[Marxism] Re: Timor

[clintonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

TO'L: "... the terror had largely run its course before Australian troops 
landed in Darwin nearly four weeks later."

CF: I assume the bit about Darwin is a typo - they were in Darwin (and 
Townsville, etc) but landed in Dili. But troops landed on 20 September 1999. So 
are you saying that the terror had stopped on 23 August 1999?

TO'L: "After the referendum, the TNI abandoned its delusion that it could 
maintain control of East Timor. Instead it decided on a scorched earth 
withdrawal..."

CF: Once again, where is the evidence that Indonesia was going to withdraw?

<http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w24/msg00259.htm>

TO'L: "As we shall see below, Howard had been preparing a military response for 
months..."

CF: <http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w33/msg00390.htm>




(ii) "At least the troops prevented a continuing reign of terror."

After the referendum, the TNI abandoned its delusion that it could maintain 
control of East Timor. Instead it decided on a scorched earth withdrawal to 
punish the local population


> clintonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> P. Ferguson: Another Australian friend of mine, Tom O'Lincoln, has shown
> very clearly
> how the Australian intervention in 1999 came *after* the threat of
> massacres by the Indonesian forces was over and was part of broader
> Australian imperialist policy (check out Tom's excellent articles on
> East Timor at Red Sites).
>
>
> CF: Really? So where is the evidence that Indonesia was going to
> withdraw?
>
> <http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w24/msg00259.htm>

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