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Letters to the Editor and Op-eds
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by Real People in Real Newspapers
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Sample Letters to the
Editor
Published and Un-published Letters & Op-Eds
2006
Joint Australian letter on justice and the current crisis - Without
Justice There Will Be No Peace (May 26)
Letter- Rice's words on Indonesia ring hollow
(March 21)
Joseph Nevins:
U.S. owes restitution to East Timor (March
16)
IHT Letters - Oppose military aid to Indonesia
(January 9)
2005
Letters on Bush Waiver
(various dates)
Letter to Editor on
Kopassus (December 20)
Don't share
platforms with Kissinger - Letter
(December)
Letters
on Timor Sea justice (November 29)
Unpublished Letter: What really
happened in 1999 (November)
IHT Letter:
Accounting in East Timor
(August 13)
Letters on Wolfowitz
nomination (March)
ETAN
Letters to Christian Sci. Monitor (February
17)
Letters on
Tsunami and Military Assistance (January)
Selected Unpublished Letter to the Editor 2005
Misc Letter to the Editor
2004
Committing to Justice for East Timor
(Washington Post. Sept 11)
Letter
on U.S. assistance to TNI (Christian Science Monitor)
ETAN & others on Wolfowitz and Indonesia
(NY Times) Letter -
Justice
before Security Council seat for Indonesia (Asia Times)
Letter- Pleading
the 'rogue's defence' (The Age)
Independence Day Opinion: Op-eds by ETAN members and
friends, May 2002:
US
Media Servile to the Last in Reporting Timor Struggle
ZNET-
East Timor Independence Day- May 20, 2002
U.S. Must
Examine Its Role in New Nation's Bloody Past
The
price of independence
Time for
a U.S. Truth Commission on East Timor
Dramatic
U-turn for US and Australia
2001
Indonesia and the U.S., International Herald Tribune,
September 11, 2001
Letters on Henry Kissinger,
July 2001
2000
Without Reform, Jakarta's
Frail Empire Will Fall - Jose Ramos-Horta, September 17, 2000,
International Herald Tribune
Refugees
still suffering in East Timor, Dan Winters, September 13, 2000 Colorado
Daily
Justice for East Timor
- John M. Miller, September 1,
2000, New York Times
A Year Later, East Timor's People Are Still Waiting for Justice
- Aderito de Jesus Soares, East Timor National Jurists Association, August 30,
2000, International Herald
Tribune (Op-ed)
Little Reason to Celebrate One Year
Later - Stephanie Coop, August 30, 2000, Japan
Times (Op-ed)
East Timor needs help to rebuild - British aid
organizations, August 30, 2000, Times
(London)
Justice for East Timor - John M. Miller, August 23,
2000, International Herald Tribune
Indonesian Troubles - Ben Terrall, July 12, 2000, San
Francisco Chronicle
A
Lesson From Timor: Don't Coddle the Indonesian Military - Karen Orenstein, July 5, 2000,
International Herald Tribune (Op-ed)
Like a phoenix, East Timor rises again, Op-ed
in The Age, June 27, 2000, Jim Dunn (Op-ed)
East Timor Deserves Democracy, Op-ed
in Asia Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2000 by Jim Della-Giacoma, former
U.N. political officer
Release classified information - various Australians, June 21, 2000,
Green Left
Weekly,
U.S.-Indonesia Ties - Lynn Fredriksson, June 2, 2000,
International Herald Tribune
Stop Military Ties With Indonesians - Eliot Hoffman, May
25, 2000, New
York Times
Acts of faith will rebuild my nation - Xanana Gusmao, Op-ed
in The Age, May 5, 2000
Four letters from February to May 2000 - Journalists
in East Timor, To Rebuild East Timor, Indonesia's
Battalion 745, Reconciling East Timor
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust - commentary
in Sydney Morning Herald, Shirley Shackleton, widow of journalist
murdered in East Timor, April 26, 2000
New nation has opportunity for gains in the Gap - commentary
in Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew McNaughton, April 13,
2000
Kissinger wrong choice - John M. Miller, March, 2000, USA
Today
Trying Indonesia military for East Timor rampages - February,
2000 Three letters by John M. Miller
West's Hands Dirty in E Timor - InterPress
Service Op-ed by Matthew Jardine, February 2000
1999
Response to front page NY Times story - December, 1999 Letter
to the Editor by Diane Farsetta
From a Jakarta Prison Cell
- Washington Post Op-ed
by Xanana Gusmao, president of the National Council of Timorese Resistance.
The New York Times - January 29, 1999 Letter to
the Editor by Ben Terrall
1998
"A Civil Society in East Timor" - October 30, 1998 Washington Times Op-ed by Brad Simpson and Kristin Sundell
November 4, 1998 - Letter to the Editor by
Ben Terrall, published in the (Mendocino County, CA) Anderson Valley Advertiser
"Talks on East Timor at Decisive Stage" - San Francisco Chronicle November 9, 1998 Letter to
the Editor by Clare Campbell, Board Member Global Exchange
US News & World Report Outlook - November 30, 1998 Letters to the Editor by Eliot Hoffman and Clarance Evan
Dale Santos
Washington Post - Letter to the Editor The
Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr. quotes Bishop Belo: "There was no danger whatsoever of a
takeover by communists." 28 Jul 1998
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