Human Rights, Accountability &
Justice
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ETAN demonstrates at Indonesian Consulate
in New York after the death of the dictator Suharto. Photo
by John M. Miller/ ETAN.
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East Timorese demonstrate
in Dili for justice.
Photo by Karen Orenstein/ETAN. |
There is something else I'd
like to ask of you: in order to uphold the rule of law, in order
to have justice for the terrible things that were done to our
people, especially our women, during the occupation of our country,
I hope you will speak up for justice for East Timor at every
opportunity. International law is supposed to guarantee that
those who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity face
justice. We must have an international tribunal for those who
committed such serious crimes. It is also important to deny
a visa to those suspected of serious crimes.
But as a small nation, we on our own cannot achieve this. It
will take time, we recognise this. But with your help, and especially
if you as individuals and as groups break the silence and speak
up about justice for these terrible crimes, I am confident that
we can achieve justice.
--Fernanda Borges, Member of Parliament,
Timor-Leste, 5 March 2009
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2012 2013 2014
2015 2016 2017
2006 2007
2008
2009 2010 2011
2000 2001 2002
2003 2004
2005
2021
ETAN
Honors LGBTIQ+ Pride in Timor-Leste (July 6)
ETAN Calls for End to
Military Coup and Repression in Myanmar
(March 22)
ETAN:
Sexual
Abuse Case an Opportunity for Justice and Healing/Kazu
Abuzu Seksuál mak Oportunidade ba Justisa no Hadi'a-an
(March 22)
2020
ETAN West Papua Update
(June 10)
ETAN Condemns
Violence and Racism Against West Papuans,
Calls for freeing Papuan Political
Prisoners
(May 1)
2019
ETAN joins 240
organizations in demanding
an independent, thorough investigation of Indonesian
environmental lawyer Golfrid Siregar’s death
Read the full intenational solidarity letter
and list of signers
(October 31)
ETAN:
Timor-Leste Honors President
Bill Clinton: Setting the
Record Straight
(August 30)
U.S. National Security Archives:
U.S. sought to preserve
close ties to Indonesian
military as it terrorized
East Timor in run-up to
1999 independence referendum
2018
Joint Statement:
UN General Assembly 73: Correcting the Record on Human Rights Violations
in West Papua and The 1969 UN
Resolution Regarding 'Act of Free Choice' (October 2)
TAPOL/ETAN:
JOINT STATEMENT-
CALL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF SIMON
MAGAL AND JAKUB SKRZYPSKI
West Papuan and Polish pair have been charged with treason in Indonesi
(September 7)
Joint Statement of Solidarity:
20th Anniversary of the 'Biak
Massacre', West Papua
(July 6)
2017
Indonesia: Government must make public the
2005 fact-finding report on Munir’s case (September 6)
Timor-Leste activists to UNESCO on
World Press Freedom Day 2017
celebration in Jakarta
(May 1)
2016
Amnesty
International, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR),
East-Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN), La’o
Hamutuk, TAPOL, Watch Indonesia! and Asosiasaun HAK:
PUBLIC STATEMENT -
Indonesia: Close gap between rhetoric and reality on
1965 mass human rights violations
(October 1)
also TAAN PUBLIK
Indonesia: Penuhi jarak antara retorika dan realitas soal pelanggaran
HAM massif 1965
ANTI:
Commemorating Referendum Day 30 August
1999 - 2016 and the International Day of the Enforced Disappearances
(August 30)
ANTI: We Welcome the President of
Indonesia to Timor-Leste, But Cannot Forget Cases of Crimes Against
Humanity (January 25)
2015
Filep Karma Freed! (November 19)
Condemn Recent Censorship of Discussions of 1965 (October 25)
ETAN Urges Obama to Raise West Papua Rights with Indonesia President (October 24)
1965: Evidence from Canadian Documents (October 27)
ETAN Supports Senate Resolution on 50th Anniversary of 1965 Mass Violence in Indonesia (October 1)
Watching The Look of Silence in Dili (August)
Groups Urge Free and Open Access to Papua (April 29)
Protest Highlights Restrictions on Access to Papua (April 29)
Stopping
the Killers From Killing: An Interview With Allan Nairn on Justice,
Indonesia, West Papua, Timor-Leste, and Guatemala (January 8)
2014
ETAN statement on Rule of Law in
Timor-Leste/ETAN nia
Afirmasaun kona-ba Estadu Direitu iha Timor-Leste (December 15)
ETAN Supports Senate Resolution
on 1965 Mass Violence in Indonesia (December 11)
ETAN Opposes Appointment of Retired General
Ryamizard Ryacudu as Defense Minister
(October 26)
ETAN Backgrounder
Breaking the Silence:
The U.S. and Indonesia's
Mass Violence
(September)
ANTI:
Welcome
to Timor-Leste SBY! “Don’t wash your hands of the Crimes Against
Humanity that occurred between 1975-1999 in Timor-Leste” (August 24)
Human Rights Abuses
in Papua and West Papua (July 16)
ETAN Statement on 2014 Indonesian Election (July 10)
Groups Urge Any New
Government of Indonesia to Pursue Justice and Respect Rights;
Rilis Media:
Kelompok-kelompok yang Mendesak Pemerintah Baru Indonesia untuk Mengejar
Keadilan dan Menghormati Hak Asasi. (June 30)
Statement to the next
government of Indonesia on human
rights (June 30)
Prabowo, Part 3: The NSA, Militia
Terror, Aceh, Servants, and "Slaves"
(July 7)
Prabowo, Part 2: "I was the Americans'
fair-haired boy."
The Nationalist General and the United
States by Allan NairnPrabowo, Bagian 2: “Saya anak kesayangan
Amerika.”
Sang Jenderal Nasionalis dan Amerika
Serikat. (July 1)
Allan
Nairn: "Do I have the guts," Prabowo
asked, "am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?" (June 22)
ANTI: 34th Commemoration of the
Marabia Incident (10 June 1980) and International Widows (June 23)
LH, et al: Timor-Leste
President TMR Urged to Veto Media Law (May 30)
Tapol, ETAN et al: Two Papuan students arrested
and tortured for calling for the release of political prisoners (April
17)
ANTI's Observations
of the 2014 Commemoration of the Liquisa Massacre; Judging the victims
who are searching for truth and justice (April 7)
ANTI: Liquica Massacre April 1999 - “Families of the Victim continue to live with uncertainty”
(April 4)
ELECTION BACKGROUNDER Indonesia’s
Militarized Democracy: Candidates bring proven records of violating human
rights (March 26)
2013
Indonesia keeps violating war and
international humanitarian law regarding forced disappearances (November
28)
From ETAN's Blog:
ETAN on anniversary
of Santa Cruz massacre (November 11)
ANTI: Truth and Justice are
the foundations for developing democracy in Timor-Leste - Joint Declaration
Commemoration of the Santa Cruz Massacre (November 12)
ETAN Urges President Obama to Put Human Rights
at Center of U.S.-Indonesia Relations During Upcoming Visit to Indonesia
(October 3)
ANTI:
Commemoration of International Day of
Enforced Disappearances:"Bring them home" (September 3)
Join the Campaign
In 1965-1966, up to a
million Indonesians were massacred. Hundreds of thousands
more were injured, disappeared, raped and imprisoned without
trial. The United States and the United Kingdom secretly
welcomed and supported the killings.
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MUBELFOI: International Court for perpetrators
who engaged in forcibly disappearing combatants (August 20)
Guatemalan
path for Indonesian justice (August 13)
Say Sorry for 65
background and more (July-August)
ETAN/WPAT Urge Justice
on 15th Anniversary of Biak (West Papua) Massacre (July 4)
ANTI: We are very sad
because you are starting to forget and ignore the history of suffering and
the past that is still painful! (June 20)
Pacific teach-in
sends message of support to West Papuan political prisoners (June 5)
TAPOL/ETAN/WPAT et al:
Urgent Appeal: freedom of expression
in Papua (May 22)
Comments on the U.S. Department of State's
Annual Country Report on Human Rights for 2012 Concerning Indonesia/West
Papua (May 15)
ETAN/WPAT:
Groups Call on U.S. to Condemn Indonesian
Attacks on Peaceful Demonstrations in West Papua (May 3)
also ABC Radio
Australia: Interview with WPAT's Ed McWilliams
(May 7)
ANTI:
Joint Statement on International Day for
the Right to the Truth and Justice for Victims: ANTI demands for the State
of Timor-Leste to not ignore the rights of victims (March 22)
ETAN/West Papua Advocacy Team:
Nine Questions for Sen. John Kerry,
nominee for Secretary of State, on Indonesia, Timor-Leste and West Papua
(January 22)
2012
UN Meets on Anniversary of Massacre:
ETAN Urges UN and U.S. to Act for Justice for Timor-Leste (November
12)
ANTI/Amnesty
International: Tackling Impunity
in Timor-Leste and Indonesia: Justice Is the Only Way (November
12)
La'o Hamutuk:
Ultimate letter to the UN Security Council about justice, sustainable development
and not forgetting Timor-Leste (November 4)
What it means to celebrate the 30
August:
Joint Statement from ANTI Members
Regarding Forced Disappearances
(August 29)
ANTI:
Letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
on UN responsibility for justice
(August 14)
ANTI:
Timor-Leste demands justice - “Because
we love peace, and we want the truth to strengthen reconciliation” (May
18)
10 Years After Timor's Independence,
Where Is the Justice? (May16)
ETAN writes on health
care for Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma (April 22)
Timorese General's Election
