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From: "Damian Gleeson" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] EAST TIMOR CRISIS
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:28:51 +1000

Dear Hackett researchers

We normally correspond on issues relating to Irish history and specifically
the Hacketts (i'm descended from the hacketts of Clonmel, Co Tipperary,
Ireland).

This e-mail message is about a very different subject - a major
humanitarian crisis in East Timor - a small country just to the north of
Australia, which recently voted for independence but which has been
subjected to a week of unprecedented turmoil, which the Vatican has called
'genocide'.

The horror of what is happening - and something that the Indonesia is
making little effort to hide - has spurred us into action.

As individuals we are probably powerless, but the sickness in so many
Australians stomachs at the ongoing and systematic murder of East Timorese
women, children, men, nuns and priests, has called many of us to ask our
friends in other parts of the world, to lobby, if possible, their political
representatives.

The Catholic Church in East Timor has been targeted and is no longer a safe
haven - many refugees have been killed while seeking supposed safety.

Australia urgently needs real support from the United States, in
particular, as well as the UK, Europe and Canada to send in an
international peace keeping force. President Clinton says its is not in the
American interest to help. Why not??

Thank you for reading this message

Damian John Gleeson,
BA, MCom (Hons) Economic History, Dip FHS
Sydney, Australia
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