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May 28, 1997
Reuters - May 28, 1997
May 27, 1997
Deutsche Presse Agentur - May 27, 1997
Jakarta – Separatist (sic) rebels in East Timor killed two Indonesian policemen and wounded seven in an ambush Tuesday, according to…
May 15, 1997
Publico - 15 May, 1997
Lisbon – The special representative of the National Council for Maubere Resistance (CNRM) does not believe that the forthcoming round of talks…
May 14, 1997
Amnesty International - May 14, 1997
Thirty-three of those arrested during a demonstration on 23 March 1997 at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili, East Timor during a visit to the territory by…
May 5, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - May 5, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) holds grave fears for the safety of four East Timorese men who were arrested on 30 March 1997 in the…
Tapol Press Release - May 5, 1997
Eleven activists, including three East Timorese and a journalist, were arrested early today Monday when they entered a factory site in the south…
May 2, 1997
Amnesty International - May 2, 1997
According to an unconfirmed report, at about 4.30pm on 21 April 1997 members of the security forces shot and arrested Edison Marcal…
ASIET - May 2, 1997
On May 2, the Full Federal Court has set aside a decision of the Refugee Review Tribunal that East Timorese refugee, Jong Kim Koe, was not a…
May 1, 1997
Progressive Magazine - May 1997
Eyal Press – Never underestimate the power of partisanship to alter the consciousness of America's pundits and policymakers. In the final months…
April 28, 1997
Wall Street Journal - April 28, 1997
Dili – Four men have been arrested in the killing of a member of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party during an election meeting in East…
April 27, 1997
Reuters - April 27, 1997
Jakarta – Five East Timorese, including a junior high school student, have gone on trial in the territory in connection with the death of a…
April 25, 1997
Amnesty International - April 25, 1997
Eighteen people believed to have been detained in East Timor on suspicion of links with the armed resistance in East Timor, Falintil, are feared…
April 23, 1997
Parool - April 23, 1997
Henk Bouwmans (Original in Dutch, translation by TAPOL), The Hague – The Dutch Parliament is furious about a letter from the Indonesian embassy…
April 22, 1997
Reuters - April 22, 1997
Jakarta – Fifteen East Timorese will face trial in the territory this week for their alleged involvement in the killing of a soldier on Christmas…
April 17, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 17 April, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre still holds grave fears for the safety of Ildefonso de Deus dos Santos (also known as "Maudino"), a…
April 14, 1997
Lusa - April 14, 1997
Geneva – The European Union (EU) resolution proposal introduced to the 53 annual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission…
April 13, 1997
Radio Australia - April 13, 1997
The Australian Greens party is calling on people to join an organisation which is offering to hide asylum seekers from East Timor if…
April 11, 1997
Lusa - April 11, 1997
Geneva – 378 people were reported missed from November 1995 to the same month last year in East Timor, according to a report by the…
South China Morning Post - April 11, 1997
Agencies in Dili – Independence leader Jose Ramos Horta said he had evidence troops killed four students who clashed with police in the East Timor…
The Nation, Bangkok - April 11, 1997
Jakarta – When thousands of people gathered in Dili on Christmas eve last year to welcome home East Timor Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo from Oslo,…
April 10, 1997
Various - April 10, 1997
According to reports today from AFP (in Jakarta) and Reuter (in Dili), the resistance has killed six and wounded five others in two ambushes in…
April 9, 1997
Associated Press - April 9, 1997
Dili – Secessionist rebels ambushed a vehicle in East Timor, killing four members of a village defense force and two others in the…
April 7, 1997
Indonesian Observer - April 7 1997
Indonesian Ambassador-at-large, Lopes Da cruz, has refuted foreign allegations that a special program has been developed to spread Islam in the…
Reuters - April 7, 1997
Geneva – The camera zooms in to show a man's blood-covered wrist, nailed to his prison plank. Men in khakis torture inmates with sticks, chair…
Ruters - April 7, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia said on Monday that Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta's claim that he had fresh evidence of widespread torture…
Tapol - April 7, 1997
34 people accused of being involved in the demonstration in Dili during the visit last month of Jamsheed Marker, the UN special envoy…
April 6, 1997
ASIET - April 6, 1997
ASIET has received the following message (abridged translation) from the East Timorese underground in Java.