Threats Undermine Democracy, Rule of Law; Jenerál Timor nia Ameasa kona-ba
Eleisaun bele Estraga Estadu de Direitu Demokrátiku (April 12)
2011
On 20th Anniversary
of Timor Massacre, Rights Network Urges Justice, ETAN Says U.S. and UN Must
Act, (November 12)
ETAN's Charles Scheiner reflects
on Santa Cruz massacre and solidarity (November 12)
ANTI: Resolving Past Crimes
Against Humanity is Key to Opening the Door to Truth and Justice now and
in the future… (August 30)
Global
support for human rights and human rights defenders in West Papua
(July 14)
Timorese call on the UN Security Council
to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity (February
9)
Light Sentences for
Rights Violators Spark Calls for Suspension of Aid to Abusive and Unaccountable
Indonesian Military (January 25)
2010
Indonesia Respect
Rights of Papuan Prisoners Filep Karma and Buchtar Tabuni (December
9)
Statement
of East Timor and Indonesia Action Network on President Obama's Visit to
Indonesia (November 5)
WPAT: Torture
video reveals "Indonesia's Abu Ghraib" on eve of Obama visit
(October 19)
ETAN/WPAT:
Suspend Training and Funding
of Indonesian Police Unit Detachment 88 (September
29)
ETAN Condemns U.S.
Plan to Get Back in Bed with Indonesia's Kopassus Killers
(July 22)
New Kopassus Number 2 Organized Militia in 1998-1999
(June 18)
ETAN/WPAT:
Comments on the U.S. Department of
State Country reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 (April 12)
ETAN:
Letter to Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta on Justice and Accountability,
Tetum translation
(March 23)
ETAN:
Open Letter to President
Barack Obama on His 2010 Visit to Indonesia (March
18)
Imparsial:
Statement towards the
visit of The United States of America's President Barack Obama (March
11)
TL Groups write UN Security Council
on Justice with international support (February 2)
WPAT/ETAN: Naming of Senior Kopassus
Officer as Indonesia Military Commander Undermines West Papua (January
23)
Indonesian General Sjafrie Sjamsuddin
Not Fit for Civilian Defense Post (January 9)
2009
T-L National Parliament resolution on CAVR/CTF
(December 11)
Federation against disappearances
meets President Ramos-Horta, urges treaty ratification (November 25)
Brad Simpson:
Denying the
‘First Right’: The United States, Indonesia, and the Ranking of Human Rights
by the Carter Administration, 1976-1980 (PDF)
Joint Letter to UN Security Council on
Justice and Accountability for Serious Crimes Committed in Timor-Leste
(October 21)
La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council on justice and other issues
(October 2009)
ETAN/WPAT:
Letter to Michael H. Posner, Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (October
13)
Joint
Statement between ETAN and Indonesian Human Rights Groups on Martenus Bere
and Justice for Timor-Leste (September 12)
Solidarity
Statement on the Arrest of Young Timorese Students
(September 1)
Lao Hamutuk:
Justice
for Timor-Leste Remains an Unfulfilled International Obligation (August)
(PDF)
Amnesty International:
No justice in Timor-Leste ten years after independence vote (report
in english, bahasa indonesia) (August 26)
WPAT: Impunity at the
Freeport Gold & Copper Mine: Will Indonesian Security Forces Get Away with
It Again? (July 23)
House of Representatives
Signals Ongoing Concern About Human Rights in Indonesia and E Timor
(July 10)
ETAN/Kontras: Joint
Statement on Accountability in the Run-up to the Indonesian Presidential
Elections;
Pernyataan
bersama tentang akuntabilitas dalam pemilihan presiden Indonesia (July
2)
HAK Association - Human
Rights Situation 2008: “Out of Civil Disorder Towards the Challenges of
Well-being” (May)
Groups Urge U.S. Action on West Papua
Rights as Security Situation Deteriorates (April 9)
East Timorese Deserve
Justice! Statement by ETAN on the Anniversary of the Liquiça Massacre
(April 4)
Liquica survivors still seeking
justice, human rights and truth (April 4)
Comments on the U.S.
Department of State Country reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008
(March 23)
NGO Letter to UN Security
Council on Justice and Accountability (also
Tetum) (February 18)
Groups Write Secretary
of State Clinton on Eve of Her Visit to Indonesia (also
Bahasa Indonesia)
(February 17)
HAK Association: Court Decision in Defamation
Case of Mr. Longuinhos Monteiro SH (February 10)
ETAN urges dropping of defamation
charges against Timorese editor (January 26)
ETAN response to Admiral
Dennis Blair's Statements to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
(January 28)
Adm. Blair Poor Choice
as Director of National Intelligence, Says Rights Group; Blair’s History
with Indonesia and East Timor Raises Questions about Likely Nominee
(January 7)
A Letter from Noam Chomsky
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2008
Joint Letter on Recent
Papua Human Rights Cases - Buktar Tabuni (arrested) and Mr. Yosias Syet
(murdered) (December 15)
ETAN Urges
President-elect Obama Not to Appoint Adm. Blair Director of National Intelligence
(December 5)
Standing Up for Human Rights
by Restricting Military Assistance to Indonesia - ETAN Response to the
Wall Street Journal editorial, "Obama's Indonesia Test" (Nov. 25)
ANTI: Chega
Debate Points to the Cemetery Where the Santa Cruz Massacre Occurred
(Nov.12)
Joint statement of
Amnesty International USA, ETAN, and West Papua Advocacy Team Concerning
Congressional Letter to President Yudhoyono (August 18)
Congress Demands Action
on West Papua Political Prisoners as Human Rights Violations Persist,
also in Bahasa Indonesia
(August 7)
ETAN Urges New Rights Commissioner
to Advocate for Justice for East Timorese Victims (July 24)
Timor-Leste Alliance for an International Tribunal:
An Open letter in response to the CTF
report, also in Tetum (July 15)
ETAN on the Report of Joint Commission
on Truth and Friendship, Calls for Meaningful Justice for Victims
of Indonesian Occupation (July 14)
Joint NGO Statement on the Handover of
the Report of the Commission of Truth and Friendship (July 15)
ETAN Urges Respect for Right to
Protest in Timor-Leste (July 10)
Invitation to All Non-Government
Organizations (NGOs) on Clemencies;
11 Timorese File Lawsuit Requesting
Court to Rule Presidential Decree on Clemencies Unconstitutional (June
30)
Congressmembers Urge Greater U.S. Commitment
to Promote Justice for Timorese Call for U.S. Response to CAVR Report
(April 25)
United States Should Support Justice,
not Endorse Impunity, says ETAN; Administration Should Respond to CAVR Report,
Not Endorse CTF (April 4)
ETAN/WPAT: Comments
on the on the U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
for 2007 (March 30)
Joint T-L Civil Society Petition:
Dissolve the CTF, Try the Perpetrators of Crimes and Provide Reparations
to the Victims! (March 18)
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 (February)
2007
Shadow Report on Torture in Aceh and West Papua to the Committee Against
Torture with an annex on the situation of human rights in Timor Leste;
submitted by Office for Justice and Peace of Jayapura; Imparsial-Jakarta;
Progressio Timor Leste; The Synod of the Christian Evangelical Church in
Papua; and Franciscans International (November)
As Security Council Readies Visit
to Timor-Leste, Rights Groups Call For Justice and Accountability (November
26)
Australian Inquest into Balibo Journalists
Killings in East Timor Shows Ongoing Need to Pursue Justice and Accountability
(November 16); Text of NSW
Coroner's Report on the Inquest into the Death of Brian Raymond Peters
(PDF) (go here
for additional Balibo verdict coverage and commentary)
Post-CAVR: Misrepresentation
of East Timor truth commission report (November 12)
ETAN: An Overview
Justice Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste (Feb.2007, revised
November 2007)
Letter to UN from
Alternative Hearing against CTF Hearing (Oct 8)
IFET: Statement to the Alternative Public Hearing against
the Indonesia-Timor-Leste Truth and Friendship Commission Text:
English,
Tetum (September 29)
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Masters of Terror:
Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor
Order from ETAN
