50
FIVE SANTA CRUZ OFFI CER CASES ‘RESOLVED’ ..........................................................................................50
CHANGES IN TIMORESE EXTERNAL MOVEMENT..................................................................................... 51
FRETILIN/LISBON CONDEMNS 12 NOV. DEMONSTRATION .........................................................................51
FRETILIN RESTRUCTURES EXTERIOR, SUBSTITUTING FOR ABILIO ARAUJO................................................51
TIMORESE CONSENSUS IN LISBON.............................................................................................................51
NGO’S HARASSED IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................. 52
DEMOCRACY FORUM BARRED.....................................................................................................................52
GOLKAR, PPP PROTEST FORUM BAN ...........................................................................................................52
BREAKUP OF PEACEFUL JAKARTA MEETING................................................................................................52
ARMY WARNS ABDURRAHMAN WAHID........................................................................................................53
JAKARTA BANS NGO’S FROM ACCEPTING DUTCH AID ................................................................................53
SOEHARTO TRIES TO DESTROY LBH, INGI ..................................................................................................53
ASIA WATCH CRITICIZES ATTACK ON INDONESIAN NGO’S.........................................................................53
INDONESIAN LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF INDONESIA SUPPORTS NGO’S.................................................54
NGO’S PROTEST AID BAN ............................................................................................................................55
LBH ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE .....................................................................................................................55
ICMI MEETING BANNED ..............................................................................................................................55
REVIEWS OF RECENT TIMOR RESOURCES............................................................................................... 55
REVIEW: “EAST TIMOR – A WESTERN MADE TRAGEDY” ...............................................................................55
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1990 OPORTO EAST TIMOR SEMINAR TRANSCRIPT .....................................................................................56
NEW “FREE EAST TIMOR” POSTER AVAILABLE .............................................................................................56
GETTING TIMOR INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY .....................................................................................56
NEW FRENCH-LANGUAGE EAST TIMOR NEWS BULLETIN ............................................................................56
A GUIDEBOOK VIEW OF EAST TIMOR .........................................................................................................56
ASSORTED ARTICLES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER............................................................................... 57
AUSTRALIAN TOURIST DEPORTED FROM EAST TIMOR ................................................................................57
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS URGED ................................................................................57
WILL OTTAWA PUT ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS?...............................................................................57
INDONESIANS ‘DISCOVERED’ AMERICA? ....................................................................................................59
DISSENT AND PUNISHMENT IN TORONTO ..................................................................................................59
WAROUW FOR GOVERNOR? ........................................................................................................................59
DIARRHEA KILLS SIX CHILDREN, AFFECTS 400 OTHERS IN TIMOR.............................................................60
MANY YOUNG EAST TIMORESE EXASPERATED BY LACK OF JOBS ...............................................................60
SIGNATURES FOR UK EAST TIMOR ADVERTISEMENT NEEDED ....................................................................60
THE JAKARTA LINE ON U.S. VIEWS, ECONOMICS........................................................................................61
TIMOR PEACE TALKS DOOMED?..................................................................................................................61
ANATOMY OF PRESS CEN SORSHIP IN INDONESIA .....................................................................................62
DILI HIDES OPPRESSION ELSEWHERE IN INDONESIA. ..............................................................................64
SUHARTO RECEIVES SECRET DILI REPORT.................................................................................................64
ETAN / TORONTO LEAFLET..........................................................................................................................64
LEADING LONDON STORE REMOVES EAST TIMORESE GOODS FROM INDONESIAN SALES FOCUS ............65
MILITARY TRIALS IMPENDING.....................................................................................................................65
DHARSONO GROUP SOUNDS TRUMPET ON SUHARTO RE-ELECTION ........................................................65
PRESIDENT TRY SUTRISNO?........................................................................................................................65
STATEMENT OF EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE CENTRE, NEW ZEALAND......................................................66
NEW FREE TRADE UNION ............................................................................................................................66
TIMOR ELECTION ‘CALM’ .............................................................................................................................67
OPPOSE BRITISH AEROSPACE PROMOTION IN JAKARTA............................................................................67
PORTUGUESE STUDENTS CALL FOR MORE EC ACTION ...............................................................................67
ABRI FLEXES MUSCLES FOR INDONESIAN ELECTIONS...............................................................................67
RODNEY KING AND TIMOR .........................................................................................................................68
MACAU SHIP HELD IN TIMOR......................................................................................................................68
SACKED TIMOR GENERALS IN U.S. ............................................................................................................68

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 13, May 8 - June 7, 1992

TRIALS OF TIMORESE ................................................................................................................................. 3
DILI ‘MURDER’ TRIALS START........................................................................................................................3
THE CAMARA TRIAL: EXCERPTS FROM THE LAWYERS’ DEFENCE PLEA.........................................................4
PROSECUTORS WANT 15 YEARS FOR BRANCO ..............................................................................................5
BARRETO GETS SIX MONTHS ........................................................................................................................5
DA SILVA GETS 30 MONTHS...........................................................................................................................6
LIFE SENTENCE DEMAND FOR SALDANHA....................................................................................................6
CORDOSO GETS 10 MONTHS.........................................................................................................................6
MORE DILI SENTENCE DEMANDS .................................................................................................................6
ARAUJO GETS NINE YEARS, TALKS REJECTED ..............................................................................................6
CAMARA GETS 10 YEARS PRISON ..................................................................................................................6
PORTUGAL CRITICIZES TRIALS......................................................................................................................7
UDT/AUSTRALIA CONDEMNS SENTENCES ....................................................................................................7
REPRESSION IN TIMOR ............................................................................................................................... 7
ARMY PREVENTS PROTEST AT MASS (JAWA POS) ..........................................................................................7
DECEPTION AND HARASSMENT OF EAST TIMORESE WORKERS (ASIA WATCH)............................................8
EAST TIMOR OFFICIAL DEMANDS RESIDENT AS GOVERNOR ......................................................................11
SYAFEI ON SURRENDERS............................................................................................................................11
SYAFEI ON RESISTANCE..............................................................................................................................11
COMBAT TROOPS LEAVING TIMOR .............................................................................................................11
SECURITY VERSUS TERRITORIAL APPROACHES IN EAST TIMOR: A REVIEW................................................12
INDICTED POLICEMAN A MASS MURDERER ................................................................................................13
BBC: 100 DILI MASSACRE VICTIMS STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR ...................................................................14
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WORDS FROM THE TIMORESE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT..................................................................... 14
XANANA WRITES TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL...........................................................................................14
LETTERS BETWEEN THE FRONTS IN EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................17
HORTA CALLS FOR TALKS............................................................................................................................18
INTERVIEW WITH JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA ......................................................................................................21
HORTA: INDEPENDENCE DISTANT GOAL ....................................................................................................23
AUSTRALIAN RESPONSES TO HORTA PEACE PLAN ......................................................................................23
AIDE-MEMOIRE: BASIC QUESTIONS, STRAIGHT ANSWERS FROM CNRM ....................................................24
COURT-MARTIALS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL .......................................................................................... 25
OVER 3,500 ABRI MEMBERS TRIED FOR VARIOUS VIOLATIONS IN 1991 ......................................................25
TIMOR TORTURE CONVICTION ....................................................................................................................25
TEN (PLUS THREE) COURT-MARTIALS ..........................................................................................................26
COURT JAILS TWO PRIVATES, POLICE CORPORAL OVER DILI SHOOTING ..................................................26
THREE COURT-MARTIALS ............................................................................................................................26
TWO SOLDIERS SENTENCED.......................................................................................................................26
ARMY COURTS-MARTIAL..............................................................................................................................26
LIGHT MASSACRE SENTENCES....................................................................................................................27
INDONESIAN ELECTIONS .......................................................................................................................... 27
PRESIDENT RUDINI? SUDOMO: NO WAY.....................................................................................................27
ELECTION ‘GUIDELINES’ .............................................................................................................................28
FINAL ELECTION RESULTS...........................................................................................................................28
PRESS CENSORSHIP ‘ELIMINATED’ .............................................................................................................28
CARRASCALAO ON TIMOR ELECTIONS........................................................................................................28
MANY TIMORESE “TOO UPSET TO VOTE” .....................................................................................................28
MOERDIONO PLUGS SOEHARTO .................................................................................................................29
SOEHARTO REJECTS ‘CASTRATION’.............................................................................................................29
STUDENTS CHARGED WITH SUBVERSION ...................................................................................................29
PPP PREDICTS ACEH WIN ...........................................................................................................................29
SUKARNO’S SON: DEMOCRACY IS SICK.....................................................................................................30
ELECTION PROTESTS IN INDONESIA ..........................................................................................................30
INDONESIA AND THE AID, IGGI CARD ...................................................................................................... 30
RADIUS TO SEEK MORE MEMBERS FOR NEW DONOR GROUP ....................................................................30
DUTCH AID ROW CONTEXT.........................................................................................................................30
AID-RIGHTS LINK DEBATE REVIVED............................................................................................................31
TAPOL CAMPAIGN: STOP ECONOMIC AID TO INDONESIA! .........................................................................31
GOV’T SEEKING LARGER AMOUNT OF CREDIT FROM CGI MEMBERS ..........................................................32
DUTCH LOVE AFFAIR WITH INDONESIA ENDS ............................................................................................33
WORLD BANK PHONE LOAN ........................................................................................................................33
SOS TIMOR (BRUSSELS) CAMPAIGN ON DEVELOPMENT AID.......................................................................33
REPRESSION AND BUSINESS IN INDONESIA............................................................................................. 34
ACTION ALERT: INDONESIAN NGO’S THREATENED ....................................................................................34
ACEH REBEL CONVICTION ..........................................................................................................................34
STIFF ACEH SENTENCE................................................................................................................................34
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL / AUSTRALIA TESTIMONY ON TORTURE............................................................35
DEMO IN JAKARTA AGAINST THAI ARMY CRACKDOWN ..............................................................................35
TWO FACES OF INDONESIA:........................................................................................................................35
BERKELEY-TRAINED GROUP PLAYS KEY ROLE ............................................................................................36
‘ISLAMIC STATE’ CONVICTION .....................................................................................................................37
U.S. EVENTS............................................................................................................................................... 37
REPORT: RAMOS-HORTA VISITS U.S............................................................................................................37
REPORTS ON PUBLIC EVENTS IN THE U.S. ..................................................................................................37
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NEW YORK PUBLIC MEETING .................................................................................................................37
SAN FRANCISCO COLLEGE PANEL..........................................................................................................38
LOS ANGELES TALK BY ALLAN NAIRN .....................................................................................................38
EAST TIMOR ACTION NETWORK/US REPORT OF ACTIVITIES.......................................................................38
SANCTIONS BILL IN U.S. CONGRESS......................................................................................................... 39
AID CUTOFF BILL INTRODUCED IN U.S. CONGRESS ...................................................................................39
AID CUTOFF BILL PRESS RELEASE...............................................................................................................39
SANCTIONS BILL IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (TEXT) .................................................................40
TRY DISMISSES AID CUTOFF BILL ..............................................................................................................41
ETAN/US CONGRESSIONAL ALERT..............................................................................................................41
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 44
CAUTION, BUT NO CARE (CALGARY HERALD) ..............................................................................................44
ETAN/CANADA NEWSLETTER.......................................................................................................................44
DEMONSTRATE AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW BATA SHOE MUSEUM IN TORONTO ...................................45
BLOOD PROTEST TRIAL ...............................................................................................................................45
GIANT IN THE SHADOWS (GLOBE AND MAIL) ..............................................................................................46
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL............................................................................................................................... 46
THE APPEAL OF THE CITY OF GUIMARAES, PORTUGAL................................................................................46
A LISBON GATHERING ON BEHALF OF TIMOR.............................................................................................47
TIMORESE PROTEST AT CIS AID MEETING ..................................................................................................47
LISBON CONVENTION ON EAST TIMOR FINAL DOCUMENT.........................................................................47
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 49
INDONESIAN ACTIVIST DIPA RAMELAN SPEAKS IN ADELAIDE....................................................................49
AUSTRALIANS SEE THREAT FROM INDONESIA............................................................................................49
INDONESIAN ACTIVIST HELMI FAUZI TOURS BRISBANE.............................................................................49
FRETILIN EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY STATEMENT IN AUSTRALIA .............................................................52
EMILIA GUSMAO’S SPEECH AT THE LAUNCHING OF PHOTO EXHIBITION ...................................................53
NEW TIMOR RESOURCES .......................................................................................................................... 54
EAST TIMOR: THE IMPACT OF INTEGRATION ...............................................................................................54
AN INDONESIAN SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY ............................................................................54
NEW UN BOOK ON DECOLONIZATION ........................................................................................................54
‘COLD BLOOD’ AI WINNER ..........................................................................................................................54
VARIOUS ARTICLES IN DATE ORDER........................................................................................................ 54
CHINESE BOAT PEOPLE TURNED AWAY FROM TIMOR.................................................................................54
NAM HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE.....................................................................................................................54
INDONESIAN TROOPS CROSS INTO PNG....................................................................................................55
PROPOSAL FOR FRENCH ARMS SALES CAMPAIGN ......................................................................................55
LE MONDE REPORTER BARRED FROM INDONESIA.....................................................................................55
POWER AND ILLUSION: AN EVALUATION OF INDONESIAN NATIONALISM.................................................55