Statement begins: Suharto regime…
Guardian Weekly - April 6, 1997
When Jose Ramos Horta won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with his fellow East Tmorese, Monsignor Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, there were hopes…
April 5, 1997
ASIET - April 5, 1997
ASIET has received the following message (abridged translation) from the East Timorese underground in Java
Statement begins: Suharto regime…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 5, 1997
Paul Mcgeough and agencies – Dozens of young East Timorese detained since the military broke up a peaceful demonstration in Dili two weeks ago are…
April 3, 1997
Australian Financial Review - April 3, 1997
Ian Howarth – BHP Petroleum was announced yesterday as the operator of a new multibillion-dollar oil and gas development in the Timor Sea, based…
April 2, 1997
Lusa - April 2, 1997
Lisbon – The Indonesian police has still under custody 25 out of the 33 East Timorese students arrested last week after breaking into…
April 1, 1997
Radio Australia - April 1, 1997
Indonesian police have freed 33 East Timorese who had been held since last Thursday after entering the Austrian embassy in Jakarta in…
March 31, 1997
Stop the Hawks coalition - March 31, 1997
Four East Timorese refugees and a Catholic priest arrested in East Trespass at British Aerospace Warton
This Easter morning, 31 March, four…
Tapol - March 31, 1997
In a letter dated 31 March 1997 to the chief of police of Jakarta, the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, the YLBHI, has asked whether…
Lusa - March 31, 1997
Jakarta – A member of Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission has accused the country's police of physically maltreating East…
Reuters - March 31, 1997
Jakarta – An East Timorese man has been jailed for one year for spreading hatred against Indonesian President Suharto after displaying a banner in…
Lusa - March 31, 1997
Lisbon – The Indonesian police has demanded 33 East Timorese youths arrested last week after breaking into the Austrian embassy in…
March 27, 1997
Agence France Presse - March 27, 1997
Jakarta – The UN special envoy on East Timor on Thursday met Jose Xanana Gusmao the jailed leader of the troubled territory's pro-…
Radio Australia - 27 March, 1997
A group of 33 East Timorese who sought refuge in Jakarta's Austrian embassy have left the complex for an undisclosed destination.
…Reuters - March 27, 1997
Jakarta – The United Nations special envoy for East Timor, Jamsheed Marker, said he met jailed rebel leader Xanana Gusmao on Thursday at the end…
March 26, 1997
Amnesty International - March 26, 1997
Twenty-four of those arrested in connection with a demonstration at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili on 23 March 1997 remain in custody and…
Agence France Presse - March 26, 1997
Jakarta – Forty-five people remained in detention in the East Timor capital on Monday, a day after a violent demonstration outside the hotel where…
ABC Radio Australia - March 26, 1997
The United Nations special envoy on East Timor has held talks in Jakarta with East Timorese who had demanded the meeting after earlier…
South China Morning Post - March 26, 1997
Agencies in Jakarta – A group of East Timorese youths gained a meeting with a UN special envoy yesterday after breaking into the Austrian Embassy…
Reuters - March 26, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian military said on Wednesday 33 East Timorese youths now inside the Austrian embassy in Jakarta would be questioned once…
March 25, 1997
ABC News - March 25, 1997
Police in East Timor say they have charged 24 people with showing hatred towards the Indonesian government.
The laying of the…
ASIET News - March 25, 1997
ASIET has received information from the Jakarta based Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) that seven East Timorese youth have been shot dead,…
Reuters - March 25, 1997
Jakarta – Thirty-three East Timorese entered the Austrian embassy compound in Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding a meeting with visiting U.…
Reuters - March 25, 1997
Geneva – East Timor independence leader Jose Ramos Horta, quoting Catholic Church sources on the troubled island, said on Tuesday that…