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Subject: Election Context in East Timor
Institute for Public Accuracy
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Friday, August 27, 1999
ELECTION CONTEXT IN EAST TIMOR
Indonesian-backed forces have increased their violence in recent
days as
Monday's UN-organized referendum on self-determination
approaches. In
1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor with tacit U.S. backing. In
the 24
years since, 200,000 people have died, a third of the
population.
Interviews are available with the following analysts:
LYNN FREDRIKSSON, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.etan.org
Washington representative of the East Timor Action Network, Fredriksson
said: "Few doubt that the vast majority in East Timor will opt for
independence if the vote is free. But just days before the long-awaited
referendum, the people of East Timor face escalating paramilitary threats,
intimidation and outright terrorist attacks. The human rights community is
calling on President Clinton to personally demand that the
Indonesian-backed violence stop, but he has not yet done so." Fredriksson
can arrange interviews with Timorese leader Jose Ramos-Horta, the
co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, as well as Dr. Dan Murphy, a
physician from Iowa who spent the past nine months in East Timor treating
hundreds of internally displaced people and scores of victims of recent
paramilitary attacks. He survived a July 4 attack on a UN convoy. Two
weeks ago Dr. Murphy was forced to leave East Timor.
CONSTANCIO PINTO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.easttimor.com
Author of "East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese
Resistance," Pinto is the National Council of Timorese Resistance's
representative to the UN and North America. He is a survivor of arrest and
torture at the hands of the Indonesian military.
AMY GOODMAN, http://www.pacifica.org
Goodman won numerous awards for her documentary "Massacre: The Story of
East Timor," which chronicles the Indonesian genocide against the East
Timorese and the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre of 250 civilians (which Goodman
survived). In the last few days, Goodman, the host of Pacifica Radio's
"Democracy Now!" program, was twice expelled from Indonesia because her
name appears on an Indonesian army blacklist of more than 1,000 names. She
said: "The Indonesian regime should stop the violence -- not the reporters
trying to cover it. Indonesian president B.J. Habibie talks about
reforming Indonesia since the Suharto regime, but the Indonesian-backed
death squads raging through East Timor and the enforcement of the
blacklist confirm that the military's power remains unbroken."
JOE NEVINS, [in Dili, East Timor]
Nevins is a UN-accredited observer with the International Federation for
East Timor.
MARK SALZER, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.motherjones.com/east_timor A
public school teacher, Salzer just returned from East Timor as a
UN-accredited observer with the International Federation for East Timor.
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020 or (202) 332-5055; David Zupan, (541)
484-9167
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