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 14, June 8 - July 11, 1992

TRIALS OF TIMORESE ................................................................................................................................. 3
JUVENCIO DE JESUS MARTINS GETS 6 YEARS ..............................................................................................3
FILOMENO DA SILVA PAREIRA GETS 5 YEARS ...............................................................................................4
EAST TIMORESE HOUSEWIFE TO BE TRIED FOR SLANDER ............................................................................4
ALEXIO DA SILVA, 22, GETS 27 MONTHS .......................................................................................................4
FIFTEEN YEARS FOR FRANCISCO MIRANDA BRANCO....................................................................................4
PORTUGAL: “SHOCKING” SENTENCES...........................................................................................................7
SATURNINO DA COSTA BELO, 21, GETS NINE YEARS ....................................................................................7
URGENT ACTION: DILI TRIALS (TAPOL).........................................................................................................7
BARRETO RELEASED......................................................................................................................................9
BOBBY XAVIER, 19, GETS 3 YEARS.................................................................................................................9
TIMORESE MP: TOO EARLY TO CRITICISE TRIALS .........................................................................................9
GREGORIO DA CUNHA SENTENCED TO LIFE...............................................................................................10
JACINTO DES NEVES RAIMUNDO ALVES GETS TEN YEARS .........................................................................10
SIX YEARS FOR BONIFACIO MAGNO PAREIRA.............................................................................................11
BENNY MURDANI DEFENDS TIMOR SENTENCES.........................................................................................11
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................................ 11
CHURCH TEAM VISITS EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................11
WHO IS DEPUTY GOVERNOR SARIDJO?......................................................................................................12
EAST TIMORESE CANDIDATE PRIORITIZES PEACE, JUSTICE, AND FREEDOM .............................................13
COMMANDER SAYS REBEL LEADER HARMLESS, POWERLESS .....................................................................15
SEAT FOR PDI IN TIMOR..............................................................................................................................15
PORTUGUESE FLAGS IN DILI!......................................................................................................................15
ARMED CLASH IN TIMOR.............................................................................................................................15
SECURITY CONTROLS IN EAST TIMOR (INFIGHT) .......................................................................................15
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SYAFEI WARNS BISHOP BELO.....................................................................................................................16
SYAFEI: FRETILIN MEMBERS SURRENDERS IN BAUCAU..............................................................................16
GEN. MANTIRI: MASSACRE WAS ‘PROPER’ ..................................................................................................16
PUSH FOR TIMORESE GOVERNOR...............................................................................................................17
INFIGHT REPORT ON TIMORESE.................................................................................................................18
WORDS FROM THE TIMORESE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT..................................................................... 19
HORTA ACCUSES BRITAIN OF BLOCKING ACTION ON INDONESIA.............................................................19
THE NEW HORTA PROPOSALS AND THE NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT SUMMIT: ............................................19
HORTA CRITICISES PORTUGAL AND UK ......................................................................................................21
COURT-MARTIALS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL .......................................................................................... 21
ASIA WATCH: THE COURT-MARTIALS...........................................................................................................21
THE COURTS-MARTIAL (ASIA WATCH).........................................................................................................22
AI: TORTURERS, MURDERERS GO FREE ......................................................................................................26
INDONESIAN EVENTS: REPRESSION AND ELECTIONS ............................................................................. 26
ALATAS ON EAST TIMOR, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLICS..........................................................................26
INDONESIAN TROOPS REPORTED CROSSING INTO PNG TERRITORY ........................................................27
REAL POLITICS IN THE WORKS?..................................................................................................................27
INDONESIA RESULT SPURS REFLECTION ON CONSTRAINTS ......................................................................28
TRIAL REPORTS BANNED IN JAKARTA.........................................................................................................28
FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDONESIA (HELMI FAUZI) .................................................................29
ACEHNESE OCCUPY UNHCR KUALA LUMPUR OFFICE..................................................................................30
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STILL DENIED ENTRY TO INDONESIA ..............................................................31
ALATAS TO UNHCR: HANDS OFF ACEHNESE...............................................................................................31
FINAL ELECTION RESULTS...........................................................................................................................31
WEST PAPUAN ON TRIAL FOR HELPING OPM..............................................................................................32
CARLSSON DEATH: OPM NOT GUILTY ........................................................................................................32
ACEH POLICE REBEL JAILED .......................................................................................................................32
RELATIONS WITH DUTCH ON MEND?.........................................................................................................32
MILITARY TO OPEN TV STATION ..................................................................................................................33
DUAL FUNCTION OF MILITARY QUESTIONED ..............................................................................................33
INDONESIA AND FOREIGN AID ................................................................................................................. 33
EAST TIMOR WELCOMES AUSTRALIA’S AID OFFER ......................................................................................33
FRANCE ON BOARD CGI ..............................................................................................................................33
DEMONSTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT CGI MEETING, PARIS, 16-17 JULY......................................................34
WORLD BANK ALERT – ETAN/US..................................................................................................................34
DONOR GROUP UNLIKELY TO YIELD TO NGO PRESSURE...........................................................................34
WORLD BANK’S ‘TOUGH GUY’......................................................................................................................34
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EAST TIMOR WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE CGI MEETING ..........................................35
INDONESIA PLANS ECONOMIC DEREGULATION .........................................................................................35
CGI TOLD: 1992 ELECTIONS WERE UNFAIR.................................................................................................35
U.S. EVENTS............................................................................................................................................... 35
JUSTICE DENIED IN INDONESIA (SEN. LEAHY)...........................................................................................35
ETAN/US MAILING TO MEMBERS................................................................................................................36
US SENATORS CAUTION BAKER...................................................................................................................37
WOLFOWITZ IN JAKARTA.............................................................................................................................37
NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO INDONESIA APPOINTED..................................................................................38
RESOLUTION BY THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS.................................................................................39
WHY DID PRESS IGNORE EAST TIMOR MASSACRE?....................................................................................39
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CUTS MILITARY TRAINING ...................................................................... 40
SUTRISNO DECRIES U.S. CALL TO END BILATERAL AID ..............................................................................40
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TOWNS CO-SPONSORS H.R.5176.................................................................................................................40
ACTION ALERT: CUT U.S. TRAINING FOR INDONESIAN MILITARY..............................................................41
HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE PASSES EAST TIMOR AMENDMENT..................................................................41
HR 5176 ENDORSEMENTS ...........................................................................................................................41
CONGRESS MOVES TO CUT AID TO INDONESIA..........................................................................................42
OZ HITS HOUSE IMET CUT...........................................................................................................................42
TRY “INDIFFERENT” TO IMET CUT................................................................................................................43
ABRI WORRIED ABOUT IMET CUT-OFF (TEMPO)...........................................................................................43
ABRI CONCERNED ABOUT U.S. STRATEGIC INTERESTS...............................................................................44
ALERT ON SENATE ACTION FOR IMET AND ARMS SALES.............................................................................44
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 45
EAST TIMOR FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY HEARING......................................................................................45
JOINT STATEMENT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SUMMIT ON EAST TIMOR...........................................46
ETAN/US WRITES EC PRESIDENT................................................................................................................47
CDPM CRITICISES LISBON SUMMIT ...........................................................................................................47
FRANCE OFFERS TO FACILITATE INDONESIA-PORTUGAL TALKS .................................................................48
PARTICIPATION OF TIMORESE IS ‘ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE’ – PORTUGUESE FM ...............................48
IRISH SENATOR WANTS ARMS TRADE STOPPED .........................................................................................48
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 48
ADVERTISEMENT FOR EAST TIMOR .............................................................................................................48
INDONESIA CLOSE TO SIGNING DEAL FOR 40 BAE FIGHTERS....................................................................49
BAE HAWK FIGHTER DEAL CLOSE?..............................................................................................................49
TAPOL WARNS BRITISH GOVERNMENT OF WAVE OF PROTEST IF HAWKS DEAL GOES AHEAD....................50
ARMS AND THE BUSINESSMEN ...................................................................................................................50
BRITISH AEROSPACE...................................................................................................................................50
COMMONS MOTION AGAINST HAWKS DEAL ...............................................................................................51
LETTERS CRITICAL OF THE UK....................................................................................................................51
TIMORESE REFUGEES VISIT UK EMBASSY ...................................................................................................51
ABRI OFFICER TRAINING IN UK EXPOSED ..................................................................................................52
UK DUBLIN EMBASSY FACES PROTEST........................................................................................................53
MP’S AND PEERS FROM ALL PARTIES WANT AID TO INDONESIA SUSPENDED............................................53
TORY PRESSURE IN PARLIAMENT GROWS ..................................................................................................53
TIMOR RESOURCES................................................................................................................................... 54
A RECORD FOR EAST TIMOR .......................................................................................................................54
BRIEFING BOOKS ON CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA...................................................................................54
TIMOR’S ANSCHLUSS — INDONESIAN AND AUSTRALIAN POLICY ON EAST TIMOR 1974-1976 ....................54
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES .................................................................................................................... 55
EAST TIMOR UPDATE, THE ACTIVIST, TORONTO ..........................................................................................55
“WATCHING RIGHTS” (ARYEH NEIER).........................................................................................................56
PETITION BEFORE THE U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ON LABOR RIGHTS IN INDONESIA..........................57
REPORT: JUNE 12 DEMO IN TOKYO.............................................................................................................59
PORTUGUESE/INDONESIAN TEACHERS’ LETTERS ON EAST TIMOR ............................................................59
INDONESIAN EXILES TORN BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR .............................................................................61
SPECIALIST SEES RELENTING ON EAST TIMOR...........................................................................................62

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 15, July 12 - Aug. 9, 1992

CGI MEETS IN PARIS; AID LINKAGES REJECTED ...................................................................................... 4
ACTU ON LINKED AID....................................................................................................................................4
WORLD BANK PROJECTIONS ........................................................................................................................4
JAPAN COALITION TO CGI.............................................................................................................................4
ASIA WATCH CAUTIONS DONORS ON HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................................................5
PRESSING INDONESIA..................................................................................................................................5
CANADIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS STATEMENT FOR CGI..................................................................................6
CGI CONVENES .............................................................................................................................................7
FRANCE LECTURES INDONESIA ....................................................................................................................7
INDONESIA LASHES WEST, JAPAN ................................................................................................................8
REPORT ON THE CGI DEMONSTRATIONS......................................................................................................8
INDONESIA TRIUMPHS AT CGI......................................................................................................................9
BILLIONS IN AID FOR JAKARTA DESPITE HUMAN RIGHTS ROW .................................................................11
HUMAN RIGHTS HYPOCRISY.......................................................................................................................11
WATANABE PROBED ON THREATS TO INDONESIA ......................................................................................12
URGE LINKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS, INDONESIAN AID...............................................................................12
SUHARTO: NO POLITICAL STRINGS ON FOREIGN AID ................................................................................13
DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS JAKARTA .......................................................................................... 13
VAN DEN BROEK ARRIVES IN JAKARTA.......................................................................................................13
DUTCH FIRM ON HUMAN RIGHTS ..............................................................................................................13
DUTCH OPPOSE PORTUGAL’S POSITION .....................................................................................................14
ASEAN MEETS IN MANILA......................................................................................................................... 14
S.E. ASIA ARMS RACE..................................................................................................................................14
SPRATLYS RESTRAINT.................................................................................................................................15
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ASEAN BECOMES ‘SECURITY FORUM’ .........................................................................................................15
ASEAN OPPOSING LINKED AID?.................................................................................................................16
U.S. GIVES NOTICE TO TYRANTS AT ASEAN ................................................................................................16
ASEAN-EC RIGHTS CLASH ...........................................................................................................................18
EC/ASEAN TALKS HIT BY ROW ON EAST TIMOR ..........................................................................................20
SOUTHEAST ASIANS, WEST AT ODDS OVER RIGHTS ...................................................................................20
ASEAN CLASHES WITH EC ...........................................................................................................................21
ASEAN: ‘SEE NO EVIL’ ..................................................................................................................................21
HUMAN RIGHTS-AID LINK DEBATED AT ASEAN ..........................................................................................22
HUMAN RIGHTS SCUTTLE ASEAN DISCUSSION ...........................................................................................23
STUMBLING BLOCK; INDONESIA-EC AGREEMENT DITCHED BY TIMOR ISSUE............................................23
ASIA SECURITY TALKS THIS FALL ...............................................................................................................24
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LIMITS AID TO ASEAN ...................................................................................... 24
RAMOS-HORTA CRITICIZES PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY OF EC .................................................................24
EC TALKS UP DEMOCRACY ..........................................................................................................................25
PORTUGAL BUCKS E.C. ON TIMOR .............................................................................................................25
PORTUGAL BLOCKS EC-ASEAN DEAL OVER EAST TIMOR...........................................................................25
PORTUGAL’S CONDITIONS ON EC/ASEAN ACCORD....................................................................................26
PORTUGAL WILL BLOCK FURTHER AID........................................................................................................27
ALATAS REGRETS EC DELAY OF ASEAN TALKS.............................................................................................27
EC ‘SALVAGING’ ASEAN PACT?....................................................................................................................28
MORE ‘CONDITIONALITY’ COMING?............................................................................................................28
UN DECOLONIZATION HEARING IN NEW YORK ........................................................................................ 29
INDONESIAN OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR CONDEMNED BEFORE UN COMMITTEE .................................29
TAPOL STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE...............................................................................30
ETAN/US STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE...........................................................................32
XANANA GUSMAO STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE............................................................33
ASIA WATCH STATEMENT TO DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE .....................................................................35
REPORT ON UN DECOLONIZATION COMMITTEE HEARING .........................................................................37
INDONESIAN MILITARY RESTRUCTURED.................................................................................................. 38
MILITARY PROMOTIONS LINKED TO FUTURE CHANGES .............................................................................38
SUHARTO ON MILITARY AS ‘SOCIO-POLITICAL FORCE’ ...............................................................................38
INDONESIAN MILITARY TO SET UP TV STATION ..........................................................................................39
WISMOYO PROMOTED TO DEPUTY CHIEF-OF-STAFF...................................................................................39
SPOKESMAN ON UPCOMING MILITARY LEADERSHIP CHANGES .................................................................39
YOUNGER COMMANDERS STRENGTHEN MILITARY’S POWER GRIP ............................................................39
PROBLEMS IN THE INDONESIAN EMPIRE................................................................................................. 40
SEPARATISM IS DAMAGING NATIONAL PROSPERITY ..................................................................................40
MOLUCCANS’ FIELDS OF DREAMS..............................................................................................................40
INDONESIA REJECTS UNPO ........................................................................................................................41
ACEHNESE REFUGEES IN UNHCR: UPDATE.................................................................................................42
THE ACEHNESE DISAPPEARED ....................................................................................................................42
DIPLOS TALK ON ACEHNESE.......................................................................................................................42
ACEH’S MILITARY COMMANDER WARNS MALAYSIA ....................................................................................43
TWO WEST PAPUAN OPM SUPPORTERS SENTENCED ..................................................................................43
SUPPORT ACEHNESE REFUGEES IN MALAYSIA............................................................................................43
REFUGEES SUPPORT ACEH MERDEKA? .......................................................................................................44
INDONESIAN ‘DISINTEGRATION’ ANGST.....................................................................................................44
THE HIDDEN WAR (OPM IN WEST PAPUA) ..................................................................................................44
OPM REBEL SURRENDERS...........................................................................................................................46
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EVENTS IN THE U.S. .................................................................................................................................. 46
REPORT ON CONVERSATION WITH REP KOLBE (ETAN/SW) ........................................................................46
AMERICAN-INDONESIAN EXCHANGE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED ...........................................................46
U.S. URBAN SERVICES LOAN .......................................................................................................................46
AICC ENTERS TIMOR POLITICS! .................................................................................................................47
ETAN/US SENATE UPDATE...........................................................................................................................47
AICC WASHINGTON BRIEFING ....................................................................................................................48
REPRESSION AND EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................. 48
DEFENCE SPEECH OF GREGORIO DA CUNHA SALDANHA..........................................................................48
ARMY CHIEF VIEWS EFFECT OF DILI ON DECISION-MAKING....................................................................51
‘CLEARANCE TESTS’ FOR TIMORESE STUDENTS ..........................................................................................51
OPERATION TO END TIMOR RESISTANCE?.................................................................................................51
A.I. APPEALS AGAIN TO INDONESIA...........................................................................................................52
THREE REBELS KILLED BY TROOPS............................................................................................................52
THE TIMORESE ‘DISAPPEARED’ ...................................................................................................................52
SUHARTO RECEIVES REPORT FROM MILITARY CHIEF ................................................................................52
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON 28 OCTOBER?...............................................................................................53
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON EAST TIMOR..................................................................................53
MOST EAST TIMORESE WANT NATIVE AS NEXT GOVERNOR........................................................................54
SYAFEI: ‘MISSING’ TIMORESE BEST DEAD ..................................................................................................55
THE MILITARY TRIALS AND THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DILI MASSACRE (TAPOL) ...........................................56
BISHOP BELO PARTICIPATION IN TALKS - VATICAN AND XANANA SUPPORT?.............................................58
GOVERNOR CARRASCALAO A HERO - BISHOP BELO ...................................................................................58
INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP BELO IN MATRA..................................................................................................58
LETTER FROM TIMORESE JAIL....................................................................................................................59
NEW TIMOR OFFENSIVE?.............................................................................................................................59
ARMS SALES & BUSINESS IN INDONESIA ................................................................................................. 59
OFFICIAL ON U.S. ENVOY’S CRITICISM ON INVESTMENT............................................................................59
JOINT AIR EXERCISES WITH SINGAPORE LAUNCHED ................................................................................60
INDONESIA ORDERS ARMS FROM NETHERLANDS, U.S...............................................................................60
INDONESIA TO BUY LARGE PART OF FORMER EAST GERMAN NAVY ...........................................................60
KLM TO PURCHASE PART OF GARUDA........................................................................................................60
TOURISM UP, STILL LOW .............................................................................................................................60
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 61
ONTARIO REGIONAL EAST TIMOR CONFERENCE........................................................................................61
TORONTO GRANDMOTHER JAILED FOR EAST TIMOR PROTEST ..................................................................61
TORONTO TIMOR ACTIVISTS PROTEST SENTENCES: ...................................................................................61
EAST TIMOR UPDATE IN THE ACTIVIST, JULY-AUG. 1992.............................................................................61
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 62
LUCAS AND LIEBHEFF TO SELL AIRCRAFT PARTS TO INDONESIA................................................................62
PETITION PRESENTED TO DOWNING STREET .............................................................................................63
HOUSE OF LORDS DISCUSSES EAST TIMOR................................................................................................63
DEMO AGAINST SENTENCES IN LONDON ...................................................................................................63
INDONESIAN AIR FORCE NEGOTIATES TO BUY BRITISH HAWK FIGHTER PLANES......................................64
RESOURCES AVAILABLE ........................................................................................................................... 64
BOUGAINVILLE ‘GENOCIDE’ COMPARED TO EAST TIMOR IN NEW BOOK....................................................64
SOUTHEAST ASIA PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................64
EAST TIMOR ON STAGE ...............................................................................................................................65
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 65
REPORT FROM KUPANG ..............................................................................................................................65
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NEWSWEEK INTERVIEWS RAMOS-HORTA ...................................................................................................66
AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT.............................................................................................67
RAMOS-HORTA PLAN GETS QUALIFIED SUPPORT........................................................................................67
UDT RIFT DEEPENS .....................................................................................................................................68
FUND RAISING FOR RESISTANCE................................................................................................................68
DILI MADE HONORARY LUSOPHONE CAPITAL CITY ....................................................................................68
ANDERSON: EAST TIMOR WILL GET INDEPENDEN CE .................................................................................68
INDONESIA MAY FACE JURISTS .................................................................................................................68
NAM SUMMIT SHAPING UP..........................................................................................................................68
NUCLEAR POWER ON JAVA .........................................................................................................................69
VIETNAMESE PM VISITS JAKARTA...............................................................................................................69
PORTUGUESE RADIO APPEAL ON TIMOR’S PLIGHT.....................................................................................69
TIMORESE DEMONSTRATE AT EXPO ‘92 IN SPAIN .......................................................................................69
MANTIRI: TIMOR VIOLENCE “UN’S FAULT” ...................................................................................................69
U.S. STATE DEPARTMEN T TRAVEL ADVISORY ..............................................................................................70
SECRET PORTUGAL-INDONESIA EAST TIMOR TALKS IN NEW YORK?..........................................................70
HORTA FAULTS ABRI FOR TALKS FAILURE ...................................................................................................71
RUDINI ATTACKS GREEDY OFFICIALS ........................................................................................................71
TEMPO INTERVIEWS HORTA........................................................................................................................71

