Tetum:
Boletim La’o Hamutuk:
[PDF formatu]
Vol. 1, No. 4, 31 Dejembru
2000
Banku Mundial iha Timor
Loro Sa’e:
http://www.etan.org/lh/PDFs/lhbul4tm.pdf
Tetum:
Dej
31 BLH: Demokrasia ho Banku Mundial iha Timor Loro Sa’e Editorial
added May 18
"Eksperiensia hatudu katak presaun públika
bele influensia oin sa Banku hala’o nia seruisu iha nasaun partikular ruma.
Maski susar, Timor Loro Sa’e sorte ona hodi iha sektor ONG nebe iha korajen,
elite politik nebe relativamente responsivu ba kuantidadi ka ema sira nebe
hili iha baje (grassroot constituency), no movimentu solidaridadi internasional
ida nebe forte. Hola hamutuk ba, faktor sira ne’e bele halo diferensa atu
bele garante katak Banku Mundial serve necesidadi Timor oan sira nian,
du ke nia kontráriu."
La’o
Hamutuk, Instituto Timor Lorosa’e ba Analiza no Monitoring Reconstrucao
Dec 31
LHB: Democracy and the World Bank in East Timor Editorial
updated Feb 26
"Experience shows that concerted
public pressure can influence how the [World] Bank works. East Timor has
a vibrant NGO sector, a political elite that is relatively responsive to
grassroots constituencies, and a strong international solidarity movement.
Working together, they can help ensure that the World Bank serves the East
Timorese people’s needs, rather than vice-versa." The
La'o Hamutuk Bulletin
Dec 28 IPS: East Timor: Nation-To-Be Goes From Euphoria To Pragmatism Added Dec 31
Dec
26 Público: The UN's neo-colonial vision of Timor Interview
added Jan 5 2001
"The UN is divided between the exotic
scenario of Spielberg's Indiana Jones series and the 'political correctness'
of US academic thinking, and this combination gives rise to a somewhat
neo-colonial approach". Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos
Dec 25 CNRT: Mary Christmas and a Happy New Year! Added Dec 25
Dec 24 Age: East Timor - Silent Shame, Silent Witness Added Dec 24
Dec 23 AFP: Indonesia postpones registration of East Timorese refugees Added Dec 24
Dec 23 Age: East Timor's land rights mess Added Dec 24
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
Dec
22 ETO: Reconstructing suitable sustainable infrastructures
Report added Dec 30
"The large influx of foreigners with different
standards of comfort and greater financial capacity has meant that satisfying
their needs has become a priority area: they took over the less damaged
buildings and houses, and were given priority in reconstruction and supply
of materials. Meanwhile, a year after the UN's arrival, the vast
majority of Timorese, especially those in Dili, are still living amidst
the ruins." East Timor Observatory
Dec
22 IHT: A Family in East Timor Grieves for a Daughter
Added Dec 22
"Juliana was one of several hundred people
sheltering in the grounds of Ave Maria Roman Catholic church in Suai when
it was attacked by Indonesian security forces and their Laksaur militia
proxies in an unprovoked assault on Sept. 6, 1999, that left as many as
200 people dead, including three priests. ... The Indonesian government's
human rights watchdog, Komnas HAM ... described what happened at the Suai
church as indiscriminate killing, with the victims including men, women
and children, aged between 5 and 40. In the chaos that followed the worst
recorded atrocity after the UN-organized self-determination plebiscite
in East Timor, Juliana was separated from her mother and taken to the district
military headquarters. It was there that the Laksaur militia deputy leader,
Igidio Mnanek, seized the young girl and proclaimed her as his "war prize."
