Timor's suffering women believe that a harsh program of 'ethnic dilution' is under way, writes Karen Kissane.
The first shock came when her…
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December 6, 1997
The Age - December 6, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - December 6, 1997
Paul Cleary in Canberra and Louise Williams in Jakarta – When Indonesia invaded East Timor 22 years ago, the population stood at 688,000 and was…
December 5, 1997
MateBEAN - December 5, 1997 (Posted by Tapol)
Dili – The identity of the four young men of Mau-bara, Liquisa is still a mystery. Witnesses interviewed by local journalists still can not gave…
Lusa - December 5, 1997
Macau – The Governor of East Timor, Abilio Osorio Soares, has ordered the police to arrest the leaders of the Movement for the…
MateBEAN - December 5, 1997
Dili – Lautem local government harassed the activity of the new East Timor Reconciliation Movement (GRPRTT). The movement itself was the…
December 4, 1997
Reuters - December 4, 1997
Jakarta – The bodies of four youths have been found in the troubled territory of East Timor and Indonesia's military has blamed their killings on…
December 3, 1997
Jawa Pos - December 3, 1997 (Unabridged translation posted by Tapol)
Three of Horta's bodyguards were arrested yesterday by Oxford police and held in a cell in St Aldate police station after being caught beating up…
Lusa - December 3, 1997
Jakarta – The chief police of Dili, Colonel Rismanto, said on Tuesday he did not know the whereabouts of three East Timorese students…
December 2, 1997
Lusa - December 2, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia announced on Monday that it had appointed new chiefs for the police and army in Dili, capital of East Timor.
…December 1, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - December 1, 1997
Grave fears are held for the safety of Bobby Xavier, Boaventura, Cristiano Conjaka and Gaspar da Silva who are currently in detention at POLDA (…
November 29, 1997
Agence France Presse - November 29, 1997
Jakarta – A student attacked a university lecturer in East Timor for trying to teach dispite a student boycott, a report here said Saturday.
…November 27, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - November 27, 1997
Concerns are still held for the safety of Bernandino Simao, Domingos da Silva, Francisco de Deus, Juvinal dos Santos and Silverio Baptista who…
Lusa - November 27, 1997
Jakarta – Six East Timorese will be on trial accused of committing violent acts during recent incidents between students and security…
November 26, 1997
Lusa - November 26, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian authorities arrested on Tuesday a Timorese who they accused of murdering a policeman in Dili on 24 December…
Green Left Weekly - November 26, 1997
Jon Land – The Indonesian government is refusing to allow six East Timorese sheltering for more than three months in the Austrian embassy in…
Green Left Weekly - November 26, 1997
Stuart Munckton and Arun Pradhan, Perth – On November 12, East Timorese and their supporters attended a protest at Parliament House to commemorate…
MateBEAN - November 26, 1997 (posted by East Timor International Support Centre)
Dili – The credibility and capability of the National Commission of Human Rights (KOMNAS HAM) to find out ABRI's brutality in the University of…
November 24, 1997
Kompas - November 24, 1997
Dili – Marzuki Darusman, deputy chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, who is leading a team investigating an incident in the…
November 21, 1997
South China Morning Post - November 21, 1997
Shocking photographs showing the alleged rape and torture of Timorese women by Indonesian soldiers were made public in Australia yesterday.
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East Timor Human Rights Centre - November 21, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) has received further information about the East Timorese students who were injured and detained on 14…
November 20, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - November 20, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The imprisoned East Timorese independence leader, Xanana Gusmao, has been reported as taking "full responsibility" for…
Lusa - November 20, 1997
Jakarta – Jailed East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao admitted that he had authorized the assembling of bombs as head of the self-…
November 19, 1997
Green Left Weekly - November 19, 1997
The sixth anniversary of the Indonesian military's massacre of mourners at Dili's Santa Cruz cemetery on November 12, 1991, was commemorated in…
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
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…
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…
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
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…