Jakarta – An Indonesian court has been asked to sentence 14 East Timorese to one year in jail for taking part in an anti-Indonesia protest during…
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August 27, 1997
Reuters - August 27, 1997
August 25, 1997
Reuters - August 25, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia dismissed on Monday a proposal from an East Timor rebel leader for the former Portuguese colony to have a similar relationship…
August 23, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – President Soeharto will not approve the release of the jailed East Timorese guerilla leader, Xanana Gusmao…
Tapol - August 23, 1997
[On Indonesia's Independence Day, Sunday 17 August 1997, TEMPO Interaktif met Xanana Gusmao at Cipinang Prison in Jakarta. He is known to his…
August 16, 1997
Reuters - August 16, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian Justice Minister Utoyo Usman said on Saturday the government had given a three-month reduction to the jail term being served…
August 15, 1997
SiaR - August 15 1997
Xanana Gusmao, the commander of the pro-independence forces, FALINTIL, who is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence, has declared that…
August 13, 1997
Reuters - August 13, 1997
Michael Perry, Sydney – South African President Nelson Mandela's mediation in East Timor could provide the "face-saving" device for Indonesian…
August 4, 1997
Lusa - August 4, 1997
Pretoria – The South African President, Nelson Mandela, has said he invited East Timorese leaders to visit the African country in…
August 2, 1997
Reuters - August 2, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia has finally received a letter from South African President Nelson Mandela suggesting the possible release of jailed East…
August 1, 1997
American Reporter - August 1, 1997
Andreas Harsono, Jakarta – On a hot Jakarta evening two weeks ago, in a grand colonial-style guest house at Indonesia's Merdeka Presidential…
July 31, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 31 July, 1997
Grave fears are held for the safety of 14 East Timorese men whose whereabouts is unknown following their arrest on 2 July, 1997, during an assault…
Reuters - July 31, 1997
Jakarta – Pro-independence rebels in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor have killed three Indonesian soldiers, military…
July 30, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 30 July, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) is concerned that no independent investigation has been undertaken into the alleged death on 25 June,…
Agence France Presse - July 30, 1997
Pretoria – South African President Nelson Mandela called on Indonesia Wednesday to free jailed East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, saying…
July 28, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - July 28, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) fears for the safety of Santina Morreira Belo, aged 22, and her baby aged under one, who disappeared…
Text of report by Portuguese radio - July 28, 1997
The UDT [Timorese Democratic Union] has reservations regarding [South African President] Nelson Mandela's diplomatic initiative on East Timor. The…
July 27, 1997
Digest No. 38 (Indonesian news with comment) - July 27, 1997
[A version of this appears in the latest edition of the Darwin-based AustralAsian]
Picture the scene. East Timor resistance hero Xanana…
July 23, 1997
Republika - 23 July, 1997 (from Tapol)
Johannesburg – South Africa's President Nelsom Mandela issued a statement through the President's Office confirming reports of his meeting with…
July 18, 1997
Reuters - July 18, 1997
Jakarta – One East Timorese rebel resisting Indonesia's rule in the former Portuguese colony has been killed in an attack on the 21st anniversary…
July 14, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - July 14, 1997
Concerns are held for Joaquim Moreira and up to 84 other East Timorese people who may still be in detention following their arrest in June 1997(…
July 10, 1997
Agence France Presse - July 10, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities will bring 33 people to court over protests in the capital of East Timor during the visit of a United Nations…
Tapol - July 10, 1997
According to an AFP report of 5 July, based on a report from Antara news agency of the same day, 'relatives of the slain East Timorese rebel David…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 10 July, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) holds grave fears for the safety of five East Timorese men still in military custody following their…
July 4, 1997
Lusa - July 4, 1997
Dili – Indonesian securities forces have killed one East Timorese guerilla member and captured 14 others during an operation on…
Agence France Presse - July 4, 1997
Lisbon – UN and Indonesian officials are to set up an inquiry into the death of the deputy leader of East Timorese rebels fighting Indonesian…
