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...NOVEMBER 12 massacre of 100 men, women and children in East Timor by the Indonesian army was unusual only because there were American witnesses to the crime. Since Indonesia's 1976 occupation of the island, 200,000 people, or roughly a third of East Timor's population, have been killed by the army or starved by the Indonesian occupiers...
...Goodman '79, a news editor for WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...November 12, 1992, thousands of Timorese gathered for a procession and demonstration in memory of Sebastiao Gomes, a young man who was killed for speaking out against the Indonesian government. They met at the church in Dili, East Timor, in which Gomes had sought refuge and where he was found by the Indonesian soldiers. His blood was still caked on the church steps...
...soldiers, in formation, raised their M-16s and took aim at the procession. They opened fire directly into the dense crowd of men, women and children. The Indonesian government claims that only 19 people were killed. Eyewitnesses to the massacre (and Amnesty International) say that about 100 were killed and hundreds more were wounded...
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...