Re: AUT: WSW article on East Timor/Indonesia

[suaram <suaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dear angela, it's a fair enough critique but by the time we finish with our
frowning, fretting and posturing, there won't be anyone left in east timor.
so what do we do?
elizabeth

At 06:58 PM 9/8/99 +1000, you wrote:
>[some notes: megawati's ascension in indonesia may well be conditional
>upon accepting general wiranto as deputy (as reports so far of a deal
>between megawati and the military indicate); those eligible to vote in
>the referendum were those registered with the UN to do so (there are no
>estimates of how this tallies with population numbers as whole, ie., how
>many out of the total population voted, and i am unclear about the final
>conditions on who could and could not vote from the population; the
>militia are not (as the article below assumes) running amok, but are
>systematically organised and deployed (and not simply sponsored) by the
>military, as the documents found by the UN make clear; and lastly, but
>by no means least, the student left in jakarta has been battling police,
>more resolutely perhaps than the east timorese have either/both been
>able to or allowed to by the falantil leadership in recent weeks.  this
>has much to do with the sheer fire-power of the indonesian army and
>police presence, but just as much to do with the changes that have
>occured in the last year within fretilin/falantil and in particular the
>exiled east timorese communities: the old factions of east timor
>(appodeti, the pro-integration faction; fretilin, etc) went through a
>realignment and joined into one umbrella group (falantil) which now
>includes more than the social democratic fretilin of the 1970s/80s.
>this also explains why all falantil can seem to do now is call for
>australian/UN intervention, and why this strategy is exclusive of any
>other, including one in which the east timorese themselves are granted
>the ability to defend themselves.]
>
>Angela
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>
>World Socialist Web Site http://www.wsws.org
>After vote for secession
>
>Western powers accelerate plans for military intervention in Timor



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