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Mar
23 LH: Job announcement for La'o Hamutuk in East Timor
Request added Apr 7
"With this job announcement, we are actively
seeking international (non-East Timorese) as well as East Timorese applicants
(from within East Timor and overseas). Women are particularly encouraged
to apply. ... La’o Hamutuk staff persons work collaboratively with other
staff and advisory bodies to develop and implement the organization’s work
plan. Together with the organization’s Board of Directors, they are responsible
for coordinating some of La’o Hamutuk’s main activities." La’o
Hamutuk - The East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis
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These collections
of recent items relating to particular themes
have been added
in the past week:
BD: Refugees & Missing Persons
BD: Pro-autonomy Movements / Pró autonomia Movimentos
These collections have been up-dated in the past week:
BD: War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity (Major overhaul of collection)
BD: East Timorese Women's Issues
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Apr
6 UN-CHR: Women and HR report Report added Apr 9
"Militia forces backed and trained by
the Indonesian military carried out a systematic campaign of violence during
the lead-up to the August 1999 referendum on East Timorese independence,
which was organized and administered by the United Nations. When East Timorese
nevertheless opted for independence from Indonesia, pro-Indonesian militia
and Indonesian soldiers initiated a scorched earth policy, terrorizing
the population and committing widespread abuses, including the rape of
women and girls. Some women were also reportedly held in sexual slavery."
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Ms. Radhika
Coomaraswamy
Apr
5 Reut: New talks on E. Timor campaign to free rape victim
News added Apr 9
"U.N. officials
are negotiating with Indonesia to free a 15-year-old East Timorese rape
victim, one of many abused as a sex slave by violent militia, a human rights
campaigner said on Thursday. Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the Australian-born wife
of Timorese freedom fighter Xanana Gusmao, has
been been publicizing the case of Juliana dos Santos since September."
Evelyn Leopold
Apr 5 STL: Civic Education Carried Out By Timorese People News from ETimor added Apr 7
Apr 3 TP: Horta, Aniceto,
Manuel, Amaral and Avelino named as NC Presidential candidates
News from ETimor added Apr 5
"Several prominent political leaders have been named as possible candidates
for the National Council presidency in the interim period leading
up to the elections. ... The National Council members who have been named
are Aniceto Guterres (director of Yayasan
Hak), Manuel Viegas Carrascalao (a businessman), Clementino dos Reis
Amaral (from KOTA Party) and Avelino Coelho (from the Socialist Party)."
Timor Post
Apr
2 STL: Alkatari: Xavier Has No Right To Give Ultimatums
Interview from ETimor added Apr 3
"Xavier was not the person who initially
started the Fretilin party. Xavier is not the founding father of Fretilin.
When we formed Fretilin, as a party, that was when we invited Xavier ...
As far as I know, there is only one Fretilin. There is no Fretilin ASDT,
Fretilin CPD-RDTL,” Mari Alkatari, Vice-President of Fretilin
Apr
2 LUSA: Gusmao Explains Resignation from National Council
News added Apr 3
“I believe that priority work, with debate
and explanations beyond the urban center of Dili, should be carried out
among the population. This requires attention and availability that my
overlapping positions did not allow me to fulfill” Xanana Gusmao
Apr
2 AP: East Timor Council Blocks Ramos Horta's Bid For Top Post
News added Apr 3
"Political squabbling in East Timor intensified
Monday when its transitional assembly blocked, at least temporarily, a
bid by Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta to become its new chief following
the surprise resignation of popular independence leader Xanana Gusmao."
Associated Press
Apr
1 RDP: Horta on national council Interview added Apr 3
"I think it was my duty, my moral duty,
to accept this challenge [presidency of ETimor’s National Council interim
parliament]. There has been a lot of disorientation, sadness, consternation
and general concern among the population, the youth and the members of
the National Council. I have spoken with Sergio Vieira de Mello head of
UNTAET, with Xanana Gusmao and with practically every political party,
and also with Mari Alkatiri Economic Affairs Minister and Ana Pessoa Internal
Administration Minister, and they all thought that it would be important
for the National Council to continue its work, and to, how should I put
it, to avoid a breaking point, and that it would be important to send a
message of continuity, seriousness and tranquility to the whole of the
population, and naturally to the international community as well." Jose
Ramos Horta, vice-president, National Council
of the Timorese Resistance
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Mar
29 Tempo: US President urged not to support Indonesian military
News added Apr 3
"About 30 [Indonesian] women activists
held rally at the US Embassy on Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan here today. They
asked President Bush not to support the Indonesian military (TNI) in any
form, including supporting education program for TNI officers in the US.
