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| ETAN's John
M. Miller
(with bullhorn), expressing the demands of demonstrators to
Indonesian officials at their consulate in Manhattan, calls for the safe return of East Timorese
refugees, January 2000. Protests
also took place in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston
and Washington, DC. |
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2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000 and
earlier
Timor Postings, a
separate section of this site, offers news reports from sources
worldwide.
2008
United States
Should Support Justice, not Endorse Impunity, says ETAN; Administration Should Respond to CAVR
Report, Not Endorse CTF (April 4)
Background on
Kopassus and Brimob (April)
ETAN/WPAT:
Comments on the on the U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices for 2007 (March 30)
ETAN/WPAT:
Letter to Secretary of State Rice on
Recent Arrests in W Papua (March 25)
Joint T-L Civil Society Petition:
Dissolve the CTF, Try the
Perpetrators of Crimes and Provide Reparations to the Victims!
(March 18)
Groups write to Secretary of
Defense Robert M. Gates on Indonesia
(March 17)
Read the ETAN leaflet that former U.S. Amb. to Indonesia Edward Masters
called
"scurrilous":
Remembering
A Shared History: Suharto and the United
States (March 7)
FPIF: Indonesia’s
Arms Appetite by Frida Berrigan (February
27)
ETAN
statement on attacks on the President
and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste
(Feb. 11)LH:
UN sets justice bar low, then declines to jump, UNMIT fails to carry
out its mandate to investigate 1999 crimes; also
La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council and
TAPOL/Progressio letter to Foreign Office (6
February)
ETAN/WPAT:
Letter to U.S. Ambassador Hume on His Condolences
on Death of Suharto (January 29)
Accountability for
Suharto’s Crimes Must Not Die With Him Also
Bahasa Indonesia;
Tetum;
ETAN: Backgrounder on Life and
Career Suharto Also Bahasa Indonesia:
Tentang
Soeharto
(January 27)
2007
Bush Administration Trains Members of Indonesian Terrorist
Groups;
Abandons Human Rights for Indonesia to Train Kopassus, Brimob; Bahasa Indonesia:
Pemerintahan President Bush
Melatih Para Anggota Kelompok Teroris Indonesia
(December 19)
ETAN Statement on military assistance to
Indonesia in the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations bill (HR 2764)
(December 18)
As UN
Secretary-General Visits Timor, Rights Groups Urge Leadership for
Justice and Accountability
(December 13)
ETAN:
Guide to U.S. Security
Assistance to Indonesia and East Timor (November)
ETAN: An Overview Justice
Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste
(revised, November)
As Security Council Visits Timor-Leste, Rights Groups
Call For Justice and Accountability
(November)
Australian Inquest into Balibo Journalists Killings in East Timor Shows
Ongoing Need to Pursue Justice and Accountability
(November 16)
Briefing on Special Autonomy Issue in West Papua
Letter to Secretary of State Rice on Iwanggin Sabar Olif
(October 31)
IFET: Statement to the Alternative Public Hearing against the Indonesia-Timor-Leste
Truth and Friendship Commission
Text:
English,
Tetum
(September 29)
Report of the Solidarity
Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) On the Timor-Leste 2007 Parliament
Election (English and
Tetum)
(August 25)
SOMET Calls for End to Violence
and Instability in Timor-Leste (August 9)
The UN Right Not to
Cooperate with Joint Indonesia-Timor "Truth" Commission Farce
(July 28)
Indonesian Military “Counterterrorism” Equals More Repression
(July 24)
SOMET Congratulates the People
of Timor-Leste on Parliamentary Election (July 4)
Indonesia: Remove
Timor-indicted colonel from West Papua; Crimes against humanity suspect
a threat to Papuans (June 28)
Election Observation
Teams to monitor in all 13 Districts for East Timorese election
(June 26)
U.S. House of
Representatives Calls for Human Rights Accountability and Military Reform in
Indonesia (June 22)
Rights Groups Call For End To
Farcical Joint Timor-Indonesia Commission; Write Presidents of
Indonesia and Timor-Leste (May 24)
SOMET:
Amendments to the Law on the
Election of the National Parliament (May 23)
Report of the
Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) on the Timor-Leste
2007 Presidential Elections (also in
Tetum)
(May 22)
ETAN:
Indicted Indonesian General Leads
Joint Military Exercise with U.S. (April
26)
Report of the Solidarity
Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) on the first
round of the Timor-Leste 2007 Presidential Elections (also
in Tetum) (April
18)
SOMET Congratulates the People of Timor-Leste on First National Election
(April 10)
ETAN: Statement to House of
Representatives, Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs on the fiscal year 2008 budget
(March 29)
ETAN: Submission to Joint
Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry into Maritime Arrangements Treaty with
East Timor (March 15)
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TIMOR & INDONESIA ACTION
NETWORK
Winter 2007
Issue Online
Articles on Timor's Crisis; Justice; Indonesia Military
Assistance; Pres. Ford; West Papua and more |
ETAN: An Overview Justice
Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste (February)
ETAN:
Joint Commission Unlikely to Further Truth or
Friendship Between Timor and Indonesia (February
22)
2006
Democracy Now!:
President Gerald Ford Dies at 93; Supported Indonesian Invasion of East Timor
that Killed 1/3 of Population
Joe Nevins: A Single Standard for
Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein
Ford, Kissinger & 1975
page
ETAN:
Groups Urge Bush Not to Offer Military
Assistance to Indonesian President on Visit
(November 18)
Bush's Big Indonesian Photo-Op by Ben
Terrall and John M. Miller (November 27)
ETAN:
On 15th Anniversary of Timor Massacre Rights Network Calls for Justice;
ETAN Urges Administration, New Congress to Support International Tribunal
(November 12)
Joyo/Pantau:
Murder
At Mile 63: Part One of a Report on the Timika Killings
(November 10)

U.S.
Reps urge fully-integrated Timor mission (October 24)
Commission of Inquiry Report Can
Help Timor-Leste Overcome Divisions, But Context of Recent Violence Needs
Attention (October 17)
ETAN on MySpace
(October)
ETAN Reaffirms and Strengthens
Work to Support Timor-Leste (September)
Int'l Federation for East Timor
Urges Fully Integrated UN Mission Calls for Australian troops to forego separate
command (August 25)Statement of Civil Society Supporting a UN-led security presence in
Timor-Leste (August 22)
TAPOL,
ETAN Call UN Proposals on Justice for Timor-Leste “Inadequate”
(August 7)
Joint Letter to UN Secretary-General
on Justice (July 21)
U.S. Representatives Call on
Secretary of State Rice to Support Robust UN Mission to East Timor
(July 18)
Listen to
ETAN's Forum on the crisis in
East Timor (June 29)
LH
Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste
(June 22)
Secretary of Defense
Must Not Undermine Reform, Rights on Visit to Jakarta
(June 6)
Statement by the East
Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) on the Current Violence in
Timor-Leste (May 27)
Listen to ETAN's Charles Scheiner, recently returned from East Timor, on
WNYC's
Leonard Lopate Show;
Democracy
Now!;
WBEZ's Worldview;
WNUR's
This Is Hell
ETAN Calls for
Restrictions on Military Assistance to Indonesia to Promote Reform and
Accountability; House Committee Would Turn a Blind Eye to Rights
Violations, Impunity (May 25)
Groups Urge Congress to
Restrict Assistance to Indonesian Military in Legislative Mark-up (May18)
Groups Urge Australia to
Adopt Humane Refugee Policies Toward Papuans; Oppose Proposed Changes to
Migration Law (May 11)
ETAN Statement on Recent Events
in Timor-Leste; Country Fragile, International Assistance, Justice Still
Needed (May 9)
Key Senators
Criticize Waiver Allowing U.S. Weapons Exports to Indonesia;
Cite Administration's Lack of Strategy to Encourage
Accountability and Reform (May 3)
Jubilee USA and ETAN
Challenge Wolfowitz to Address Roots of Corruption by Canceling
Indonesia's Suharto-Era Debt (April 11)
U.S. Should Not Cozy Up to Kopassus; Notorious
Military Unit Commander Participates in Hawaii Pentagon Conference (April 6)
ETAN Denounces Plans to Sell
Lethal Equipment to Indonesian Military Expresses Alarm at Expanding Engagement
(March 29)
Rights Groups Write UN
Secretary-General on Justice for East Timor (March
24)
Solidarity message on KONTRAS 8th anniversary
(March) March 16 Protest at
Indonesian Embassy in Washington (March 16)
As Secretary of State Visits Jakarta,
Rights Group Urges U.S. Policy on Indonesia Promoting Justice and Rights, Not
Military Might (March 13)
ETAN,
Other Groups Write State Department on Indonesia Military Aid
(March 8)
ETAN
activist Luis Kemnitzer, Dead at 77 (March 2)
ETAN Rejects Added Aid for
Indonesian Military; Responds to Bush Administration’s Waiver Justification
(February 27)
Indonesia Must Confront Its Past, Accept Responsibility and
Deliver Justice for Timor Atrocities; ETAN Posts
Entire Timor Truth Commission Report on Website
(February 16)
ETAN
Urges Veto of Timor- Leste Defamation Law
(February 6)
ETAN Calls for Broad International
Discussion of Timor Truth Commission Report;
CAVR
Report's Recommendations (January 20)
Letter to Australia on
Papuan Asylum Seekers (January
20) Timor-Leste National Alliance for
an International Tribunal Letter to UN Secretary-General (January 19)
ETAN Statement on
Timor-Leste/Australia Maritime Arrangement
(also in
Bahasa Indonesia)
(January
15)
ETAN Urges Secretary of State to
Promote Justice and Rights, Not Military Might, During Upcoming Trip to
Indonesia [Please note Secretary Rice has postponed her trip.] (January 6)
2005
On 30th Anniversary of
Indonesian Invasion of East Timor, ETAN Calls for Justice, Understanding of U.S.