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ET NGOs:
Alternative Hearing against CTF Hearing;
Terms of Reference
(September 25)
ET NGOs: Discriminating
Between Those Responsible For Crimes And The Victims (September 24)
Letter to
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia on the Joint Indonesia-Timor "Truth and Friendship"
Commission (September 6)
The UN Right Not to Cooperate
with Joint Indonesia-Timor "Truth" Commission Farce (July 28)
Joint NGO Letter -
Indonesia: Remove Timor-indicted colonel
from West Papua; Crimes against humanity suspect a threat to Papuans
(June 28)
Statement by Shirley Shackleton
(June 1)
Coverage and analysis of Coroner's
Inquest on the death of Brian Peters (Balibo) (May-June)
Rights Groups Call
For End To Farcical Joint Timor-Indonesia Commission; Write Presidents of
Indonesia and Timor-Leste (May 24)
LH Briefing on justice for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (April 27)
ETAN: Indicted Indonesian
General Leads Joint Military Exercise with U.S. (April 26)
National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
Statement Truth and
Friendship Commission Investigation must be for Justice, Not Amnesty
(March 28)
KontraS, Elsam-Solidamor-HRWG-PBHI-Imparsial-PEC-ICTJ Indonesia-YLBHI-FORUM
ASIA: Commission of Truth and Friendship
- A Stage Play for Human Rights Abusers (March 23)
TL National
Alliance Continues to
Struggle for Justice (March 22)
ETAN:
An Overview Justice Processes and Commissions for Timor-Leste (Feb.2007)
Estafeta: Justice Remains
Distant for East Timorese (Feb. 2007)
Estafeta: Crimes Against Humanity
From Ford to Saddam (Feb. 2007)
HRWG, KontraS, ELSAM, PBHI, IMPARSIAL, Yayasan HAK and FORUM-ASIA:
CTF Tarnishing the Spirit of “Friendship”
of Both Nations (Feb. 23)
ETAN: Joint Commission
Unlikely to Further Truth or Friendship Between Timor and Indonesia
(February 22)
Coroner's
Inquest on Balibo Killings - news and analysis (February)
2006
ACTJET:
Justice and Reconciliation in East Timor: Australia and the CAVR, web
version (December)
ETAN: On 15th Anniversary
of Timor Massacre Rights Network Calls for Justice; ETAN Urges Administration,
New Congress to Support International Tribunal (November 12);
Fifteen
Years Later East Timor Massacre Victims Still Waiting for Justice Op-ed
Congressional Letter
to President Yudhoyono calling for action on the
Munir case (November 3)
Democracy Now!:
15 Years After East Timor Massacre, Calls for Accountability Continue
(November 13th, 2006) Audio and video (Also
Amy Goodman Recounts the East Timor Massacre 15 Years Later excerpts
from radio documentary)
TAPOL, ETAN Call UN
Proposals on Justice for Timor-Leste “Inadequate” (August 7)
Joint Letter to UN
Secretary-General on Justice (July 21)
'Practical
Justice in Doe v. Lumintang: The Successful Use of Civil Remedies Against
"an Enemy of All Mankind"', in
Masters of Terror:
Indonesia's
Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999 [second edition]
Rights Groups Write UN Secretary-General
on Justice for East Timor (March 24)
Solidarity
message on KONTRAS 8th anniversary
As Secretary of State Visits Jakarta,
Rights Group Urges U.S. Policy on Indonesia Promoting Justice and Rights,
Not Military Might (March 13)
Indonesia Must Confront
Its Past, Accept Responsibility and Deliver Justice for Timor Atrocities;
ETAN Posts Entire Timor Truth
Commission (CAVR) Report on Website;
Executive Summary now available (February 16)
ETAN Urges Veto of Timor-
Leste Defamation Law (February 2)
The CAVR Timor Report: A Challenge
to the International Conscience by James Dunn (February)
ETAN Calls for Broad International
Discussion of Timor Truth Commission Report (January 20)
Timor-Leste National Alliance
for an International Tribunal Letter to UN Secretary-General (January
19)
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)
East Timor Bishop Ricardo
to UN Secretary-General on Justice (December 5)
ETAN Calls for Release
of East Timor Truth Commission Report Urges Full Discussion of Its Findings
and Recommendations (December 1)
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A man
walks past graffiti saying "Wiranto is a killer" in Jakarta.
AFP.
