Bill GreenGough Whitlam supported Indonesia's invasion of East Timor
July 11th 2008 07:01
Gough Whitlam supported Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. Over 200,000 were murdered in the aftermath and successive Australian Governments kept quiet because we thought we would be divvying up the oil in the Timor Sea with Indonesia and America. Good old Gareth Evans actually signed a deal with the Indonesian trade minister.
No one did a damn thing to stop the murders despite the rebels not wishing to tie themselves up with the communists (Cuba) on arms deals.
Now The Age carries the prominent story of how it was the Indonesian Military (trained by Australia) and their mercenaries who committed the murders before we went in to save them 25 years after the invasion. However our saving force was held back while the Indonesians and their hired killers destroyed all the country's infrastructure and murdered thousands of dissidents. It was our great foreign minister of the time who held the force back.
As my fictionalised (and satiric) novel, Cleaning Up revealed, in 1993, America, Australia and Indonesia plan to destroy East Timor under the guise of saving it. That is still the agenda. Feel pity for East Timor's leaders who have to pay the game of real politic under that pressure that is growing again as the oil price rises..
No one did a damn thing to stop the murders despite the rebels not wishing to tie themselves up with the communists (Cuba) on arms deals.
Now The Age carries the prominent story of how it was the Indonesian Military (trained by Australia) and their mercenaries who committed the murders before we went in to save them 25 years after the invasion. However our saving force was held back while the Indonesians and their hired killers destroyed all the country's infrastructure and murdered thousands of dissidents. It was our great foreign minister of the time who held the force back.
As my fictionalised (and satiric) novel, Cleaning Up revealed, in 1993, America, Australia and Indonesia plan to destroy East Timor under the guise of saving it. That is still the agenda. Feel pity for East Timor's leaders who have to pay the game of real politic under that pressure that is growing again as the oil price rises..
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I think it was a case of governments losing nerves one after the other until the Indonesian Army departed.
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