Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:04:32 -0400

From: Hermit001@AOL.COM

To: Multiple recipients of list TSG-L

Many of us at the Tibetan Cultural and Community Service Center are very happy about the recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Jose Ramon-Horta for his work on finding a peaceful solution to the Indonesian genocide of East Timor. Many members of TCCSC including myself as a Boardmember have been supporters of the East Timor Action Network and have participated and worked with members of the Network here in Los Angeles, California. Additionally, several TCCSC members have attended earlier gatherings with Jose Ramon-Horta and learned much about the massacres and genocide in East Timor.

TCCSC has been active on many fronts including the Office of the Americas which under the guidance of Blase and Teresa Bonpane's work on human rights in Guatamala and Rigobertu Manchu and the Commitee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. As an active member of the human rights community in Los Angeles alongside these organizations, we were especially pleased as we had on several occasions been the only groups to ask Jose an opportunity to speak in Los Angeles on many occasions.

I had asked Jose on what he thought of Tibet and our struggle and he has said that we must work together for human rights for all peoples at his last visit. But he recognized that not enough was being said of East Timor and hoped their struggle could acheive as much publicity as ours.

Once again, we all have much work to do and we must recognize that any act of injustice is yet, another injustice to all.

In solidarity,

Robert Dhondrup

Tibetan Cultural and Community Service Center

Los Angeles, California USA

p.s. I still can't beleive this happened and am looking for the tapes of his visits from freinds so that I can find the spot where I asked him about Tibet. I think this would be a good one for the Tibet records.