Killings In East Timor

EDM number 48 in 1998-99, proposed by Don Foster on 26/11/1998.

That this House notes that Indonesia's President Habibie gave Her Majesty's Government an undertaking, in October 1998, to look into the deaths of British-born television newsmen Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters, with three colleagues from another television company, at Balibo, East Timor, on 16th October 1975; notes that President Habibie's undertaking was over-ruled, within days, by Indonesian government ministers and that Indonesia's Information Minister is alleged to have supervised the slaying of the five television newsmen; notes, too, that Australia's then-Ambassador to Indonesia admits briefing the Australian government on 13 October 1975 that Indonesian forces would invade East Timor three days later; views the re-establishment of the Australian government's preliminary evaluation of evidence concerning the deaths of the five television newsmen as inadequate, given that it has no mandate to examine much of the most important evidence, for example that linking Australian and British government inaction over the five deaths to the genocide that followed; and calls for an independent judicial inquiry with powers to call witnesses and to examine all documents linked to the deaths of the newsmen.

This motion has been signed by a total of 103 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Don Foster	26/11/1998	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Martin Bell	26/11/1998	Tatton	Independent	Signed
Harry Barnes	26/11/1998	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	26/11/1998	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	26/11/1998	Workington	Labour	Signed
Menzies Campbell	26/11/1998	Fife North East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lembit	26/11/1998	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Oaten	26/11/1998	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alice Mahon	26/11/1998	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	26/11/1998	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	26/11/1998	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	26/11/1998	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	27/11/1998	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Paul Burstow	27/11/1998	Sutton & Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Godman	30/11/1998	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Neil Gerrard	30/11/1998	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Fearn	30/11/1998	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McAllion	30/11/1998	Dundee East	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	30/11/1998	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Colin Pickthall	30/11/1998	West Lancashire	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	01/12/1998	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Mike Hancock	01/12/1998	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Donald Gorrie	01/12/1998	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ken Livingstone	01/12/1998	Brent East	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	01/12/1998	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Sawford	01/12/1998	Kettering	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	02/12/1998	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Clapham	02/12/1998	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Jim Wallace	02/12/1998	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	03/12/1998	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Caton	03/12/1998	Gower	Labour	Signed
Andrew Love	03/12/1998	Edmonton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Dennis Skinner	03/12/1998	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Alasdair Morgan	07/12/1998	Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	Scottish National Party	Signed
Tom Brake	07/12/1998	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Cryer	07/12/1998	Hornchurch	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	08/12/1998	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Taylor	08/12/1998	Truro & St Austell	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Etherington	08/12/1998	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Brian Cotter	08/12/1998	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian White	09/12/1998	North East Milton Keynes	Labour	Signed
Richard Allan	09/12/1998	Sheffield, Hallam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Terry Davis	09/12/1998	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	09/12/1998	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Eddie McGrady	09/12/1998	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Richard Livsey	09/12/1998	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Archy Kirkwood	09/12/1998	Roxburgh & Berwickshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Foster	10/12/1998	Worcester	Labour	Signed
Bob Russell	10/12/1998	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harry Cohen	10/12/1998	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	10/12/1998	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Peter Brand	14/12/1998	Isle of Wight	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	15/12/1998	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	15/12/1998	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Peter Temple-Morris	16/12/1998	Leominster	Labour	Signed
Mark Todd	16/12/1998	South Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Paul Stinchcombe	17/12/1998	Wellingborough	Labour	Signed
Ian Davidson	17/12/1998	Glasgow, Pollok	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Ray Michie	17/12/1998	Argyll & Bute	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dafydd Wigley	11/01/1999	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Teddy Taylor	11/01/1999	Rochford & Southend East	Conservative	Signed
Tony Benn	11/01/1999	Chesterfield	Labour	Signed
Alan Beith	11/01/1999	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
George Galloway	11/01/1999	Glasgow, Kelvin	Labour	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	11/01/1999	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Jim Fitzpatrick	11/01/1999	Poplar & Canning Town	Labour	Signed
Maria Eagle	11/01/1999	Liverpool, Garston	Labour	Signed
Austin Mitchell	11/01/1999	Great Grimsby	Labour	Signed
Alan Keen	11/01/1999	Feltham & Heston	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Brian Sedgemore	11/01/1999	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Labour	Signed
David Rendel	11/01/1999	Newbury	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Drew	13/01/1999	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Charles Kennedy	13/01/1999	Ross, Skye & Inverness West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Evan Harris	18/01/1999	Oxford West & Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tess Kingham	18/01/1999	Gloucester	Labour	Signed
Oona King	19/01/1999	Bethnal Green & Bow	Labour	Signed
David Atkinson	20/01/1999	Bournemouth East	Conservative	Signed
Mark Fisher	20/01/1999	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Labour	Signed
Diana Organ	20/01/1999	Forest of Dean	Labour	Signed
Maria Fyfe	21/01/1999	Glasgow, Maryhill	Labour	Signed
Ann Clwyd	26/01/1999	Cynon Valley	Labour	Signed
Alex Salmond	27/01/1999	Banff & Buchan	Scottish National Party	Signed
Roger Berry	28/01/1999	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
Jim Cunningham	28/01/1999	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Martin O'Neill	28/01/1999	Ochil	Labour	Signed
Jimmy Wray	04/02/1999	Glasgow, Baillieston	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	08/02/1999	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Doug Naysmith	08/02/1999	Bristol North West	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	10/02/1999	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harold Best	11/02/1999	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Tony Worthington	22/02/1999	Clydebank & Milngavie	Labour	Signed
Tam Dalyell	24/02/1999	Linlithgow	Labour	Signed
Malcolm Savidge	25/02/1999	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
Margaret Ewing	25/02/1999	Moray	Scottish National Party	Signed
Audrey Wise	03/03/1999	Preston	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	04/03/1999	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McDonnell	05/03/1999	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Peter Pike	16/03/1999	Burnley	Labour	Signed
William Thompson	18/03/1999	West Tyrone	UUP	Signed
Sandra Osborne	29/03/1999	Ayr	Labour	Signed
Simon Hughes	31/03/1999	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward O'Hara	15/04/1999	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Kerry Pollard	19/10/1999	St Albans	Labour	Signed

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