Joe Leahy – East Timor's new bishop has issued a firm warning he will not back down on human rights issues and says he supports some measure of…
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March 19, 1997
South China Morning Post - March 19, 1997
Lusa - March 19, 1997
Macau – The vice-rector of the University of East Timor, and other three Timorese, are currently under surveillance and may be…
March 18, 1997
Providence Journal - March 18, 1997
Elizabeth Rau – Indonesian soldiers captured Constancio Pinto on his 28th birthday and beat him so severely over the next six days that his eyes…
Amnesty International - March 18, 1997
Baltasar Sebastiao H Belo, Jose Maria Geronimo, Joao Budiono C Moraes (Joao Budiono da Costa), Gregorio Sequira Bento, Luis Afonso,…
Amnesty International - March 18, 1997
All but four of those arrested in relation to disturbances in February in the Viqueque district of East Timor have now been released.…
East Timor Action Network - March 18, 1997
On Monday, March 18, 4-5 PM, activists from around the country will risk arrest at the Indonesian Embassy on 2020 Mass. Ave. in a demonstration…
March 17, 1997
Lusa - March 17, 1997
Sydney – A pro-East Timor activist group has accused the Australian government of appeasing Indonesia and ignoring problems in the…
March 15, 1997
Lusa - March 15, 1997
Geneva – Human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has said that the human rights situation in East Timor is "extremely serious…
New York Times - March 15, 1997
[Editorial page (unsigned editorials from the Times), full text.]
The Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady, founder of a $5 billion…
March 13, 1997
swatson@banda.ntu.edu.au - March 13, 1997
[Re posting re Ausaid to East Timor in the form of working with the Indonesian government to aid East Timor, specifically in the area of…
Lusa - March 13, 1997
Melbourne – Three East Timorese were killed during intense Indonesian military operations in the territory, a report by an Australian…
March 10, 1997
Republika - March 10, 1997 (Abridged)
Minister of State Moerdiono said that the Indonesian Government will not allow a recommendation to go forward from the UN Commission on Human…
March 7, 1997
Kyodo - March 7, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rejected a plan by the United Nations to station a human rights commissioner in Jakarta to monitor the…
March 5, 1997
Straits Times - March 5, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian police in the East Timorese enclave of Ambeno have arrested nine people over ethnic unrest there last month,…
March 4, 1997
Reuters - March 4, 1997
Jakarta – Eight East Timorese men who entered the French embassy in Jakarta early on Tuesday will go to Portugal, an official of the…
March 3, 1997
Diario de Noticias - March 3, 1997
[Interview with Mari Alkatiri, Fretilin secretary for external relations. Lisbon, Byline: Abel Coelho de Morais. Original Language: Portuguese…
March 2, 1997
The Washington Post - March 2, 1997
Matthew Jardine – "Hello, Mister. Where are you from?"
I had just arrived at the tiny airport in Dili, capital of Indonesian-occupied East…
East Timor Action Network - March 2, 1997
On January 21, 1997, ETAN issued an Action Alert regarding the likely nomination of Stanley Roth as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian…
February 25, 1997
Inter Press Service - February 25, 1997
Washington – Increased political sensitivity here over U.S. ties to Indonesia has given advocates of independence for East Timor more hope of…
Antara - February 25, 1997
Dili, East Timor – The dossiers of the four suspects involved in the riots here last Dec 24 were returned by the District Attorney's…
NT News Darwin - February 25, 1997
[A summary was posted earlier, but parts got mangled by an unstable line. (Not as bad as the truth is mangled by Indonesian reports on East…
Kompas - February 25, 1997
According to The Sunday Age of South Africa on Sunday, 23 February, an employee at the Indonesian embassy in South Africa has asked…
The Straits Times - February 25, 1997
Ambeno, East Timor – Indonesian police have arrested three people and are hunting another who allegedly killed a man during unrest in East Timor…
February 24, 1997
Lusa - February 24, 1997
Dili – An estimated 6,000 East Timorese have burned tens of houses owned by Indonesians migrants after local people became enraged by…
Diario de Noticias - February 24, 1997
In a few weeks time, Ireland's capital city will have a square named after the Timorese Resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao... The…
February 22, 1997
South China Morning Post - February 22, 1997
