Bill GreenRUDD DENIES A HERO AND A COUNTRY
August 26th 2008 06:46
Rudd has rejected Xanana Gusmao's request to hire East Timorese workers in Australia. Gusmao happens to be a hero who fought the Indonesian invasion of his country for over twenty years. During that time he didn't do what usually happens; rebels turn to communist country for training and arms. He was captured though and was held in jail for years, a regular Mandela, except Gusmao took on the might of the Indonesia military.
Australia on the other hand slavered over the oil in the Timor Sea and so supported the Indonesian invasion while close to 250,000 East Timorese were slaughtered. For a time it was the only country on the planet that had a falling population (from murder).
The UN were against the invasion, as were the rest of the world, although America backed it for a while. The invasion was held up for a day while an American president (Ford was accompanied by Kissinger) flew out of Indonesia's air space.
WE OWED EAST TIMOR FOR THE HELP THEY GAVE OUR SOLDIERS AGAINST THE JAPANESE but that poignant reminder of our inhumanity was forgotten. So, from Gough through to Howard there were no complaints to Indonesia, until it was understood that East Timor would stand up against Indonesia forever. Then we gave the Indonesian military our "invasion" date and they murdered dissidents and destroyed the country's infrastructure.
Gee, Rudd says we're building them an embassy in Canberra for under a million, isn't that an equaliser?
Australia on the other hand slavered over the oil in the Timor Sea and so supported the Indonesian invasion while close to 250,000 East Timorese were slaughtered. For a time it was the only country on the planet that had a falling population (from murder).
The UN were against the invasion, as were the rest of the world, although America backed it for a while. The invasion was held up for a day while an American president (Ford was accompanied by Kissinger) flew out of Indonesia's air space.
WE OWED EAST TIMOR FOR THE HELP THEY GAVE OUR SOLDIERS AGAINST THE JAPANESE but that poignant reminder of our inhumanity was forgotten. So, from Gough through to Howard there were no complaints to Indonesia, until it was understood that East Timor would stand up against Indonesia forever. Then we gave the Indonesian military our "invasion" date and they murdered dissidents and destroyed the country's infrastructure.
Gee, Rudd says we're building them an embassy in Canberra for under a million, isn't that an equaliser?
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Anyway, I remember he told the Indonesians not to worry about Australia, before they invaded, but this was the secondinvasion given the secret approval by Kissenger and the US gov, that being the invasion and usurption of West Papua, now called Irian Jaya.
They murdered an estimated 250,000 or more people there too, the UN, Australia and of course the USA said nothing, but then the USA had secret mineral exploration and mining agreements with Indonesia, (so secret my Dad, who was a bigwig exploration geologist, knew nothing of them, until an Aussie anthropologist exposed it in a doco).
Together the Yanks and the Indons mined the world's biggest and most secret copper mine for many years, while the Indon army 'cleared the way' for more mining and exploration of other deposits!
It is without doubt the most disgraceful period of Australian international relations history,a nd continues to this day.
By knowing and doing nohing about genocide, you condone it. By joining the oppressor, even if it is just economically and diplomatically, you drag your nation into the same genocidal pit!
May West Papua regain its soverignity and may Papua do the same! What will Australia do when Indon decides to invade New Guinea I wonder?
cheers
fog