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...GOODMAN AND Nairn's report has provoked an international outcry against the Indonesian government. The Netherlands, the former colonial rulers of Indonesia, suspended all aid--totalling some $100 million--pending the outcome of an Indonesian investigation into the massacre. Representative Ronald Machtley (R-R.I.) has sponsored a bill to cut off US military aid to Indonesia. A letter to President bush signed by 50 congressmen urged him to reconsider Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor. Current U.S. aid to Indonesia totals $50 million. But the support of the U.S. government for the Indonesian regime is far more valuable than that...
Panelist Amy Goodman, news editor of WBAI/Pacifica radio, said that U.S.policy supporting Indonesia favored a large,powerful country as it brutalized a smaller...
...Goodman, who was working as a journalist inEast Timor at the time of the November massacre,described her harrowing escape from the chaos...
...Goodman said she couldn't help thinking, "We'refrom the same place their weapons are from...
...Yorker correspondent AllanNairn, who was with Goodman in East Timor at thetime of the massacre, called the events a"criminal policy on the part of the government ofIndonesia and the government...