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ETAN supports justice, accountability, human rights and democracy and is non-partisan.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-25184730865528772952023-11-30T07:09:00.003-05:002023-11-30T07:12:53.149-05:00<p class="auto-style303" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="main"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="auto-style31" face="Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="auto-style425" style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" style="text-align: center;"><span class="auto-style123" style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TBHV7DVS4A62G"><img alt="Yes, I support ETAN." class="auto-style2" height="34" src="https://www.etan.org/Yes%20I%20support%20ETAN.jpg" style="background-color: #ccffff; border-width: 0px; margin: 5px;" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span class="main"><p class="auto-style303"><span class="main"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="auto-style31" face="Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="auto-style425" style="font-size: large;"><strong>Henry Kissinger Dies at 100: Greenlit Invasion and Illegally Provided Weapons to Indonesia</strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="auto-style303">From <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/27/henry-kissinger-100-war-us-international-reputation" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>:</em></p></span></span><span class="main" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><p class="auto-style303"><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><span class="main" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="fax" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="auto-style500"><img alt="Kissinger with Ford" height="186" src="https://www.etan.org/issues/images/kissinger_invasion2a.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px; float: left; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;" width="381" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: times;">Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon who became one of the most prominent and controversial figures of </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">US foreign policy</a><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> in the 20th century, has died. He was 100....<br /><br />[H]his legacy <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/nov/29/henry-kissinger-obituary" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was also defined</a> by his contempt for human rights and efforts to protect US corporate interests at all costs, with opponents across the world casting him as a <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/27/henry-kissinger-100-war-us-international-reputation" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">war criminal</a>. He supported Indonesia’s military dictator in the invasion of East Timor, backed the invasion of Angola by the apartheid regime in South Africa and worked with the CIA to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Chile. He also authorized wiretaps of reporters and his own staff.</span></span></p><hr style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" /></span><span class="fax" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a bit longer.” - Kissinger</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="auto-style469" style="background-color: white; color: #121212;"><p class="auto-style303" style="font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"><span class="auto-style470">From ETAN: </span><span class="fax" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-us"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us" style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="https://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/default.htm" target="_blank"><span class="auto-style472" face=""Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"><span class="auto-style471" style="font-size: small;">About Kissinger: </span></span></span><span class="main"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="auto-style8" style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="auto-style9" face=""Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span class="auto-style7"><span style="font-size: small;">The United States’ most notorious living war criminal</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="main"><span class="fax" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Kissinger geopolitical scheming in the Indonesian archipelago had particularly dire consequences for the peoples there. In 1969, the U.S. conspired with the Indonesian dictator Suharto to facilitate the<a href="https://www.etan.org/news/2013/10kissinger.htm"> illegal annexation of West Papua</a> through a transparently bogus propaganda exercise known as the "Act of Free Choice." U.S. behind-the-scenes support at the United Nations for this undemocratic farce was essential to solidifying the Indonesian dictatorship's control of West Papua and the more than four decades of genocidal policies which have decimated the Papuan population.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span class="auto-style469" style="background-color: white; color: #121212;"><span class="main"><span class="fax" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size: small;"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span class="fax" lang="en-us"><span class="auto-style4"><span class="auto-style471"><span class="auto-style48">Under Kissinger's direction, <a href="https://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/default.htm#Documents">the U.S. gave a greenlight to</a> the 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor (now Timor-Leste) which ushered in a 24-year brutal occupation by the Suharto dictatorship. The Indonesian occupation of East Timor and West Papua was enabled by U.S. weapons and training. This illegal flow of weapons contravened congressional intent, yet Kissinger bragged about his ability to continue arms shipments to Suharto (“<a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/P860114-1573_MC_b.html" target="_blank">The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a bit longer.</a>”) These weapons were essential to the Indonesian dictator's consolidation of military control in both East Timor and West Papua, and these occupations cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Timorese and Papuan civilians. Kissinger’s policy toward West Papua allowed for the U.S.-based multinational corporation <a href="https://www.etan.org/issues/wpapua/freeport.htm">Freeport McMoRan</a> to pursue its mining interests in the region, which has resulted in terrible human rights and environmental abuses; Kissinger was rewarded with a <a href="https://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/wfriends.htm">seat on the Board of Director</a>s from 1995-2001.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p><em style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"><span class="main">see more here: <a href="https://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/default.htm" target="_blank">More on Kissinger, his record and the protests against him</a></span></em><a href="https://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/default.htm" target="_blank"> </a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-44175441054842643642023-11-22T15:35:00.004-05:002023-11-22T15:40:32.883-05:00Human rights violator former Gen. Prabowo is a leading candidate in Indonesia's Presidential election<p>Former Gen. Prabowo - serial human rights violator - is a leading candidate in Indonesia's Presidential election this coming February.