Documents on East Timor from PeaceNet and Connected Computer Networks Volume 23: June 8 - July 31, 1993 Published by: East Timor Action Network / U.S. P.O. Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602 USA Tel: 914-428-7299 Fax: 914-428-7383 E-mail PeaceNet:CSCHEINER or [email protected] For additional copies, please enclose US$10. per volume to cover costs; add an extra $3. for interna- tional air mail. Activist rate: $6. domestic, $8. international. These documents are usually produced approximately every six weeks, and mailed to subscribers. If you would like to subscribe, send $60 for the next six issues (US), or $78 for international air mail. Reduced rate for activists: $36 in the US, $48 international. Subsidized rate are available for groups in Third World countries working on East Timor. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS XANANA IN PRISON...................................................................................................................................... 7 ABOUT THE TRIAL: TIMORESE UNAWARE.......................................................................................................7 XG’S FAMILY DENIES APPEAL........................................................................................................................7 UNFAIR POLITICAL TRIAL OF XANANA GUSMÃO ............................................................................................7 ORDER OF FREEDOM FOR XANANA.............................................................................................................14 LBH COMPLAINS TO THE INDONESIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ABOUT SUDJONO ............................................14 HORTA & TAPOL DISBELIEVE CLEMENCY APPEAL .......................................................................................15 MORE OF SUDJONO’S SCHEMING...............................................................................................................15 GUSMÃO’S DILI TRIAL A TRAVESTY- WORLD MUST WEEP FOR A MAN OF VISION AND COURAGE. .............15 XANANA’S HEALTH DECLINING? .................................................................................................................16 RAMOS-HORTA TELLS ALATAS: “SHOW XANANA GUSMÃO”..........................................................................17 ULTIMATE PENALTY - EAST TIMOR LEADER GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT......................................................17 REBEL LEADER TO SERVE JAIL SENTENCE OUTSIDE EAST TIMOR...............................................................18 RAMOS-HORTA INTERVIEW .........................................................................................................................18 STATEMENT OF INDONESIAN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON XANANA’S TRIAL............................20 REBEL ASKS FOR MERCY.............................................................................................................................22 “XANANA WILL NEVER FILE FOR CLEMENCY!” — RAMOS HORTA ...............................................................22 CLEMENCY PLOY FOR EAST TIMORESE YET ANOTHER TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE............................................22 MEDIA PUT WORDS IN XANANA’S MOUTH...................................................................................................23 JAILED XANANA WINS LIBERTY MEDAL.......................................................................................................23 XANANA MOVED FROM DILI ........................................................................................................................24 Page 2 East Timor Documents, Volume 23. 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WILL ICRC SEE XANANA OR EAST TIMOR? .............................................................................................. 24 ICRC TO VISIT XANANA GUSMÃO?...............................................................................................................24 RED CROSS TIMOR VISIT ............................................................................................................................24 EVANS: JAKARTA WILL ALLOW ACCESS TO XANANA ‘WITHIN DAYS’ ...........................................................24 ICRC’S PROBLEMS IN EAST TIMOR NOT RESOLVED ....................................................................................25 RED CROSS VISITS XANANA GUSMÃO.........................................................................................................25 RED CROSS ‘DENIED ACCESS’ IN EAST TIMOR ...........................................................................................25 ICRC “DEPLORES” LACK OF ACCESS ...........................................................................................................26 ICRC VISITS TO TIMORESE DETAINEES AGAIN SUSPENDED .......................................................................26 REACTIONS TO XANANA'S IMPRISONMENT.............................................................................................. 26 SAN FRANCISCO RESPONSE CLOSES INDONESIAN CONSULATE................................................................26 EVANS PUSHES FOR XANANA CLEMENCY ...................................................................................................27 INDONESIA’S SHAME ..................................................................................................................................27 JAKARTA UNDER PRESSURE ON XANANA ...................................................................................................27 CANADIAN WOMAN JOINS INTERNATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR........................................28 HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES IN THE HAGUE .............................................................................................28 TORONTO PRIEST CONTINUES HUNGER STRIKE FOR EAST TIMOR.............................................................29 PRESSURE ON EC REGARDING XANANA.....................................................................................................29 HUNGER STRIKE IN IRELAND .....................................................................................................................30 INDONESIA CHALLENGED TO ALLOW GUSMÃO A NEWS CONFERENCE......................................................30 EVENTS INSIDE EAST TIMOR.................................................................................................................... 30 ALATAS SPEECH AT UNIVERSITY OF EAST TIMOR ........................................................................................30 JAKARTA HAS LONG WAY TO GO IN GAINING ACCEPTANCE OF ITS PRESENCE IN EAST TIMOR ................35 TIMOR OPPRESSION ‘INTENSIFIED’ ............................................................................................................37 REPORT FROM INSIDE ON MA’HUNO..........................................................................................................37 EAST TIMOR STUDENTS - ASSISTANCE NEEDED .........................................................................................37 BISHOP OF DILI UNDER SIEGE ...................................................................................................................38 A PROBLEM OF THE SOUL............................................................................................................................38 AN ISLAND OF EXILES .................................................................................................................................39 ONCE MIGHTY EAST TIMOR SEPARATISTS DYING BREED ...........................................................................40 PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE NOT ALLOWED ON CATHOLIC RADIO IN TIMOR.................................................40 INTERVIEW WITH FR. DOMINGOS SOARES .................................................................................................41 US SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNTIM...................................................................................................................41 TWO MORE DILI MASSACRE SURVIVORS FOUND........................................................................................41 TIMOR HISTORY BOOKS ATTACKED ............................................................................................................42 INFANT MORTALITY HIGHEST IN WORLD ....................................................................................................43 EAST TIMOR REBELS CONTINUE STRUGGLE AGAINST INDONESIA.............................................................43 TROOPS BREAK UP DEMO IN DILI ...............................................................................................................43 BRADBURY TAPE SEIZED IN TIMOR.............................................................................................................44 INDONESIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN LOS PALOS..........................................................................................45 E.T. 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