Editors --- "A Travesty of Justice: Xanana's Defence" [1996] HRightsDef 14; (1996) Human Rights Defender

A Travesty of Justice: Xananas Defence

What moral values, what standards of justice does the Indonesian government possess that it can make heroes of the criminals and pass judgment on their victims?

Xanana Gusmao, 1993

The Sydney-based East Timor Relief Association has recently published the defence statement of Xanana Gusmao, leader of the National Council of Maubere Resistance (CNRM) from his trial in May 1993. Xananas statement, suppressed at his trial, is of major significance in articulating his resistance, and that of the East Timorese, to forced integration with Indonesia.

Edited by Peter Slezak of the University of New South Wales, copies of A Travesty of Justice: Xananas Defence can be obtained from:

East Timor Relief Association
PO Box 23
Fairfield NSW 2165
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]