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 16, Aug. 10 - Oct. 4, 1992

SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE REVISITED .......................................................................................................... 4
KAMAL’S DEATH ‘EXPLAINED’........................................................................................................................4
TESTIMONIES ABOUT THE 12 NOVEMBER MASSACRE....................................................................................5
NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE ..................................................................................5
EVENTS IN EAST TIMOR.............................................................................................................................. 6
REFUGEES REPORT INCREASED REPRESSION IN TIMOR............................................................................6
LETTER FROM AN EAST TIMORESE PRISONER...............................................................................................6
BISHOP BELO INTERVIEWED BY MATRA .......................................................................................................7
TIMOR GAP SEISMIC WORK PAST MID-STAGE.............................................................................................14
MORE TROOPS IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................................14
LBH TO OPEN DILI BRANCH OFFICE............................................................................................................14
OFFENSIVE TO CAPTURE XANANA...............................................................................................................15
FOUR BIG INDONESIAN COMPANIES UNITE IN EAST TIMOR VENTURE.......................................................15
SHIRLEY SHACKLETON AND THE CANBERRA JIGSAW.................................................................................15
REPORT ON RECENT TRIP TO EAST TIMOR..................................................................................................16
EAST TIMOR: INDONESIA’S KILLING FIELDS...............................................................................................19
TIMORESE SCHOLARS WRITE SOEHARTO ..................................................................................................20
ABRI ADMITS INDONESIAN CASUALTIES IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................20
MANY ARRESTS IN EAST TIMOR .................................................................................................................21
URGENT PLEA FROM EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................21
SIX FRETILIN MEMBERS CAPTURED ............................................................................................................21
SECURITY TIGHT IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM SUMMIT............................................................................21
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PORTUGUESE JOURNALISTS NOT ALLOWED TO VISIT EAST TIMOR ............................................................22
SIX BATTALIONS CONTROL DILI.................................................................................................................22
SYAFEI HOPES TO END MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EAST TIMOR NEXT MARCH..........................................22
ARRESTS AND HOUNDING OF EAST TIMORESE CITIZENS...........................................................................23
POSSIBLE INDONESIAN PARDONS FOR 13 EAST TIMORESE?......................................................................23
NEW GOVERNOR IN EAST TIMOR ............................................................................................................. 23
GUBERNATORIAL INTRIGUE........................................................................................................................23
EAST TIMOR GETS PRO-JAKARTA GOVERNOR............................................................................................23
HARD LINE POLICY EXPECTED...................................................................................................................24
NEW GOVERNOR A SIGN OF TOUGHER LINE IN EAST TIMOR ....................................................................24
TIMOR CHIEF ACCUSES PREDECESSOR ......................................................................................................25
NEW GOVERNOR’S RESETTLEMENT PLANS ................................................................................................25
NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT IN JAKARTA ........................................................................................................ 25
NAM REJECTS ‘CONDITIONALITY’ ...............................................................................................................25
INDONESIA COVERS UP OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR AT NAM CONFEREN CE ..........................................26
NON-ALIGNED POLITICAL DECLARATION REFLECTS INDONESIAN CONCERNS .........................................26
SUHARTO MOVES TO ABOLISH HUMAN RIGHTS .........................................................................................27
TAPOL STATEMENT ON NAM SUMMIT .........................................................................................................27
INTIMIDATION STEPPED UP AS NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT OPENS IN INDONESIA.........................................28
TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE...................................................................28
XANANA GUSMAO OFFERS SUHARTO OLIVE BRANCH .................................................................................29
BBC INTERVIEWS MICHAEL LEIFER ON XANANA’S CALL FOR TALKS...........................................................30
ABRI CHIEF REJECTS FRETILIN PEACE OFFER.............................................................................................30
U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS SUBCOMMISSION MEETS IN GENEVA .................................................................... 31
STATEMENT BY MRS. PASCOELA BARRETO ..................................................................................................31
STATEMENT OF MIGUEL SALDANHA ............................................................................................................31
UNITED NATIONS URGED TO MAKE REPORT PUBLIC ..................................................................................33
UN HUMAN RIGHTS SUBCOMMISSION ADOPTS EAST TIMOR RESOLUTION ................................................33
OPTIMISM OVER UN CONDEMNATION OF INDONESIA ..............................................................................34
CNRM MEMO ON UN RESOLUTION..............................................................................................................35
PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS ................................................................................ 35
BOUTROS-GHALI SETS PORTUGAL-INDONESIA TALKS ................................................................................35
RAMOS-HORTA CAUTIOUS ON UN TALKS INITIATIVE ..................................................................................35
PORTUGAL PREPARED TO LIFT TRADE BOYCOTT ON INDONESIA ...............................................................36
PROPOSED TALKS HAILED ..........................................................................................................................36
PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE QUESTION EAST TIMOR .................................37
GENERAL ASSEMBLY PUTS OFF TIMOR ACTION...........................................................................................38
INDONESIA WILLING TO TALK TO RESISTANCE.........................................................................................38
MEETING BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND INDONESIA CONFIRMED...................................................................39
UN COMMUNIQUÉ ON TALKS ......................................................................................................................39
INDONESIA, PORTUGAL AGREE TO CONTINUE DIALOGUE..........................................................................39
TALKS TO RESUME ON TIMOR FUTURE........................................................................................................40
A BREAKTHROUGH ON EAST TIMOR............................................................................................................40
U.S. CONGRESS CUTS MILITARY AID ........................................................................................................ 41
REPORT ON MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE JIM KOLBE (ARIZONA) .......................................................41
ETAN/CANADA WRITES U.S. SENATE..........................................................................................................41
AID CUT TO INDONESIA..............................................................................................................................41
SENATE TO DECIDE ON MILITARY AID TO INDONESIA NEXT WEEK...........................................................42
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ETAN/US ADVOCATES TOTAL AID CUTOFF...................................................................................................43
CONTACT SENATOR INOUYE TODAY ON IMET.............................................................................................43
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA CALLS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATION ..........................................43
IMET SENATE VOTE REPORT........................................................................................................................44
BACKGROUND ON THE U.S. MILITARY TRAINING FOR INDONESIA CONTROVERSY ...................................45
US CONGRESS CUTS MILITARY AID TO INDONESIA....................................................................................47
SUHARTO VISITS NEW YORK, U.N., JAPAN ............................................................................................... 48
SOEHARTO TO SPEAK AT UN FOR NAM........................................................................................................48
ETAN/US CONDEMNS SUHARTO BETRAYAL OF NAM, UN ............................................................................48
SUHARTO: UNFINISHED DECOLONIZATION (REUTERS) ..............................................................................49
PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER JOAO DE DEUS PINHEIRO ADDRESSES U.N.........................................49
SUHARTO UN SPEECH .................................................................................................................................49
INDONESIA OPPOSES SEIZURE OF TERRITORY OF BOSNIA - SILENT ON EAST TIMOR (AP) ........................51
NY TIMES EDITORIAL, ARTICLE, ADS..........................................................................................................51
SUHARTO’S HYPOCRISY (BOSTON GLOBE) ..................................................................................................53
DEMONSTRATE AGAINST INDONESIA’S OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR.......................................................53
SUHARTO VISIT PROTESTED IN NEW YORK CITY ........................................................................................53
WARM WELCOME AWAITS SUHARTO IN JAPAN DESPITE TOUCHY ISSUES ..................................................54
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 55
SOEHARTO DEFENDS ABRI ROLE ...............................................................................................................55
JAKARTA LIFTS NEWSPAPER BANS.............................................................................................................55
MILITARY DENIES TIMOR ‘OFFENSIVE’ ........................................................................................................55
SOEHARTO: SORRY, NO DEMOCRACY.........................................................................................................55
GOVERNMENT SETS UP RIGHTS BODY........................................................................................................56
114 KILLED BY POLICE SINCE 1989 ............................................................................................................56
MILITARY PRESSURE ON INDONESIAN NGOS.............................................................................................56
THE MAN TO WATCH: LT. GEN. WISMOYO ARISMUNANDAR ........................................................................56
“INDONESIA - FACING THE FUTURE": ABDURRAHMAN WAHID IN AUSTRALIA.............................................57
ABDURRAHMAN WAHID INTERVIEW............................................................................................................58
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK SUPPORTS INDONESIAN NGO’S ..............................................................61
SUHARTO WANTS A NEW LEADING ROLE....................................................................................................61
VEEPSTAKES................................................................................................................................................62
JAKARTA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS JAIL TERM FOR EAST TIMORESE STUDENT.............................................62
IN THE INDONESIAN EMPIRE .................................................................................................................... 62
ELEVEN ACEHNESE INCARCERATED UNDERGROUND IN PENANG .............................................................62
OPM CHRISTIAN SUPPORTER JAILED.........................................................................................................63
INDONESIA REWARDS IRIAN KILLER ..........................................................................................................63
WEST PAPUANS DEMONSTRATE FOR SELF-DETERMINATION ....................................................................63
EVENTS IN EUROPE................................................................................................................................... 64
FIGHTING BRITAIN’S HAWKS ......................................................................................................................64
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA MEETS IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER.............................................................................65
TIMOR ENVOY SUGGESTS IRISH F.M. ANDREWS AS MEDIATOR .................................................................65
INDONESIA MAY INVITE PORTUGUESE TO VISIT EAST TIMOR....................................................................66
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 66
CANADA AIDS INDONESIAN ARMY.............................................................................................................66
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY TOLD TO CANCEL INDONESIA PROJECT........................................................66
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 67
HUMAN RIGHTS, SENATOR EVANS AND TIMOR...........................................................................................67
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ICJ TIMOR REPORT OUT..............................................................................................................................68
ICJ LAWYER ON ‘DOUBLE AGENT’ CLAIM ....................................................................................................69
IN SALUTE TO FALINTIL...............................................................................................................................69
FAX-IN AGAINST INDONESIAN AIR SHOW IN OZ ........................................................................................70
AUST. PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO DILI CONFIRMED ........................................................................70
EVENTS IN THE USA .................................................................................................................................. 70
ETAN/US PETITION......................................................................................................................................70
ETAN/US TAKES ACTION ON EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................71
REPORT ON VISIT WITH NANCY YOSHIHARA, L.A. TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD .............................................72
LETTER TO NEWSDAY: RUN FROM INDONESIA ...........................................................................................72
LETTER TO LOS ANGELES TIMES: UN RESOLUTIONS...................................................................................72
ETAN NETWORK NEWS #2...........................................................................................................................73
INDONESIAN GENERAL SUED IN BOSTON COURT.....................................................................................74
RESOURCES AND EVENTS......................................................................................................................... 75
RESOURCES FOR SALE FROM EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK OF TORONTO................................................75
ART FOR TIMOR...........................................................................................................................................75
SENATE HEARING PUBLISHED ....................................................................................................................75
NEW CHOMSKY FILM INCLUDES EAST TIMOR............................................................................................75
ETAN/US VIDEO NATIONALLY DISTRIBUTED ...............................................................................................76
“COLD BLOOD” ON DISCOVERY CABLE TV..................................................................................................77
EAST TIMOR PROGRAMS IN LOS ANGELES AND WESTCHESTER (NY)..........................................................77
ETAN BENEFIT DANCE.................................................................................................................................77
LONDON GIG FOR EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................................77
CALL FOR BUDDING LONDON STREET THEATRE ARTISTS...........................................................................77
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 78
THE POLL THAT INDONESIA DARES NOT HOLD (ECONOMIST) ....................................................................78
EAST TIMOR IGNORED AT ASIAN-EUROPEAN MEETING ..............................................................................78
U.S. AND JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARIANS APPEAL TO SECRETARY-GENERAL .............................................79
INDONESIAN GOVERNMEN T CRITICAL OF MALAYSIA TV DILI PROGRAM....................................................80
HILL AND KNOWLTON – SELLING DEATH ....................................................................................................81