Amnesty International - July 4, 1997
It is believed that the fifth man arrested in Kaibada, near Baucau in East Timor on 25 June, is Cesario da Costa. The five included David Alex,…
July 3, 1997
Agence France Presse - July 3, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian military commander in troubled East Timor Thursday dismissed reports that rebel leader David Alex was still alive but…
July 1, 1997
The Guardian - July 1, 1997
The guerrilla leader David Alex who has died aged 50 after being captured by Indonesian forces, had fought in the mountains of East Timor since…
June 28, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - June 28, 1997
By Miranda Sissons, International Relations Program, Yale University. Summary of a forthcoming publication of the East Timor Human Rights Centre…
June 27, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - June 27, 1997
The ETHRC has received an urgent appeal from Baucau, East Timor, where 85 East Timorese people were arrested between 5 June and 16 June 1997. One…
Tapol - June 27, 1997
A Reuter report on 27 June quoted an army lieutenant as saying by phone from Dili: 'David Alex was buried in a public cemetery in Dili on Thursday…
June 26, 1997
ETISC Australia - June 26, 1997
We have good reason to believe that the Baucau commander of the East Timor armed Resistance, David Alex, is still alive contrary to claims by the…
ETISC Australia - June 26, 1997
We are deeply concerned over the safety of five East Timorese arrested together with the Baucau commander of the East Timor armed Resistance,…
June 23, 1997
East Timor International Support Center, Darwin - June 23, 1997
There is currently a climate of fear in East Timor with the launch of a sweep-up operation, called Gerakan Tuntas (Annihilation Campaign) , by the…
June 20, 1997
Amnesty International - June 20, 1997
Military claims that East Timorese armed resistance leader, David Alex, died yesterday while in the custody of the Indonesian military again…
June 19, 1997
ETISC, Darwin - June 19, 1997
We have received an urgent warning from a reliable source in Indonesia that the Indonesian Armed Forces (Abri), are planning an all-out offensive…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - June 19, 1997
Jakarta – On the eve of U.N. sponsored peace talks in New York, Indonesian military commanders in East Timor on Thursday vowed to…
Amnesty International - June 19, 1997
Three men, Virgilio dos Santos Pinto, Cancio da Costa and Gil Fernandes, arrested on or around 14 June 1997, are believed to be in military…
June 17, 1997
Interpress News Service - June 17, 1997
Farhan Haq, United Nations – Indonesian troops have stepped up a campaign of arrests and atrocities against the civilian population in East Timor…
June 16, 1997
Media release - June 16, 1997
The 'East Timorese Students Movement for Peace' (METLP) distributed a document addressed to the Head of the Parliament of Indonesia on Monday 16…
June 15, 1997
East Timor Action Network - June 15, 1997
The East Timor Action Network (ETAN) plans to intensify its congressional lobbying campaign in the aftermath of a flury of activity related to…
June 14, 1997
Jakarta Post - June 14, 1997
Dili – Col. Salamat Sidabutar took over his new post as chief of the Wiradharma military command yesterday and pledged to crack down harder on…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 14, 1997
Dili – On the outskirts of Baucau near the military airport, two stones on the road mark the place where Amaro Belo, a 35-year-old East Timorese,…
June 13, 1997
Agence France Presse - June 13, 1997
Geneva – The UN Development Programme mistakenly included East Timor in a item on Indonesia in a 1997 report, a spokeswoman said here…
Lusa - June 13, 1997
Sydney – Indonesian security forces killed on June 9 an East Timorese youth in the province of Viqueque, after accusing him of…
June 11, 1997
Agence France Presse - June 11, 1997
Jakarta – An Indonesian court in troubled East Timor has jailed a youth to six months and 15 days for involvement in violence in the main town of…
June 9, 1997
Agence France Presse - June 9, 1997
Jakarta – One of four men arrested in connection with a market fire in the East Timor capital Dili has been implicated in an attack on a truck…
June 8, 1997
Suara Pembaruan (abridged) - June 8, 1997
Dili – Four out of six members of GPK from Baucau and Viqueque, Timor Timur, who had been caught to have torched a public market (Old Mercado) in…
Far Eastern Economic Review - June 8, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian security officers have so far captured 120 members of the separatist guerrilla movement in troubled East Timor after a recent…
June 6, 1997
Radio Australia - June 6, 1997
East Timorese resistance leader Jose Ramos Horta has condemned any targeting of civilians by the resistance movement.
He made…