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The Timor International Solidarity Archive (TiSA), located at timorarchive.com, is pleased to release documents today from the solidarity group "Clamor por Timor," based in Brazil. The files consist of publications, newspaper articles and solidarity movement correspondence.
Original files are located at CEDIC - Centro de Documentação e Informação Científica of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. The documents, mostly in Portuguese, are now available online and described in English at https://timorarchive.ca/clamor-por-timor-2
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Clamor por Timor was a solidarity group formed in Brazil in 1992, which remained active until 2002.</p>
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It was founded a civil society group called "Grupo Solidário São Domingos" (GSSD), which arose in 1982 as a group to translate books related to religion and ended up being an important voice on the combat of inequality in Brazil and worldwide. The group main
leaders were a Maltese priest called Frei João Xerri and a nun called Lilia do Amaral Azevedo.</p>
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Their interest in East Timor emerged after the suggestion of a journalist called Jan Rocha, and it was based on the same course of action of another initiative made by the GSSD called "Clamor", which aimed to help political prisoners of the dictatorships in
Latin America. In 1993, after being warned by Jan Rocha of a Timorese young man trying to give more visibility to the excesses perpetrated by Indonesia on their nation's territory, GSSD started the movement Clamor Por Timor.</p>
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After this, the GSSD started to disseminate the Timorese cause throughout Brazil using various means such as: newspaper articles; benefit concerts; expositions; public acts; campaigns using mass media actors; and public pressure on the Brazilian government,
which was adopting a soft attitude on the matter. They also promoted a book about the matter called "Timor Leste - Este País Quer Ser Livre" (East Timor - This Country wants to be free), with the presence of Timor's ambassador and winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, José Ramos-Horta.</p>
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Interested in contributing materials on the Timor-Leste solidarity movement? Please do get in touch! </p>
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