East Timor Update #44-47, 1996

As the amount of news to report in Canada grew and the frequency of The ACTivist (in which East Timor Update was published) fell, news focussed more on Canada than in previous years. In 1996, coverage included Canadian government trade missions to Indonesia; calls for an arms embargo backed by trade union, women's and student groups; and alleged threats by Indonesian Ambassador Benjamin Parwoto against the family of Bella Galhos, a Timorese refugee and activist in Ottawa.

ETAN fact sheets 1996

Starting with this post, materials produced by the East Timor ALert Network from its founding in the mid-1980s up to 2000 will be published here. 

The East Timor Alert Network/Canada produced a series of fact sheets in 1995, updated in 1996 and circualted through ETAN chapters. The scans posted below and after the jump are the second versions in most cases, written in ETAN's Toronto office and updated and re laid out at ETAN/Ottawa. These versions are from the ETAN/Vancouver office.