Role (December 7)
ETAN Calls for Release of East
Timor Truth Commission Report Urges Full Discussion of Its Findings
& Recommendations (December
1)
East Timor Bishop Ricardo to UN
Secretary-General on Justice (December 5)
ETAN Condemns Administration
Waiver Permitting Weapons Sales to Indonesia (November
22)
Human Rights First:
U.S.
Congress Calls for Justice for Slain Indonesian Human Rights Hero;
Human rights group says investigation and prosecution falls short
(9 November)
U.S. Congress Upholds Pressure for Human Rights
for Indonesia, Timor; Law Will Restrict Military Assistance for Indonesia (3
November) Ed McWilliams:
Response to Efforts
to Deny Crimes Against Humanity in West Papua (November)
Dissident Voice:
The
Mass Killings in Indonesia After 40 Years by John Roosa and Joseph
Nevins (October 30)
La'o Hamutuk
Protests AUSAID Denial of Funds to Timorese NGO (6 October)
U.S. Groups Call on Congress to Maintain
Restrictions on Military Aid to Indonesia; Urge Conference Committee to
Adopt Senate Provisions of Foreign Aid Bill (September 22)
U.S. Catholic Bishops on Military Aid to
Indonesia (September 20)
Members of Congress Urge President Yudhoyono of Indonesia to
Open up Access to West Papua; Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Condemned
(September 16)
ETAN, other NGOs Write
Security Council and Secretary-General on Commission of Experts & Timor Justice
(August 22)
Members of Congress Urge
President Bush Not to Normalize Military Ties with Indonesia;
Rewarding “Half-Steps” to Reform Undeserved (August 18)
ETAN
Praises U.S. Senate for Upholding Commitment to Human Rights for
Indonesia, Timor; Bill Would Maintain
Restrictions on Indonesian Military Assistance (July
20) Protest
Urges
Fair Deal for East Timor: Colorful
Demonstration Planned at Invite-Only Dinner for Australia's Prime
Minister Howard (July 19)
U.S. Congress Calls for
International Commitment to Justice for East Timor;
Urges Indonesia, Timor to Endorse Recommendations of UN Experts’
Commission (July 18)
Int'l NGOs write
SG on Commission of Experts report (July
11) ET NGO Declaration:
"Justice Must be Given to
the Victims of Serious Crimes" (July)
E Timor National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
Happy Independence Day to
USA
(July 4)
In Memoriam:
Nathan Osborn 1957-2005 ETAN
Accuses House of Representatives of Selling Out Rights, Reform;
Bill Would Lift Restrictions on Military Assistance to Indonesia
(June 29)
ETAN Supports UN
Commission’s Call for International Involvement in Justice for East
Timor;
Executive Summary of COE
Report (June 28)
Seattle
High Schoolers Help E Timor School (June)
The Question of U.S.