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 17: Special on the Capture of Xanana Gusmao November 20 - 29, 1992

NEWS REPORTS: INTERNATIONAL MEDIA.................................................................................................. 3
SOLDIERS IN EAST TIMOR CAPTURE REBEL LEADER (NEW YORK TIMES) .....................................................3
WIRE SERVICE ROUNDUP NOV. 20................................................................................................................3
MAU HUNO NAMED INTERIM LEADER?.........................................................................................................5
XANANA’S FAMILY RESPONDS.......................................................................................................................5
XANANA NEGOTIATIONS OFFER REJECTED ..................................................................................................5
INDONESIAN REGIME GLOATS......................................................................................................................5
AUSTRALIAN PROTESTS .................................................................................................................................6
BENNY MURDANI: XANANA TRIAL LIKELY ....................................................................................................6
AUSTRALIAN FM EVANS URGES INDONESIA NOT TO ILL-TREAT XANANA......................................................7
INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR SABAM: DEATH BLOW TO RESISTANCE.............................................................7
INTENSE TIMORESE INTEREST IN XANANA...................................................................................................8
THE WAR IS IN JAKARTA ...............................................................................................................................8
XANANA COULD BE EXECUTED .....................................................................................................................8
XANANA MOVED TO BALI...............................................................................................................................9
HORTA: BOUTROS-GHALI TO INTERVENE......................................................................................................9
IPS: CONCERN ABOUT XANANA.....................................................................................................................9
JAKARTA REJECTS ACCESS OVER XANANA .................................................................................................10
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A HORA DE TODAS AS VERSOES.................................................................................................................10
XANANA GUSMAO INCOMMUNICADO ........................................................................................................11
CARRASCALAO CAUTIONS REGIME .............................................................................................................11
NO ‘EXTRADITION’ FOR XANANA.................................................................................................................12
INDONESIAN MILITARY CAPTURES FRETILIN LEADER ...............................................................................12
PRESSURE BEING EXERTED ON XANANA THROUGH FAMILY MEMBERS .....................................................12
EAST TIMOR’S CAPTIVE LEADER ..................................................................................................................12
THE ABILIO ARAUJO CONNECTION .............................................................................................................13
XANANA CONFIRMED IN BALI .....................................................................................................................13
XANANA MISTREATMENT DENIED ...............................................................................................................13
ICRC WILL VISIT XANANA............................................................................................................................14
AUSTRALIA LUKEWARM ON ARREST OF EAST TIMOR REBEL LEADER .........................................................14
MURDANI: TIMOR’S ‘WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY’.......................................................................................14
XANANA DISMISSED AS STREET CRIMINAL.................................................................................................15
BRITAIN BACKS REBEL ROLE IN TIMOR TALKS............................................................................................16
MORE ARRESTED IN EAST TIMOR...............................................................................................................17
UPI: XANANA LEGAL RIGHTS THWARTED ...................................................................................................17
INDONESIA WON’T ALLOW FOREIGN LEGAL AID FOR JAILED REBEL LEADER ............................................17
NEWS REPORTS: INDONESIAN MEDIA...................................................................................................... 17
ROUNDUP FROM THE INDONESIAN PRESS 21 NOVEMBER .........................................................................17
INDONESIAN RADIO EXCERPTS ON XANANA CAPTURE.............................................................................18
XANANA’S UNDERGROUND HIDEOUT .........................................................................................................19
INDONESIAN PRESS ROUNDUP, NOV. 23....................................................................................................19
XANANA’S WIFE ACCUSES HORTA OF LEAKING HER HUSBAND’S HIDING PLACE.......................................21
BALI POLICE ADD TO CONFUSION ABOUT XANANA’S WHEREABOUTS.........................................................22
STATEMENTS AND ACTIONS BY HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOLIDARITY GROUPS........................................ 23
TAPOL CALLS FOR RELEASE OF EAST TIMOR RESISTANCE LEADER.............................................................23
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEWED ON BBC WORLD SERVICE .................................................................23
STATEMENT BY FREE EAST TIMOR JAPAN COALITION .................................................................................24
ETAN/US CALL TO ACTION ..........................................................................................................................24
ACTION ALERT FROM EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK, CANADA...................................................................24
ASIA WATCH CALLS FOR ACCESS TO XANANA.............................................................................................25
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ...............................................................................................25
JURISTS PLATFORM WRITES TO UN............................................................................................................25
DARWIN PROTEST AFTER ARREST OF XANANA............................................................................................26
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR OVERSEAS AID ................................................................................................26
FREE EAST TIMOR RALLY IN TORONTO SATURDAY......................................................................................27
EAST TIMOR MASSACRE REMEMBERED WORLDWIDE.................................................................................27
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU CALLS FOR XANANA’S RELEASE..................................................................28
WHERE IS XANANA? ....................................................................................................................................28
JOSÉ AMORIM DIAS’ FORMER HOME RAIDED ............................................................................................28
RESOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEAGUES ...................................28
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES AND REPORTS .................................................................................29
ACTIVITIES IN FRANCE ............................................................................................................................. 31
FROM AGIR POUR TIMOR, PARIS.................................................................................................................31
VISIT OF PRESIDENT SUHARTO IN FRANCE ................................................................................................32
FRANCE: ‘COMPREHENSIVE’ SOLUTION ......................................................................................................32
TIMOR ‘DOMINATES’ FRANCE TALKS ..........................................................................................................32
MITTERAND: INCLUDE TIMORESE IN TALKS................................................................................................33
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SOEHARTO’S PARIS APPOINTMENTS CANCELLED .......................................................................................33
SUHARTO AND MITTERRAND DISCUSS EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................33
LETTER TO SUHARTO FROM ASTO, PARIS...................................................................................................33
FRANCE TIMOR POLICY PUMMELED ............................................................................................................34
SUHARTO IN FRANCE FOR PRIVATE REASONS?...........................................................................................34
STATEMENTS FROM GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ....................................................................................... 35
PRESIDENT SOARES PHONES BOUTROS-GHALI ..........................................................................................35
JAPANESE DIET MEMBER SATSUKI EDA ......................................................................................................35
EVANS WELCOMES ASSURANCES................................................................................................................35
LORD AVEBURY: XANANA, A PRISONER-OF-WAR ........................................................................................35
US GETS ASSURANCES ON XANANA............................................................................................................36
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAUCUS CAUTIONS SUHARTO.......................................................36
BRITAIN WANTS TIMORESE IN TALKS.........................................................................................................36
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON XANANA.............................................................................................. 37
PROFILE OF XANANA GUSMAO ...................................................................................................................37
XANANA, A LIFE OF STRUGGLE AND DEDICATION .....................................................................................37
XANANA: PERSONAL BACKGROUND............................................................................................................38
XANANA INTERVIEW ON RTP.......................................................................................................................38
XANANA REPLIES FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF THE FATHERLAND...............................................................41
POEMS BY XANANA GUSMAO ......................................................................................................................42

