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Article: EAST TIMOR: CAMPAIGN FOR SELF-RULE THROUGH BOOKS AND SONGS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 3, 1997
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Johanna Son
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-03-1997
MANILA, Mar. 3 (IPS) -- Campaigners for East Timor's self-rule
from Indonesia are lobbying not just in official corridors and
conference halls, but are trying to reach a larger audience through
novel approaches like books and song.
In a new booklet on East Timor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and
resistance leader Jose Ramos Horta said: "For 21 years there has
been an ongoing war in East Timor."
"The world has mostly looked away, as most of the powerful
states and Indonesia's neighbors have sought to foster lucrative
economic relations with the oppressive regime of General Suharto,"
wrote Ramos Horta, who has been described as a "political