Military Assistance for Indonesia (June)
More Than 50 Groups Urge
Bush Not to Offer Military Assistance to Indonesian President (May
24) Reported Australia/Timor-Leste
Oil Deal "Cheats" East Timorese, Says ETAN (May
17) Announcing
the East Timor and Indonesia Action
Network: ETAN Changes Name and Mission Statement;
Group’s Current Work and Goals More in Focus (May)
Greetings on the
Formation of Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) (April 28)
Greetings to Fifth International
Solidarity Meeting on West Papua (April 28)
On
Anniversary of East Timor Church Massacre UN
Must Take Responsibility for Justice (April 6)
Groups Urge Indonesian
Cooperation with UN Commission of Experts (April 5)
Background on Paul Wolfowitz,
Indonesia and East Timor (March)
Truth Known, East Timorese Need Justice;
Accountability for Rights Crimes Remains an International
Responsibility (March
9)
Congress Urges
Expeditious Talks on Permanent Maritime Boundary for East Timor;
Calls on Australia to Create Trust Fund for Disputed Revenue
(March 4)
ETAN
Condemns Restoration of IMET for Indonesia;
Calls State Department's Certification Fraudulent and a Setback
for Justice, Human Rights and Reform (February
27) New Facts Link Indonesian Military to
"Terror Attack" on U.S. Citizens; Rice May Release IMET to Indonesia
Before Investigation Concludes (February
17)
ETAN: Tsunami Must Not Sweep Away Restrictions on Indonesian Military
(January 13)
Dozens of Faith-Based, Development, Advocacy Groups Call on United
States to Tackle Debt Crisis for Tsunami-Affected Nations (January
10)
NGO Letter to Secretary of State Powell on
Aceh Crisis (January 4)
2004
ETAN/NI/ILRF:
U.S. Groups Urge Indonesia to Put People over
Politics; Humanitarian Catastrophe Adds to Human-Created Destruction in
Aceh (December 30)
Indonesian
NGOs on Joint Truth Commission (December 27)
ET NGOs
Response to the Indonesian and East Timor
governments to establish a Truth and Friendship Commission
(December 21)
IFET Writes UN Secretary General on Justice, Truth and Commission of
Experts (December 21)
U.S. NGOs Write
Indonesian President on Murder of Rights Activist Munir
(December 3)
U.S.
Congress Maintains Restrictions on Military Assistance for Indonesia
(November 21)
East Timor NGOs
Urge U.S. Congress to End Assistance to Indonesian Military & to Work
for Justice & International Tribunal (November
11)
ETAN Urges New Indonesian
President to Pursue Justice for Victims of East Timor’s Occupation
(October 19) Members of Congress Oppose U.S.
Assistance to Unreformed, "Corrupt" Indonesian Military
(October 12)
Senator Feingold on justice for East Timor
(October 7)
ET NGO
statement on ET-Australia boundary talks
(September 29)
Submission to the
TSO and TSDA regarding the Proposed Petroleum Regime
(September)
U.S. Senate Continues
Restrictions on Military and IMET Assistance for Indonesia (September
24) “Military Has Already Won” Indonesian
Election, Says ETAN,
Neither Candidate Likely to Limit
Military (Sept. 18)
TL Nat'l
Alliance for Int'l Tribunal Letter to Secretary
General (September 17)
U.S. Groups Oppose U.S. Military
Assistance to Indonesia, Tell Secretary of State that Military
Remains “Unreformed” Rights Violator (Sept. 15)
ETAN Statement on Fifth
Anniversary of East Timor’s Independence Vote (August 28)
UN and U.S. Must Commit to Justice for Timor
after Indonesian Court Acquits Officer (August 6)
Congress Disappointed
with Secretary Rumsfeld’s Plans for U.S.-Indonesia Military Ties
(August 5)
West
Papua Rights Organizations Condemn Statement by
U.S. Attorney General on
Killing of Americans at Freeport Mine; Urge
U.S. Congress To Push for
a Full & Impartial
Investigation (August 4)
Members of Congress Stress
Concern Over East Timor-Australia Boundary Dispute During Australia Free
Trade Debate (July 21) JSMP:
East
Timorese civil society demand the creation of a Commission of Experts
by UN (July 19)
Congress Urges
UN to Actively Pursue Justice for East Timor; 78 Representatives Write UN Secretary-General
(July 6)
Senators call
for UN Special Rep. on Aceh/Papua (June 28)
House Subcommittee Continues Ban on Military
Assistance for Indonesia; Calls for IMET,
Military Sales to Remain Restricted (June 24)
RFK
Memorial Center for Human Rights Questions Dept. of Justice Announcement
on West Papua Ambush (June 26)
Rights Groups Urge
Secretary-General to Appoint Commission on Justice for East Timor
(June 24)
ETAN
Urges Visiting Australian Prime Minister to Follow Rule of Law in Talks