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NSA:
Declassified
U.S. documents reveal support for Indonesian invasion and occupation of
East Timor from 1975 until U.N. sponsored vote in 1999 Also
British documents (November 28)
Xanana speech
on receiving CAVR report;
CAVR Chair
Aniceto Guterres speech at presentation of report (October 31)
Commission of
Reception of Truth, Reconciliation (CAVR) to Handover Final Report (October
29)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Victims' Families Visit Indonesia;
"Practically Feasible" Justice for Timor-Leste (November)
Finding Justice in East Timor
MP3 audio
Six years ago, in an atmosphere of escalating violence, the people of the
Southeast Asian island nation of East Timor voted for independence. Following
the vote, thousands of Timorese were killed and hundreds of thousands were
forcibly displaced, as most of the country's infrastructure was destroyed.
Now, the survivors say the lack of justice threatens both East Timor and
Indonesia. Diane Farsetta reports.
U.S. Catholic Bishops on Military Aid
to Indonesia (September 20)
NGOs Write Security Council and Secretary-General
on Commission of Experts & Timor Justice (August 22)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Commission of Experts: Lack of Political Will Blocks Justice for Timor-Leste
(August)
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)
E Timor National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
Happy Independence Day to
USA (July 4)
ETAN Supports UN Commission’s
Call for International Involvement in Justice for East Timor (June
28); Executive Summary
of COE Report
Open Letter to
Indonesia President SBY from TAPOL, ETAN and others on Munir murder
investigations (May 11)
IFET Letter to UN Commission of Experts
(April 20)
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)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
Panel Discussion on Truth and Friendship Commission and
Justice Statement on SBY visit (April)
NGOs of Timor Leste and Indonesia:
"Political deals" were made over the Establishment of the Commission of
Truth and Friendship (March 18)
Truth Known, East Timorese Need Justice;
Accountability for Rights Crimes Remains an International Responsibility
(March 9)
2004
Indonesian
NGOs on Joint Truth Commission (Dec.27)
ET NGOs to UN: Response to the Indonesian
and East Timor governments to establish a Truth and Friendship Commission
(Dec. 21)
IFET Writes
UN Secretary General on Justice (Dec. 21)
U.S. NGOs Write Indonesian President
on Murder of Rights Activist Munir (Dec. 21)
Estafeta: Timor Still Awaits
Justice (Winter)
East
Timor NGOs Urge U.S. Congress to End Assistance to Indonesian Military &
to Work for Justice & International Tribunal (Nov 11)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin:
October
2004: Special Panels for Serious Crimes
ETAN Urges
New Indonesian President to Pursue Justice for Victims of East Timor’s Occupation
(Oct. 19)
Senator Feingold
on justice for East Timor (Oct. 6)
TL Nat'l Alliance
for International Tribunal Letter to UN Secretary General (Sept.)
JSMP: Conference
calls for Establishment of International Tribunal (Sept. 27)
“Military Has Already
Won” Indonesian Election, Says ETAN, Neither Candidate Likely to Limit
Military (Sept. 18)
ETAN Statement on Fifth
Anniversary of East Timor’s Independence Vote (August 30)
UN and U.S. Must Commit to Justice for
Timor after Indonesian Court Acquits Officer (August 6)
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)
Rights Groups Urge Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
to Appoint Commission on Justice for East Timor (June 24)
ETAN Calls
on East Timor Leadership to Respect Judicial Independence; Demands UN
and U.S. Create International Tribunal to Try Wiranto and Others (May 28)
ETAN Urges International
Support for Justice and Control of Resources on Newest Nation’s Birthday
(May 20)
UN Must Not Shortchange Justice
for East Timor (May 14)
Rights Group Says Wiranto
Must Stand Trial, Not Stand for Office (April 21)
Serious Crimes Unit:
Wiranto Brief
(March 19)
Memo to U.S. Delegation
to UN Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session (March 03)
East Timor National Alliance for an International Tribunal:
East Timorese Political
Leaders Must Not Interfere with Justice (Feb 15)
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 (January 15)
2003
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 (December
7)
East Timor
Alliance for International Tribunal recalls Invasion Day (December 7)
Justice
for East Timor victims? Not in Indonesia (September 2)
Fight
Against Terror Must Include Justice for East Timor (August 15)
ETAN: Indonesian
Court's Final East Timor Sentence "A Joke" (August 5)
U.S. Congress
Demonstrates Strong Support for Justice for East Timor (June 27)
People of Faith
Call for International Tribunal for East Timor, Regardless of Indonesian
Court Verdicts (May 26)
IFET: Urges UN Security
Council to Create International Tribunal for East Timor (May 20)
ETAN Urges Gifts of
Justice and Fairness on Country’s First Birthday (May 18)
Estafeta:
(In)Justice
and the Struggle for Accountability
ETAN: UN Human Rights
Commission Abandons Justice for East Timor; Pretends Sham Indonesian
Trials Are Redeemable (April 25)
House Members
Write to Sec. Powell re: justice for Timor (April 10)
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)
ET NGOs: Building
Peace, Justice & Reconciliation
Nat'l Alliance for International
Tribunal Letter UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (March 13)
ETAN: Recommendations for U.S. Delegation
to UN Commission on Human Rights, 59th Session (March 12)
ETAN: UN Must Back Prosecution of Indonesian
Officers; International Action Needed After Indonesia Snubs Extradition
of Suspects to East Timor (March 4)
Estafeta: Indonesian
Verdicts Strengthen Calls for International Tribunal (Winter 2002-2003)
JSMP/Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law: Symposium
On Justice For International Crimes Committed in The Territory of East Timor
(English
--Portuguese)*
SCU Indicts Top Indonesian Commanders
SCU: New
Indictment Charges 5 TNI Soldiers with Rape (April 10)
U.S. praises Timor
rights unit
Timor prosecutors
indict Indonesian officers for 1999 atrocities
SCU: 2nd Covalima
Indictment Charges 8 Indonesian Military Commanders & Officers (April
9)
SCU: Lolotoe
Militia Commander Sentenced To 12 Yrs (April 7)
SCU:
3 Major New indictments filed at Dili Court (Feb. 28)
SCU: Info
Release on Crimes Against Humanity Charges (Feb. 25)
Serious Crimes Unit
Update
21 February 2003
2002
ETAN: Timor Commemorates Invasion
Anniversary as Indonesian Court Acquits Officials (December 7)
ET NGOs:
Nov 12
call for an international tribunal, from East Timor (November 12)
APCET: Justice for
Timor Includes Trials for The Masterminds (November 12)
East Timor Puts U.S. Soldiers Above the
Law (November)
Indonesian Rights Activists Urge U.S.
Congress To Block Military Training (October 7)
Will Bush Do the
Right Thing in East Timor? by Aderito de Jesus Soares (August 29)
Bishop Belo: International
Tribunal for Dignity of Humanity (August 27)
ETAN “Deeply Disturbed” by East Timor’s Grant of Immunity to U.S. Troops;
U.S. Activists Say Agreement Undermines International Criminal Court & Universal
Justice (August 27) (More
on ICC & ET)
East Timor Women's Network Demands Justice (August 25)
Letter to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Concerning Justice
for East Timor (August 23)
Letter to U.S. Ambassador
to Indonesia Concerning Justice for East Timor (August 23)
ETAN: Indonesian Verdicts Cannot Deliver
Justice for East Timor;
additional responses to first verdicts of Indonesian ad hoc tribunal
(August)
One
less place to hide: US courts bring down judgments against two Indonesian
generals (July-Sept)
SBS:
East Timor - Justice Denied? new documentary by Max Stahl (July7)
Yayasan Hak: Independence
Day: Cause for Celebration or Damnation of 24 years of International Complicity
in the Illegal Occupation of East Timor (May 20)
Dramatic U-turn for US and Australia (May18)
Time for a U.S.
