Special Honors and Awards to ETAN and ETAN activists
ETAN's Charles Scheiner receives Timor-Leste's Princess
Grace of Monaco award from Timor-Leste Parliament
(May 2010)
 John Rumbiak Human Rights Defenders Award for 2009
to ETAN
and John M. Miller
The 2005 Program for Southeast Asian Studies at
Arizona State University Southeast Asia Prize for Service to the Program and
the Community (ETAN Arizona and
Chris Lundry).
2002 Certificate of Appreciation for ETAN
Arizona's work in the Southeast Asia Culture Week.
2000 Program for Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona
State University Student Award for Contributions to Southeast Asian Studies
(Chris Lundry and ETAN Arizona)
ETAN Los Angeles Garrick Ruiz
Freedom Fighter of the Month (June 2000)
Visions in Action 1999 Working for Global Justice
Award for Outstanding Activism to ETAN
Ten Good
Groups That Make a Difference, Counterpunch, December 16-31, 1998
Though it can't take credit for the event, the fall of Indonesian
dictator made 1998 an especially sweet year for the East
Timor Action Network. The Network, which fights for
self-determination for East Timor - which was invaded by Indonesia, with
US backing, in 1975 -- can take more direct credit for some important
victories in Washington. In October, the House and Senate passed a law
that bans the use of US-supplied weapons in East Timor and forbids the
Pentagon from offering International Military Education Training to the
Indonesian armed forces. Lynn Fredriksson, who works out of ETAN's DC
office, says the bill's passage "could be the most support any Congress
has shown for rights of East Timorese" since the invasion. A few months
earlier, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging the Clinton
administration to "support an internationally supervised referendum on
self-determination". Even the State Department has begun to timidly
offer support for the Timorese. It now has an official position - though
an unpublicized one - calling for the release of jailed resistance
leader Xanana Gusmao and other political prisoners.
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