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The Struggle for East Timor


East Timorese celebrate Habibie's decision to allow a referendum on independence.
 


Backgrounders

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): Resources on East Timor and Indonesia: Some excellent articles from the past few years, including several outstanding EXTRA! articles on the Western double standard on Indonesia's brutal regime under Suharto.

Community Aid Abroad:East Timor: Site with articles and links to other sites dedicated to a peaceful solution in East Timor.

TIMORNET: Portugal's University of Coimbra created TimorNet, "an information resource service on East Timor." The site has lots of good links on various aspects of the East Timorese struggle.

Massacre: The Story of East Timor: A Real Audio presentation from DemocracyNOW!

East Timor: Past, Present and Future

 


News

Yahoo Full Coverage: East Timor

Sydney Morning Herald - East Timor

BBC News - East Timor

Out There News - Indonesia

Timor Today

Indonesian National News Agency

Jakarta Post

Indonesian Observer

 


Human-rights monitors

Amnesty International on East Timor

Human Rights Watch on East Timor

East Timor Human Rights Centre: Based in Australia, this site has photographs of people allegedly being tortured and murdered at the hands of Indonesian soldiers.

Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission: Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission was created in June of 1993 at the recommendation of a United Nations/Republic of Indonesia workshop. Read what they have to say about human rights in the country.

Tapol: Tapol, a human-rights-monitoring group based in Britain, means "political prisoner" in Bahasa Indonesian. The site features press releases, bulletins, and publications.

 


United Nations

For the Record 1998: The UN Human Rights System

UN Declarations on East Timor: Includes General Assembly and Security Council declarations dating back to 1975.

 


Pro-independence groups

FRETILIN: FRETILIN's official web site. Most of the information is in Portuguese.

East Timor Action Network (USA)

International Federation for East Timor (IFET): News and weekly reports, as well as information on on IFET's East Timor vote observer project.

ETAN Canada

Free East Timor: Features the story of the province in a nutshell

Independent East Timor: This Web site announces proudly that it is "dedicated to the Maubere people"; information -- most of it on the upcoming independence vote -- is in English, Portuguese, and Tetum.

Loro Sae: Petitions, poems, news, and weekly messages from Xanana Gusmão.

The British Coalition for East Timor

Free East Timor Coalition of New Zealand

University Students for East Timor: Melbourne's University Students for East Timor site has a great feature -- which names names -- on the Australian government's complicity in the horrors perpetuated in East Timor.

East Timor Observatory


Pro-integration groups

Solidarity for Peace in East Timor: Indonesia-based Solidamor, Solidarity for Peace in East Timor, offers recent relevant articles from the Indonesian press.

Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs: This extensive site has a whole section on East Timor.

ABRI: ABRI's site, while interesting, won't get you very far unless you speak Bahasa Indonesian.

 


Other

Fascist Republic of Indonesia: Portuguese and American hackers broke into the Indonesian government's computer system in 1997 as a protest over the occupation of East Timor.

Basic Tetum: Some basic Tetum words and sentences.

East Timor Scholarship Foundation: The East Timor Scholarship Foundation aims to grant scholarships to six to 12 East Timorese students per year to enable them to attend college in the US.

 

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