The sixth anniversary of the Indonesian military's massacre of mourners at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery on November 12, 1991, was commemorated in…
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November 19, 1997
Green Left Weekly - November 19, 1997
Green Left Weekly - November 19, 1997
Jon Land – More than 1000 East Timorese students staged a peaceful demonstration in Dili on November 12 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of…
November 17, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - November 17, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) holds grave fears for the safety of eight East Timorese students, who sustained serious gunshot wounds…
Lusa - November 17, 1997
Sydney – At least two East Timorese died and other 16 got injured, three of them seriously, when Indonesian police and troops shoot at students in…
November 15, 1997
Agence France Presse - November 15, 1997
Jakarta – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been allowed to visit seven people injured after soldiers fired on…
November 14, 1997
Amnesty International - November 14, 1997
Five East Timorese students shot and wounded in a confrontation with Indonesian police in Dili, the capital of East Timor, have been taken to a…
Reuters - November 14, 1997
Jakarta – At least one East Timorese student was killed on Friday when security personnel fired shots on a university campus in the territory's…
Associated Press - November 14, 1997
Dili – Indonesian troops fired shots into the air to disperse hundreds of students today in East Timor. At least two people were injured in…
November 13, 1997
East Timor Action Network Press Release - November 13, 1997
On the night of November 12, 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block the use of U.S. weapons in occupied East Timor, placing an…
Reuters - November 13, 1997
Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta – Indonesia moved to deport a U.S. woman on Thursday after police accused her of "disturbing public order" during a…
Associated Press - November 13, 1997
Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – Indonesia deported an American woman Thursday after police arrested her for taking notes and photographs during a pro-…
Ottawa Citizen - November 13, 1997
Bruce Cheadle, Ottawa – Isabel Galhos, one of three East Timorese expatriates living in Canada, doesn't mince words when she describes the 22-year…
Toronto Star - November 13, 1997
Allan Thompson, Ottawa – Joao Antonio Dias said he watched Indonesian soldiers kill wounded East Timorese demonstrators by banging their heads…
November 12, 1997
The Nation - November 12, 1997
Bangkok – Today is the sixth anniversary of the Dili massacre in East Timor when an estimated 271 people were gunned down in cold blood by…
Report by Kabar dari PIJAR - 12 November 1997 (posted by Tapol)
Several meetings to highlight the situation in East Timor were held in Central Java on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the Santa Cruz…
November 11, 1997
MateBEAN - November 11, 1997
Jakarta - Xanana Gusmao told MateBEAN that he had never asked to be transferred to Nusakambangan, an Alcatraz-like prison island off the shore of…
Indonesia Times - November 11, 1997
Dili – Trials began Monday for five East Timorese accused of taking part in a rebel raid on a police station on May 28.
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MateBEAN - November 11, 1997 (Posted by the East Timor International Support Center)
Lospalos – Last 3 November 1997, dozens of East Timor youth conducted a demonstration in Los Palos, Lautem. The demo was a protest against the…
November 10, 1997
MateBEAN - November 10, 1997 (posted by East Timor International Support Center)
Jakarta – Rumours said that the Indonesian military, especially the intelligence community planned to ban IMPETTU (the East Timor Students'…
November 9, 1997
The Sunday Tribune - November 9, 1997
Liz Walsh – Three European ambassadors are to go to East-Timor early in the new yeras as part a new EU initiative announced in Dublin last week by…
November 4, 1997
Agence France Presse - November 4, 1997
Lisbon – East Timorese abroad will hold a national congress here next March, called by independence leader Xanana Gusmao, who is…
November 1, 1997
DIGEST No. 44 - 1 November, 1997
For the first time, clandestine East Timorese fighters are building bombs. When one went off accidentally recently it introduced a new element…
Jornal Timor Leste (Editorial) - November 1997
On 7 August, the District Council bestowed the title of Honorary Citizen of Brasilia on the Timorese Resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao…
October 29, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 29 October, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) is concerned for the safety of up to eight East Timorese men still in detention in Semarang and Dili,…
MateBEAN - October 29, 1997 (Posted by the East Timor International Support Center)
