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Goodman and Nairn arrived in East Timor, which is off the North coast of Australia, to cover the visit of a United Nations/Portuguese team investigating the island's political future. Portugal ruled the island for 270 years until its withdrawal...
...investigation was cancelled by the Portuguese due to the tension it created in East Timor. The army threatened to kill anybody who would meet with the delegation. One senior officer told villagers in the Venilale region that if they spoke to the foreign delegates, everyone between the ages of 10 and 45 would be shot. They said that the army had already dug mass graves...
...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...
...people in the procession proceded from the church to the Santa Cruz cemetery, carrying banners and shouting for the independence of East Timor. After the procession reached the Dili cemetary, the Timorese noticed that soldiers had closed off the street and were marching towards the demonstrators...
...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 figure would indicate, as it enables Jakarta to secure $5 billion annually from American and European sources...