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TONE DOWN YOUR REPORTING, MEDIA TOLD.............................................................................................4
REPORT ON FREE XANANA PROTESTS IN CANADA........................................................................................4
XANANA GUSMAO TELEVISED UNDER DURESS.............................................................................................4
BBC ON XANANA’S “STATEMENT”...................................................................................................................5
AMNESTY ALERT F.I. # 366/92 EAST TIMOR ARRESTS.....................................................................................5
FRENCH COMMUNISTS SUPPORT XANANA....................................................................................................6
JAKARTA ALLEGES FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR REBELS.....................................................................................6
TIMORESE BURN INDONESIAN FLAG! ..........................................................................................................7
SUHARTO MISCALCULATING ON XANANA?....................................................................................................7
CARRASCALAO CASTS DOUBT........................................................................................................................7
STATEMENT OF JOSE RAMOS HORTA ...........................................................................................................7
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE PORTUGUESE POSITION ..................................................................8
DIPLOMATS BAFFLED.....................................................................................................................................8
TWO XANANAS SEEN ON BRITISH CHANNEL FOUR.......................................................................................8
REUTER: XANANA REMARKS IN CUSTODY.....................................................................................................9
AFP ON XANANA ON TVRI..............................................................................................................................9
DIPLOMATS DOUBT XANANA RECANTATION .................................................................................................9
FRETILIN DARWIN: XANANA COERCED .......................................................................................................10
STATE DEPARTMENT ‘KNOWS NOTHING’.....................................................................................................10
ALATAS ON PORTUGAL TALKS.....................................................................................................................11
SUPPORT FOR IMPRISONED FRETILIN LEADER GROWS .............................................................................11
ABEL GUTTERES INTERVIEW........................................................................................................................11
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EAST TIMOR’S LOST LEADER .......................................................................................................................12
ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CONDEMNED ....................................................................................12
PORTUGAL DISMISSES TVRI PSYWAR.........................................................................................................13
INDONESIA STUDENT NETS INFILTRATED...................................................................................................13
LIGHT OF MOURNING, LIGHT OF HOPE .....................................................................................................13
TRANSCRIPT OF CHANNEL 4 (UK) REPORT ON CAPTURE OF XANANA GUSMAO ..........................................14
GUSMAO FORCED TO RECANT, SAYS SON..................................................................................................15
AUSTRALIAN FM SEN. EVANS HOPES GUSMAO VIDEO SHOWS START OF RECONCILIATION .....................15
TAPOL MEMORANDUM ON XANANA GUSMAO’S NIGHTMARE.....................................................................15
NORTHERN TERRITORY COMMENTS ON EAST TIMOR.................................................................................16
ARMY INVOLVES BELO IN PSYWAR..............................................................................................................16
LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR XANANA GUSMAO.............................................................................................17
BRUNO KAHN: XANANA’S STATEMENT FABRICATED BY MILITARY...............................................................17
ROBERT DOMM SAYS XANANA WAS DRUGGED ...........................................................................................18
POW’S CAN BE FORCED TO SAY ANYTHING ................................................................................................18
TRY BLOWS IT AGAIN! .................................................................................................................................18
JAPAN ‘NEUTRAL’ ON XANANA ....................................................................................................................19
OFFICIALS, RIGHTS GROUPS CONDEMN TIMORESE REBEL BROADCAST....................................................19
PORTUGUESE NGO LETTER TO BOUTROS-GHALI.........................................................................................20
LISBON THEATRE EVOKING THE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE..........................................................................20
AI FI366/92 EAST TIMOR ARRESTS: XANANA TORTURED .............................................................................21
AI ALERT ON DISAPPEARED TIMORESE.......................................................................................................22
LOBBYING REPORT FROM OTTAWA .............................................................................................................22
DEC. 7 NEWS CONFEREN CE, OTTAWA.........................................................................................................23
SYAFEI: CHURCH URGES REBELS TO SURRENDER......................................................................................23
YET ANOTHER AMNESTY OFFER BY ARMY ..................................................................................................23
PORTUGAL CONDEMNS INDONESIA! ..........................................................................................................23
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S REQUEST TO VISIT EAST TIMOR REJECTED ...................................................24
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL: A LEADING ASIAN COLONIALIST.............................................................24
‘DEMONSTRATOR SURREN DERS’ CLAIM......................................................................................................25
BIG ABRI PSYWAR CAMPAIGN .....................................................................................................................25
XANANA INTERVIEW....................................................................................................................................25
ARAUJO: EMILIA GUSMAO SHOULD HAVE WAITED FOR A MEETING WITH RAMOS-HORTA .........................25
ABRI CAMPAIGN OF LIES ESCALATES ..........................................................................................................27
FRETILIN/AUSTRALIA: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES ....................................................................................28
BBC: RED CROSS CAN VISIT........................................................................................................................28
EVANS: PORGUGUESE WEAPONS TO SLORC IN BURMA?.............................................................................28
ARMY TURNS SCREWS ON CIVILIANS .........................................................................................................28
TAPOL: INDONESIAN CLAIMS OF MASS SURRENDERS ARE A SHAM ...........................................................29
ETAN/CANADA ALERT: ARREST OF XANANA GUSMAO .................................................................................29
NGO’S ASK UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO SEEK RELEASE OF TIMORESE LEADER .......................................30
SEMINAR ON EAST TIMOR, PORTO UNIVERSITY, PORTUGAL, 1990..............................................................30
EMILIA GUSMAO: WHO DOES SHE REPRESENT? .........................................................................................36
EMILIA GUSMAO IN A CONFUSING NETWORK ............................................................................................37
BELO DEMANDS WRITTEN GUARANTEES.....................................................................................................38
ICRC VISITS XANANA! .................................................................................................................................38
OZ MINISTER TO SUE RAMOS HORTA? .......................................................................................................38
TIMOR LEADER’S FAMILY TORTURED ..........................................................................................................39
US CATHOLIC CONFEREN CE: FREE THEM! ..................................................................................................39
US CATHOLIC CONFEREN CE: FREE THEM! ..................................................................................................39
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MASS DETENTIONS IN JAKARTA..................................................................................................................39
G7 SUMMIT: ‘CONDITIONALITY’ CALL..........................................................................................................40
OFFICIALS, RIGHTS GROUPS CONDEMN TIMORESE REBEL BROADCAST....................................................40
36 GUERILLAS SURRENDER, SAYS REPORT.................................................................................................41
BISHOP BELO REPUDIATES SJAFEI’S LIES (FULL INTERVIEW TEXT..............................................................41
BELO WANTS UN RESOLUTIONS APPLIED ...................................................................................................42
RI WAITS FOR NEW PROPOSAL ON E TIMOR FROM PORTUGAL...................................................................43
AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMEN T HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE SUPPORTS TIMOR ...............................................43
SOEHARTO’S DILEMMA................................................................................................................................43
A FANTASY FROM JOHN MACDOUGALL .......................................................................................................44
OZ HUMAN RIGHTS SHIP SINKING .............................................................................................................44
SARWONO: SUCCESSION UNCERTAINTY.....................................................................................................45
OZ GOVT. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CONDEMNS OZ GOVT. REACTION TO DILI MASSACRE........................45
XANANA ON VIDEO IN JAKARTA..................................................................................................................46
WHOSE UN HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE? ...............................................................................................46
LEGAL MINDS TACKLE TIMOR .....................................................................................................................47
CIIR/IPJET CONF ON EAST TIMOR ..............................................................................................................47
AT THE RELIGIOUS ABYSS ... .......................................................................................................................48
XANANA JAILED IN JAKARTA.......................................................................................................................49
200 EAST TIMORESE REBELS SURRENDER ..................................................................................................49
ETAN/CANADA WRITES ON G7 AND INDONESIA.........................................................................................49
XANANA UPDATE – DECEMBER 8, 1992........................................................................................................50
PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER STATEMENT.....................................................................................................50
XANANA CAMPAIGN IN CANADIAN PRESS ..................................................................................................51
REPORT FROM AGIR POUR TIMOR (FRENCH) ..............................................................................................51
INDONESIA OFFERS TO PARDON REBELS (JAWA POS)................................................................................54
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ALERT: DECEMBER 10.......................................................................................55
STATEMENT OF THE TWELVE IN THE 3RD COMMISSSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY .......................55
HIROSHIMA APPEAL TO JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR EAST TIMOR LEADER ...................................56
BRITISH COALITION FOR EAST TIMOR FUNDRAISING DINNER REPORT.....................................................56
TRAMPLING THE FLAG: INVASION DEMO IN LONDON ................................................................................56
XANANA TO BE TRIED IN DILI .....................................................................................................................57
REEBOK RIGHTS AWARDS PRESENTED .......................................................................................................57
JAWA POS: BANNED EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION (FITUN) DISSOLVES SELF........................................58
JAWA POS: VIGILANCE REMAINS AGAINST EX-MEMBERS OF FITUN ...........................................................58
LBH: ABRI OFF COURSE...............................................................................................................................59
INDONESIAN FREE TRADE UNIONS PLEA....................................................................................................59
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ASIA 1992.............................................................................................................59
STATEMENT ON OCCASION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DEMONSTRATIONS IN JAKARTA. .............................60
PERTH SUNDAY TIMES: 36 GUERILLAS SURRENDER ...................................................................................60
VOICE OF TIMOR IS NOT EASILY SILENCED ................................................................................................61
UNDERGROUND EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION OJEKTIL DISSOLVED ....................................................61
XANANA: EAST TIMOR BELONGS TO INDONESIA (BERNAS).........................................................................61
BISHOP MOORE: TERROR IN TIMOR ...........................................................................................................62
BISHOP BELO SPEAKS OUT ON XANANA’S DETEN TION AND TORTURE.......................................................62
HALL BLASTS RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, WARNS OF REACTION IN CONGRESS .................................................63
300 REBELS SURRENDERED IN EAST TIMOR ...............................................................................................63

