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Date: 9 Sep 1999 14:58:04 -0000
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Subject: East Timor Bloodbath: Is the US responsible?
As the bloodbath continues in East Timor, troubling questions are being
raised. Has the United States aided the Indonesian army's preparation for
the current slaughter? In contrast to Kosovo, why is the Clinton/Gore
administration so passive over Timor? Why does the United States continue
to train, share intelligence with and pay for the Indonesian military?
Common Dreams' NewsCenter - www.commondreams.org - is providing
continuing up-to-the-minute coverage as the East Timor crisis deepens.
Today's features include:
**Award-winning journalist Allan Nairn reporting from Dili, East Timor
spoke to Democracy Now! and The Nation:
US Complicity in Timor
**1996 Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta:
Only Intervention Can Stop the Violence
**Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post explores the Clinton
administration's economic policies toward Asia:
The People Of East Timor Now Pay The Price, In Blood
**John Nichols, editorial editor of the Madison Capital Times, writes:
U.S. Responsible For What Ails East Timor
**Amnesty International USA:
Indonesian Military Complicit in Militia Attacks in East Timor
and much more...
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Breaking news and views for progressive-thinking Americans
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What you can do today:
from the East Timor Action Network - www.etan.org
East Timor Action Network/U.S. EMERGENCY ALERT
SEVERE VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN EAST TIMOR AS MOST FOREIGN REPORTERS EVACUATE
MAKE 3 CALLS . . . AND DEMONSTRATE!
Less than 24 hours after the UN announced that more than 78% of registered
voters in East Timor voted to reject Indonesia's autonomy package,
Indonesian military and paramilitary forces sharply escalated their
campaign of terror. Remaining International Federation for East Timor
observers report widespread shooting by both paramilitary forces and TNI
(Indonesian military forces), including the Kopassus Special Forces, known
for its atrocious human rights abuses. The Becora neighborhood of Dili has
been particularly targeted, with 77 bodies reported scattered throughout
the streets. Many children are among the dead. Paramilitary forces roam
the streets of Dili unimpeded, while joint militia/army roadblocks block
entrance to and exit from the capitol. The paramilitaries and TNI are
systematically targeting buildings which house refugees.
With the evacuation of UN staff and media from outlying towns, foreign
observers are unable to confirm the extent of violence outside Dili, but
it is believed to be severe. But, we do know that hundreds of houses have
been burned and dozens killed in Maliana alone. Thousands more East
Timorese are now refugees. The presence of foreign media is critical to
report this horror to the world's governments. They must be encouraged to
stay.
Time has run out! TNI must withdraw immediately from East Timor.
The paramilitaries must be immediately disbanded. The U.S. must offer full
support for increased UN personnel and an expanded UN mission mandate. The
UN must be granted control of administration and security in East Timor.
The U.S. should cut off all military and financial assistance immediately!
+ CALL your senators and representative. Urge them to call Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright (tel: 202-647-5291, fax: 202-647-6434), President
Clinton (Fax: 202-456-2461, president@whitehouse.gov), and Secretary of
Defense William Cohen (703-695-5261, Fax: 703-697-9080,
dpcintrn@osd.pentagon.mil) directly. The Congressional switchboard number
is 202-224-3121 or check www.congress.gov for contact information on
individual offices.
+ CALL Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth at 202-647-9596. Don't
let the staff transfer you to the Indonesia desk. You want this message to
reach Roth himself. The Indonesia desk officers are already doing what
they can.
+ CALL the press. Thank them for their coverage of East Timor so far, but
explain your concern about journalists pulling out of East Timor. Without
international reporting, we can expect even worse atrocities against East
Timorese from the uncontrolled paramilitaries. Also refer them to ETAN and
the International Federation for East Timor (IFET) for interviews with
recent and current observers on the island.
Reuters at 800-537-6865
Associated Press at 202-776-9400
Agence France Press (AFP) at 202-466-7890, 202-289-0700
Interpress (IPS) at 202-662-7160
CNN at 404-827-1500 BBC at 202-223-2050, 202-223-0110
New York Times at 212-556-1234
Washington Post at 202-334-7400
For more information, contact Karen at the New York ETAN office at
914-428-7299 or salama74@aol.com, or Brad Simpson at IFET at 773-255-7949.
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