Subject: Renetil Letter to UN Secretary General,
Kofi Annan
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:53:27 +0000
From: etio@ozemail.com.auRenetil Letter to UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan
Renetil (National East Timorese Students Resistence - UK Group) 55 Maidcroft Road
Oxford OX4 3EH
Mr Kofi Annan 15 September, 1998 Secretary General United Nations New York USA
Your Excellency
We, the Timorese in exile in the United Kingdom, want to thank you for the strong
efforts made by you and your staff to help resolve the long and destructive conflict in
our country. We find it diffi We present to you a petition signed by us and many friends
and supporters in the United Kingdom.
Recent news of discussion on autonomy for East Timor does cause us some fear especially
when our representives, and particularly our leader Xanana Gusmao, is not included in
these talks about our fut Xanana is not the only Timorese prisoner. Many of us continue to
be illegally held in prisons both known and uknown and all the people in East Timor are
still prisoners in our own land. We demand the We Timorese have experienced immense
suffering at the hands of a brutal army who still occupy our land instilling fear in the
hearts of the people. B.J. Habibie is part of the forces of dictatorship We respect that
autonomy can be part of a process leadi ng to our freedom but we have no confidence that
any true autonomy will be respected by the Indonesian military and who would undoubtedly
continFinally, whatever autonmy is agreed by us, through our leaders and representives, it
can only be a stage in th e process of the people of East Timor preparing for our
self-determination and freedom, w In the hope of an end to our struggle we thank you for
your support and belief in our rights.
A luta continua
Acacio Marques Germano F. Gomes Ezequiel F. D'Oliveira
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