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...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...
...lied, keenly aware that foreign journalists were less than welcome in Indonesian East Timor. "I'm a school teacher?on holidays...
...Flash forward a few years. Two months ago, East Timor became an independent nation, though at a terrible price. In 1999, when Timorese voted to cut their ties with Indonesia, militia proxies of the Indonesian military went on a murderous rampage that left the country in ruins. Few foreigners have been able to forget the scenes of bloodshed and burning; tourists in East Timor are practically nonexistent. But it's time now to forget. The men who caused the destruction have fled, leaving behind a people basking in freedom and peace. They have also left behind one of the most...
Incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri looks to gain the greatest immediate benefit from the changes. As virtually the only Indonesian politician with national recognition, electoral triumph in 2004 seems almost assured for the increasingly aloof leader. Besides the assurance of a public mandate, Megawati will also be spared the threat of removal by the unruly assembly, which last year impeached Abdurrahman Wahid after he served just 21 months of his five-year presidential term...
...suspended bilateral ties with the Indonesian military in 1999 because of horrifying human rights abuses in East Timor. While the needs of American policy may have changed, Indonesia's military has not. "The fear among pro-reform elements is that the money could provide an opening for the security forces to go back to the bad old days," warns Sidney Jones, Indonesia Project director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. Pakistan's dictator Pervez Musharraf found himself similarly in the U.S.' good graces after Sept. 11. His regime has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief...