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<h1>Death of a Nation: the Timor
Conspiracy</h1>
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November 15, in Cambridge [<a
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On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly –
but with the complicity of the US and
other western powers - invaded the small
nation of East Timor. Two Australian
television crews trying to document the
invasion were murdered. <br>
<br>
In 1993, with the Indonesian army still
occupying the country, John Pilger and his
crew including director David Munro,
slipped into East Timor and made this
film. In the intervening 18 years, an
estimated 200,000 East Timorese – 1/3 of
the population – had been slaughtered by
the US-backed Indonesian military, using
US and British planes to bombard the
island, while Western defense ministers
proclaimed ignorance. John Pilger tapes an
Australian diplomat admitting that East
Timor was considered “expendable.” <b>Even
the C.I.A. described it as one of the
worst mass-murders of the 20th century.</b><br>
<br>
Pilger tells the story using clandestine
footage of the countryside, internment
camps and even Fretlin guerillas, as well
as interviews with Timorese exiles,
including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose
Gusmao, and Australian, British, and
Indonesian diplomats.<br>
<br>
<img alt=""
src="cid:part4.06050104.06050907@mynas.com"
align="left" border="1" height="261"
hspace="10" width="291">In 2012, Barack
Obama renewed arms sales to Indonesia; in
2010 he reversed a 12-year-old ban on
training an elite unit of the Indonesian
military -- the murderous Kopassus. "<i>For
years, the US military provided training
& other assistance to Kopassus; when
the US was most involved, Kopassus
crimes were at their worst.</i>" ~ John
M. Miller, ETAN<br>
<br>
"<i>Not even Pol Pot </i>[supported by
the US] <i>succeeded in killing,
proportionally, as many Cambodians as
the Indonesian dictator Suharto killed
or starved in East Timor.</i> <i>...
Unlike Muammar al-Gaddafi and Saddam
Hussein, Suharto died peacefully in 2008
surrounded by the best medical help his
billions could buy</i>." ~John Pilger,
filmmaker and journalist<br>
<br>
"<i>Peace must be secured by the creation
of small wars around the planet on a
continuing basis so as to maintain an
international order of economic power,
and of course, keep the [US] military
industrialists happy.</i>" ~Henry
Kissinger, war criminal<br>
<i><br>
</i><big><i><b>Extra: Massacre: the Story
of East Timor [10 min]</b></i></big><br>
<img alt=""
src="cid:part5.08030304.08080706@mynas.com"
align="right" height="192" hspace="10"
width="131">The Dili Santa Cruz massacre
of November 12, 1991, unlike many others
that occurred during the course of
Indonesia's U.S.-backed occupation, was
filmed and photographed by international
journalists - this footage by survivors <b>Amy
Goodman</b> and <b>Allan Nairn</b>. <br>
<br>
"<i>First, the 'free press' suppresses
vital information in the service of the
state; then, no discussion of this
suppression can take place because [the
blackout] has been so effective that no
one has heard of the topic.</i>" ~Noam
Chomsky, on his Catch-22 with Columbia
Journalism Review; they wouldn't publish
his Timor piece because <i><b>"virtually
no one had heard of Timor.</b></i>"<font
color="#ff0000"> <b>!</b><b>!</b></font><br>
<br>
“<i>Virtually, there are no civil rights
in East Timor. The Indonesians tell the
farmers to whom they must sell their
coffee and at what price. No one can
leave their villages or the place of
their residence without permission.
Telephone calls or telegrams out of
Timor are forbidden."</i> ~ Rod
Nordland, American journalist, 1982<br>
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