The demonstrators also asked the US government not to lift military embargo
imposed since the East Timor referendum, until TNI is no longer involved
in the power play." Tempo
Mar
23 LH: Job announcement for La'o Hamutuk in East Timor
Request added Apr 7
"With this job announcement, we are actively
seeking international (non-East Timorese) as well as East Timorese applicants
(from within East Timor and overseas). Women are particularly encouraged
to apply. ... La’o Hamutuk staff persons work collaboratively with other
staff and advisory bodies to develop and implement the organization’s work
plan. Together with the organization’s Board of Directors, they are responsible
for coordinating some of La’o Hamutuk’s main activities." La’o
Hamutuk - The East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis
Mar
10 AU: East Timor's children of the enemy Article added
Apr 5
"Investigators and women’s organisations
agree rape plagued both East Timor and West Timor following the ballot
on independence in 1999, and in many cases constituted both
a war crime and a crime against humanity. “A lot of rapes happened
in the chaos,” Wandita says, explaining that women separated from their
families were pounced on by marauding packs of men. But beyond that, she
says, many of the rapes were planned, organised
and sustained as a joint effort by the military and the militias. “There
was obviously collusion,” she says." Sian Powell, Dili
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Jan APHEDA Union Aid Abroad: East Timor Update January 2001 Update added Apr 4
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Portuguese:
Dec
22 OTL: Reconstruir infra-estruturas adaptadas e sustentáveis
Report added Apr 4
"a chegada dum grande número de
estrangeiros com necessidades de conforto e capacidades financeiras superiores
levou à satisfação prioritária deste sector,
ocupando
edifícios e casas menos destruídas ou dando-lhe primazia
na reconstrução e fornecimento de bens. Mais de um ano depois
da chegada das NU, a imensa maioria dos timorenses, sobretudo em Dili,
vive em ruínas." Observatório
Timor Leste
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Aug 2000 AID/WATCH:
Partnership
versus ‘consultation’ in East Timor
Analysis added Apr 4
"UN officials have
consistently marginalised the Conselho Nacional
de Resistencia Timorense (CNRT), insisting it be accorded consultative
rather than partnership status. The CNRT insists it is a national council,
not simply a political party, or ‘the biggest NGO in East Timor’. It brings
together a range of political forces, and the CNRT argues it should have
been recognised as the Timorese-run transitional government from the outset.
Nonetheless, the CNRT reluctantly agreed to participate in the UN’s ‘National
Consultative Council’ (NCC), although several prominent CNRT figures refused
to join. Reflecting the NCC’s consultative status, the UN retains the ability
to rule by decree, rendering the council toothless on key issues. Policies
such as the introduction of sales taxes and the introduction of the US
dollar as the local currency, have simply been imposed."
James Goodman, academic, activist, member Committee of Management of AID/WATCH
Tetum:
Jul
17 2000 BLH: Ajuda Internasional ba Timor Lorosa’e: Misericordia?
Editorial from ETimor added Apr 4
"La’o Hamutuk husu ba nain ulun
UNTAET tahan atu fo osan ba Timor Lorosa’e nudar “misericordia”, ita tenke
hare sira nudar modesto hanesan compesacao husi governo nebe fahe sira
nian responsabilidade ba povo Timor Lorosa’e nia terus no destrucao nacao-la’os
deit iha Septembro 1999, maibe durante 24 anos nia laran." La’o
Hamutuk, Instituto Timor Lorosa’e ba Analiza no Monitoring Reconstrucao
July
17 2000 LHB: International Funding for East Timor: Charity?
Editorial from ETimor added Apr 4
"La'o Hamutuk calls upon UNTAET
officials to refrain from referring to funds donated to East Timor as "charity"
-- especially when the vast majority of these funds come from national
governments which provided significant economic, military, and diplomatic
support to Jakarta and its illegal occupation of East Timor. Rather than
seeing these funds as "charity", we should see them largely as a modest
beginning at amends from governments who share in the responsibility for
the suffering of the East Timorese and the destruction of the country --
not only in September 1999, but in the almost-24-year period that preceded
it." La'o Hamutuk: East Timor Institute for
Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis
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Seminar: Rebuilding
after the Indian earthquake
Speaker: Mrs Mini
Bedi
Oxfam Community
Aid Abroad
Havelock House,
85
Northbourne Avenue Turner
7.30pm Wednesday
18 April 2001
Work.Organisation.Struggle:
7th Biennial National Labour History
Conference
Australian Society for the Study of Labour
History
Australian National University.
Thur Apr 19 to Sat Apr 21.
Running Radio Fretilin in Darwin 1975-76
Brian Manning and Chris Elenor
7th Biennial National Labour History Conference,
panels
ANU Copland Building, Room G030 or G031
Friday 20 April, 4:45pm
Peaceful M1 Blockade
M1 Alliance
Mining Industry
House, the home of the Minerals Council of Australia,
216 Northbourne
Avenue, Bradden
The blockade is
to commence from 7am, May 1st.
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Conselho Nacional de Resistencia Timorense / National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT)
AID/WATCH: Monitoring the Development Dollar
APHEDA: Trade Union Aid Abroad: Linking Australian workers to the world
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