</p><p>Read what ETAN and ANTI have to say about his abysmal human rights record.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">ANTI: <a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2022/2023antiprobowo.htm"><span class="auto-style323" style="color: #004488; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">We strongly oppose impunity:</span> </a></span><span style="color: #333333; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="auto-style323"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2022/2023antiprobowo.htm">We strongly oppose Prabowo Subianto that has been accused of serious crimes returning to power</a></span></span></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;">The facts show that during the Suharto regime Prabowo Subianto was involved in a series of serious crimes and human rights violations in Timor-Leste such as the massacre that occurred in 1983 in Viqueque which is known as the Kraras incident with 200 victims losing their lives. This town was known as the “town of widows” because many of the husbands of the victims were massacred in this bloody incident."</span></p></blockquote><p><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2020/Prabowo%20backgrounder.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ETAN Backgrounder on Prabowo</span></a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Gelbard described Prabowo as 'somebody who is perhaps the greatest violator of human rights in contemporary times among the Indonesian military. His deeds in the late 1990s before democracy took hold, were shocking, even by TNI standards.'"</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2014/06nairn.htm">"Do I have the guts," Prabowo asked, "am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"</a> </span><span style="font-size: small;">By <a href="http://www.allannairn.org/" target="_blank">Allan Nairn</a></span></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Indonesia needs, Prabowo said, "a benign authoritarian regime." He said the many ethnicities and religions precluded democracy.!"... </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Do I have the guts," Prabowo asked, "am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?" </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">"[</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pakistan's General Pervez] Musharraf </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">had the guts, " Prabowo said.</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-75271273106916493482022-04-11T15:51:00.003-04:002022-04-11T15:54:47.291-04:00Read the program booklet from ETAN's Sorumutu Virual <p> <img align="center" alt="" border="0" height="348" hspace="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8wmtUkMXXwmtpcBS268u5nNhkFi9-yPuZPvPcwWVp_JGUnzePSWB4AAudwmSX6ltf3Pm8tKCyxevElciS6LDb1tcKDKmwFkxEFRebw_jn0TQaYayV84H5PKxv1tmBmfU4hZuS7m6" style="height: 286px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 563px;" width="624" /></p><p><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2022/PROGRAM%20for%20ETAN%20April%202022%20student%20gathering.pdf " target="_blank">Download and read</a> the program from the meeting </h4><div>Coming soon video from the event.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=MRCVW999RT86J" target="_blank"><img alt="Donate to ETAN!" height="39" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C7462OvNbgrjIqqYMqnWfl1_2RJqbrtP1Zxh_9WXT-HF3gcuOxzabxD885p3v8OwYrNTKzkdrfrM-ACYdA-9yvuvhH4qDQCEJfTZa-DBcymma0ElTltbDcvLwCJxLBbv6PqhseQP" width="156" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-38957756753568827142021-12-26T10:27:00.002-05:002021-12-26T10:27:26.714-05:00Please support ETAN in the New Year!<p><span style="background-color: white;">Read our appeal here: <a href="http://www.etan.org/appeal_2021-22.htm">http://www.etan.org/appeal_2021-22.htm</a> </span></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; width: 803px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span class="auto-style114" lang="en-us" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">SUPPORT ETAN Now!</span></span></span> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; width: 803px;"><span class="main" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-us"><span class="fax"><span class="auto-style121" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us" style="background-color: white;"><span class="auto-style129" style="color: red;">Support ETAN and our work for justice, human rights and democracy. </span><span class="auto-style128" style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Please donate today!</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: #ccffff; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; width: 797px;"><a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7238MMMKZV2GY" target="_blank"><img alt="Donate to ETAN!" class="auto-style2" src="http://www.etan.org/donate-1.jpg" style="border-width: 0px;" /></a></p>In our 30th year, with your help, we can intensify our pursuit of justice for the many victims of Indonesia's security forces crimes, from the coup in 1965 that brought the dictator Suharto to power, through the illegal invasion and occupation of Timor-Leste to the ongoing human rights violations against West Papuans. We need your help in keeping up the pressure on the U.S. government to acknowledge its role in arming and training the perpetrators of these crimes.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-48631226491121224982021-07-13T10:06:00.002-04:002021-07-13T10:08:04.016-04:00Recent Statements by ETAN on Myanmar, LGBTIQ+ Pride in Timor and the Life and Death of Carmel Budiardjo<div class="separator"><img alt="Participants in Timor-Leste's 2019 Gay Pride parade in Dili." class="auto-style493" height="185" longdesc="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/ALFeLa%20staff%20and%20volunteers%20take%20part%20in%20Timor-Leste%E2%80%99s%20Pride%20celebrations." src="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/ALFeLa-Team_Pride5_Timor-Leste-2018.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 3px 2px;" width="250" /><br /></div><div class="separator"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/07LGBTIQ.htm"><span>ETAN Honors LGBTIQ+ Pride in Timor-Leste</span></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q65dFA95TCM/YO2ad89IfII/AAAAAAAAVo4/hCHoA3mqKxUjRRlnslpjXhYWHKlfVZ2ZACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="473" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q65dFA95TCM/YO2ad89IfII/AAAAAAAAVo4/hCHoA3mqKxUjRRlnslpjXhYWHKlfVZ2ZACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="243" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/07Carmel.htm" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ETAN Celebrates the Life of Carmel Budiardjo, Mourns Her Passing</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Myanmar protests!" class="auto-style492" height="224" src="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/img7.jpg" style="background-color: #ccffff; float: left; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700; margin: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="225" /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2021/03myanmar.htm">ETAN Calls for End to Military Coup and Repression in Myanmar</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-52470361728183914502020-05-03T13:20:00.000-04:002020-05-03T13:20:45.188-04:00TAKE ACTION: Join the Global Campaign Immediate for the Release of Papuan Political Prisoners!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear friends,<br />
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We hope that you and your families are well during this time of COVID-19 crisis.<br />
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The trial of six political prisoners concluded on Friday, April 24, 2020, with the judges convicting and sentencing all six for treason (<em>makar</em>) for their peaceful demonstration condemning racism against Papuans in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on 28 August 2019.<br />
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We call for everyone to join the global campaign<br />
<strong>#BebaskanTapol / #FreePapuanPoliticalPrisoners</strong>.<br />
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<em>You can participate in the campaign by:</em><br />
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1. Posting solidarity messages to demand the Indonesian Government immediately release all political prisoners. You can attach the poster above or take a photo of yourself holding a sign. Here is a sign to<span lang="en-us"><a href="http://etan.org/news/2020/FreeWPPoliticalPrisoners.pdf"> download and print sign (PDF)</a></span><br />
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<span lang="en-us"></span>Use the tag lines #BebaskanTapol and #FreePapuanPoliticalPrisoners. Share on your social media accounts and tag us <a href="https://www.instagram.com/etan009/">@etan009</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fri_westpapua">@fri_westpapua</a> (Instagram), <a href="https://twitter.com/etan009"><span lang="en-us">@etan009</span></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/friwp">@friwp</a> (Twitter), and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ETANUSA">East Timor and Indonesia Action Network</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Front-Rakyat-Indonesia-untuk-West-Papua-340535619659661/">Front Rakyat Indonesia untuk West Papua</a> (Facebook).<br />
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<a href="http://etan.org/news/2020/FreeWPPoliticalPrisoners.pdf" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Download and print sign (PDF)" class="auto-style400" height="198" src="https://etan.org/news/2020/Picture%204.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; float: left; vertical-align: middle;" title="" width="272" />2. Including mentions to your national governments and Foreign Ministries urging them to pressure Indonesia to release political prisoners.</a><br />
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3. Sharing this call to action with your friends and networks and encourage them to do their own postings.<br />
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<em><strong>Peaceful Protest is a Human Right!</strong></em><br />
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Thank you,<br />
ETAN</div>
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<span lang="en-us"><br /><a href="http://etan.org/news/2020/FreeWPPoliticalPrisoners.pdf">Download and print sign (PDF)</a></span><br />
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<span class="auto-style401" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><br />see also</span><span lang="en-us" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, tahoma, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span class="auto-style401" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://etan.org/news/2020/04etanon_wpapua.htm"><span class="auto-style401" style="font-size: x-small;">ETAN Condemns Violence and Racism Against West Papuans, <br />Calls for freeing Papuan Political Prisoners</span></a></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-14684037453874997502019-12-06T14:39:00.005-05:002019-12-06T14:39:43.707-05:00A call to action to defy Internet shutdowns and suppression of online political opinion on West Papua<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8-BAvzXWas/XequUeF4nZI/AAAAAAAAUJc/M5cuMWGavcMjRy6kj5k7QdNcCK45Y-jAACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/pbb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="111" data-original-width="362" height="98" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j8-BAvzXWas/XequUeF4nZI/AAAAAAAAUJc/M5cuMWGavcMjRy6kj5k7QdNcCK45Y-jAACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/pbb.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
----- Forwarded message from GreenNet Support <support gn.apc.org=""> -----<br />Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 18:07:56 +0000<br />Subject: A call to action to defy Internet shutdowns and suppression of<br />
political opinion online<br /><br /> <br />GreenNet<br /><br />
Dear Friends, <x-tab> </x-tab><br /><br />
*Thursday 5 December 2019*</support><br />
We'd like to ask you to share this report<br />
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<<a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf">http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf</a>> as far and wide as possible, here's why:<br />
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On Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November 2019 GreenNet's website and most of our online services, including most of our customers' websites, went offline for several hours on two occasions. Our technicians became aware of the outage on Friday lunchtime and worked remotely and at our data centre until the small hours of Saturday morning to identify the fault and restore access to websites and emails.<br />
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By about 2AM on Saturday things were coming back online, but they went down again later that day. By then we had revised our initial diagnosis of a hardware problem, and as we checked though our logs and discussed with our upstream provider LDEX, we became aware that the outage was caused by a deliberate attack on our infrastructure. We tweeted updates as we worked to bring back our services at <a eudora="autourl" href="https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP">https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP<br />
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<a eudora="autourl" href="https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP"><br /></a>
The attack was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) which basically hammers away at our servers with millions of requests until they run out of capacity and become unavailable. The volume of traffic at one point was equivalent to our Data Centre's entire traffic with Google, which gives an idea of the scale of the DDOS - the impact on the Data Centre was significant enough that they also had to block access or "blackhole" a large amount of traffic.<br />
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Once we had got everything back up the and dust had settled we were able to carry out some forensic examinations of our servers and logs. We were able to glean strong circumstantial evidence that we believe shows that the target was an organisation that was publishing new research that weekend <a eudora="autourl" href="https://www.papuansbehindbars.org/">https://www.papuansbehindbars.org</a>.<br />
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*This is the report that the attack was aimed at blocking:<br />
**<a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf">http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf</a>**<br />
Now we'd like you to please disseminate it as widely as possible! *<br />
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We've been in contact with TAPOL <a eudora="autourl" href="https://www.tapol.org/">https://www.tapol.org</a> and SAFEnet<br />
<a eudora="autourl" href="https://safenet.or.id/2019/08/keepiton-in-papua-and-west-papua">https://safenet.or.id/2019/08/keepiton-in-papua-and-west-papua</a>, who work closely with PBB and in the region to promote human rights and to highlight the plight of political prisoners, as well as to challenge internet shutdowns.<br />
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Please promote their important work! We will be tweeting about this over the next few days, please retweet, boost and amplify the message, and #keepiton <<a eudora="autourl" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/keepiton">https://twitter.com/hashtag/keepiton</a>>!<br />
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Thanks from all of us at GreenNet, we'd also really like to say a big thank you to our customers for all your patience and support during and after the attack.<br />
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GreenNet, The Green House, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA.<br />
Tel (UK): 0330 355 4011 Tel (int'l): +44 (0)330 355 4011<br />
Email: info@gn.apc.org <<a eudora="autourl" href="mailto:info@gn.apc.org">mailto:info@gn.apc.org</a>><br />
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[Please note that ETAN is a supporter of Papuans Behind Bars (PBB). And as of the time we prepared to forward the message below, the PBB website was slow. If you cannot reach the PBB website, you can read the text of the PBB Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019 report here: <a href="https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/reg.westpapua/2019-11/msg00035.html">https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/reg.westpapua/2019-11/msg00035.html</a> - or download the PDF here: http://etan.org/etanpdf/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf --John for ETAN]<div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-58096717595676838842019-10-08T10:49:00.003-04:002019-10-08T10:57:43.520-04:00ETAN needs you!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="auto-style416" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="auto-style323" style="color: #004488; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Picture: </span></span></span>MKOTT - Movimentu Kontra Okupasaun
Tasi Timor/Movement Against the
Occupation of the Timor Sea - thanks
international solidarity activists for
their support of their efforts to acheive
a fair maritine boundary between
Australia and Timor-Leste. Photo by
Maubere Gusmao via Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>See also</i></b></span></h2>
<b style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="auto-style427" style="color: black;">ETAN</span><span class="auto-style428" style="color: black;">: </span><span class="auto-style426" style="color: black;"><span class="auto-style429"><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2019/09clinton.htm" style="color: #004488; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="auto-style323">Timor-Leste Honors President Bill Clinton: Setting the Record Straigh</span></a></span><a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2019/09clinton.htm" style="color: #004488; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">t</a></span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><br /></b><span style="color: blue; text-align: center;"></span><span style="color: blue; text-align: center;"><span class="auto-style167"><a class="auto-style391" href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2019-08-28/us-sought-preserve-close-ties-indonesian-military-it-terrorized-east-timor-runup-1999-independence" style="color: #004488; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="auto-style323">U.S. National Security Archives: <strong>U.S. sought to preserve close ties to Indonesian military as it terrorized East Timor in runup to 1999 independence referendum</strong></span></a></span></span></span></div>
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Invitation to the public to Solidarity Conference and Exhibition about Maritime Boundaries</h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Popular Consultation (referendum), in which the people of Timor-Leste bravely voted to force the Indonesian military occupation to leave. At last, Timor-Leste achieved independence after a long struggle and much suffering.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Civil Society groups and the Movement Against the Occupation of the Timor Sea (MKOTT) will commemorate the Popular Consultation and celebrate the </span><a href="http://www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/Boundary/18ConcilTreaty.htm#2019" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #0a8e96; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">victory in the struggle for a maritime boundary</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There will be a Solidarity Conference on 28 August and a march on 29 August, with discussion of essential issues related to self-determination and social justice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MKOTT is also holding an </span><a href="http://www.tatoli.tl/2019/08/20/mkott-realiza-ezpozisaun-fotografia-komemora-konsulta-popular" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #0a8e96; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">exhibition</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to celebrate the victory and reflect on the long struggle through which the people of Timor-Leste achieved a maritime boundary between Australia and Timor-Leste. We encourage everyone to participate in the conference and to visit MKOTT's exhibition at the HAK Association in Farol, Dili.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MKOTT is also selling T-shirts to express solidarity with our good friends Bernard Collaery and Witness K. You can buy them for $20, as a contribution to MKOTT which will help pay for the exposition and other work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thank you very much.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tetun <a href="http://laohamutuk.blogspot.com/2019/08/konvita-ba-konferensia-solidaridade-no.html">version here</a></span><br />
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Prabowo Subianto, a retired general now seeking the presidency of Indonesia, has made plans to stage mass arrests of political opponents and his current allies.<br /><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;">According to minutes of a strategy session he held with fellow generals and others last December, Prabowo — <a href="https://www.allannairn.org/search?q=fair-haired" style="color: #223344;">a longtime US</a> <a href="https://www.allannairn.org/2014/07/prabowo-bagian-2-saya-anak-kesayangan.html" style="color: #223344;">protege</a> who has been implicated in <a href="https://www.allannairn.org/2014/06/news-do-i-have-guts-prabowo-asked-am-i.html" style="color: #223344;">mass killing,</a><a href="https://www.allannairn.org/2014/06/apa-saya-cukup-punya-nyali-tanya.html" style="color: #223344;">abduction, and torture</a>, has also made plans to restore Indonesia’s army to the role it played in the Suharto dictatorship.</span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;"> [For full scrollable text of Minutes see <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/406301220/Notulensi-Rapat-Tertutup-Prabowo-Subianto-Dan-Tim" style="color: #223344;">link</a>, and bottom of this piece]</span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-kerning: none;">At the meeting, held last December 21 at a Prabowo home in Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, he and his team made specific assignments for "putting on trial as many political opponents as possible," but also for "crippling" the Islamist groups that now propel his campaign, after he assumes the presidency.</span></blockquote>
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<dd><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ETAN hato'o apoiu no solidariedade kompletu ba eventu 'LGBTI Pride - Simu Malu' ne'ebe organiza iha Dili durante semana ida-ne'e, inklui Timor-Leste nia Marxa Pride 'Orgullu'. Ami louva sira hotu ne'ebe organiza eventu sira-ne'e no mos sira hotu ne'ebe apoia sosiedade Timorense ne'ebe selebra diversidade no proteje direitus umanus ba ema hotu. Ami gava mos Primeiru Ministu Rui Araujo nia mensajen apoiu ba komunidade LGBTI.</span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></dd><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Activists in Timor-Leste have long felt a strong connection and sought to offer <a href="https://etan.org/et2002c/october/01-05/28tachl.htm">solidarity</a> to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, peace and human dignity. Human rights and student groups have organized seminars, rallies, candlelight vigils and <a href="http://asia-pacific-solidarity.net/southeastasia/easttimor/statements/2009/jointstat_imorlestesolidaritywithpalestine_190109.htm">solidarity statements</a> to support peace and justice in Palestine. After receiving an international call to celebrate the success of a 40-day hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners, Timorese human rights activists contacted the Timor-Leste Association of Ex-Political Prisoners. Together, they drafted the following statement, which they released on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.</span></i></div>
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Contact:<b> </b>Jacinto Alves (Tetun, Portugés, English), Assepol, <a href="mailto:ira.sequira@gmail.com">ira.sequira@gmail.com</a>,<o:p></o:p></div>
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We congratulate the 1,500 Palestinian Political Prisoners (men, women and children) who, through their 40-day collective hunger strike, have secured basic rights which had been systematically denied them by Israel. We celebrate the courage and commitment of your collective action; we celebrate your success.</div>
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As we celebrate, we also declare our solidarity and call attention to the long and continuing struggle for freedom, equality, self-determination and basic human rights of the Palestinian people. Our national history teaches us that when faced with occupation, oppression, and injustice, there is no choice but to resist. “To resist is to win.”</div>
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Many of us are ex-political prisoners, jailed by Indonesia because we refused to simply accept an illegal occupation of our land. During Indonesia’s brutal occupation, we stood up to military violence and human rights abuses; we stood up against an international order oriented to U.S. corporate interests and militarism. We stood up for the dignity of ourselves, our families and our communities. We stood up for our vision of peace and justice, now and in the future. We encourage political prisoners and wish to tell you that many times, our struggle for a noble cause demands sacrifice and determination. We must believe that the truth will win and will bring happiness to many people. All of your sacrifices will be acknowledged; <i>tudo vale a pena</i> (‘everything is worth the effort’). </div>
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Today, as we celebrate with you, we also stand against the widespread detention of Palestinians for defending their basic rights. According to the NGO Palestinian Prisoner’s Club, there are now 6500 Palestinian political prisoners, including 300 children. We stand against the continuing role of the US as a major supporter of militarism and occupation. We stand for against the denial of Palestinian’s basic rights by Israel. We stand for Palestinian’s rights to clear water, safe shelter, food, and basic social services, equality before the law. “<i>A luta continua</i>.” The struggle continues.</div>
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<span class="auto-style301" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Dili, Timor-Leste - Recently, thousands of U.S. military veterans travelled to North Dakota to support the peaceful struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux to defend their sovereignty and protect their land and water. I watched the veterans bend down to ask forgiveness from the many indigenous tribes gathered there. They apologized as veterans from the same military that has carried out genocide against Native Americans since before the U.S. achieved independence. In this way, they acknowledged the past and affirmed their commitment to ensuring the bitter past doesn’t repeat itself.</span><br />
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<span class="auto-style301" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="auto-style301">This December 7, I bent down in Timor-Leste to apologize for the crimes of my government against the East Timorese people. On that day in 1975, U.S.-armed and -trained Indonesian troops launched their illegal invasion. I feel a deep sadness and shame that my government has not yet formally and responsibly acknowledged its support for crimes committed here on that day and the 24-year Indonesian occupation which followed. An important first step would be for the U.S. to declassify and release all its records related to Indonesia and its invasion and occupation of Timor-Leste.</span> ...</span><br />
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Dear friend of my beloved country,</div>
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Timor-Leste recently celebrated the 41st anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, a right and a dream that was finally realized in 2002. For the last quarter-century of our journey, the East Timor and Indonesia <em>Action</em> Network (ETAN) has been among our most effective and consistent supporters. Their solidarity has been exemplary, beginning during the brutal, difficult depths of the illegal Indonesian military occupation and continuing through the economic and political challenges we face today as a 14-year-old, post-conflict, post-colonial, sovereign nation.</div>
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Twenty-five years ago, a month after Indonesian troops brutally massacred young, nonviolent Timorese protesters at Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, peace and justice activists organized a peaceful vigil in front of the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations. With participation from people around the United States, that quickly grew into a national organization which, by 1999, had 12,000 members in 28 local chapters. Their protests and lobbying of the U.S. government and the United Nations were a vital element in enabling my people to vote in a UN-supervised referendum. As you know, Indonesian efforts to intimidate us failed, and the overwhelming mandate for independence led to Timor-Leste becoming the first new sovereign nation of the 21st century.</div>
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<strong style="font-size: medium;">Without solidarity from international friends like ETAN, Timor-Leste’s dream of independence would not have become a reality.</strong></div>
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Since 2002, I have been the Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. As I evolved from diplomat-in-exile to Head of State, ETAN maintained their solidarity with my people. In government, I had to make difficult decisions concerning past crimes in the interests of better relations with post-Suharto Indonesia, our largest neighbor and biggest trading partner. Although ETAN and I sometimes have different views on issues like accountability for past crimes and self-determination for West Papua, I know that their positions are based on principle, and I admire and respect their tenacity.</div>
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For the last five years, I have worked to improve the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping worldwide. I have helped Guinea-Bissau and other conflict-affected countries strive for the peace and human rights that the people of Timor-Leste are finally able to enjoy. I know how unusual – and how important – it is for people living under repression and conflict to have reliable, committed supporters in places like the United States.</div>
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Timor-Leste never attracted widespread popular attention in the United States, even during the peak of our struggle against violent occupation. Since the killing ended, we have become a “normal” country, and U.S. government policy now respects the rights of my people. It is even more difficult to get Americans to care about a small nation on the other side of the world, which is why ETAN’s work continues to be essential.</div>
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ETAN’s email list is an invaluable source of information, from a variety of perspectives, for more than 4,600 people around the globe. Their steadfast support for resolving permanent maritime boundaries with our neighbors, especially Australia, continues the international solidarity that was crucial to achieving sovereignty over Timor-Leste’s land territory. As we evolve from a petroleum-export-dependent nation to one whose economy is based on our own resources and labor, ETAN’s support and encouragement continue to be irreplaceable.</div>
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In 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the restoration of our independence, I was pleased to join in awarding both ETAN and its co-founder Charles Scheiner with the <i>Ordem de Timor-Leste</i> for their support for our liberation.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">25 years after the Santa Cruz massacre: did corporations influence Western government policy?</span></div>
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by <a href="https://davidwebster.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">David Webster</a></div>
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Digging into the archival records isn’t purely academic. It can tell us why governments make the decisions they did – and suggest ways to influence future government decisions.</div>
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The Santa Cruz massacre, when Indonesian troops shot a crowd of unarmed pro-independence protesters in East Timor (now independent Timor-Leste) serves as an example. Film footage captured by British journalist Max Stahl, along with reports from US journalists Allan Nairn and Amy Goodman, led to a wave of outrage and activism in Western countries which had supported Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor for years. As Timor-Leste president Taur Matan Ruak noted in his <a href="http://presidenciarepublica.tl/speech-excellency-president-taur-matan-ruak-commemoration-25th-anniversary-santa-cruz-massacre/?lang=en" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">speech commemorating the 25 anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre</a>: “The images recorded by those journalists and the articles they wrote travelled the world and spread news of the crime committed in Santa Cruz on 12 November 1991.”</div>
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Archival records show that governments were sensitive to this pressure and wanted to give the appearance of responding to it in some fashion.</div>
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But there was another, much more hidden lobby. Western corporations that were doing business – highly profitable business – in Indonesia also lobbied governments. Much of this was visible. The East Timor Action Network/US pointed to the role of US business lobbies and public relations firms, for instance. But it is difficult to track this lobbying and determine how intense it was.</div>
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Archives can help here. The Canadian government archives give one example. Other countries are likely to have a similar pattern of corporate lobbying visible. After the Santa Cruz massacre, as pressure for sanctions against the Indonesian military regime grew, business lobbied to prevent any effective action being taken by the government, calling instead for verbal pressure only.</div>
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Canadian companies lobbied hard for “business as usual” with Indonesia in the month after the massacre, the archival record indicates. There are many more letters on the Canadian government’s East Timor file from companies than is normal on foreign policy files. A few examples from November and December 1991 follow.</div>
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Power generation company Babcock and Wilcox wrote to Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who had just declared Canada would do more on human rights. Saying they were expecting nearly a billion US dollars in business in the coming year, the company pleased for the government to do nothing that could harm these anticipated profits. The letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/babcock-1991-11-28.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="babcock-1991-11-28">babcock-1991-11-28</a>.</div>
