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...EAST TIMOR By Popular Demand Xanana Gusãmo won a landslide victory to become East Timor's first elected President. The former freedom fighter won 82.7% of the vote and will be inaugurated on May 20 as the leader of the world's newest independent country. In 1999 troops and militias aligned with the Jakarta government rampaged through the countryside, killing hundreds of people and creating 260,000 refugees following a U.N.-sponsored referendum, in which voters favored secession from Indonesia...
...anyone outside of India, the situation is almost unknown. There can be outcry over elections in Zimbabwe, peacekeepers in East Timor and conversation about violence in the Middle East. Hundreds of deaths in India may get a story or two, but no commentary, no meaningful dialogue, not even a mention in State Department briefings...
...populist charm in dealing with Indonesia's myriad woes: economic stagnation, religious violence, allegations of terrorist networks, not to mention several secessionist movements. The high profile trials of Tommy Suharto, House Speaker Akbar Tandjung, 18 military officers accused of human rights abuses during East Timor's transition to independence, as well as a handful of ordinary corruption cases have served as symbolic reminders that she stands for-or used to, anyway-reform and clean governance, long the rallying cry for populist Indonesian politicians. The defendants themselves seem to have been chosen as much for what they represent-Tommy Suharto=Suharto...
...military and police bosses will be brought to justice for some of the atrocities they are alleged to have overseen. Even the opening on March 14 of the first in a series of trials against 18 soldiers, civilian officials and militiamen accused of human-rights abuses during East Timor's vote for independence has done little to change that perception. Most of those charged are expendable junior officers, not the generals some have accused of directing the operation. In fact, Megawati has signally failed to prosecute any senior military officers-not those behind the carnage in the East Timor...
...support ethnic nationalism in places like East Timor, but in Serbia that same emotion turned murderous. Religious fundamentalism is fine for, say, Mormons, but when it metastasizes into terrorism, it is noxious. Certainty is fine when the right people are certain, but things get dicey when, as Yeats wrote, "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity...