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Feb 22 STL & TP: Political Party Registration / No Dual Citizenships for Party Leaders [News from ETimor: Transition/Elections] top
Feb 21 TP:
UNTAET v. East Timorese [Editorial from ETimor: Self-Determination/Reconciliation]
"the hasty statement of the UNTAET staff ... demonstrates as always,
the arrogance and over-ambition of UNTAET staff. ... often "other people"
have used opportunities in international missions, including UNTAET, to
carry out their private interest and ambition. ... [The Timorese people]
do not want an international mission where interested persons, groups or
nations bring suffering to the people. ... They do not need other people
who come in the name of the "world" and do unsatisfactory work." Timor
Post top
Feb 21 GLW: Scrap
the Timor Gap Treaty [Article: Self-Determination/Investment]
"East Timor's leadership has stated, on several occasions, that while
it considers the treaty illegal and invalid (as does the United Nations),
it wants the oil and gas projects to continue. In the event of East Timor
gaining full sovereign rights over its seabed resources, East Timor's leaders
have stated that the fiscal requirements for companies operating in the
gap shall remain the same." John Land top
Feb 21 JP: Alkatiri on ET's business climate [Interview: Transition/Investment] top
Feb 19 NTTX:
Indon reporters: At this time Timor Lorosae is a nation that's safe
[News from WTimor: Refugees]
"The conclusion is that Timor Lorosae is now a safe country, especially
in Dili, and not some joke so that there is no reason for Timor Lorosae
people in refuge to be afraid to go home except for those whose hands are
"bloody," because their fear really exists inside themselves wherever they
go." NTT Ekspres top
Feb 19 TAPOL:
Worrying trends or developments in East Timor [Letter:
Transition/Investment/Military]
"The rapid influx of foreign capital interests [into East Timor] is
undeniable and has been spotted by many, but what is especially useful
in his [George Aditjondro's] interview is his
identifying Indonesian army-related companies who are now involved as well.
This is the kind of Indonesia-ETimor collaboration that should certainly
not be welcomed and that should be exposed." Carmel, TAPOL,
the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign top
Feb
19 STL: Timorisation [Editorial: Self-Determination/Transition]
"Many Timorese are disappointed because the Timorisation process just
appears to be on the surface, with numbers more important than having the
power to make crucial decisions." Suara
Timor Lorosae top
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Portuguese:
Nov 6
OTL: Transição, a meio caminho para a independência
[Report: Transition/Transição]
"Xanana Gusmão acusou a missão das NU de ter falhado
no envolvimento dos timorenses no processo transitório para a independência.
“Não
estamos interessados numa herança de carros e leis, nem estamos
interessados numa herança de planos de desenvolvimento para um futuro
concebido por outros que não os timorenses. Não estamos interessados
em herdar uma racionalidade económica que coloca de lado a complexidade
social e política da realidade timorense, nem desejamos herdar os
pesados mecanismos de tomada de decisão e implementação
de projectos nos quais o papel dos timorenses é o de dar o seu consentimento
como observadores ao invés de agentes activos que deveríamos
começar a ser.” (Sidney Morning Herald, 10-10-2000)." OTL
- Observatório Timor Leste top
Nov
6 ETO: Transition, half way to independence [Report:
Transition]
"Security Council (SC) Resolution 1272 of 25
October 1999 mandated UNTAET [UN Transitional Administration for East Timor]
"to support capacity-building for self-government", and insisted
on the "need for UNTAET to consult and cooperate closely with the East
Timorese people in order to carry out its mandate effectively with a view
to the development of local democratic institutions… and the transfer to
these institutions of its administrative and public service functions"
ETO
- East Timor Observatory top
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Tetum:
Jun 21
2000 Y-HAK: Lopes: Rekonciliasaun Housi Lei Nia Roman
[Article: Reconciliation/Rekonciliasaun]
"Principio katak rekonciliasaun tenke bazeia iha esforsu atu fo justisa
ba sociedade, liu-liu ba mutun na’in sira (victima). ... Bazeia ba lia-los
ne’e mak ita bele hateten katak procesu lei nian la’o. Procesu lei nian
ne’e bele la’o iha tribunal (tribunal formal) no mos bele la’o tuir dalan
ne’ebe la-os tribunal, hanesan mekanismo fukun (mekanisme adat). Substancia
rua ne’e, justisa ho lia-los, bele hala’o hanesan no dala ida de’it, ho
hanoin katak sira na’in rua tulun malu. Procesu lei nian bele mos hala’o
uluk atu buka lia-los, no dala ruma ita hetan tiha ona lia-los, tuir mai
ita lori problema ne’ebe iha ba tribunal." Aniceto Guterres Lopes, Direktor,
Yayasan HAK top
Jun
21 2000 Y-HAK: Lopes: Reconciliation from a Legal Perspective
[Article: Reconciliation]
"It is a basic principle that we must base reconciliation on the effort
to realize justice for the entire society, especially for the victims.
... Given the spiritual injury experienced by society, the healing process
must be gradual. This reconciliation is inevitably tied to the nature of
the legal process. Only if there is justice can true reconciliation, or
social healing, occur." Aniceto Guterres Lopes, Director, Yayasan HAK
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Petitions:
Until Mar 12 ASIET: Timor
Oil Statement and Petition
Until Mar 8 CIIR: Women's Representation
to ETimor's Constituent Assembly
Things to do: Fair
Trading:
CAAT:
Re-build ET coffee economy - Buy Fair Trade Coffee!
Things
to avoid:
Feb 10 ETAN/IFET: Don't advocate
without consulting in depth with ETimorese
Dec 27 SMH: East Timor says no
thanks to thongs, teddies
Dec
12 NTEU: Put books for East Timor Uni on hold
Dec 3 OPMT: Please DO NOT mail Sewing
Materials to Australian Forces Post Office! top
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Informal launch of 'Breaking the Banks', a new book about
the impact of the Asian Development Bank and Australia's role in the
Mekong region
WHO: ACT Mekong Group, Community Aid Abroad members, other interested
supporters...
Migrant Resource Centre Room 3 (next to CAA office),
Griffin Centre, Bunda St, Civic
6-8pm, Monday February 26, 2001
Meeting of the Refugee Action Committee
Amnesty International Endorsed
ANU, in Copland Building, room G030
Monday night, February 26th, 6.30pm
M1 Teach-in: People and planet not corporate profit
Organised by M1 Alliance.
Hayden Allen Tank, ANU.
Sat March 3 10.30-5pm
International Women's Day. Speakout
Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance.
Garema Pl, Civic
Thursday March 8, 12.30pm top
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Amnesty
International
East
Timor National NGO Forum
TAPOL,
the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign top
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BACK DOOR supports
human rights accountability, return of refugees, strengthening
of indigenous culture,
East Timorese rights to Timor Gap oil and gas resources and
revenue, participatory
democratic self-determination for the East Timorese people
and people-centred
grassroots power-devolving reconstruction of East Timor.
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of grassroots East Timorese community organisations and networks;
* the Opinions of
East Timorese people, especially those who identify their context as silencing
and marginalising;
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