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That letter led to a stiff note from the Ontario International Corporation to the Canadian government’s Department of International Trade. The OIC was an agency of the government of Ontario, Canada’s largest province and home to Babcock and the largest number of corporate head offices in Canada. At the time, Ontario was governed by the New Democratic Party led by Premier Bob Rae. The OIC letter said that any reduction of Canadian aid would cause Indonesia to “invoke punitive counter measures which will severely threaten Canada’s (in large part, Ontario’s) commercial interests.” OIC letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/oic-1991-12-09.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="oic-1991-12-09">oic-1991-12-09</a></div>
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The Canadian ambassador to Indonesia invited Canadian business representatives in Jakarta to breakfast at her residence, to brief them on Canada’s plans to review aid to Indonesia as a means of human rights pressure over East Timor. This drew lobbying letters from the associations and representatives of Canadian companies operating in Indonesia. “If Canada chooses to be one of the first countries to cut off aid to Indonesia [it] will set back Canada’s position in Indonesia [and] have very serious economic consequences on Canadian companies,” wrote the Canadian Investment Advisor in Indonesia. (This letter is dated December 7, the 16th anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.) The Advisor’s letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/investment-advisor-1991-12-07.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="investment-advisor-1991-12-07">investment-advisor-1991-12-07</a></div>
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The Canadian Business Association in Jakarta sent a similar letter to Brian Mulroney. If Canada suspended aid without waiting for the findings of an internal Indonesian government inquiry into the Santa Cruz massacre, the Association wrote, “then Canada is guilty of meddling in the internal affairs of this country.” This was an odd conclusion, given that very few countries recognized Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor (certainly the United Nations did not). It was odder still in arguing that reducing or even reviewing Canadian aid programmes was a function of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indonesian</em> sovereignty. The association argued that Canadian business in Indonesia was booming and that helped to advance human rights, and asked Ottawa to do nothing until the Indonesian internal inquiry was complete. CBA letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/cba-1991-12-06.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="cba-1991-12-06">cba-1991-12-06</a></div>
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Meanwhile in Ottawa, foreign minister Barbara McDougall met with the Canadian Exporters Association, the umbrella group for Canadian companies selling products to other countries. The influential CEA repeated its stance that political pressure for human rights overseas not interfere with Canadian trade. Nothing should be done to harm the “innocent” in Indonesia -a group within which the CEA included Canadian companies there. Cutting Canadian aid to Indonesia, the CEA said, “would irreparably damage Canada’s long term dedicated and committed efforts to penetrate Indonesian-ASEAN markets.” In other words, for the CEA promoting human rights was fine, but protecting Canadian trade was more important. CEA letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/cea-1991-12-06.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="cea-1991-12-06">cea-1991-12-06</a></div>
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Another Canadian company, CAL, joined the lobby with letters to the ministers of foreign affairs, international trade, and international development. CAL expressed support for the idea of human rights but said cutting aid would risk $500-million of business the company expected in Indonesia in the coming five years. Instead, it called for a round table conversation among Canadians, with no concrete action taken for the moment. CAL letter: <a href="https://davidwebster.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/cal-1991-12-06.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b15315; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" title="cal-1991-12-06">cal-1991-12-06</a></div>
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As the Canadian government prepared to review its aid programme to Indonesia, Canadian business interests mobilized to lobby against this plan. They had no objection to verbal expressions of concern to the Indonesian government, but they wanted to make sure that the Canadian government did not reduce its aid to Indonesia, for fear this would affect potential profit.</div>
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It would be surprising if the same was not happening in other Western countries with business interests in Indonesia. At the time, activists claimed that Western governments were putting trade ahead of human rights. A slice of the Canadian archival records, for one month in 1991, shows that yes, business was certainly lobbying hard to prevent strong pressure on Indonesia, and using arguments about profit to make their case.</div>
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"We believed that an international tribunal is needed to credibly try those responsible for the Santa Cruz massacre and other crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Indonesia during its illegal occupation of Timor-Leste," Miller added<o:p>. </o:p><br />
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<span lang="en-us"></span>On November 12, 1991, U.S-armed<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>Indonesian troops opened fire on a peaceful pro-independence demonstration calling for self-determination and protesting atrocities committed by the Indonesian military. More than 271 East Timorese were killed or died soon after and an equal number disappeared and are believed to be dead.<o:p> </o:p><br />
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While some deeply flawed processes have prosecuted some involved in crimes committed in 1999, those responsible for giving the orders to torture, rape, and kill have yet to be brought to justice. Those from countries such as the United States, Britain, and Australia that actively aided in these crimes by providing weapons, training, and political support have yet to be held accountable.<o:p></o:p><br />
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For more on the Santa Cruz massacre see ETAN’s backgrounder here:<a href="http://etan.org/factsheets/santa_cruz.htm">http://etan.org/factsheets/santa_cruz.htm</a><o:p></o:p><br />
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September 7, 2016 - On the 12<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the murder of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent Indonesian human rights activist, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) <a href="http://www.etan.org/news/2016/09munir.htm#letter">urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry </a>to press “President Widodo to fully investigate Munir’s murder and hold accountable all those responsible for his death.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Indonesian President Jokowi has abandoned all pretense to concern about accountability and justice for human rights crimes. <a href="https://www.change.org/p/joko-widodo-wiranto-is-not-fit-to-be-indonesia-coordinating-minister" target="_blank">Sign ETAN's petition</a> opposing Wiranto as coordinating minister. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;">On July 27, 2016, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo appointed indicted war criminal Gen. Wiranto Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law, and Security Affairs. A presidential spokesperson told </span>the Jakarta Post<span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;"> that Wiranto "well-tested and was experienced in resolving various assignments, especially during the transition period from the New Order to the Reform era in the late 1990s." </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;">In 2003, he was indicted by a UN-backed court for his role in the security -force </em><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;">violence during Timor-Leste's independence referendum.<br /></em><br />
<em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">Wiranto is responsible through acts of omission and commission for the gravest violations of human right in East Timor and Indonesia.</em><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></em><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/joko-widodo-wiranto-is-not-fit-to-be-indonesia-coordinating-minister" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span></em><br />
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: inherit; line-height: 30px;">See also statement by </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ETAN, </span>Tapol<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, Watch Indonesia!: </span><a href="http://etan.org/news/2016/07wiranto.htm" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="auto-style288">Appointment of General Wiranto as Minister confirms the deep-rooted impunity in Indonesia</span></a><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-29299133654726226762016-07-01T09:47:00.005-04:002016-07-01T10:00:47.281-04:00A Timorese View on Justice for Suharto's Crimes<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Timorese View: </span><span class="auto-style100"><a href="http://etan.org/news/2016/06justice.htm" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to End Impunity for Suharto's Crimes in Indonesia and Timor-Leste</a></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br class="auto-style100" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" /></span>Tetum: <a href="http://etan.org/news/2016/06justice.htm#Tetum">Agora mak tempu atu hapara impunidade ba krime sira Suharto nian iha Indonesia no Timor-Leste</a><br /><br />
Bahasa Indonesia: <a href="http://etan.org/news/2016/06justice.htm#Bahasa">Sekarang Saatnya Memutus Impunitas untuk Kejahatan Soeharto di Indonesia dan Timor-Leste</a></span><br />
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<span class="auto-style14" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tragedy of 1965-1966 is part of a long history of massacres by the Indonesian military. As East Timorese, we know very well the brutality of the Indonesian dictator's regime. I was born after the initial Indonesian invasion in 1975, but grew up under the occupation. As a young student, I saw the Indonesian military intimidate and abuse youth suspected of supporting East Timorese independence. We were not safe anywhere: Suharto's troops would seize us at home, school or on the streets; many were never seen again. I watched helplessly as soldiers murdered my cousin, Luis Gusmão Pereira, in a public market in Triloedae-Laga. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The chains of impunity remain strong in Indonesia; U.S. leaders who supported crimes against humanity in Indonesia and elsewhere continue to avoid accountability and punishment. The U.S. and Indonesia claim they are democratic and law-abiding nations, but they openly resist holding their own officials accountable.</span></blockquote>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1655051297652464868.post-15104362265033211792016-06-30T18:31:00.001-04:002016-06-30T18:35:13.117-04:00Indonesia opposes UN appointing expert to report on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Says won't cooperate with expert.<br />
Council establishes mandate on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity <br />
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from <a eudora="autourl" href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20220&LangID=E">http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20220&LangID=E</a><br />
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<b>Action on Resolution on Protection against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity<br /><br />
</b>In a resolution (<a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/HRC/32/L.2/Rev.1">A/HRC/32/L.2/Rev.1</a>) on <b>protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity</b>, adopted by a vote of 23 in favour, 18 against and 6 abstentions as amended, the Council decides to appoint, for a period of three years, an Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, with the mandate to assess the implementation of existing international human rights instruments with regard to ways to overcome violence and discrimination against persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity; raise awareness of violence and discrimination against persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to identify and address the root causes of violence and discrimination; and engage in dialogue and to consult with States and other relevant stakeholders. The Council also requests the Independent Expert to report annually to the Human Rights Council, starting from its thirty-fifth session, and to the General Assembly, starting from its seventy-second session. <br />
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In favour (23): Albania, Belgium, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela, and Viet Nam.<br />
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<b>Against (18</b>): Algeria, Bangladesh, Burundi, China, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, <b>Indonesia</b>, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Namibia, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Togo, and United Arab Emirates.<br />
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Abstentions (6): Botswana, Ghana, India, Maldives, Philippines, and South Africa. <br />
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Indonesia, speaking in an explanation of the vote before the vote, reaffirmed its commitment to the elimination of violence against all persons as defined in international human rights treaties. The Council should take a constructive and cooperative approach, especially when concerned with issues touching on morality. Members of the Council should refrain from imposing values which did not enjoy international consensus. Indonesia was concerned that the draft resolution was divisive. While welcoming several amendments, Indonesia considered that the basic proposal remained the same, and for that reason was unable to support the draft resolution. Indonesia also wanted it put on the record that Indonesia would not engage with the mandate holder. <div class="blogger-post-footer">see ETAN's website at http://www.etan.org.</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07003585150140208207noreply@blogger.com0