Chega! The CAVR Report (The Report of the Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation). Also available here.

Chapter on Children in Chega! (Section 7.8.4 The transfer of children to Indonesia)

Stories of transfers of Timorese children in the media:

Newspaper articles:

• Fate of East Timor’s stolen generation in Indonesia finally coming to light  by Lindsay Murdoch (The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2012) The same article also appeared in The Melbourne Age, The Canberra Times and The Brisbane Times
• The lost children of East Timor by Lucy Williamson (BBC News, 26 May 2009) [Film]
• Children of the enemy: A child abducted during the Indonesian occupation returns to her former home by Helene van Klinken (Inside Indonesia, 96: Apr-Jun 2009)

Reunions of Timorese families reported in media:

• 2010 Alexhia Aprilia Simatupang finds her family: Xanana meets TL’s Lost Generation and support her return while Alexhia and her mother in tears (27 October 2010)
• 2010 Brigadier-General Lere Annan Timor finds his son, Bobi Rahman: Bobi Return To Indonesia After 10 Days Visit TL  (5 July 2010)

Radio programs:

• Timor’s lost generation Hindsight, ABC Radio National (14 November 2012)
• Making them Indonesians: Child transfers out of East Timor,  interview with Helene van Klinken (ABC Radio Australia, 29 March 2012)
• Renewed hopes for East Timor’s ‘stolen generation’ interview with Kirsty Sword Gusmao and Helene van Klinken (ABC Radio National, The World Today, 7 March 2012)
• Lost children of East Timor search for families interview with Helene van Klinken ABC Radio Australia, 17 February 2012)
• ‘If You Have Time, Please Come Home’: The Divided Families of Timor Leste,  by Citra Dyah Prastuti (Radio Asia Calling, 14 January 2012)
• A long journey home… Timor’s lost children, by Citra Dyah Prastuti (Radio Asia Calling, 24 December 2011)
• “MengIndonesiakan Mereka”: pemindahan anak-anak Timor Timur wawancara dengan Helene van Klinken (ABC Radio Australia, 7 March 2012) (Indonesian)

Child transfers elsewhere:

Newspaper articles:

• Former dictators found guilty in Argentine baby-stealing trial (CNN International News, 10 July 10, 2012) (Mantan diktator Argentina dinyatakan bersalah mencuri bayi-bayi)
• ‘Wasn’t just one or two children’: Ex-Argentine dictators jailed for baby thefts (NBCN World News, 6 July 2012) (Bukan hanya satu atau dua anak: Mantan diktator Argentina dipenjara karena pencurian bayi-bayi)
• Argentine Baby Theft Trial Nears End, Marcela Valente (Inter Press Service, 17 March 2012)
• New Life Children’s Refuge case, Wikipedia, 2010
• Zoe’s Ark children reunited with their families in Chad after five months, UNICEF, 2008
• Children of the ‘Disappeared’ Tell Their Stories, Marcela Valente (Inter Press Service, 25 November 2008) The Spanish title of the book: “De vuelta a casa. Historias de hijos y nietos restituidos” (roughly, “Back Home: The Stories of Recovered Children and Grandchildren”) by Analía Argento. “For many of them, telling their stories was a liberating experience; they felt heard and understood, because they have mixed feelings and live with contradictions, and they feel, for different reasons, that they have been discriminated against”
• Argentina jails ‘dirty war’ medic, BBC News, 23 April 2005
• Guatemala’s baby business, BBC News, 1 September 2006
• Hitler’s Children by Joshua Hammer (Newsweek International, March 20, 2000)
• Spain Confronts Decades of Pain Over Lost Babies by Raphael Minder (New York Times, 6 July 2011)

Books, journal articles, Films:

• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon (Harvard University Press, 1999) [Link to author’s website]
• Children of the French empire: Miscegenation and colonial society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 by Owen White (Oxford University Press, 1999) [Link to author’s website]
• “Children of World War II: The hidden enemy legacy” edited by Kjersti Ericsson and Eva Simonsen (Berg Publishers, 2005) Reviews by Richard Jobs, by Monika Zagar
• A return to life: The right to identity and the right to identify Argentina’s “living disappeared” by Lisa Avery (Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Volume 28, Spring 2005) [Available online]
• Behind the disappearances: Argentina’s dirty war against human rights and the United Nations by Iain Guest (Univ of Pennsylvania Press, 1990) [Link to details]
• Film: “The Official Story” is an award winning 1985 Argentinean film about adoptive parents who find out that the parents of their adopted child disappeared during the military dictator dictatorship in Argentina, 1976 -1983.
• Film: “Nieto Recuperado” (Recovered Grandchild) The parents of Manuel Gonçalves disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976 to 983. Manuel was kidnapped and raised by a military family. The film relates how he finds his way home. An interview with Manuel.