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In Australia, Democracy Now! Talks to the Mother of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos Horta, and Visits the Offices of <I>the Sydney Morning Herald</I>, Where They Have Uncovered Top Secret Document

After getting off the plane in Sydney Australia, Democracy Now! headed to the home of Natalina Ramos Horta. She’s the mother of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos Horta, who traveled the world for a quarter of a century, pleading East Timor’s cause. Jose Ramos Horta is the first Foreign Minister of an independent East Timor. We’ll speak with him tomorrow in here in Dili. But right now, back to Australia, with his mother, Natalina.
May 13, 2002 | Story
The Politics of Oil in East Timor: An Interview with Long-Time East Timorese Activist Robert Wesley Smith

On the eve of independence for East Timor, the Australian government and the Timorese government are negotiating a landmark deal that will determine the future of East Timor. Tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue are at stake in the Timor Gap, the small sea between Timor and Australia.
May 13, 2002 | Story
A Campaign Is Launched By Human Rights Organizations to Investigate the UN's Role in Theannexation of West Papua New Guinea By Indonesia Nearly Four Decades Ago

First the United States began pressuring Pakistan. Then it was the Philippines. Now it is Indonesia. According torecent articles in various newspapers, the US is trying to press Indonesia into closer cooperation with its so-calledwar on terror. In exchange, the Pentagon is pressing to end the embargo on military weapons sales to Indonesia. Thatembargo was achieved by human rights groups working throughout Indonesia to end the years of violence...
Mar 27, 2002 | Story
Indonesian Labor Activist Rejects the Reebok Human Rights Award

Tonight in Salt Lake City, on the eve of the Olympic Winter Games, the Reebok Human Rights Award ceremony will alsotake place in Salt Lake City. Reebok annually recognizes four activists age 30 or under who they say have madesignificant contributions to the field of human rights. But this year one of the winners has refused to accept the$50,000 award from Reebok. She has done so in protest against the low salaries the company pays its workers...
Feb 07, 2002 | Story
East Timorese Recall Santa Cruz Massacre Ten Years Ago That Marked Turning Point Inresistance to Indonesian Occupation

The U.N. Security Council last week formally endorsed East Timor 's plans to declare independence on May 20 of nextyear, pledging that the United Nations will "remain engaged" in the world's newest nation. East Timor’s constituentassembly is writing the country’s constitution and preparing for the day they will run their own affairs. And inDili, residents are holding a ceremony, as they do every November 12, to commemorate...
Nov 12, 2001 | Story
Megawati Is Sworn in As President of Indonesia, the Same Day As a Supreme Court Justice Wholed the Prosecution of Suharto's Son Is Assassinated

Indonesia’s second most senior judge was assassinated yesterday. Sayafiuddin Kartasamita led the prosecution ofSuharto’s youngest son Tommy on charges of corruption. He was sentenced to 18 months last fall, but went into hidingand has since been blamed for a string of bombings in Jakarta.
Jul 27, 2001 | Story
Indonesia's Parliament Votes to Impeach President Abdurahman Wahid; Vice-President Megawatisukarnoputri, Who Has Close Ties to the Military, Ascends to Power

Indonesia’s national assembly impeached President Abdurahman Wahid today and elected Vice President MegawatiSukarnoputri as his successor. The motion to dismiss Wahid, a nearly blind Muslim cleric who heads the nation’slargest Muslim organization, was passed 591-0. The vote was taken after army generals and senior police officersrejected an emergency decree issued hours before by Wahid that ordered the assembly’s immediate suspension.
Jul 23, 2001 | Story
State Violence From Jamaica to Indonesia to Pelican Bay, California: At Least 25 Civilians Are Dead Ahead of Elections, and the Prime Minister of Jamaica Says the Recent Police Killings Weren't Politi

Jamaica’s prime minister denied opposition claims that recent gun battles between security forces and residents of a poor Kingston neighborhood were politically motivated. Addressing the nation Sunday night, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said the violence was started by criminal gangs. He also promised a government investigation into last week’s gun battles, which killed at least 28 people, mostly civilians.
Jul 17, 2001 | Story
Indonesian Military Continues Its Brutal Counterinsurgency War in the Oil-Rich Province of Aceh: A Conversation with a Leading Activist From His Prison Cell

Indonesian officials met yesterday in Bandah Aceh with representatives of the Free Aceh Movement, an armed insurgency movement known as the GAM. The meeting in the Aceh’s capital was a part of ongoing talks aimed at negotiating a political solution to Aceh’s decades long struggle against Indonesian rule.
Jul 17, 2001 | Story
As U.N. Celebrates World Refugee Day, Indonesia Continues to Hold Tens of Thousands of Easttimorese As Virtual Hostages, Two Years After They Were Driven From Their Homes

Today at the Statue of Liberty UN diplomats and US officials will attend a laser light show to honor the first WorldRefugee Day–and to call attention to the plight of more than 20 million refugees around the world. The location istelling, since UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeatedly criticized the US and European countries for failing toprotect refugees or provide adequate funding for UN refugee assistance.
Jun 20, 2001 | Story

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In Australia, Democracy Now! Talks to the Mother of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos Horta, and Visits the Offices of <I>the Sydney Morning Herald</I>, Where They Have Uncovered Top Secret Document

The Politics of Oil in East Timor: An Interview with Long-Time East Timorese Activist Robert Wesley Smith

A Campaign Is Launched By Human Rights Organizations to Investigate the UN's Role in Theannexation of West Papua New Guinea By Indonesia Nearly Four Decades Ago

Indonesian Labor Activist Rejects the Reebok Human Rights Award

East Timorese Recall Santa Cruz Massacre Ten Years Ago That Marked Turning Point Inresistance to Indonesian Occupation

Megawati Is Sworn in As President of Indonesia, the Same Day As a Supreme Court Justice Wholed the Prosecution of Suharto's Son Is Assassinated

Indonesia's Parliament Votes to Impeach President Abdurahman Wahid; Vice-President Megawatisukarnoputri, Who Has Close Ties to the Military, Ascends to Power

State Violence From Jamaica to Indonesia to Pelican Bay, California: At Least 25 Civilians Are Dead Ahead of Elections, and the Prime Minister of Jamaica Says the Recent Police Killings Weren't Politi

Indonesian Military Continues Its Brutal Counterinsurgency War in the Oil-Rich Province of Aceh: A Conversation with a Leading Activist From His Prison Cell

As U.N. Celebrates World Refugee Day, Indonesia Continues to Hold Tens of Thousands of Easttimorese As Virtual Hostages, Two Years After They Were Driven From Their Homes

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