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Santa Cruz massacre

For the 1981 event in El Salvador, see Santa Cruz massacre (El Salvador).
Santa Cruz massacre
Part of the East Timor genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor
Grave of Sebastião Gomes.
The Santa Cruz massacre took place during a 1991 funeral procession to the grave of Sebastião Gomes.
LocationSanta Cruz cemetery, Dili
Coordinates08°33′47″S 125°35′12″E / 8.56306°S 125.58667°E / -8.56306; 125.58667
Date12 November 1991; 33 years ago (1991-11-12) (UTC+9)
TargetEast Timorese
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths250+
PerpetratorsIndonesian Army
MotivePolitical repression, Anti-Christian sentiment
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The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide.

Background

In October 1991, a delegation to East Timor consisting of members of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal and twelve journalists was planned during a visit from UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights on Torture, Pieter Kooijmans.[1] The Indonesian Government objected to the inclusion in the delegation of Jill Jolliffe, an Australian journalist who it regarded as supportive of the Fretilin independence movement,[2][3] and Portugal subsequently cancelled the delegation. The cancellation demoralised independence activists in East Timor, who had hoped to use the visit to raise the international profile of their cause.[4] Tension between Indonesian authorities and East Timorese youths rose in the days after Portugal's cancellation. On 28 October, Indonesian troops had located a group of resistance members in Dili's Motael Church. A confrontation ensued between pro-integration activists and those in the church; when it was over, one man on each side was dead. Sebastião Gomes, a supporter of independence for East Timor, was taken out of the church and shot by Indonesian troops, and integration activist Afonso Henriques was stabbed and killed during the fight.[5]

Foreigners who had come to East Timor to observe the Portuguese delegation included independent US journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn, and British cameraman Max Stahl. They attended a memorial service for Gomes on 12 November, during which several thousand men, women, and children walked from the Motael Church to the nearby Santa Cruz cemetery. Along the way, members of the group pulled out banners and East Timorese flags.[6] Organizers of the protest maintained order during the protest; although it was loud, the crowd was peaceful and orderly, by most accounts.[7] It was the largest and most visible demonstration against the Indonesian occupation since 1975.[8]

The massacre

During a brief confrontation between Indonesian troops and protesters, some protesters and a major, Geerhan Lantara were stabbed.[9] Stahl claimed Lantara had attacked a group of protesters including a girl carrying the flag of East Timor, and FRETILIN activist Constâncio Pinto reported witness accounts of beatings from Indonesian soldiers and police.[10][11] When the procession entered the cemetery some continued their protests before the cemetery wall. Around 200 more Indonesian soldiers arrived and advanced on the gathering, weapons drawn.[12] In the graveyard, they opened fire on hundreds of unarmed civilians. At least 250 East Timorese were killed in the massacre.[13] One of the dead was a New Zealander, Kamal Bamadhaj, a political science student and human rights activist based in Australia.

The massacre was witnessed by the two American journalists—Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn—and caught on videotape by Max Stahl, who was filming undercover for Yorkshire Television. As Stahl filmed the massacre, Goodman and Nairn tried to "serve as a shield for the Timorese" by standing between them and the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers began beating Goodman, and when Nairn moved to protect her, they beat him with their weapons, fracturing his skull.[14][15] The camera crew managed to smuggle the video footage to Australia. They gave it to Saskia Kouwenberg, a Dutch journalist, to prevent it being seized and confiscated by Australian authorities, who subjected the camera crew to a strip-search when they arrived in Darwin, having been tipped off by Indonesia. The video footage was used in the First Tuesday documentary In Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor,[16] shown on ITV in the UK in January 1992, as well as numerous other, more recent documentaries. Stahl's footage, combined with the testimony of Nairn and Goodman and others, caused outrage around the world.[17] The program In Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor was the overall winner at the inaugural Amnesty International UK Media Awards in 1992.[18][19]

Indonesian authorities described the incident as a spontaneous reaction to violence from the protesters or a "misunderstanding".[20] Objectors cited two factors: the documented history of mass violence committed by Indonesian troops in places such as Quelicai, Lacluta, and Kraras,[21] and a series of statements from politicians and officers in Indonesia, justifying the military's violence. Try Sutrisno, Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian forces, said two days after the massacre: "The army cannot be underestimated. Finally we had to shoot them. Delinquents like these agitators must be shot, and they will be."[22]

Aftermath

A re-enactment of the Santa Cruz massacre, November 1998.

In response to the massacre, activists around the world organised in solidarity with the East Timorese. Although a small network of individuals and groups had been working for human rights and self-determination in East Timor since the occupation began, their activity took on a new urgency after the 1991 massacre.[23] TAPOL, a British organisation formed in 1973 to advocate for democracy in Indonesia, increased its work around East Timor. In the United States, the East Timor Action Network was founded and soon had chapters in ten cities around the country.[24] Other solidarity groups appeared in Portugal, Australia, Japan, Germany, Malaysia, Ireland, and Brazil.