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 18, Oct. 5 - Nov. 30, 1992

XANANA GUSMAO CAPTURED ..................................................................................................................... 6
TIMOR: TIME FOR RECONCILIATION .............................................................................................................6
TONE DOWN YOUR REPORTING, MEDIA TOLD.............................................................................................6
JAKARTA ALLEGES FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR REBELS.....................................................................................7
EAST TIMOR’S LOST LEADER .........................................................................................................................7
FRENCH COMMUNISTS SUPPORT XANANA....................................................................................................7
AMNESTY ALERT F.I. # 366/92 EAST TIMOR ARRESTS.....................................................................................8
HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDONESIA ................................................................................................................... 8
AMNESTY BARRED AGAIN..............................................................................................................................8
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S REQUEST TO VISIT EAST TIMOR REJECTED AGAIN .....................................9
ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS CONDEMNED ......................................................................................9
THE EMILIA GUSMAO QUESTION.............................................................................................................. 10
EMILIA GUSMAO IN A CONFUSING NETWORK ............................................................................................10
ARAUJO: EMILIA GUSMAO SHOULD HAVE WAITED TO MEET WITH RAMOS-HORTA.....................................10
SCENES FROM A BAD TASTE “SOAP OPERA” ...........................................................................................11
EMILIA GUSMAO: WHO DOES SHE REPRESENT? .........................................................................................12
EVENTS IN PORTUGAL AND EUROPE ........................................................................................................ 13
LISBON STILL BLOCKING EC-ASEAN AGREEMEN T......................................................................................13
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EC-ASEAN FAIL TO RENEW ACCORD ..........................................................................................................13
PORTUGAL ABANDONS TIMOR REFERENDUM .............................................................................................14
PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTRY CALLS REUTERS REPORT A ‘MISINTERPRETATION’..............................14
TIMORESE PEOPLE IN PORTUGAL STUDY EAST TIMOR................................................................................14
EC-ASEAN MINISTERS CEMENT ECONOMIC RELATIONS, SIDESTEP HUMAN RIGHTS .................................14
PORTUGAL: DAY OF REFLECTION ................................................................................................................15
PORTUGAL REMEMBERS SANTA CRUZ .........................................................................................................15
PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT LEADS DAY OF MOURNING................................................................................15
NEW PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER ....................................................................................................16
STATEMENT OF THE TWELVE IN THE THIRD COMMISSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY......................16
JOHN MACDOUGALL: EC TIMOR STATEMENT TOO WEAK .......................................................................16
PORTUGUESE NGO LETTER TO BOUTROS-GHALI.........................................................................................16
LISBON THEATRE EVOKING THE SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE..........................................................................17
EVENTS IN BRITAIN................................................................................................................................... 17
UK: REMEMBERING THOSE WHO DIED IN EAST TIMOR ON 12 NOVEMBER 1991.........................................17
BURYING THE MEMORY OF A MASSACRE...................................................................................................17
UK HOUSE OF COMMONS MOTION ON TIMOR............................................................................................18
FOULKES: INDONESIA’S KILLING MACHINE................................................................................................18
VIGIL AND SERVICE IN LONDON ...............................................................................................................18
EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR................................................................................................................... 19
REPORT ABOUT TRIP TO EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................................19
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EAST TIMOR ...................................................................................................20
MESSAGE FROM XANANA GUSMAO TO NAM................................................................................................22
SOARES AND SYAFEI: AMNESTY OFFER ......................................................................................................25
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR SPEAKS ABOUT TERRITORIAL OPERATIONS.........................................................25
PRISONERS TRANSFERRED, SCHOOL CLOSED ...........................................................................................26
GETTING IT WRONG IN EAST TIMOR..........................................................................................................26
ABILIO SAYS BELO SAYS..............................................................................................................................26
RECENT VISITOR TO EAST TIMOR’S IMPRESSION .......................................................................................26
REPLY TO EAST TIMOR QUESTIONNAIRE.....................................................................................................27
TIMOR CURRICULUM ‘REFORM’...................................................................................................................28
JAKARTA TO TEACH NATIONALISM IN EAST TIMOR....................................................................................28
SOARES: NO COVER-UP OF TIMOR PROBLEMS...........................................................................................28
BAUCAU INCIDENT EXPLAINED ..................................................................................................................28
URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SAVE EAST TIMOR .............................................................29
SYAFEI INTERVIEW: PREPARING FOR ANNIVERSARIES..............................................................................29
ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN EAST TIMOR.........................................................................................................30
INDONESIA TIGHTENS SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR CAPITAL .......................................................................30
NEW ARRESTS .............................................................................................................................................30
BAUCAU: 7 KILLED, MANY ARRESTED .........................................................................................................30
‘FRETILIN PLOT’ FOILED ..............................................................................................................................31
SUHARTO TO ABILIO: HIRE TIMORESE.......................................................................................................31
ABILIO: NO TRAUMA LEFT FROM SANTA CRUZ.............................................................................................31
EAST TIMORESE AUTHORITIES CONDUCT IDENTITY CARD CHECKS...........................................................31
TAPOL CALLS FOR MONITORING IN TIMOR.................................................................................................32
FOR FIRST TIME, CENTRAL JAVA TRANSMIGRATES 25 FAMILIES TO EAST TIMOR........................................32
CONSTANTIO PINTO REACHES MACAO .......................................................................................................32
CONSTANTIO PINTO INTERVIEWED BY TAPOL........................................................................................33
HORTA’S CHARGES......................................................................................................................................33
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ABILIO SOARES: “WHY DID NOT ALL THOUSAND DIE?”...............................................................................33
SOARES COMMENTS CAUSE OUTRAGE IN AUSTRALIA.................................................................................38
SOARES’ DENIAL .........................................................................................................................................38
MARIO CARRASCALAO DANGLING IN WIND ..............................................................................................38
UN REPRESENTATIVE VISITS EAST TIMOR...................................................................................................39
TREAT: OPEN IT UP .................................................................................................................................39
AI: HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS........................................................................................................................39
TERROR IN EAST TIMOR AS MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES ........................................................39
REUTERS ALLOWED INTO DILI FOR 12 NOVEMBER .....................................................................................40
TIMORESE: RETURN THE BODIES...............................................................................................................40
DILI REPORTEDLY CALM .............................................................................................................................40
DILI TIGHTLY MONITORED..........................................................................................................................41
THE ‘HEARTS & MINDS’ WAR .......................................................................................................................41
MOURNING IN TIMOR .................................................................................................................................41
TIMORESE CHURCH UNDER SUSPICION ....................................................................................................42
ORCHESTRATED ‘COMMEMORATIONS’ IN DILI ...........................................................................................42
ABILIO: ‘PEACE’ REIGNS..............................................................................................................................42
ARMED TROOPS PATROL DILI STREETS.......................................................................................................42
WINNING BATTLES, LOSING WAR ..............................................................................................................43
JAWA POS: BANNED EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION (FITUN) DISSOLVES SELF........................................43
JAWA POS: VIGILANCE REMAINS AGAINST EX-MEMBERS OF FITUN ...........................................................44
CARRASCALAO: END DEMO BAN ................................................................................................................44
UNDERGROUND EAST TIMORESE ORGANIZATION OJEKTIL DISSOLVED ....................................................44
EXPLORING FOR TIMOR GAP OIL ............................................................................................................ 45
TIMOR GAP TREATIES AWARDED................................................................................................................45
US OIL: INTO THE GAP ................................................................................................................................45
MARATHON OIL POISED FOR TIMOR GAP EXPLORATIONS..........................................................................45
EVENTS IN CANADA................................................................................................................................... 46
EAST TIMOR ALERT NETWORK/CANADA NEWSLETTER................................................................................46
SECRET CANADA-INDONESIA CONFERENCE IGNORES HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS......................................50
ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES KICK OFF EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN ..................................................50
CANADIAN ARMS TO BURMA .......................................................................................................................51
CANADIAN COMMITTEE FOR DARWIN SCHOOL ..........................................................................................51
12 NOVEMBER: EVENTS PLANNED IN CANADA............................................................................................51
SILENCE BESPEAKS DEATH IN EAST TIMOR ................................................................................................51
END ARMS SALES ON ANNIVERSARY OF TIMOR MASSACRE, CANADIAN PEACE GROUPS URGE.................52
CANADA CHOOSES PROFI TS OVER RIGHTS ................................................................................................53
MASSACRE MERITS MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE WRIST.............................................................................54
NOV. 12 IN CANADA ....................................................................................................................................54
REPORT ON FREE XANANA PROTESTS IN CANADA......................................................................................55
EVENTS IN THE USA .................................................................................................................................. 55
SUING SINTONG IN AMERICA .....................................................................................................................55
FEDERAL JUDGE IN BOSTON EXPECTED TO ORDER MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PAYMENT.......................55
PANJAITAN LEAVES US, ESCAPES LAWSUIT...........................................................................................56
EAST TIMOR ALUMNI ...................................................................................................................................56
FERNANDO DE ARAUJO GETS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ..............................................................................56
INDONESIAN AUTHORITIES WONT LET EAST TIMORESE PICK UP HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ...................56
US SENATORS TO SUHARTO: FREE FERNANDO ARAUJO .............................................................................57
TEMPO: NO MORE CAPTAINS TO AMERICA.................................................................................................57
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ETAN/US NEWSLETTER (EXCERPTS) ............................................................................................................57
NOV. 12 MASSACRE COMMEMORATION IN NEW YORK ..............................................................................59
NOVEMBER 12 COMMEMORATION IN LOS ANGELES.................................................................................59
DEMONSTRATION AT INDONESIAN CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO........................................................59
WE LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACK ................................................................................................................60
BILL CLINTON ON U.S. POLICY TOWARDS EAST TIMOR.......................................................................... 61
TIMORESE APPEAL TO CLINTON .................................................................................................................61
HORTA’S HOPES FOR CLINTON ..................................................................................................................61
BRUNO KAHN, AGIR POUR TIMOR.........................................................................................................62
CHARLES SCHEINER, ETAN/US ..............................................................................................................62
CARMEL BUDIARDJO, TAPOL: .................................................................................................................62
ALATAS: NO CONFRONTATION WITH CLINTON ...........................................................................................62
US PROBLEMS, INDONESIAN PROBLEMS (FK) .............................................................................................63
CLINTON, ASIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS (FEER)...............................................................................................63
HUMANITY WON’T WAIT ..............................................................................................................................63
EVENTS IN INDONESIA.............................................................................................................................. 64
ABRI COMMANDER GENERAL TRY SUTRISNO: NO NEED TO LIMIT PRESIDENTIAL TERM ...........................64
HIGH CIVILIAN TOLL IN ACEH.....................................................................................................................64
INDONESIA CALLS WEST RUDE AND MEDDLESOME...................................................................................65
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER ARRESTED IN SURABAYA....................................................................................65
ASIA WATCH PROTESTS INDONESIAN ARREST.......................................................................................66
UPDATE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ............................................................................................66
TWELVE STUDENTS AND ACTIVISTS DETAINED IN YOGYAKARTA................................................................66
UPDATE FROM TAPOL OCTOBER 29:........................................................................................................67
SUHARTO ASKED TO STEP DOWN ..............................................................................................................67
MORE ON STUDENTS’ STATEMENT..........................................................................................................67
‘PAPER TIGER’ ABRI EXERCISES..................................................................................................................67
TRY SUTRISNO: WE SHALL OVERCOME......................................................................................................68
HAKIM: WORSE ON THE WAY ......................................................................................................................68
MIDDLE-RANKING OFFICERS TRIED?.........................................................................................................68
WORLD BANK FUNDS INDONESIA...............................................................................................................68
EDI SUDRADJAT: CRUSH ALL REBELS ........................................................................................................68
ANTI-SUHARTO DEMO AT DPR!...................................................................................................................69
MILITARY BUDGET GOING UP .....................................................................................................................69
EVENTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................................. 69
AUSTRALIAN MP’S TO VISIT INDONESIA, BUT NOT EAST TIMOR.................................................................69
ABC-TV NEWS ON AUSTRALIAN TOUR PLANS..........................................................................................69
EAST TIMOR OFF LIMITS FOR VISITING MPS ..........................................................................................69
INDONESIA BARS AUSTRALIAN MPS FROM EAST TIMOR ........................................................................70
INFIGHT’S OPEN LETTER TO AUSTRALIAN MPS ...........................................................................................70
SCHACHT: SUHARTO SHOULD LOOK AT EAST TIMOR ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR ........................................70
SENATOR BOURNE TELLS OF FEARS ON TIMOR .........................................................................................71
SCHACHT: AUSTRALIAN TRADE FOR EAST TIMOR DIALOGUE......................................................................71
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY TO BE OBSERVED IN SYDNEY......................................................72
EAST TIMOR CAMPAIGN WELCOMES AUSTRALIAN VISIT OF IRISH PRESIDENT..........................................72
IRISH PRESIDENT ASKED TO INTERVENE ON EAST TIMOR ....................................................................72
STATEMENT BY JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA TO SYDNEY CORRESPONDENTS .......................................................73
EXCERPT FROM AFP, SYDNEY, ROBERT HOLLOWAY, NOV. 5. .................................................................74
EAST TIMOR’S STRUGGLE CONTINUES ........................................................................................................75
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NEIGHBOURS NEED TO TALK TO EACH OTHER ...........................................................................................75
MILITANT PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA.............................................................................................................76
AUSTRALIA ON TIMOR AID LINK.................................................................................................................76
MORAL VICTORY IN OZ CROSSES CASE......................................................................................................76
NORTHERN TERRITORIES WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN TIMOR....................................................................77
TIMORESE BURN INDONESIAN FLAG! ........................................................................................................77
LIGHT OF MOURNING, LIGHT OF HOPE .....................................................................................................77
NEGOTIATIONS RESUME DECEMBER 17.................................................................................................. 78
RESISTANCE DEMANDS INCLUSION IN NEGOTIATIONS.............................................................................78
MOCHTAR: NO REFERENDUM......................................................................................................................78
XANANA: CEASEFIRE ACCEPTABLE..............................................................................................................79
EVENTS IN MALAYSIA AND JAPAN........................................................................................................... 79
MALAYSIA TV JOURNALIST PUNISHED ........................................................................................................79
LETTER FROM COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS..........................................................................79
JAPAN’S ET SPEAKING TOUR .......................................................................................................................80
TOKYO MASSACRE COMMEMORATIONS.....................................................................................................80
JAPANESE PEOPLE MOBI LIZE......................................................................................................................80
S.E. ASIAN TREATY OF AMITY AND COOPERATION ADOPTED BY UN ..........................................................80
12 NOV. COMMEMORATED IN MALAYSIA....................................................................................................81
RESOURCES............................................................................................................................................... 81
EAST TIMOR RADIO DOCUMENTARY ...........................................................................................................81
TATA MAI LAU: NEW TIMORESE CENTER IN MACAO ....................................................................................82
PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON TIMOR AND BURMA, BANGKOK ............................................................................82
COMPUTER BOOK DEDICATED TO TIMORESE PEOPLE ..............................................................................82
BOOK REVIEW: TELLING, BY MITCHELL TURNER .........................................................................................82
NEW FRENCH BOOK ON EAST TIMOR BY GABRIEL DEFERT........................................................................83
EAST TIMOR CLIPPING SERVICE ................................................................................................................83
COMMENT ON LONELY PLANET SOUTHEAST ASIA TRAVEL GUIDE...............................................................83
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................... 84
DAVID WEBSTER ON STRATEGY AND TACTICS ............................................................................................84
WAR RESISTERS INTERNATIONAL 1992 PRISONERS FOR PEACE HONOUR ROLL........................................85
THE FOLLOWING ARE IMPRISONED IN DILI, EAST TIMOR AT THIS ADDRESS:......................................85
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE CASUALTY LIST................................................................................................. 87
KILLED....................................................................................................................................................87
WOUNDED ..............................................................................................................................................89
HOSPITALISED........................................................................................................................................91
DISAPPEARED.........................................................................................................................................92
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................... 95
EAST TIMOR’S HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .................................................................................................95
JAKARTA’S LINE ON TIMOR’S HISTORY ......................................................................................................97
TIMOR’S EARLY HISTORY AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ...............................................................................98
DEBATE ON THE COMPUTER NETWORKS .............................................................................................. 100
INDONESIA STUDENT NETS INFILTRATED................................................................................................. 100
ALT.CULTURE.INDONESIA ......................................................................................................................... 100
TIMORESE COMMENT: PORTUGUESE VS. INDONESIAN MEDIA................................................................. 100
POINT OF VIEW OF AN EAST TIMORESE ................................................................................................... 101
ANOTHER EAST TIMORESE COMMENT...................................................................................................... 105
PORTUGAL CLAIMS ON EAST TIMOR.......................................................................................................... 105