" Mark Dodd
Dec 22 ETAN's Annual Report of its activities for 2000 Added Dec 22
Dec 20 SMH: Australia denies UN its secret files of Timor terror Added Dec 22
Dec 20 AP: UN Investigator Says East Timor Death Toll May Be 2,000 Added Dec 22
Dec 20 Age: Guilty as charged: the Timor verdict Added Dec 21
Dec 19 ETAN urges U.S. to support International Criminal Court Added Dec 20
Dec
19 SMH: Hard Grind - Weak coffee prices add to fledgling nation's woes
Added Dec 20
"Income from
East Timor's coffee harvest - on which a quarter of the population depends
for its basic income - has fallen by up to 35 per cent because of glut
on the world market, placing further pressure on the country's devastated
economy." Mark Dodd, Herald Correspondent in Dili
Dec
18 CAAT: Re-build ET coffee economy - Buy Fair Trade Coffee!
Added Dec 23
Upon reading about the recent devastating crash
in income from East Timor's coffee harvest BACK DOOR did an extensive
web-search for ways that we could respond. And guess what? In several capital
cities in Australia there are retail
outlets that sell East Timorese coffee at much fairer prices. Buying
this fair trade coffee will help to re-build the coffee economy. This coffee
can also be purchased
on-line!
Dec 18 Reut: Ramos-Horta optimistic, pragmatic on E.Timor future Added Dec 20
Dec
18 Age: Xanana call for South African-style truth and reconciliation commission
Added Dec 18
"I'm thinking of a process of reconciliation here that can avoid instability
in the future and one that people can accept. I will not say no justice,
but in a process maybe like South Africa," Jose "Xanana" Gusmao
Dec 13 TimP: Teachers protest to UN Added Dec 20
Dec
13 SMH: East Timor - Empty Justice Added Dec 17
"Indonesia is supposed to be bringing
suspects to account for some of the worst human rights abuses, including
the massacre of priests, women and children sheltering in a church in Suai
and the murder of a Dutch journalist, Sander Thoenes. The former armed
forces chief, General Wiranto, has been named by Jakarta as "morally responsible",
but no charges have been laid or cases mounted. This leaves East Timorese
prosecutors with a credible legal process but no significant suspects to
try, and Indonesian prosecutors with all the big suspects but no credible
process. Jakarta is not willing to extradite suspects to East Timor, and
would have serious problems in protecting witnesses in any trial of senior
military officers in Indonesia." Editorial, Sydney Morning Herald
Dec
12 Público: Timorese structures secondary Added
Dec 15
"At this stage of the process, it is essential that the Timorese are
genuinely involved, and that this involvement focuses on the institutions
in which they are represented" Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos
Dec
10 ACFOA Position Paper: Negotiations of the Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation
Report updated Jan 18
"... it is critical to ensure that East
Timor will have access and make good use of all its resources in order
to enable the rehabilitation of its infrastructure and become in the medium
term more economically self-sufficient and therefore less dependent on
foreign aid. ... The East Timorese should be given a larger share of the
oil and gas resources than the one they presently receive under the Timor
Gap Treaty." ACFOA
Dec
10 KY: ETimor: 2 ex-sex slaves break silence at NGO tribunal
Added Dec 11
"Two East Timorese women broke over half
a century of silence Sunday and told of their ordeals as sex slaves of
the Imperial Japanese Army at a mock tribunal to try the Japanese government
over its responsibility for the recruitment of so-called ''comfort women''
before and during World War II." Kyodo
Dec 8 RA: World bank says it failed Indonesia's poor Added Dec 9
Dec
8 DPA: Women demand apology & compensation for War-time Japanese mistreatment
Added Dec 9
"The Japanese government, which failed
to respond to the tribunal's invitation to participate in the event, continues
to deny any legal responsibility for the suffering of the former comfort
women. Sexual violence committed by the Japanese Imperial Army was hardly
touched by the 1946-1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East
in Tokyo, set up by the Allied Forces after the war." Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Dec 8 SFChron: Timor Peace Also Has Discontents Added Dec 9
Dec 7 MB: Horta before Int'l Women's Forum Added Dec 11
Dec
7 CapT: Village Women of East Timor have great hope
Added Dec 9
"Women were specifically targeted in many
ways [after the ballot] -- they were separated from husbands and sons,
harassed and often raped. ... Village women work all day long, caring for
children, cooking, cleaning, washing, farming and carrying water. ... In
their quest for economic empowerment, East Timorese women are fighting
more than their country's current poverty -- under customary law, women
cannot inherit or own property." Jen Laakso
Dec 5 & 6 Indonesian Press: Several news items relating to East Timorese Refugees Added Dec 8
Dec
6 Times: Bishops call for international tribunal to try war crimes in East
Timor Added Dec 18
"In Indonesia efforts
are being made to set up trials. But the conditions for them to be conducted
according to international standards do not exist and are unlikely to in
the near future. ... No healing process can start in the knowledge that
perpetrators will go unpunished. Justice is vital to East Timor's future,
and to the future of Indonesia, which is struggling to found a democratic
state based on the rule of law." David Konstant, Bishop of Leeds, Chairman,
Catholic Bishops' Conference Department of International Affairs &
Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford
Dec 6 NTT X: Horta: E. Timor's future is also with the "new Indonesia" Added Dec 11
Dec 6 BBC: Jose Ramos-Horta - 'Delay possible' in East Timor independence Added Dec 8
Dec 6 GLW: Vital histories of East Timor’s resistance Added Dec 8
Dec
6 GLW: Australia's oil and gas grab exposed Added
Dec 8
"As the people of East Timor struggle
to rebuild their lives and their nation, it remains the case that a major
obstacle to achieving full independence and self-determination is the big-business
oriented foreign policy of the Australian government."