with East Timor (June 3)
Rights
Group Calls on East Timor Leadership to Respect Judicial Independence;
Demands UN and U.S. Create International Tribunal to Try Wiranto
and Others (May 28)
East Timor Action
Network Urges International Support for Justice and Control of Resources
on Newest Nation’s Birthday (May 20)
Australia Fails
Fairness Test for East Timor; Complex Trade
Agreement with U.S. Undermines Australia's Claim on Timor Boundary Talks
(May 17)
UN Must Not Shortchange Justice for East Timor
(May 14)
Rights
Group Says Wiranto Must Stand Trial, Not Stand
for Office (April 21)
East Timor
Environmentalist Wins Top Global Award (April 19)
Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea:
Timor Sea Movement Press
Release on Talks (April 19) MKOTT:
Movement Against the
Occupation of the Timor Sea Launched
(April 14)
Former
Secretary of Defense William Cohen Misleads 9-11
Commission; U.S. Assistance to the
Indonesian Military Aided Terrorism (March
25)
Memo to U.S. Delegation
to UN Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session (March 03)
Congress Tells Australia to Treat
East Timor Fairly; Urges Expeditious Talks
on Permanent Maritime Boundary (March 9)
East Timor National Alliance for an International
Tribunal:
East Timorese Political
Leaders Must Not Interfere with Justice (Feb 15)
Global Wake-Up Call for Australia: Stop
Stealing East Timor’s Resources & Trampling on
Its New Independence (Jan. 26) E Timor Coalition (CIITT):
Statement for Australia
Day (Jan. 26)
Congress
Reinstates Ban on Military Training for Indonesia, Defies Administration
(Jan. 22)
World Bank Called Upon to Observe Labor Rights Standards in Treatment of
Subcontractors Employees in East Timor
(Jan. 21)
Indonesia
Flexes Military Muscle in Border Dispute with East Timor;
Where Is International Reaction? (Jan. 21)
ETAN Praises
Placement of Indonesian War Criminals on State Department Watch List,
Calls for Additional Steps to Achieve Justice
(Jan. 20) E Timor Alliance for International Tribunal:
Statement to the
Technical Assessment Mission from UN Headquarters, New York (Jan.
15)
2003
ETAN:
Where Is the Justice? UN, U.S. Must
Break the Silence on Crimes in East Timor Since Invasion;
Impunity Encourages Violations in Indonesia,
Uncertainty in East Timor;
E Timor Alliance for
International Tribunal recalls Invasion Day
(December
7)
Lao Hamutuk statement to
Development Partners Conference;
Statement to TL DPM from
Rede Feto Timor-Leste- East Timor Women's Network (December 3-5)
NGOs Urge
Howard to Play Fair in Boundary Talks with East Timor
with Australia's response (Nov 7) ETAN:
U.S. Senate
Bans Military Training for Indonesia, Concerned about Lack of Progress in Prosecuting Killers of U.S. Citizens
(Oct 29) ETAN:
Bush Must Set Record
Straight: No Military Assistance for Indonesia (Oct 21)
ETAN
Regrets Death of Sergio de Mello (August 19) ETAN:
Indonesian Court's Final East Timor
Sentence "A Joke" (August 5)
Lao Hamutuk:
Letter to UN on
UNMISET's present and the UN's future in E Timor (July 25)
U.S. House of
Representatives Reiterates "No IMET for Indonesia" (July 24) IHRN/ETAN:
Bush Administration
Plans to Resume Training Indonesian Military for this Year (July 18)
IHRN/ETAN: House
of Representatives Reinstates Restrictions on Military Training for
Indonesia (July 15)
IHRN/ETAN
Condemn Bush Administration Move to Restore
Military Training for Indonesia, Urge Congress to Strongly Protest;
American Survivor of Ambush and Former Foreign Service Officer
Call for Continued Ban (July 14) Nat'l Alliance:
July 4 Protest
in E Timor (July 4)
U.S. Congress Demonstrates
Strong Support for Justice for East Timor (June 27) IHRN/ETAN:
Congress Expresses
Deep Concern about Military Offensive and Human Rights Violations in
Aceh Representatives Criticize Indonesia’s Use of U.S. Military
Equipment (June 27) 90 groups worldwide demand military embargo on Indonesia
Media release,
statement (both
are in Bahasa and English) (June 23)
Powell Urged to Raise
Aceh War at ASEAN Meeting (June 16)
June 9 DC demo at Washington
D.C. Indonesian embassy opposes Aceh war supports Justice for ET
(June 10)
People of Faith Call for
International Tribunal for East Timor, Regardless of Indonesian Court
Verdicts (May 26) IHRN/ETAN: Rights Groups Praise Senators for
Restricting Military Training for Indonesia (May 22) IFET:
Urges UN Security
Council to Create International Tribunal for East Timor (May 20) IHRN/ETAN:
Human Rights Groups Protest
Indonesia's War in Aceh Demand an End to Human Rights Abuses
