Subject: PRD Call for solidarity against militarism; PST Statement on War Crimes in East Timor t PRD Call for solidarity against militarism; PST Statement on War Crimes in East Timor From Democratic Socialist Party Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] September 24, 1999 Dear friends, Attached below are two important statements from Indonesia and East Timor: 1. A PRD International Department Call for solidarity against militarism, issued September 24. 2. A PST Statement on War Crimes in East Timor Could you please circulate these as widely as you can. We will continue to take the liberty of emailing you the most important and urgent information and statements while the crisis situation in East Timor and Indonesia continues. If you would like more extensive information emailed to you, we invite you to subscribe to the Democratic Socialist Party's email information list, DS_NET. Just send an email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject SUBSCRIBE-DS_NET. Further information is available from the extensive web site of ASIET, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor, now at: http://www.asiet.org.au. The Democratic Socialist Party has also just set up an East Timor web site, available at: http://www.dsp.org.au/etimor The current issue of Green Left, dated September 22, is also a special issue devoted extensively to the events in East Timor. Some of the dozens of articles on the crisis in this issue: Wiranto and Howard: partners in genocide By Sean Healy http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p14.htm Editorial: Reparations, not war spending, for East Timor http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p3c.htm Government quarantines East Timorese in Australia By Sam King http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p3.htm United Nations: a sorry record in East Timor By Jon Land http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p11.htm What is the United Nations really doing in East Timor? By Allen Myers http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p12.htm East Timor: revisiting Indonesia's brutal past By James Balowski http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p16.htm East Timor: Hunted human rights activist speaks out http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p17.htm How the Australian government's hand was forced on East Timor By Pip Hinman and Janet Parker http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p15.htm Mood in Indonesia on East Timor begins to shift Interview with Dita Sari http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/377p22.htm If you would like to obtain the complete archives of Green Left Weekly for the past 8 years, from 1991 to 1998, it's all now available on a CD-ROM, indexed with an ISYS search engine which allows you to instantly find and access any reference. The cost is only A$100. Future yearly updates will be available at a modest price. Bound volumes are also available. To reserve your CD, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] We can handle Bankcard, Mastercard, or Visa. In solidarity, John Percy national secretary Democratic Socialist Party Australia ______________________________________ PRD Call for solidarity against militarism PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- PRD Jl. Basuki Rahmat No. 7B Cipinang Muara Jakarta -- Indonesia Phone: 62-21-8561542, 9113801 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jakarta, September 24 1999 To Comrades and Friends In Solidarity with Indonesian Democratization Dear Comrades, On behalf of the People's Democratic Party, the PRD Indonesia, we inform you that on Thursday, September 23 1999, about 30 thousand students joined with the people demonstrating in Jakarta protesting against the adoption of the National Security Law by the Parliament on the same day. As a comparison, the approved National Security Law is just like the Martial Law in the Philippines, in which in certain circumstances, the military can do what they want in the name of national security. The application of the Military Emergency Law in East Timor by the Indonesian government is a precondition for the application of this National Security Law nation wide. At the same time, in many big cities like Semarang, Solo, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Palembang, Ujung Pandang, Medan, Bandung, Lampung, thousands of students and people are demonstrating on the same issue with the same demand, namely the rejection of the adoption of the National Security law by the Parliament. In Jakarta itself, the demonstration, which started at 1 p.m., was followed by about 30 thousand students. They marched from different directions to the same destination, the House of Parliament, where the law was being discussed and adopted. At about 4 p.m., about three thousand heavily armed military and police broke up the marching masses. The military and police fired on the masses with rubber bullets and tear gas. The masses tried to defend themselves by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. About 50 people were wounded and taken to different hospitals. This confrontation happened for about three hours. The masses then went back to the nearby campus (Catholic University of Atmajaya) because of intensive shootings by the military. Until now (2 a.m. the next day) about 6000 students are still inside the campus to defend themselves. Thousands of military are still surrounding the campus. As the military keeps shooting at the students already inside the campus with rubber bullets and tear gas the students consequently retaliate by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. While outside the campus along the streets, the urban poor living along the streets are fighting against the military. And there is news from a reliable source that the military will raid the campus early in the morning. The last news from the spot reported that the students are going to stay inside the campus until morning for continuing the demonstration again. The people who are living around the campus and fighting against the military are going to join with the students. The demonstration on Friday will be a bigger mobilisation accordingly. The number of victims until now are: 1. Four students killed 2. About 50 students are seriously wounded and are being treated in three hospitals. For what is happening now here in Indonesia, we are calling for the international community and your respective parties and organisations to support our struggle against the militarism in Indonesia by sending petitions and condemnation of the military brutality to the Indonesian embassy or consulate or your local and international parliament. If it is possible, it is also much more effective if you can organize picket lines or even mass actions in strategic places. Thanks for your support and cooperation, Mugiyanto PRD International Department __________________________________________________ PST Statement on War Crimes in East Timor Socialist Party of Timor PST Delegation for the Asia Pacific Press Communique After consideration of the actual situation developing in East Timor and the objective situations being suffered by the whole Maubere people, and taking into account Resolution No. 1264-99 of the UN Security Council of 15 September, the PST declares: 1. The urgent need for humanitarian aid and the provision of physical security for all refugees that are located around the East Timorese border (with East Nusantenggara province), and even more so with the thousands of refugees in the mountains estimated to be many times more than all those outside of East Timor (in Atambua, Bali, Ujung Pandang, Jakarta and other places) and to facilitate the return of these refugees (both through provision of health services and physical security) to East Timor in safety and in good health. 2. To punish according to the conventions of international law and to bring before an international court war criminals responsible for the following categories of crimes: * institutions/individuals/other parties who have directly or indirectly boycotted, intimidated, killed or terrorised humanitarian organisations seeking access to East Timorese refugees within or outside East Timor * institutions/individuals/other parties ultimately responsible for the massacres, terror, intimidation and scorched earth policy in East Timor both before and after the referendum * institutions/individuals/other parties ultimately responsible for training, arming, financing and controlling the militia and paramilitary who killed, terrorised and intimidated innocent East Timorese civilians * institutions/individuals/other parties who have facilitated the supply of military equipment for the Indonesian army during the period of Indonesian military occupation of genocidal operations against the East Timorese civilian population 3. End all the functions and responsibilities of the Police of the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian National Army having shown their incapacity to carry out the mandate given to them under the Tripartite Agreement to ensure stability and security before and after the referendum and to bring them to account within the framework if international jurisprudence all those responsible for the anarchy, massacres and violence, which has been justified by artificial and irrational justifications aimed at defending the interests of the Indonesian Armed Forces and without respecting the democratic aspirations of the majority of the people who rejected the autonomy option as proposed by the government of Indonesia Statement issued Jakarta, 18 September 1999 (Translated by Max Lane) ____________________________________ Please note that the email address and web site location of the Democratic Socialist Party of Australia have changed. 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