Liem Soei Liong

Liem Soei Liong (born April 1943 in Tasikmalaya , Indonesia) is a Sino - Indonesian human rights activist who lives in exile in the Netherlands and is a Dutch citizen.

He fled his homeland before the massacre in Indonesia 1965-1966 of the Chinese people and the members of the Communist Party of Indonesia . Liem Soei Liong became a member of the Dutch “Komitee Indonesie”, but then switched to the Indonesian human rights organization “TAPOL”, which has its headquarters in London . TAPOL dealt with human rights violations in Indonesia, including those in occupied East Timor .

Awards

In 2015, Liem Soei Liong received the Medal of the Ordem de Timor-Leste from East Timor's President Taur Matan Ruak . The award ceremony took place on May 20, 2015, on the 13th Independence Day of East Timor .

Publications

• The War Against East Timor , with Carmel Budiardjo, London, 1984.
• Maluku: geografie en geschiedenis van de Molukken sinds het kolonialisme , Amsterdam 1988.
• West Papua: The Obliteration of a People , with Carmel Budiardjo, 1988.
• Indonesian Muslims and the state: accommodation or revolt? , London 1998.
• It's the military, stupid! , 2000.
• Timor-Leste: interesst internacionais e actores locais , with António Barbedo de Magalhães and David Scott 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Annette Jansen: Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect , 2017. Limited preview in Google Book Search.
2. ↑ TAPOL: Carmel Budiardjo, founder of TAPOL , accessed on November 14, 2019.
3. ↑ de Volkskrant: Indonesië weert mensenrechteactivist Liem , July 21, 1998 , accessed on November 14, 2019.
4. ↑ Institute of Public Accuracy: Asians on Tsunami Relief: Drop the Debt , January 28, 2005 , accessed November 14, 2019.
5. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 43/2015 de 6 de Maio , accessed on September 18, 2019.
6. ↑ CIDAC: Timor Leste: reconhecimento da solidariedade internacional , accessed on September 18, 2019.