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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Don Foster26/11/1998BathLiberal DemocratProposed
Martin Bell26/11/1998TattonIndependentSigned
Harry Barnes26/11/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Roseanna Cunningham26/11/1998PerthScottish National PartySigned
Dale Campbell-Savours26/11/1998WorkingtonLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell26/11/1998Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Lembit 26/11/1998MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Oaten26/11/1998WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Alice Mahon26/11/1998HalifaxLabourSigned
Lynne Jones26/11/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Nick Harvey26/11/1998North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson26/11/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn27/11/1998Islington NorthLabourSigned
Paul Burstow27/11/1998Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Godman30/11/1998Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard30/11/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Ronnie Fearn30/11/1998SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
John McAllion30/11/1998Dundee EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins30/11/1998Luton NorthLabourSigned
Colin Pickthall30/11/1998West LancashireLabourSigned
David Taylor01/12/1998North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Mike Hancock01/12/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Donald Gorrie01/12/1998Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Ken Livingstone01/12/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Paul Keetch01/12/1998HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Sawford01/12/1998KetteringLabourSigned
Colin Breed02/12/1998South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham02/12/1998Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Jim Wallace02/12/1998Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George03/12/1998St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton03/12/1998GowerLabourSigned
Andrew Love03/12/1998EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Dennis Skinner03/12/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Alasdair Morgan07/12/1998Galloway & Upper NithsdaleScottish National PartySigned
Tom Brake07/12/1998Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cryer07/12/1998HornchurchLabourSigned
Paul Tyler08/12/1998North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor08/12/1998Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington08/12/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Brian Cotter08/12/1998Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian White09/12/1998North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Richard Allan09/12/1998Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Davis09/12/1998Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Ann Cryer09/12/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady09/12/1998South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Richard Livsey09/12/1998Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Archy Kirkwood09/12/1998Roxburgh & BerwickshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Foster10/12/1998WorcesterLabourSigned
Bob Russell10/12/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen10/12/1998Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Phil Willis10/12/1998Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Brand14/12/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis15/12/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Robert Wareing15/12/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Peter Temple-Morris16/12/1998LeominsterLabourSigned
Mark Todd16/12/1998South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Paul Stinchcombe17/12/1998WellingboroughLabourSigned
Ian Davidson17/12/1998Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ray Michie17/12/1998Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
Dafydd Wigley11/01/1999CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Teddy Taylor11/01/1999Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Tony Benn11/01/1999ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Alan Beith11/01/1999Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway11/01/1999Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster11/01/1999Hastings & RyeLabourSigned
Jim Fitzpatrick11/01/1999Poplar & Canning TownLabourSigned
Maria Eagle11/01/1999Liverpool, GarstonLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell11/01/1999Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Alan Keen11/01/1999Feltham & HestonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Brian Sedgemore11/01/1999Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
David Rendel11/01/1999NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew13/01/1999StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Charles Kennedy13/01/1999Ross, Skye & Inverness WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris18/01/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Tess Kingham18/01/1999GloucesterLabourSigned
Oona King19/01/1999Bethnal Green & BowLabourSigned
David Atkinson20/01/1999Bournemouth EastConservativeSigned
Mark Fisher20/01/1999Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Diana Organ20/01/1999Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe21/01/1999Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd26/01/1999Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Alex Salmond27/01/1999Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Roger Berry28/01/1999KingswoodLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham28/01/1999Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Martin O'Neill28/01/1999OchilLabourSigned
Jimmy Wray04/02/1999Glasgow, BailliestonLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/02/1999Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Doug Naysmith08/02/1999Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Malcolm Bruce10/02/1999GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Harold Best11/02/1999Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Tony Worthington22/02/1999Clydebank & MilngavieLabourSigned
Tam Dalyell24/02/1999LinlithgowLabourSigned
Malcolm Savidge25/02/1999Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Margaret Ewing25/02/1999MorayScottish National PartySigned
Audrey Wise03/03/1999PrestonLabourSigned
Nigel Jones04/03/1999CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell05/03/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Peter Pike16/03/1999BurnleyLabourSigned
William Thompson18/03/1999West TyroneUUPSigned
Sandra Osborne29/03/1999AyrLabourSigned
Simon Hughes31/03/1999North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara15/04/1999Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard19/10/1999St AlbansLabourSigned

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