Agencies in Dili and Jakarta – One man was killed and several others injured yesterday when 6,000 East Timorese set fire to the homes…
February 20, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - February 20, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre has received a report from reliable East Timorese sources relating to the suspected extra-judicial execution of…
February 19, 1997
Amnesty International - February 19, 1997
Of those arrested in the Viqueque district of East Timor in relation to disturbances between 7 and 11 February, 105 have now been…
Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs - February 19, 1997
What is described as a "process of decolonization" by Portugal is in fact a record of failure and ineptitude. In July 1975, the Portuguese…
February 18, 1997
ETRA - February 18 1997
It came to my attention the article of Sunday Observer of December 15, 1996 by Charlotte Clayton. As the person recently often used by the…
February 17, 1997
Antara - February 17, 1997
Canberra – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told anti-integration activist Ramos Horta that Australia will not review its support to…
Antara - February 17, 1997
Dili – Col Mahidin Simbolon, the East Timor military commander,firmly denied unconfirmed reports that six people were killed in a…
Lusa - February 17, 1997
Adelaide – Australia has said that it will stand firm in its policy of recognizing East Timor's annexation by Indonesia while backing…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - February 17, 1997
Manuel de Oliveira, Mateus Goncalves, Renato dos Santos, Antonio (no surname), Manuel Alves , Berta (no surname)
The East Timor Human Rights…
February 14, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre Urgent Action - February 14, 1997
Names: Acacio, 20;Adelino, 27;Agostinho Orlandor, 19;Agostinho, 19;Agustinho da Silva, 19;Alberto, 16;Aleixo da Carvalho, 24;Armando, 25;Armindo…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - February 14, 1997
Names:
Tomas Caiware, 35
Fransisco Ximenes, 28
Celestino Jerronimo
Armindo Soares, 30
Gaspar Pinto, 19
Agostinho…
ABC - February 14, 1997
East Timorese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos Horta, has had talks in Adelaide with Australia's Foreign Minister,…
Lusa - February 14, 1997
Geneva – The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureates, East Timorese Bishop D. Ximenes Belo and activist Jose Ramos Horta, have been…
February 13, 1997
TAPOL Press Release - February 13, 1997
One year on from the Scott Report, three organisations are threatening to take the Government to court for arming one of the world's most…
Amnesty International - February 13, 1997
Tomas Caiware (35), Fransisco Ximenes (28), Celestino Jerronimo, Armindo Soares (30), Gaspar Pinto (19), Agostinho Orlandor (19), Evangel Menezes…
ABC Radio Australia - February 13, 1997
Around one-hundred people are believed to have been detained by authorities in East Timor, following more than a week of unrest.…
February 11, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - February 11, 1997
Craig Skehan – New Zealand had created a foreign policy "headache" for Australia by revealing that it did not believe Indonesia's incorporation of…
February 10, 1997
Canberra Times - February 10, 1997
Ian McPhedran – The Indonesian Government has been severely embarrassed by a campaign of misinformation in the wake of a visit to Canberra last…
February 7, 1997
Kyodo - February 7, 1997
Jakarta – The government-appointed National Commission on Human Rights will investigate allegations that military personnel raped an East Timorese…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - February 7, 1997
124 Napier St Fitzroy 3065 Australia.PO BOX 1413 Collingwood 3066 AustraliaTel: 61 3 9415 8225 Fax: 61 3 9416 2746E-mail: etchrmel@peg.apc.org…
February 6, 1997
ACFOA Statement - February 6, 1997
[It is interesting to note that "self-determination" is not included in ACFOA's recommendations - JB]
The Australian Council for…
February 5, 1997
Agence France Presse - February 5, 1997
Canberra – Nobel laureate Jose Ramos Horta urged Australia Wednesday to press for an end to the continuing conflict in East Timor by proposing…
The Nation - February 5, 1997
Sonny Inbaraj, Bangkok – It was a moral victory for the second Asia-Pacific Conference on East Timor, or Apcet II as it was popularly known. The…
February 4, 1997
South China Morning Post - February 4, 1997
David Barber in Wellington – Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta and East Timor independence campaigners stormed out of New Zealand…
Agence France Presse - February 4, 1997
Paris – Four East Timorese youths who broke into the French embassy in Jakarta on Tuesday will leave for Portugal by Wednesday, the…