(May 20)
ETAN Urges Gifts of
Justice and Fairness on Country’s First Birthday (May 17)
IHRN:
U.S.-made weapons to be used in Indonesian
military war on Aceh (May 13) IHRN/ETAN:
House
International Relations Committee Expresses Strong Support for Human
Rights and Conflict Resolution in Indonesia and East Timor;
Criticizes Indonesian Justice Efforts; Calls for Alternatives (May 8)
UN Human Rights Commission
Abandons Justice for East Timor; Pretends Sham Indonesian Trials Are
Redeemable (April 25)
ETAN Praises New
Indictment of Indonesian Officials for Crimes in E Timor (April 9)
IFET Urges President
Xanana Gusmao to Fully Support Accountability for Past Abuses (April
1)
ETAN: Recommendations for U.S. Delegation to UN Commission on Human Rights,
59th Session (March 12) Nat'l Alliance for International Tribunal:
Letter UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights ETAN: UN Must Back
Prosecution of Indonesian Officers; International Action Needed After
Indonesia Snubs Extradition of Suspects to East Timor (March 4)
Response to Inquiries on
NY Times Op-ed "War for Peace?" (February 28) see also
East Timor Responds to Iraq War
Organizations Worldwide
Urge Indonesian Action to Reunite East Timorese Children with Their
Families (February 20) IHRN:
Arrests of nonviolent activists
in Aceh show Indonesian military continues to be unworthy partner
in "War on Terror" (Feb. 17)
East Timorese Demonstrate
Against Impending War in Iraq (February 15)
New East
Timor Leaflet for U.S. Feb 15-16 Antiwar Demos (PDF) (February 15)
UK Woman Released from
Indonesian Jail after Five Months (February 10)
U.S.
Rights Group Demands that Australian Government Stop Bullying East
Timor (January 26)
Senate Votes Down
Restrictions on Military Training for Indonesia (January 23)
ETAN's Winter-Spring
2003 Speaking Tour Economic Justice & Human Rights For East Timor:
The Debt that Must Be Paid. Human rights worker, Jose Luis Oliveira, to
speak
2002
ETAN's 2002 Annual Report
ETAN: East Timorese in
Indonesia to Lose Refugee Status at New Year, International
Community Must Continue Efforts on Behalf of Vulnerable Children &
Adults (December 30) The Question of U.S. Military Assistance for Indonesia (December)
LH, et al: Report from one-day seminar on East Timor Joining the International
Financial Institutions PDF Estafeta:
Indonesian
Verdicts Strengthen Calls for International Tribunal (Winter
2002-2003) Timor Commemorates
Invasion Anniversary as Indonesian Court Acquits Officials
(December 7) Joint Statement of Civil Society Organizations in Timor Lorosae:
Never
sacrifice people for certain political ambition (December 7) LH:
Disorder in East
Timor: The International Community Must Accept Responsibility
(December 6)
Support U.S.
Nurse and UK Academic Detained in Aceh (November 2002)
How to Help East Timor's NGOs
(November) ETAN Calls for UN Review of Papua Act of
"Free Choice" (November 13)
Remembering Senator
Paul Wellstone (November)
East Timor Puts U.S. Soldiers Above the Law
(November)
Questions for candidates and others on E Timor and Indonesia
(October)
Indonesian Rights Activists Urge U.S. Congress To Block Military
Training (October 7)
ETAN
Congratulates Country on UN Membership, Calls on UN to Work for Justice
for New Nation (9/26)
Fate of East Timorese Refugees in
Indonesia Uncertain as Deadline Nears; Rights Group Warns
International Community Not to Forget Refugees & Children (9/01)
Rights Group “Deeply Disturbed” by East
Timor’s Grant of Immunity to U.S. Troops (8/27)
Imminent Indonesian Verdicts Cannot
Deliver Justice for East Timor; International Tribunal Covering Entire
Occupation Only Option (8/14)
Submission to Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on
Treaties Inquiry into the Timor Sea Treaty (May 2002) and the
Exchange of Notes between East Timor and Australia (Timor Sea) (May
2002) (7/29) Groups Urge Congress to Continue
Restrictions on U.S. Military Assistance to Indonesia (7/26)
Leahy Conditions on Restrictions of Military
Assistance for Indonesia Have Not Been Met (7/26)
ETAN to Powell on his visit to Indonesia
(7/25) Statement by the East Timor Action Network
on Restoration of IMET Military Training by Senate Appropriations
Committee (7/19) East Timor Action Network Criticizes U.S.
Stance on International Court; Urges Bush Administration Not to Hold
International Peacekeeping Hostage to Efforts to Undermine Criminal
Court (7/12)
IFET:
Role of International
Solidarity after Independence (5/22)
U.S.
