A wide variety of Australian and international individual and organisational responses to the massacre – especially in the days following the events in Dili.

A extensive mix of official Indonesian responses to the massacre and critical statements/correspondence from various Indonesian NGOs.

Predominantly USA Congressional responses and media coverage. Also a range of other international responses including Portugal, Japan and Europe.

Organisational correspondence seeking signatures from 150 prominent Australian for a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans concerning his proposed Indonesia visit, 19 December 1991

Mainly Australian newspaper reports, 16 April – 08 September 1992.

Journal "Timor Leste" no. 6, November 1, 1975; Supplement no. 1
This issue contains: Reports of a radio transmission in West Germany analyzing the Timorese situation and blaming Indonesia for border trespassing; Still in West Germany, reports of the creation of a Committee for the Independence of East Timor; Another report of support coming from Australia, this time by Congress members; Report of a meeting between Portuguese General Ernesto Melo Antunes, one of the most important actors in the Carnation Revolution, and Adam Malik, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, where they would discuss the Timorese question. FRETILIN then seized the opportunity to publish their willingness to cooperate with the Portuguese to negotiate East Timor’s independence; The main article discussing the differences between a coup and a revolution, explaining basically that the former is just a replacement of the bourgeois in power and that it delays the latter, and how the people should stay alert with their enemies; The Supplement is a special issue with the main objective of teaching the native language for those who only know Portuguese.

Journal "Timor Leste" no. 8, November 15, 1975; Supplement no. 3
This issue contains: A report of the Angolan independence declared by MPLA, expressing that is was another win for those who believe in the fall of imperialism; Reports of a FRETILIN official travelling throughout Europe where he received support for the Timorese cause, especially from the Dutch governmental and non-governmental organizations like X-Y and MOZIB (including financial support), English members of parliament and Swedish members of their country’s UN mission; The main article speaking about Liberalism as a failed economic system, and accusing it of having an essence predominantly counterrevolutionary and being an enemy of the people.

Statements and correspondence between Australian politicians and political parties. Also includes long David Scott paper on the East Timor Talks Campaign.

Largely English-language reports from Jakarta on media coverage and events under the name “Berita Timur Timor" (East Timor News) issued by INFIGHT (Indonesian Front for the Defense of Human Rights). Includes particular focus on Timorese facing trials for subversion.

A extensive range of statements, correspondence, draft documents from official Churches, religious organisations and individuals.

Chronologies, correspondence, name lists, diary extracts, media conference transcripts, statements based on eyewitness testimony.

Internal papers on the ACFOAHR Office planning for a fund-raising appeal to support ongoing advocacy for human rights in Timor.

Initial Amnesty International reports and media releases on Santa Cruz massacre. Folder also includes the extensive AI report to the August 1991 UN Decolonization Committee on pre-massacre-period human rights violations.

Commentary, statements and correspondence. Include4s material from International Commission of Jurists, Helen Todd (mother of Kamal Bamadhaj), ACFOA, Community Aid Abroad, CDPM, Asia Watch, Bishop Belo, Australian Catholic Relief.

Mainly Australian newspaper reports, 17-30 November 1991.

Mainly Australian newspaper reports, 01 December 1991 – 06 January 1992.

A small sample of Steve Cox images of the 12 November 1991 demosntration and massacre aftermath.