Semarang – Fifteen East Timor students from the East Timor Students' Association (IMAPTI) of Semarang had met members of Commission A (dealing…
October 28, 1997
South China Morning Post - October 28, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Two East Timorese men could face the death penalty if found guilty of trying to topple the Government through terrorism.…
October 24, 1997
Australian Associated Press - October 24, 1997
Stephen Spencer, Canberra – The federal ALP has moved to dramatically recast major areas of its foreign policy, in what it frankly admits is a…
October 22, 1997
Australian Associated Press - October 22, 1997
Karen Polglaze, Jakarta – Indonesia's military has tried to link Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Jose Ramos Horta with an alleged terrorist group…
Australian Associated Press - October 22, 1997 (excerpts)
Karen Polglaze, Jakarta – East Timorese independence advocate and Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta today rejected accusations by…
October 21, 1997
Agence France Presse - October 21, 1997 (abridged)
Canberra – Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta Tuesday accused the Australian government of covering up Indonesia's involvement in the deaths of…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - October 21, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) is concerned for the safety of Manuel Afonso and Lino Xavier Nunes who are currently in detention at…
October 19, 1997
Agence France Presse - October 19, 1997
Sydney – The president of the Timorese Democratic Party (UDT) said here Sunday he was asked by the Indonesian military to kill Australian…
The Australian - October 18-19, 1997
Don Greenlees – The Federal Government is facing a political contest over human rights after a decision by the ALP to call for the first time for…
October 18, 1997
The Globe and Mail - October 18, 1997
Jacqui Birchall, East Timor – The path of most despair - Site of death and oppression since 1975, East Timor had little to offer one intrepid…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 18, 1997
A report into the death of five Australia-based journalists at Balibo in East Timor 22 years ago will be examined today at a seminar at the…
October 17, 1997
Lusa - October 17, 1997
Sydney – The Indonesian army has arrested in the last days dozens of youths, in several raids to villages aimed at discredit the armed…
October 16, 1997
The Age - October 16, 1997
James Dunn – Timor watchers would have detected a touch of irony in a news item from Jakarta earlier this week. In a bizarre announcement Colonel…
Agence France Presse - October 16, 1997
Sydney – Five Australian journalists killed in East Timor were deliberately targeted by Indonesian troops and not caught in crossfire as had been…
Financial Times (London) - October 16, 1997
Sander Thoenes and Quentin Peel, Jakarta – Indonesia may walk out of talks with Portugal over the status of East Timor unless progress is made…
October 14, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 14, 1997
Craig Skehan and Louise Williams – In an attempt to secure political asylum for a colleague, jailed East Timorese independence leader Xanana…
October 13, 1997
The Australian - October 13, 1997
Military authorities in East Timor have seized a cache of 20 homemade bombs and detained two rebels accused of planning to destroy the territory's…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - October 13, 1997
Up to thirteen East Timorese men are believed to be still in detention in Semarang and Dili following two recent incidents involving home-made…
October 12, 1997
Reuter - October 12, 1997
Jakarta – An Indonesian military official has accused two East Timorese sheltering in the Austrian embassy in Jakarta of being terrorists.
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October 8, 1997
Reuters - October 8, 1997
Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta &150; Two died in fighting at an East Timor mountain shrine including a man who tried to erect a banner bearing the…
October 6, 1997
Jose Ramos-Horta - October 6, 1997
Lisbon &150; Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, emphatically denounced the recently reported murder, in East Timor, of one…
October 1, 1997
Hugh Ekeberg - September 31, 1997
[The original source of this posting (other that the individual's e-mail address and period that the report covers) was not specified - JB]…
September 29, 1997
Press Release by UNA - September 29, 1997
Mrs Wilhelmina Rennie, now of Ramsay, Isle of Man, flies to Australia on Friday October 10 to give evidence on the cover-up of her son…
Human Rights Watch/Asia - September 29, 1997
Human Rights Watch/Asia - September 29, 1997
In a new report, "Deteriorating Human Rights in East Timor," Human Rights Watch/Asia says the conflict in the disputed territory has intensified…
September 25, 1997
Lusa - September 25, 1997
Sydney – More than 10,000 Australians have said to be ready to provide shelter to East Timorese refugees facing deportation, despite…