House of Representatives Congratulates East Timor: Endorses
Continued Restrictions on U.S.-Indonesia Military Ties, Expresses
Concern about Lack of Justice (5/21)
ETAN Congratulates
the People of East Timor on Independence (5/20)
U.S. Supporters of
East Timor Celebrate Independence Nationwide: Watershed Victory
Marked, Work Ahead Noted (5/20) Yayasan Hak:
Independence Day: Cause for Celebration or Damnation of 24 years of
International Complicity in the Illegal Occupation of East Timor
(5/18)
Clinton Heads to East Timor for Independence Day ETAN Urges History Not
Be Forgotten (5/16) Senators Write to Rumsfeld,
Powell on U.S.-Indonesian Military Ties (5/14)
Women Worldwide Call
For an International Tribunal For East Timor: Officials, Scholars
And Activists Say Justice For Crimes Against Timorese Women Needed Now
(5/13) NGOs Write to
Sec'y of State. Powell and Sec'y of Defense Rumsfeld on Military Ties to
Indonesia (5/7) ETAN Backgrounder for
East Timor's May 20 Independence Day, also in
PDF (5/6)
Members of Congress Write Powell on Aid to East Timor (5/2)
FY2002 Supplemental Request Sets U.S. on Wrong Path, Say Forty-Eight
National Organizations (including ETAN) (4/29)
U.S. NGOs to Powell
on Debt-free East Timor (4/22) UN Human Rights Commission Abandons Justice
for East Timor; ETAN Calls Statement a Rotten Present for Millennium's
First New Country (4/22) IFET:
2002
Presidential Election Observer: Project Report and Recommendations
(4/16) Activists Welcome Ratification Of
International Criminal Court, But Say East Timor Needs Own Tribunal
(04/11)
ETAN to
Bush: "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is", Calls for a Debt-Free East
Timor (3/21) ETAN helps form
Kissinger Watch (ongoing from March)
10 Reasons Why Indonesian
Courts Will Not Bring Justice to E Timor (3/14) La'o Hamutuk:
Can the Rule
of Law Prevail? Will Pressure from UNHQ Force East Timor to Forgo
Needed Tax Revenue. Bahasa release (3/12)
ETAN's
UN Press Conference with Filomena Barros dos Reis (2/26)
Justice for East Timor Will Not Come from
Indonesia Indictments (2/26)
Attorneys and Legal Scholars Call for International Tribunal (2/02)
Final Text of Constitution PDF files:
Official Portuguese;
English translation;
Bahasa Indonesian;
Tetun
Text as passed Feb. 2002: Portuguese (PDF,
MSWord, Official English translation:
PDF,
MSWord.
Official Bahasa Indonesian translation:
PDF,
MSWord. Tetum translation:
PDF,
MSWord
Original draft:
English,
Portuguese
Newly
Appointed Indonesian Judges Will Not Provide Long-Delayed Justice for
East Timor (1/15)
Democracy Now! and Amy
Goodman Restored to Pacifica (1/15/)
Congressmembers Write ET Constituent Assembly on Constitution (1/10)
2001
Peace-keepers as Nation-builders: Dilemmas of the UN in East Timor
(International Peacekeeping. Vol. 8, no 4, 2001)
ETAN/IHRN:
Congress Bolsters Ban
on Training for Indonesia With One Bill, While Opening a Loophole with
Another (12/21) ETAN/IHRN:
Rights Groups Condemn
End Run on Military Training Restrictions for Indonesia (12/20)
Message from Noam Chomsky (12/01) ETAN's 2001 Annual Report:
HTML,
PDF
(12/01)
Ford
& Kissinger Green Light to Indonesia's 1975 Invasion; New
Documents Reveal Conversations with Suharto (National Security Archive
(see also ETAN Kissinger pages)
(12/06/01)
Text of Draft Constitution (large PDF
files) English,
Portuguese
(11/01) Congressional Letters on Santa Cruz Massacre Anniversary:
House;
Senate
(11/29/01) Tenth Anniversary of
Santa Cruz Massacre Prompts Calls for Justice for East Timor
(11/12/01) Rights Must Be Factor In
Economic Assistance to Indonesia (IHRN/ETAN) (11/06/01)
East
Timorese woman addresses UN Security Council; UN:
Women & Peacekeeping
(10/30) NGOs Write UN on Int'l Tribunal:
IFET,
East Timorese NGOs,
Internationals in East
Timor; Japan
Coalition (10/24-25/01)
Letter to UNTAET Deputy
SRSG McNamara on justice issues (10/17/01)
Justice and
Accountability in East Timor: Int'l Tribunals and Other Options:
Report of a one-day seminar in Dili, East Timor (10/16/01)
NGOs Write UNHCR on
Refugees (10/15/01)
Indonesia at the
Crossroads: U.S. Weapons and Military Training (10/15/01; World
Policy Institute report)
Court Issues $66 Million Judgment Against Indonesian General Lumintang
for E Timor Violence (10/04/01)
ETAN/IHRN
Oppose Blanket Waiver for Human Rights (09/27/01)
On Eve of Megawati
Visit, Groups Urge Bush to Maintain Restrictions on Military Ties with
Indonesia (9/18/01)
Statements from September 6 Press Conference (09/06/01) Op-eds by
ETAN members: U.S.