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 2, Nov. 16-19, 1991

HORRORS CONTINUE IN EAST TIMOR (MONTREAL GAZETTE) ...................................................................................................... 2
U.S. SAYS MASSACRE VIEWED "VERY SERIOUSLY" (IPS) ............................................................................................. 2
PORTUGAL DISAPPOINTED AT EC RESPONSE TO MASSACRE (IPS)........................................................................ 3
IFJ SAFENET--MONITORING JOURNALISTS HUMAN RIGHTS................................................................................. 3
ARMED FORCES COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: THEY MUST BE EXTERMINATED .................................................... 4
AFTER THE MASSACRE: WHAT INDONESIA MUST DO.............................................................................................. 4
ABC INTERVIEW WITH AUSTRALIAN P.M. BOB HAWKE ............................................................................................................ 5
INDONESIA SOLIDARITY ACTION STATEMENT.......................................................................................................... 5
INDONESIAN PRESS CALLS FOR IMPARTIAL PROBE INTO DILI INCIDENT.......................................................... 6
INDEPENDENCE BID DRENCHED IN BLOOD (GLOBE AND MAIL) .................................................................................................. 6
MCDOUGALL DENOUNCES VIOLENCE IN EAST TIMOR............................................................................................. 6
AUSTRALIAN AID WORKER SAYS KILLINGS IN TIMOR UNPROVOKED (REUTER) ............................................... 7
U.S. JOURNALISTS SAY EAST TIMOR SHOOTING APPEARED PLANNED (REUTER).............................................. 7
SENATOR CLAIRBORNE PELL CALLS FOR CUTOFF OF U.S. MILITARY AID (DPA)............................................. 7
JAPAN SENDS DIPLOMATS TO EAST TIMOR TO PROBE KILLINGS (KYODO)........................................................ 7
STATE DEPT BRIEFING TRANSCRIPT, NOV.15. (EXCERPT)............................................................................................. 8
INDONESIAN BISHOPS STATEMENT.............................................................................................................................................. 8
EAST TIMOR GOVERNOR LASHES OUT AT ARMY OVER KILLINGS (REUTER)....................................................... 8
EAST TIMORESE MOURN THEIR DEAD, FEAR FOR OWN SAFETY (REUTER).......................................................... 9
NAMES OF 17 DEAD ANNOUNCED (TAPOL).............................................................................................................................. 9
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE SEEN ON TV IN NETHERLANDS ............................................................................................................. 9
HAWKE FIRING OFF AN EMPTY CANNON AT INDONESIA (SMH).......................................................................... 9
CONDEMN INDONESIAN MASSACRE, CANADA URGED (GLOBE AND MAIL) .............................................................................. 10
HUNDREDS IN AUSTRALIA MOURN DEAD OF DILI (AFP) ...................................................................................... 11
PRESS IGNORES EAST TIMOR MASSACRE (RYTER)..................................................................................................................... 11
LEADING INDONESIAN MP TELLS JAKARTA TO REVIEW RULE IN TIMOR (REUTER)....................................... 11
ALATAS BLASTS FOREIGN MEDIA, BUT PARLIAMENT HEAD WANTS TRUE STORY (UPI)........................... 12
INDONESIA SETS UP COMISSION TO INVESTIGATE TIMOR KILLINGS (REUTER) ............................................... 12
INDONESIAN ARMY STRUGGLES TO WIN HEARTS OF TIMORESE (REUTER)....................................................... 12
TWO MORE MASSACRE EYEWITNESSES SPEAK (OBSERVER) ....................................................................................................... 13
SANTA CRUZ MASSACRE: JAKARTA PREPARING FOR A COVER-UP (TAPOL) ................................................. 13
80 PRISONERS SHOT DEAD ON 15 NOVEMBER (TAPOL) .......................................................................................... 14
IN THE WRONG COUNTRY (Independent on Sunday Editorial)................................................................................. 14
MILITARY MAINTAIN SECURITY CORDON AROUND DILI (AFP) ......................................................................... 14
DARWIN WITNESSES SPEAK! (AGE).......................................................................................................................................... 14
INDONESIAN FORCES ALLEGEDLY EXECUTE TIMOR MASSACRE WITNESSES (REUTER)................................. 15
AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT SENT TO EAST TIMOR (AP) ............................................................................................ 15
FORMER AMBASSADOR URGES HAWKE TO VISIT INDONESIA (AUSTRALIAN).................................................... 16
INDON EMBASSY IN CANBERRA PICKETED (CIET)................................................................................................... 16
MALAYSIANS PROTEST AGAINST INDONESIAN ACTION IN EAST TIMOR (REUTER) ....................................... 16
PRIEST SAYS HE HAS VIDEO TAKEN AFTER EAST TIMOR KILLINGS (REUTER) .................................................. 16
SHORT WAVE RADIO BROADCAST MONITORING .......................................................................................................................... 16
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INDONESIA ENVOY PROMISES BONN INQUIRY INTO EAST TIMOR DEATHS (REUTER) ................................... 17
FURTHER AUSSIE EMBASSY EAST TIMOR INVESTIGATIONS (AFP)..................................................................... 17
MILITARY ARRESTS FOUR SUSPECTED ACEH REBELS IN NEIGHBOURING PROVINCE (AFP) ...................... 17
NEW ZEALAND PM WANTS CAREFUL REACTION TO TIMOR KILLINGS (AFP) ................................................ 17
WITNESS CLAIMS INDONESIAN POLICE DETAINING TWO PEOPLE (KYODO) ..................................................... 17
STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING (NOV. 18)................................................................................................................... 17
SUHARTO TO START OFFICIAL SWING TO SOUTH AMERICAN, AFRICAN COUNTRIES (AFP)..................... 17
LBH: "INQUIRY COMMISSION SHOULD BE BROADENED"........................................................................................................... 18
ABC NIGHTLINE COMMENT..................................................................................................................................................... 18
HARROWING REPORTS FLOOD IN TO THE DEATHLINE (AUSTRALIAN) ................................................................. 18
PORTUGAL DECLARES DAY OF MOURNING FOR VICTIMS OF TIMOR MASSACRE (REUTER) ....................... 18
WHO IS M. DJAELANI? (D. BOURCHIER)........................................................................................................................... 18
HORRID SILENCE OVER EAST TIMOR (MCGRORY)...................................................................................................... 19
EAST TIMOR PROTESTERS DETAINED IN INDONESIAN CAPITAL (REUTER)........................................................ 19
80 EAST TIMORESE ARRESTED IN JAKARTA (TAPOL)............................................................................................. 19
CANADA TO "REVIEW" AID TO INDONESIA (GLOBE AND MAIL) ................................................................................................ 20
ANGRY PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA OVER TIMOR MASSACRE (GREEN LEFT).................................................................................. 20
KAMAL BAMADHAJ (OBITUARY, GREEN LEFT)........................................................................................................................ 20
KOOIJMANS REFUSED PERMIT TO VISIT ACEH ............................................................................................................................. 21
INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM TO VISIT DILI (TAPOL)...................................................................................................... 21
EAST TIMOR - AUSTRALIA'S SHAME (SEN. BOURNE)................................................................................................... 21
EAST TIMOR'S INDIGENOUS NATIONALISM AND RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL INTEGRATION........................................................ 21
MUFFLED CRIES FROM EAST TIMOR (RYTER) ........................................................................................................................... 24

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Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and connected computer networks 21, Feb. 15 - April 4, 1993

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

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