From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: TIMOR: ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:12:02 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 349.0 **/
** Topic: Ontario universities tour **
** Written 12:46 am  Oct 13, 1992 by web:etantor in cdp:reg.easttimor **
East Timor Alert Network, Canada


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                           13 October 1992



ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES KICK OFF EAST TIMOR SOLIDARITY 
CAMPAIGN

An Ontario universities tour in support of East Timor kicks off in 
Hamilton today. The tour, sponsored by the East Timor Alert Network, will 
travel to 12 communities representing all universities in southern Ontario 
between now and November 12. 

The tour is designed to raise awareness in universities and surrounding 
communities about the genocide going on in East Timor, a small country 
invaded by Indonesia in 1975. Since the invasion, more than a third of the 
East Timorese people have been killed. On November 12, 1991, the genocide 
came to world attention when Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a crowd of 
unarmed Timorese at a funeral procession, killing as many as 200 people. 
For the first time, the massacre was captured by Western television cameras.

The resulting documentary, "Cold Blood: the Massacre of East Timor" will 
be shown for the first time in its entirety in Canada on the tour. Also 
featured will be speeches by Timorese refugee Barnabe Barreto Soares, who 
was appointed representative to Canada for the Timroese resistance 
movement CNRM earlier this year. Local speakers and members of Canada's 
East Timor Alert Network will add details on the complicity of the Canadian 
government in the East Timor tragedy. 

As well as the university forums, Mr Barreto Soares will be speaking to 
church, labour and human rights groups and high school students. 

Following the tour, activists from across Ontario and from Montral will 
gather in Ottawa for a dramatic demonstration on Parliament Hill on 
November 12,m the first anniversary of the massacre filmed in "Cold Blood." 

The tour itinerary follows. 


EAST TIMOR UNIVERSITY TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday October 13              McMaster University, Hamilton 
Contact: Rob Thompson (416) 525-9140, ext. 4768 or 528-8689

Wednesday October 14            University of Windsor
Contact: Jason Amyot (519) 979-3166

Tuesday October 20              Brock University, St Catharines
Contact: Patrick Hughes (416) 688-1574

Wednesday October 21            Waterloo University 
Contact: Peter Eglin (519) 884-1970 ext. 2877 or 579-4639

Wednesday October 28            York University, Toronto
University of Toronto
Contact: David Webster (416) 539-9589 or 531-6154

Thursday October 29             Oakville (high school speaking events)
Contact: Stephen Dankowich (416) 844-4453

Tuesday November 3              University of Guelph
Contact: Sheila Wilmot (519) 824-2091 or 836-9424

Thursday November 5             Concordia University, Montral
McGill University, Montral
Contact: Genny Marilley (514) 481-7259

Monday November 9               Queen's University, Kingston
Contact: Bill Ripley (613) 544-2872

Tuesday November 10             Carleton University, Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Contact: Peter Monet (613) 238-6933


Dates still to be announced for Trent University (Peterborough), 
University of Western Ontario (London). 


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