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TAPOL Bulletin No. 16, June 1976

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TAPOL Bulletin no. 16, June 1976, issued before the IGGI meeting. Contents: smuggled letter on prison torture including sexual torture of women (some miscarried), Fraser congressional hearings with Benedict Anderson, Sudomo interview on categories A/B/C and Buru, analysis of Oei Tju Tat's trial, Papuan killings, Amnesty list of jailed journalists (including Sujinah, the only one tried). A film still shows Dr Sumiarsih Caropeboka, prisoner at Plantungan women's camp. Gerwani not named.

TAPOL Bulletin no. 16, Juni 1976, terbit menjelang sidang IGGI. Isi: surat selundupan tentang penyiksaan di penjara termasuk penyiksaan seksual terhadap perempuan (beberapa keguguran), dengar pendapat Kongres AS (Fraser) dengan Benedict Anderson, wawancara Sudomo tentang golongan A/B/C dan Buru, analisis sidang Oei Tju Tat, pembunuhan di Papua, daftar wartawan dipenjara Amnesty (termasuk Sujinah, satu-satunya yang diadili). Foto film menampilkan dr. Sumiarsih Caropeboka, tahanan kamp Plantungan. Gerwani tidak disebut.

“p.3: 'The cruellest treatment of all was given to the women. They were stripped during interrogation and ... rattan sticks were brutally shoved repeatedly up their vaginas... who both had miscarriages.' p.8: Sujinah, one of two women journalists on Amnesty list.”

People

Sumijarsi Siwirini CaropebokaSudjinahOei Tjoe TatBenedict AndersonSudomoHariman SiregarCarmel BudiardjoJan Pronk

Organisations

TAPOLOperational Command for the Restoration of Security and OrderAmnesty InternationalInter-Governmental Group on IndonesiaPartindoCommunist Party of Indonesia

Places

PlantunganSurabayaKalisosok PrisonBuruJakartaWest New Guinea (Papua)CanadaWashington, D.C.

Topics

arrests and detentionPlantungan and women prisonerstrials (Mahmillub)New Ordermemory, testimony and justice

Tags

torturesexual violenceforeign aid and investmentinterview

Details

Date
1976-06
Creator
TAPOL
Publication
TAPOL
Document type
periodical issue (testimony, memoir or human-rights report)
Language
English
Perspective
Other
Source role
primary
Country
UK
Period
1967–1979
Source archive
TAPOL Bulletin (VU Research Repository, vuir.vu.edu.au) · source link
Access
open access (Victoria University Institutional Repository) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports/TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)/TAPOL (1976) - TAPOL Bulletin No. 16, June 1976 [VUIR 26414].pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.939) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.8 Testimonies, Memoirs and Human Rights Reports › TAPOL Bulletin (1974-1996) - issues on Gerwani and women prisoners (VUIR)
Summary basis
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