must not forget E Timor massacres;
Tragic Anniversary For
East Timor; Indonesia has yet to hold anyone accountable
Grassroots & Congressional Action Mark
September 6 Anniversary of East Timor Massacres (09/04/01) IFET:
Elections in the
Context of Nation-building; other
election news (09/03/01) Statements by
Jose
Ramos-Horta on Amy Goodman, Santa Cruz Massacre & Democracy Now!
(09/03/01)
East Timor Holds First Free Elections August 30 (08/28/01)
Open
Letter to WBAI & Pacifica on E. Timor and Amy Goodman (08/17/01)
Rights Groups
Say Military Relations With Indonesia Hurt, Not Help (08/09/01)
U.S. House of
Representatives Reaffirms Support for Indonesian Military Reform and for
East Timor (07/24/01)
East Timor Action
Network Urges New Indonesian President to Show Support for East Timor
(07/23/01) ETAN and NGO's
Correspond with U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Regarding Refugee Registration
(07/19/01) Small Arms and East Timor:
Speech at UN
Rally and
Impact on Women in
Militia-Controlled Camps (07/17/01)
House of
Representatives Write Powell on Refugees (07/16/01)
Senators Write Powell on
Refugees (06/25/01)
Int'l NGO
statement on Justice for East Timor (06/13/01)
ETAN and CIS Urge UN
to Reject Sham Refugee Registration in West Timor (06/07/01)
NGOs Write Powell Urging
an International Tribunal (06/06/01)
ETAN/NGO's
Criticize Indonesia's Registration of E Timor Refugees (06/01/01)
Aid
Worker To Give First-Hand Account of East Timor’s Refugee Crisis as
Indonesian Problematic Registration Moves Ahead (05/28/01) Also:
Background on
Refugees. Aid Worker To Give
First-Hand Account of East Timor’s Refugee Crisis as Indonesian
Problematic Registration Moves Ahead (05/27/01)
U.S. House of
Representatives Supports Human Rights and Reconstruction in East Timor
(05/17/01) IHRN/ETAN:
Rights Groups Oppose
Joint Training with Indonesian Military (05/16/01)
East Timor Action Network Calls for Action
on Refugee Crisis and International Tribunal on Anniversary of East
Timor Vote Agreement (05/04/01)
ETAN
Publishes Text of Suppressed UN Report on 1999 Destruction
(04/25/01) East Timor NGO Forum
on Xanana’s Statement Regarding an International Tribunal (04/23/01)
NGO Forum declines to join
UNTAET Constitutional Process (04/18/01)
Indonesian General on Trial in U.S. Court by John M. Miller (Timor
Post, 04/03/01) Objectionable PKF T-shirt
by La'o Hamutuk (4/01)
Indonesian General on Trial in Washington, DC. March 27-March 29.
General Johny Lumintang is responsible for gross human rights violations
committed in East Timor. (03/21/01)
NGO Forum writes
Security Council on Rushed Constitutional Process (03/17/01)
ETAN's Memo to UN
Commission on Human Rights (3/10/01)
E. Timor NGOs
protest UN police predictions of election violence (3/12/01)
NGO Letter to
Secretary of State Colin Powell Opposing Resumption of Military Ties
(3/7/01)
ETAN's
John M. Miller on the violence in Indonesia, U.S. military assistance,
and justice issues in Coming Apart: Kosovo And Indonesia,
Newsweek on Air, (3/4/01)
ETAN Letter on
Women and Upcoming East Timor Elections (3/1/01)
Madison-Ainaro
Establish Sister City Tie (2/20/01)
East
Timor Still Awaits Justice One Year After UN Inquiry Called for
International Tribunal (1/31/01)
ETAN/IHRN -
Continue Suspension of Military Ties With Indonesia (1/26/01)
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Indonesia's
Generals on Trial in U.S. Courts
Signed by
General Johny Lumintang, a telegram ordering Indonesian
commanders to plan a crackdown on East Timorese was entered
into evidence in the
U.S. lawsuit.
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