Truth Commission on East Timor (May 17)
ETAN: Backgrounder
for East Timor's May 20 Independence Day (May 13)
Women Worldwide
Call For an International Tribunal For East Timor: Officials, Scholars
And Activists Say Justice For Crimes Against Timorese Women Needed (May
13)
Masters of Terror:
The most complete set of profiles available so far of the key suspects in
the 1999 destruction of East Timor (May 14)
UN Human Rights
Commission Abandons Justice for East Timor; ETAN Calls Statement a Rotten
Present for Millennium's First New Country (4/22)
Activists Welcome Ratification
Of International Criminal Court, But Say East Timor Needs Own Tribunal
(04/11)
ETAN helps form
Kissinger
Watch (ongoing from March)
ETAN's
UN Press Conference with Filomena Barros dos Reis (2/26)
Attorneys and Legal Scholars Call for
International Tribunal (2/02)
2001
Congressional Letters on Santa Cruz Massacre Anniversary:
House;
Senate (11/29)
Tenth Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre
Prompts Calls for Justice for East Timor (11/12)
Rights Must Be Factor In Economic Assistance
to Indonesia (IHRN/ETAN) (11/06)
Justice and Accountability in East Timor:
Int'l Tribunals and Other Options: Report of a one-day seminar in Dili,
East Timor, (10/16)
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin: Focus
on Justice (10/01)
NGOs Write UN on Int'l Tribunal: IFET,
East Timorese NGOs,
Internationals in East Timor;
APCET,
Japan Coalition
(10/24-25/01)
Letter to UNTAET Deputy SRSG McNamara
on justice issues (10/17)
Court Issues $66 Million Judgment Against
Indonesian General Lumintang for E Timor Violence (10/04)
ETAN/IHRN Oppose Blanket Waiver for
Human Rights (09/27)
Statements from September 6 Press Conference
(09/06) 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)
Rights Groups Say Military Relations
With Indonesia Hurt, Not Help (08/09)
Int'l NGO statement on Justice
for East Timor (06/13)
NGOs Write Powell for an International
Tribunal (June 6, 2001)
EXCLUSIVE: ETAN Publishes Text
of Suppressed UN Report on 1999 Destruction (April 26, 2001)
East Timor NGO Forum on Xanana’s Statement
Regarding an International Tribunal (April 23, 2001)
Rising from the Ashes: The Creation of a Viable Criminal Justice System
in East Timor, Suzannah Linton (Melbourne University Law Review [Vol 25,
April 2001]
HTML; PDF versions
March 27-29, 2001 Hearing in Lumintang
Case
ETAN's Memo to UN Commission on
Human Rights (March 10, 2001)
Open Letter
from Shirley Shackleton to UN Prosecutor-General on the 1975 murder
of Balibo journalists in 1975. More info on
UN investigation
and see links
East Timor Still Awaits
Justice One Year After UN Inquiry Called for International Tribunal
(January 31, 2001) See also:
TAPOL
demands international tribunal for East Timor on anniversary of UN report.
International Crisis Group:
Indonesia: Impunity Versus Accountability For Gross Human Rights Violations
(February 2, 2001)
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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. |
2000
ETAN Urges U.S. to Support
Int'l Criminal Court (Dec. 19)
Without Reform,
Jakarta's Frail Empire Will Fall by Jose Ramos-Horta (September 17);
see also: CNRT on Recent Events in West
Timor; Calls for International Tribunal, Postponement of CGI Meeting
(September 13); CNRT Leaders on West Timor
Deaths (September 8)
ETAN Calls Indonesian Suspect List "Inadequate and a Capitulation";
Calls International Tribunal Only Option (September 1).
More on
named suspects and reactions.The
International Federation for East Timor writes U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan on international tribunal (August 30)
UNTAET Report - Human Rights and the Future
of East Timor (August 2000)
Human rights and the duties of citizens - Speech
to CNRT National Congress, Dili 21-29 August 2000
Statement on
the International Day for the Disappeared by East Timorese Human Rights
Groups (August 30)
A Year Later,
East Timor's People Are Still Waiting for Justice by Aderito de Jesus
Soares, East Timor National Jurists Association (IHT Op-Ed, August 30)
Open Letter to
CNRT on Justice Issues by international observers to the CNRT Congress
(August 28)
Indonesian Military
Wins Impunity, statement by TAPOL see
additional
coverage and statements. (August 2000)
The International Federation for East Timor and others
call for international tribunal
(July 5)
ETAN, Others Urge Strongest Resolution
on Timor at Human Rights Commission (March 23)
Christian Science Monitor:
The Brutal Exit
of Battalion 745
Is
there Justification for an International Criminal Tribunal for East Timor?
(Sept 2000) by John Magro
Documentary details Indonesian funding
of the militia (February 16)
U.S. and U.N. Must Support an International
Tribunal on East Timor Violence A Statement by the East Timor
Action Network/U.S. (February 2)
Indonesia's Generals on Trial in U.S.
Courts - Special section on the legal woes of General Johny Lumintang
and Major-General Sintong Panjaitan. (ongoing)
Before 2000
Human Rights in Indonesia:
Hearing conducted by the Subcommittee on International Operations and
Human Rights,
Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives
with Pius Lustrilanang, disappeared Indonesian activist; Aryati, Indonesian
researcher; Constâncio Pinto, East Timorese torture survivor; Jafar Siddiq
Hamzah, Acehnese lawyer; and Allan Nairn, on U.S. military (prepared
remarks PDF) (5/07/1998)
Full hearing
report (PDF May 7, 1998)
Key Links
see also news items in Timor Postings section
see also Women and East Timor
additional material in Back Door web on
War
Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity;
Calls for International Tribunal
Human Rights Alerts June- December
1998
Human Rights Alerts 1999
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