Jon Land
Dec
5-6 INGO: Report on the Brussels Donors' Meeting on East Timor
Added Dec 20
"The Brussels Donors' Meeting on East
Timor worked according to the Goebbels principle of propaganda: 'If
you repeat anything often enough and long enough, people will believe it.'
By
repeating often and at length what a marvellous job the WB, UNTAET and
ETTA had done, one presumes everyone except the NGOs/INGOs went away believing
this."
Sieneke Martin, INGO representative
Dec
5-6 REDE: Women's Network statement to Brussels donor conferenceAdded
Dec 13
"If the goal
is a sustainable political and administrative transition than it must be
capable of involving the people in the most informed and inclusive manner
possible. The transition can not be of the elite, it must be of the people.
Timorisation and capacity building have become catch phrases for the current
administration, and with reason, as the administration has been almost
fully staffed by internationals. However the mistaken perception that there
is no Timorese capacity or that there is capacity only amongst a few, and
the convenience of talking with a limited elite can not justify jumping
over and undermining the institutions being created with such difficulty."
Filomena Reis, REDE
Dec
5-6 CNRT/CNP: Brussels donor's meeting - opening speech by the CNRT's rep
Added Dec 7
"The Timorese ... find it hard to understand
how, with the resources available, that after nearly one year following
the Tokyo Conference, Dili is almost in the same state. A worse scenario,
which hurts one's soul to witness, can be seen throughout the rest of the
country." Xanana Gusmao
Dec 5 RDP: East Timorese leader criticizes UN Timor officials Added Dec 9
Dec 5 XG: President Xanana Gusmao open letter to East Timorese Added Dec 7
Dec 5 Lusa: Parties Must Prove They 'Really Prepared' for Independence – Gusma[o] Added Dec 6
Dec 5 FONGTIL: First East Timorese NGO Forum AGM Added Dec 6
Tetum:
Dec
5 BLH: Boletim La’o Hamutuk "Hari Sistema
Saude Nasional iha Timor Lorosa’e"
Up-dated Dec 26
Dec 5 LHB: Latest Bulletin Online "Building a National Health System for East Timor" Up-dated Dec 26
Dec
4 COHRE:
Housing Rights Ignored in the Reconstruction Added
Dec 6
"the East Timorese people eager to re-build their nation. Sadly there
is little or no consultation with communities on housing or other issues
that affect their lives by the UN. There are about 174 East Timorese NGOs
ready to contribute to the development process, yet they are left out of
the decision making process. This is frustrating to all involved." Ken
Fernandes, COHRE's Asia & Pacific Coordinator
Dec 2 CNRT/NC: Xanana's Resignation Denied Added Dec 5
Dec 2 RDP: Unhappy East Timorese leaders threaten to resign from interim administration
Dec
2 CCET: Christian churches call for justice and peace in East Timor
Updated Dec 5
"No healing process can start in the knowledge
that perpetrators are at large, and will go unpunished. Without healing,
East Timor's
unique chance of founding a nation based
on higher principles rooted in freedom and equity, will be still-born.
Justice is vital ..."
Christian Consultation on East Timor
Dec 2 TEcon: Timor's troubled waters