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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...
Security forces have killed thousands of independence fighters in East Timor since 1976, when Indonesia annexed the former Portuguese territory, but there was no significant outcry from world opinion. This time it may be different...
...attempted coup, 500,000 or more actual or suspected Communists, most of them of Chinese descent, were killed, and an additional 1.5 million Communist sympathizers were jailed or interned on remote islands. In the mid- 1970s, Suharto's regime invaded and ultimately annexed the former Portuguese colony of East Timor; the struggle led to the death of 100,000 Timorese...
...DAILY PAPERS afford little reminder that South Africa is a continuing moral issue. For Namibia or East Timor or any of the more questionable applications of U.S. foreign policy, the awareness of apartheid flickers and fades on the horizon of issues that concern the U.S. citizen. Grenada invasions, dying Marines in Lebanon and suspended nuclear proliferation negotiations are visible and significant issues that easily come to the forefront, while the so-called South Africa question is all but gone...
...question of East Timor can no longer be simply ignored. The human suffering has been too great. International law needs to be restored. The U.S. should finally face up to its duty and correct for its past mistakes. It is an illusion to believe that the issue will fade if we only let time pass by. The principle which has upheld during the Malvinas Falklands war should be applied un-equivocally in the case of East Timor: no nation has the right to armed aggression. And as Tsongas has pointed out: the issue of East Timor is separate from...