Max Sawicky wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Nicola Bullard > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: URGENT: Act now for East Timor > > Friends - > > As part of the international effort to maintain pressure on the UN and > the Government of Indonesia to act immediately to stop the massacre > in East Timor, we are circulating this statement. > > Please sign on and return the statement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > by 5pm Bangkok time on Thursday 9 September. We will consolidate > the list and fax the statement to the UN, ASEAN, the Government of > Indonesia and APEC heads of state immediately. Please use the > statement in any other way that is useful. > > Thankyou. > > Nicola Bullard > > Sept. 7, 1999 > > To Secretary General Kofi Annan. United Nations; Secretary General > Rodolfo Severino, Association of Southeast Asian Nations; all heads > of state; the community of nations > > End the Terror in East Timor > > The world failed East Timor once, in 1975, when it offered little protest > to the bloody annexation of that country by Indonesia. Key > international actors, including Australia, the United States, and > ASEAN, either supported the takeover behind the scenes or tacitly > approved of it. For the next 24 years, many governments engaged in a > conspiracy of silence as over 200,000 Timorese lost their lives under > Jakarta’s harsh rule. > > The world cannot afford to fail the people of East Timor again. As > Indonesian troops and Indonesia-supported militiamen wreak mayhem > on the people after the historic vote for independence last week, it is > imperative that we act to prevent an act of ethnic cleansing on the > scale of Bosnia and Kosovo. > > The United Nations must immediately constitute an armed > peacekeeping mission and send it to Timor within hours. Every > minute now counts if we are to prevent a massive massacre. > > The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must condemn > the Indonesian government’s abetting the massacre and offer police > and troops from its member countries—with the exception of > Indonesia--to serve as the core of the peacekeeping mission. > > Indonesia must immediately withdraw its police and soldiers, disarm > the militiamen, and stop expelling Timorese from their homeland on the > pretext of helping them escape the violence. > > Indonesia must immediately recognize the overwhelming vote for > independence, release Xanana Gusmao, and allow Gusmao, Jose > Ramos Horta, and other key Timorese leaders to freely travel through > Indonesia and to East Timor to participate in constituting a > government. > > The UN General Assembly must convoke a special session to > immediately recognize East Timor’s independence and impose > sanctions on Indonesia for failing to provide the order and security > that it promised in the Tripartite Agreement of May 5, 1999. > > The big powers, as well as Australia and New Zealand, must refrain > from taking unilateral military action, the short term gains of which > would be outweighed by the long- term instability to which such an > action would plunge Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. > > The international community must act now to spare a > small nation whose identity was forged in 24 years of heroic > defiance of repression from further bloodshed. > > Council for Alternative Security in the Asia-Pacific > Focus on the Global South > > Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) > c/o CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University > Bangkok 10330 THAILAND > Tel: 662 218 7363/7364/7365/7383 > Fax: 662 255 9976 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Page http://www.focusweb.org Ole Fjord Larsen, secretary, the formative world parliament of the united peoples
