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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: UN "Human Rights" seminar in Indonesia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.091041.14101@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:10:41 GMT
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- /** pn.announcemen: 51.0 **/
- ** Topic: STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!! **
- ** Written 10:13 pm Dec 17, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen **
- From: <peacenet>
- Subject: STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!
-
- From cscheiner Thu Dec 17 21:25:33 1992
- From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>
-
- /* Written 9:24 pm Dec 17, 1992 by cscheiner@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.easttimor */
- /* ---------- "STOP UN/Jakarta Hypocrisy Now!!" ---------- */
- ***** Urgent Action Alert *****
- to: Human rights and solidarity groups
- from: Jose Ramos-Horta
- re: Protest UN "Human Rights" seminar in Jakarta!
- date: December 17, 1992
-
- The UN Human Rights Center in Geneva has decided to accept Indonesia's
- outrageous invitation to host an Asia-Pacific human rights workshop in
- Jakarta on January 26-28, 1993!
- Invitations have already been sent to governments and human rights experts.
-
- I am appealing to every solidarity group and every non-governmental
- organization around the world to launch a campaign of protest and a
- denunciation of this decision by the United Nations.
-
- Such a seminar was to have been held in December 1991, but it was delayed
- because of the November massacre in Dili. The human rights situation in East
- Timor and Indonesia has not improved.
-
- I make a special appeal to NGO's of the Asia-Pacific region, including
- Indonesians, to oppose this bizarre gathering which makes a mockery of human
- rights in Indonesia and in East Timor.
-
- Ask the U.N. Human Rights Center in Geneva if they are planning to hold
- human rights seminars in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma), Tienanmen
- Square, Guatemala City, and Belgrade (Serbia).
-
- Protest notes must be in the strongest possible language. Human rights
- experts who accept the invitation to Jakarta must also be denounced publicly.
- Please fax letters of protest immediately to:
- Center for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva
- fax: 41-22-917-0123
- Fax copies to
- Alvaro De Soto, Special Assistant to the Secretary General in New York
- fax: 1-212-963-4879
-
- If we cannot prevent the seminar, every government and expert who attends
- must be urged to condemn the human rights situation in East Timor and in
- Indonesia, and to distribute the report of the Special Rapporteur on
- Torture, the latest UN Human Rights Subcommission report on East Timor and
- information from Asia Watch and Amnesty International.
-
- Thank you for your quick and energetic response. Time is of the essence.
- ------
- Alert distributed by the East Timor Action Network/US,
- PO Box 1182, White Plains, NY 10602 USA
- Tel.914-428-7299 Fax.914-428-7383 Email cscheiner@igc.apc.org
- ** End of text from cdp:pn.announcemen **
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