The television pictures of the massacre were shown worldwide, causing the Indonesian government considerable embarrassment. The coverage was a vivid example of how growth of new media in Indonesia was making it increasingly difficult for the "New Order" to control information flow in and out of Indonesia, and that in the post-Cold War 1990s, the government was coming under increasing international scrutiny. Copies of the Santa Cruz footage were distributed back into Indonesia allowing more Indonesians to see the actions of their government uncensored.[25] A number of pro-democracy student groups and their magazines began to openly and critically discuss not just East Timor, but also the "New Order" and the broader history and future of Indonesia.[23][25][26]

The US Congress voted to cut off funding for IMET training of Indonesian military personnel although arms sales continued from the US to the Indonesian National Armed Forces.[27] President Clinton cut off all US military ties with the Indonesian military in 1999.[28] By 2005, the US had resumed training and co-operation[29] and by 2012 President Obama had increased military financial aid to US$1.56 billion and approved the resumption of direct US military training of Indonesian special forces.[30][31]

The massacre prompted the Portuguese government to increase its diplomatic campaign. Portugal unsuccessfully tried to apply pressure by raising the issue with its fellow European Union members in their dealings with Indonesia. However, other EU countries such as the UK had close economic relations with Indonesia, including arms sales, and were reluctant to jeopardise these.[32] An Australian organisation called the Alice Springs Friends of East Timor was established after the massacre.

In Australia, there was criticism of the federal government's recognition of Jakarta's sovereignty over East Timor. The government had been promoting increased ties with the Indonesian military at the time of the massacre, but in 1999 temporarily cut off military ties in response to the violence after that year's independence referendum.[33] Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans described the killings as "an aberration, not an act of state policy".[34]

Commemorated as a public holiday in now independent East Timor, 12 November is remembered by the East Timorese as one of the bloodiest days in their history, one which drew worldwide attention to their fight for independence.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Krieger, p. 257.
  2. ^ Alatas, p. 53.
  3. ^ Hyland, Tom: "Jakarta 'sabotage Timor visit'" Archived 17 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, The Age, 28 October 1991. Read at Hamline University Apakabar Site. URL Accessed 26 August 2006.
  4. ^ Pinto, p. 183; Alatas, p. 57.
  5. ^ Singh, pp. 155–156; Pinto, pp. 183–184; Carey, p. 49; Alatas, p. 57. Alatas and Singh do not mention the presence of Indonesian troops at the church. Carey describes Henriques as "a Timorese member of a ninja (masked killer) unit which had broken into the Motael Church  ... to harass the sheltering students". Pinto describes him as "working for Indonesian intelligence".
  6. ^ Carey, p. 50; Jardine, p. 15; Alatas, p. 58.
  7. ^ Anderson, p. 146; Carey, p. 50; Singh, p. 157; Alatas, pp. 57–58; Amnesty (1991), p. 1. Alatas describes a peaceful procession "taken over by a small group of agitators", whose provocations included "the display of FRETILIN flags and banners" and "the shouting of anti-integration slogans".
  8. ^ Pinto and Jardine, p. 190.
  9. ^ Krieger, pp. 257–258.
  10. ^ Kubiak, W. David. "20 Years of Terror: Indonesia in Timor – An Angry Education with Max Stahl". Kyoto Journal. 28. Reprinted at The Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific. Retrieved on 14 February 2008.
  11. ^ Pinto and Jardine, p. 191.
  12. ^ Carey, p. 50; Pinto and Jardine, p. 191; Anderson, pp. 149–150; Alatas, p. 58; Singh, pp. 157–159. Pinto insisted that "there was no provocation", while Anderson discussed in detail the lack of warning shots. Amnesty International (1991) confirmed these claims via eyewitness testimony.
  13. ^ Carey, p. 51; Jardine, p. 16. The Portuguese solidarity group A Paz é Possível em Timor Leste compiled a careful survey of the massacre's victims, listing 271 killed, 278 wounded, and 270 "disappeared".
  14. ^ Goodman, Amy and Allan Nairn."Massacre: The Story of East Timor". 1992. Excerpted at Democracy Now, 28 January 2008. Retrieved on February 14, 2008.
  15. ^ "Amy Goodman speaks with Jeremy Scahill on "Intercepted"". The Intercept. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  16. ^ "FIRST TUESDAY (COLD BLOOD: THE MASSACRE OF EAST TIMOR)". ITN (Independent Television News). Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  17. ^ Jardine, pp. 16–17; Carey, pp. 52–53.
  18. ^ "'Cold Blood' AI Winner" (Press release). Reuters. 4 June 1992. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  19. ^ Constâncio Pinto; Matthew Jardine (1997). East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance. South End Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-89608-541-1.
  20. ^ Brigadier General Warouw in Amnesty (1991), p. 4
  21. ^ Carey, p. 51.
  22. ^ Quoted in Carey, p. 52. A slightly different wording ("...and we will shoot them") is quoted in Jardine, p. 17.
  23. ^ a b Jardine, pp. 67–69.
  24. ^ "About ETAN". East Timor Action Network. Retrieved on 18 February 2008.
  25. ^ a b Vickers (2005), pp. 200–201
  26. ^ CIIR, pp. 62–63; Dunn, p. 311.
  27. ^ ETAN: U.S. Policy toward East Timor, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network.
  28. ^ ETAN Backgrounder for May 20 Independence, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network.
  29. ^ ETAN. "Senator Leahy on Military Aid to Indonesia and East Timor". East Timor and Indonesia Action Network. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  30. ^ UPI. "Indonesia gets $1.56B in U.S. military aid". World News. United Press International. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  31. ^ Los Angeles Times. "U.S. to resume aid to Kopassus Indonesia's controversial military forces". LA Times. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  32. ^ "CAAT Publications – Arms to Indonesia Factsheet". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2008.
  33. ^ "Australia should avoid ties with Indonesia military: Study". Reuters. Retrieved on 16 August 2007.
  34. ^ The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Robert Gellately, Ben Kiernan, Cambridge University Press, 2003, page 179

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