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Lets see a balance side of the whole story.. shall we ?
US approved 1975 Indonesian invasion of East
Timor
Previously secret documents published by the National Security
Archive at George Washington University prove that the United
States government gave the green light for the 1975 Indonesian
invasion of East Timor, which resulted in the deaths of some
200,000 Timorese people over the ensuing quarter century.
At the Archives request, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
released two key declassified documents revealing the role of
President Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The
Archive posted them on its web site on December 6, accompanied by
five previously unpublished State Department documents.
The documents expose the official silence and outright lies
advanced over the past 26 years to deny that Ford and Kissinger
were involved in, and ultimately responsible for, the atrocities
carried out by the Indonesian military dictatorship.
It had been known previously that Ford and Kissinger held a
discussion with General Suharto in Jakarta on the day before
Indonesias full-scale invasion on December 7, 1975. But the
precise content of the meeting has never been revealed. It was
always obvious that Ford and Kissinger must have sanctioned the
invasion, yet Kissinger explicitly denied this.
By the time that Ford and Kissinger visited Jakarta, the Indonesian
military had already made several incursions into East Timor, the
most notorious being in the border town of Balibo on October 16,
1975. Five Australian-based journalists in Balibo had been killed
by the Indonesian military in an effort to prevent wide reportage
of the attack.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/kiss-d19.shtml
The militias are credibly reported to be under the direction of
Kopassus, the dreaded Indonesian special forces modeled on the US
Green Berets and "legendary for their cruelty," as the prominent
Indonesia scholar Benedict Anderson observes. He adds that in East
Timor, "Kopassus became the pioneer and exemplar for every kind of
atrocity," including systematic rapes, tortures, and executions,
and organization of hooded gangsters. Concurring, Australia's
veteran Asia correspondent David Jenkins notes that this "crack
special forces unit [had] been training regularly with US and
Australian forces until their behavior became too much of an
embarrassment for their foreign friends." Congress did bar US
training of the killers and torturers under IMET, but the Clinton
Administration found ways to evade the laws, leading to much
irritation in Congress but little broader notice. Now,
congressional constraints may be more effective, but without the
kind of inquiry that is rarely undertaken in the case of US-backed
terror, one cannot be confident.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19990826.htm
Why ? benefits who ? for Oil of course
Australias plunder of East Timors oil and
gas
Both the US and Australian governments refused to publicly condemn
these attacks. Gough Whitlams Labor government even denied the
incursions were taking place.
Canberras role in this incident reflected the broader desires of
Australian imperial interests in the Asia-Pacific. For East Timor,
this meant brutal military occupation so that Australia-based
mining and oil interests could more easily access the untapped
wealth of the Timor Sea. Australias acceptance of the invasion and
occupation of East Timor also helped open the door for these same
business interests to Indonesia itself.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/650/650p14.htm
East Timor: Australias double betrayal
Since the East Timorese independence referendum in 1999, the
Australian government has received approximately $1 billion dollars
in taxes on oil taken from the Laminaria Corallina field, which is
fully situated in East Timorese territory.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/576/576p24.htm
You see why Australia is stationing troops in Timor now...
nobody does this without benefits.. you know ..
EAST TIMOR - the U.S., Australian, and European sponsored,
Indonesian-invasion and genocide
This brief article contains information on how the U.S.A, U.K.,
Australian & other Western Governments sponsored the Indonesian
plunder of East Timor from 1975 to 1999.
A good read
http://members.iinet.net.au/~eye/propaganda/articles/east_timor.html
US , British and Australia are great pals.. even operate similarly.
And you want these fellows policing South East Asia ?
