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March 31, 1997
Lusa - March 31, 1997
Lusa - March 31, 1997
Lisbon – The Indonesian police has demanded 33 East Timorese youths arrested last week after breaking into the Austrian embassy in…
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…
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…
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…
March 27, 1997
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…
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.
…March 26, 1997
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…
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…
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…
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…
March 25, 1997
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,…
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…
Reuters - March 25, 1997
Geneva – East Timor independence leader Jose Ramos Horta, quoting Catholic Church sources on the troubled island, said on Tuesday that…
Reuters - March 25, 1997
Jakarta – Thirty-three East Timorese entered the Austrian embassy compound in Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding a meeting with visiting U.…
Suara Karya - March 25, 1997
From 48 anti integration people who attend the demonstration at Mahkota Timur Hotel, this Sunday (23/3), 24 of them were arrested and officially…
March 24, 1997
Antara News - March 24, 1997
Dili, E Timor – The UN Secretary General's special envoy for East Timor, Jamsheed Marker, said he will return to the province to gather more…
TAPOL - March 24, 1997
[Chronology of Mahkota Hotel incident, Dili 23 March 1997. Received from Jakarta on 23 March.]
Seven East Timorese youth are thought…
Antara News - March 24, 1997
Dili, E Timor – The visiting UN Secretary General's Envoy on East Timor, Jamsheed Marker, said here Saturday he was satisfied with the…
ABC Radio Australia - March 24, 1997
East Timorese youths have held a second demonstration in Dili over their failure to meet a special United Nations envoy.
Police…
Dow Jones News - March 24, 1997
Dili – About 50 East Timorese staged a non-violent protest Monday against Indonesian rule of their territory, a day after hundreds of…
Amnesty International - March 24, 1997
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of at least 48 East Timorese currently in detention following a demonstration in Dili on 23…
March 23, 1997
TAPOL - March 23, 1997
From Reuters 23 March
According to the Indonesian version, 48 people have been arrested after taking part in a violent (sic) anti integrasi…
Dow Jones News - March 23, 1997
Dili, Indonesia – Indonesian security forces clashed Sunday with East Timorese activists trying to see a U.N. envoy, killing two people and…
Associated Press - March 23, 1997
Dili, Indonesia – Indonesian security forces clashed Sunday with East Timorese activists trying to see a U.N. envoy, killing two people and…
March 22, 1997
The Australian - March 22, 1997
Patrick Walters, Baucau – The young men in black T-shirts came in their hundreds to the centre of Baucau. With sombre faces they linked arms and…
South China Morning Post - March 22, 1997
Joe Leahy, Dili – Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo said yesterday human rights abuses were continuing in East Timor…
Agence France Presse - March 22, 1997
Linawati Sidarto, Dili – A senior US government human rights official met with community leaders on the second day of a fact-finding visit to the…
March 21, 1997
Tapol - March 21, 1997
Manchester Magistrates today sentenced Stuart Cooper, 27 of Garwoods Road, South Manchester, to 14 days at Risley Prison (617…
South China Morning Post - March 21, 1997
Agencies in Jakarta – The UN special envoy to East Timor said yesterday that productive talks were needed to achieve an acceptable global solution…
March 20, 1997
The Australian - March 20, 1997
Patrick Walters, Baucau, East Timor – Pope John Paul II yesterday delivered one of his strongest messages on the East Timor problem, calling for a…
Dow Jones News Service - March 20, 1997
Jakarta – President Suharto Thursday told a top U.N. envoy who is here to discuss the conflict in East Timor that Indonesia's annexation of the…
Lusa - March 20, 1997
Geneva – Indonesia and other countries have sought barring East Timorese self-determination activist Jose Ramos Horta from addressing…
Associated Press - March 20, 1997
Alexander G. Higgins, Geneva – Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta rejected an opportunity Thursday to appear before the U.N. Human Rights…
March 19, 1997
South China Morning Post - March 19, 1997
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…
South China Morning Post - March 19, 1997
Joe Leahy, Dili – East Timor's new Catholic bishop, Monsignor Basilio do Nascimento, is said to be a man who is willing to stand up for the rights…
Agence France Presse - March 19, 1997
Geneva – Indonesia and other countries were applying pressure Wednesday to stop East Timor nobel peace prize winner Ramos Horta addressing the UN…
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…
Angkatan Bersenjata - March 19, 1997
Palembang – Two Hawk-200 aircraft purchased from the UK will arrive in Indonesia on Friday 21 March, completing the supply of 24 Hawk 200/100…
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…