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Making Contact
#06-01 "Breaking Free:
East Timor's Quest for Independence"
February 7, 2001
For East Timorese people, independence came with great costs. Refugees are still languishing in camps in West Timor, and though they won the right to autonomy after the elections in October 1999, many people are asking why international agencies such as the United Nations continue to hold decision-making power instead of the East Timorese themselves. On this program, we take a look at intervention in East Timor.
FEATURING:
Noam Chomsky, author and professor
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aderito de Jesus Soares, East Timorese
lawyer and human rights activist
Guests / Contact Information:
Noam Chomsky
MIT E39-219
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Aderito Soares
La'o Hamutuk
PO Box 340
Dili, East Timor (via Darwin, Australia)
tel: +670-390-325013
laohamutuk@easttimor.minihub.org
http://etan.org/lh/
East Timor Action Network
US National Office
P.O. Box 1182
White Plains, New York 10602
tel: 914-428-7299
fax: 914-428-7383
http://www.etan.org
Aderito de Jesus Soares
Added June 14 see
also
Aderito Soares is the Coordinator of SAHE
Institute for Liberation and the East Timor Jurists Association. He
is 31 years old, has a degree in Law from University of Salatiga in Central
Java. After graduating he worked as a lawyer for the NGO ELSHAM (Institute
for Policy Research and Advocacy) in Jakarta where he focussed on the indigenous
people of West Papua and labour issues in Kalimantan. Aderito lectures
in human rights and legal subjects at the East Timor National University.
He has considerable international experience, having represented East Timor
at the Vienna +5 Human Rights Conference in Ottawa in 1998 (with Jose
Ramos Horta), was one of seven international judges for the Peoples’
Tribunal in Puerto Rico in November 2000, and had an internship with OMCT,
a NGO focussing on Torture) in Geneva for three months in 1998. He acted
as a facilitator for the CNRT training campaigners
for independence, and during his time in Jakarta worked with the pro-democracy
movement. He is a Board member of the NGO
Forum and another NGO, Lao Hamutuk.
Aderito comes from Maliana District, and speaks Kemak (the local language),
Tetum, English, Bahasa Indonesian and Portugese.
Email: Sahe_Lib@yahoo.com
Tetum:
(the most common East Timorese
language)
La’o
Hamutuk, Instituto Timor Lorosa’e ba Analiza no Monitoring Reconstrucao
Updated June 24
Saida
mak La’o Hamutuk? La’o Hamutuk organizasaun klibur Ema Timor
Lorosa’e no Ema Internacional ne’ebe buka atu tau matan, halo analize ho
halo relatorio kona ba hahalok (actividade) instuisaun internacional ne’ebe
oras ne’e haknaar iha Timor Lorosa’e, liu-liu hahalok sira ne’ebe iha relasaun
ho rekonstrusaun fizika no social Timor Lorosa’e nian. La’o Hamutuk
fiar katak Povo Timor Lorosa’e mak tenke hakotu iha procesu rekonstrusaun
ne’e nia laran no procesu rekonstrusaun ne’e tenke demokratiku no transparante
duni.
Staf Timor oan: Inès Martins,
Fernando da Silva, Thomas Freitas; Staf Internasional: Pamela Sexton,
Mark Salzer; Kuadru Ejekutivu: Sr. Maria Dias, Joseph Nevins, Fr.
Jovito Rego de Jesus Araùjo, Aderito Soares Tradutor: Maria
Bernardino, Tom‚ Xavier Jeronimo Staf JSMP:
Christian
Ranheim, Caitlin Reiger, Rayner Thwaites
Local Contact: P.O. Box 340,
Dili, East Timor (via Darwin, Australia) Mobile fone: +61(408)811373;
Telefone Uma: +670(390)325-013
International contact: +1-510-643-4507
Email: laohamutuk@easttimor.minihub.org
Homepage: http://www.etan.org/lh
Boletim La’o Hamutuk: [Tetum PDF
format]
Vol. 1, No. 4, 31 Dejembru 2000 Banku
Mundial iha Timor Loro Sa’e: http://www.etan.org/lh/PDFs/lhbul4tm.pdf
Vol. 1, No. 3, 17 Novembro 2000 Hari Sistema
Saude Nasional iha Timor Lorosa’e: http://www.etan.org/lh/PDFs/LHbul3tm.pdf
Vol. 1, No. 2, 17 Julho 2000 Protesaun
ba meio ambiente iha TL: http://www.etan.org/lh/PDFs/bulletin02tetum.pdf
Vol. 1, No. 1, 21 Juñu 2000 Rekonciliasaun:
http://www.etan.org/lh/PDFs/bulletin01tetum.pdf
English:
La'o
Hamutuk: East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis
Updated June 24
La'o Hamutuk (Tetum for Walking
Together) is a joint East Timorese-international organization that seeks
to monitor, to analyze, and to report on the reconstruction activities
of the principal international institutions. It believes that the people
of East Timor must be the ultimate decisionmakers in the reconstruction
process and that the process should be as democratic and transparent as
possible ...
East Timorese staff: Inès
Martins, Fernando da Silva, Thomas Freitas;
International staff: Pamela
Sexton, Mark Salzer Executive board: Sr. Maria Dias, Joseph Nevins,
Fr. Jovito Rego de Jesus Araùjo, Aderito
de Jesus Soares Translators: Maria Bernardino, Tom‚ Xavier Jeronimo
JSMP
staff: Christian Ranheim, Caitlin Reiger, Rayner Thwaites
International contact: +1-510-643-4507
Email: laohamutuk@easttimor.minihub.org
Homepage: http://www.etan.org/lh
La’o Hamutuk Bulletin: http://www.etan.org/lh/bulletin.html
Mar 23 2001 LH: Job announcement for La'o
Hamutuk in East Timor: http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/01marjob.htm
Activity Report: Mar 16 2001 LH:
http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/01marlhreport.html
See also:
BD: 'Refugees' & Missing Persons - A collection of recent information, reports, articles and news
BD: Military and political aid to Indonesia - A collection of recent reports, articles and news
BD: Peoples' Participation - A collection of recent media releases, reports and articles
Sept
27 1999 Noam Chomsky: East Timor Retrospective - An overview and lessons
Analysis
"Terror and destruction began
early in the year [1999]. The TNI forces responsible have been described
as "rogue elements" in the West, a questionable judgment. There is good
reason to accept Bishop Belo's assignment of direct responsibility to commanding
General Wiranto in Jakarta.
It appears that the militias
have been managed by elite units of Kopassus, the "crack special forces
unit" that had "been training regularly with US and Australian forces until
their behaviour became too much of an embarrassment for their foreign friends,"
veteran Asia correspondent David Jenkins reports. These forces are "legendary
for their cruelty," Benedict Anderson observes: in East Timor they "became
the pioneer and exemplar for every kind of atrocity," including systematic
rapes, tortures and executions, and organization of hooded gangsters. They
adopted the tactics of the U.S. Phoenix program in South Vietnam that killed
tens of thousands of peasants and much of the indigenous South Vietnamese
leadership, Jenkins writes, as well as "the tactics employed by the Contras"
in Nicaragua, following lessons taught by their CIA mentors.
The state terrorists were
"not simply going after the most radical pro-independence people but going
after the moderates, the people who have influence in their community."
"It's Phoenix," a well-placed source in Jakarta reported: the aim is "to
terrorise everyone" -- the NGOs, the Red Cross, the UN, the journalists."
Noam
Chomsky