Manchester Magistrates today sentenced Stuart Cooper, 27 of Garwoods Road, South Manchester, to 14 days at Risley Prison (617…
East Timor
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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
Patrick Walters, Baucau, East Timor – Pope John Paul II yesterday delivered one of his strongest messages on the East Timor problem, calling for a…
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…
Geneva – Indonesia and other countries have sought barring East Timorese self-determination activist Jose Ramos Horta from addressing…
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
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…
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…
Geneva – Indonesia and other countries were applying pressure Wednesday to stop East Timor nobel peace prize winner Ramos Horta addressing the UN…
Macau – The vice-rector of the University of East Timor, and other three Timorese, are currently under surveillance and may be…
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
Elizabeth Rau – Indonesian soldiers captured Constancio Pinto on his 28th birthday and beat him so severely over the next six days that his eyes…
Baltasar Sebastiao H Belo, Jose Maria Geronimo, Joao Budiono C Moraes (Joao Budiono da Costa), Gregorio Sequira Bento, Luis Afonso,…
All but four of those arrested in relation to disturbances in February in the Viqueque district of East Timor have now been released.…
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
Sydney – A pro-East Timor activist group has accused the Australian government of appeasing Indonesia and ignoring problems in the…
March 15, 1997
Geneva – Human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) has said that the human rights situation in East Timor is "extremely serious…
[Editorial page (unsigned editorials from the Times), full text.]
The Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady, founder of a $5 billion…
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…
Melbourne – Three East Timorese were killed during intense Indonesian military operations in the territory, a report by an Australian…
March 10, 1997
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
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
Jakarta – Indonesian police in the East Timorese enclave of Ambeno have arrested nine people over ethnic unrest there last month,…
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
[Interview with Mari Alkatiri, Fretilin secretary for external relations. Lisbon, Byline: Abel Coelho de Morais. Original Language: Portuguese…
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…
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
Washington – Increased political sensitivity here over U.S. ties to Indonesia has given advocates of independence for East Timor more hope of…
Dili, East Timor – The dossiers of the four suspects involved in the riots here last Dec 24 were returned by the District Attorney's…
[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…
According to The Sunday Age of South Africa on Sunday, 23 February, an employee at the Indonesian embassy in South Africa has asked…
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
In a few weeks time, Ireland's capital city will have a square named after the Timorese Resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao... The…
Dili – An estimated 6,000 East Timorese have burned tens of houses owned by Indonesians migrants after local people became enraged by…
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
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
Of those arrested in the Viqueque district of East Timor in relation to disturbances between 7 and 11 February, 105 have now been…
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
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
Dili – Col Mahidin Simbolon, the East Timor military commander,firmly denied unconfirmed reports that six people were killed in a…
Manuel de Oliveira, Mateus Goncalves, Renato dos Santos, Antonio (no surname), Manuel Alves , Berta (no surname)
The East Timor Human Rights…
Adelaide – Australia has said that it will stand firm in its policy of recognizing East Timor's annexation by Indonesia while backing…
Canberra – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told anti-integration activist Ramos Horta that Australia will not review its support to…
February 14, 1997
Geneva – The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureates, East Timorese Bishop D. Ximenes Belo and activist Jose Ramos Horta, have been…
Names: Acacio, 20;Adelino, 27;Agostinho Orlandor, 19;Agostinho, 19;Agustinho da Silva, 19;Alberto, 16;Aleixo da Carvalho, 24;Armando, 25;Armindo…
East Timorese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos Horta, has had talks in Adelaide with Australia's Foreign Minister,…
Names:
Tomas Caiware, 35
Fransisco Ximenes, 28
Celestino Jerronimo
Armindo Soares, 30
Gaspar Pinto, 19
Agostinho Orlandor, 19…
February 13, 1997
Tomas Caiware (35), Fransisco Ximenes (28), Celestino Jerronimo, Armindo Soares (30), Gaspar Pinto (19), Agostinho Orlandor (19), Evangel Menezes…
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…
Around one-hundred people are believed to have been detained by authorities in East Timor, following more than a week of unrest.…




