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President Gerald Ford Dies at 93; Supported Indonesian Invasion of East Timor that Killed 1/3 of Population
12/27/6
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1638254
...gave a speech saying that never again should the United States allow another nation to strike in the middle of the night, to attack another defenseless nation. This was Pearl Harbor Day...Realizing full well that another day of infamy was unfolding in Dili, East Timor. As thousands of Indonesian paratroopers, trained by the United States, using US supplied weapons, indeed jumping from United States supplied airplanes, were descending upon the capital city of Dili and massacring literally thousands of people in the hours and days after December 7, 1975.
...the United States had been an accomplice in an international act of aggression... the United States played the crucial role in enabling the Indonesian invasion of East Timor....National Security Archive nsarchive.org...
...asked Ford whether he did in fact authorize the invasion of East Timor, he said, “Frankly, I don't recall.”...there were many topics on the agenda that day with Suharto. Timor was not very high on the agenda. ...couldn't remember whether he had authorized this invasion, which ended up killing 1/3 of the Timorese population...when, like the United States, you're a global power with regimes everywhere dependant on your weapons, you can start wars, authorize wars, take actions that result in mass deaths in a fairly casual way.
In this case, the US didn't have a great interest in East Timor. All the evidence suggests that they didn’t particularly care one way or the other whether Timor became independent. But as a favor to Suharto, who was close to Washington, who was their protégée, they decided to let him go ahead with the invasion. So, for just a marginal, fleeting gain – or, out of doing a favor for a buddy - they ended up causing a mass murder that proportionally was the most intensive killing since the Nazis, a third of the population killed...Kissinger and Ford that gave the go ahead for the invasion when they visited Suharto, the long-reigning dictator...
ALLAN NAIRN: : Well, Kissinger, and Ford, they, one of the points they made to Suharto, was that you have to try to get this invasion over with quickly...they wanted them to go in intensively, presumably kill as many Timorese as they could quickly. So that it wouldn't get international attention, and also, apparently they were worried that it could get attention in Congress. Because Ford and Kissinger knew that by authorizing this invasion, they were technically violating US law. Because the US weapons laws at the time stated US weapons given to foreign clients could not be used for purposes of aggression...about 90% of the Indonesian weapons were coming from the US and they needed spare parts, they needed ammunition, they needed a re-supply...So Kissinger, in his internal discussions within the state department, was pressing his people to make sure that all information about Timor be kept under wraps. They didn’t want the US Congress paying too much attention to it...
...anywhere from 400,000 to perhaps more than a million Indonesians were massacred as the Suharto regime gained power. And they did this, the military did this with US weaponry. And in fact, the US CIA station even gave a list of 5,000 names of people who they had identified as communists and potential opponents of the army, and they turned this list over to Suharto and his military intelligence people and many of those people were subsequently assassinated...
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The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X
excerpts
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922915822/realhistoryarchi
http://www.webcom.com/lpease/index.htm
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President Gerald Ford Dies at 93; Supported Indonesian Invasion of East Timor that Killed 1/3 of Population
12/27/6
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1638254
...gave a speech saying that never again should the United States allow another nation to strike in the middle of the night, to attack another defenseless nation. This was Pearl Harbor Day...Realizing full well that another day of infamy was unfolding in Dili, East Timor. As thousands of Indonesian paratroopers, trained by the United States, using US supplied weapons, indeed jumping from United States supplied airplanes, were descending upon the capital city of Dili and massacring literally thousands of people in the hours and days after December 7, 1975.
...the United States had been an accomplice in an international act of aggression... the United States played the crucial role in enabling the Indonesian invasion of East Timor....National Security Archive nsarchive.org...
...asked Ford whether he did in fact authorize the invasion of East Timor, he said, “Frankly, I don't recall.”...there were many topics on the agenda that day with Suharto. Timor was not very high on the agenda. ...couldn't remember whether he had authorized this invasion, which ended up killing 1/3 of the Timorese population...when, like the United States, you're a global power with regimes everywhere dependant on your weapons, you can start wars, authorize wars, take actions that result in mass deaths in a fairly casual way.
In this case, the US didn't have a great interest in East Timor. All the evidence suggests that they didn’t particularly care one way or the other whether Timor became independent. But as a favor to Suharto, who was close to Washington, who was their protégée, they decided to let him go ahead with the invasion. So, for just a marginal, fleeting gain – or, out of doing a favor for a buddy - they ended up causing a mass murder that proportionally was the most intensive killing since the Nazis, a third of the population killed...Kissinger and Ford that gave the go ahead for the invasion when they visited Suharto, the long-reigning dictator...
ALLAN NAIRN: : Well, Kissinger, and Ford, they, one of the points they made to Suharto, was that you have to try to get this invasion over with quickly...they wanted them to go in intensively, presumably kill as many Timorese as they could quickly. So that it wouldn't get international attention, and also, apparently they were worried that it could get attention in Congress. Because Ford and Kissinger knew that by authorizing this invasion, they were technically violating US law. Because the US weapons laws at the time stated US weapons given to foreign clients could not be used for purposes of aggression...about 90% of the Indonesian weapons were coming from the US and they needed spare parts, they needed ammunition, they needed a re-supply...So Kissinger, in his internal discussions within the state department, was pressing his people to make sure that all information about Timor be kept under wraps. They didn’t want the US Congress paying too much attention to it...
...anywhere from 400,000 to perhaps more than a million Indonesians were massacred as the Suharto regime gained power. And they did this, the military did this with US weaponry. And in fact, the US CIA station even gave a list of 5,000 names of people who they had identified as communists and potential opponents of the army, and they turned this list over to Suharto and his military intelligence people and many of those people were subsequently assassinated...
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http://monthlyreview.org/hungerandprofit.htm
...seek to understand the economic and social mechanisms that generate poverty, although the scientific and technological means to eradicate it are now available...
======
http://davidrovics.com
http://members.aol.com/drovics/links.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/01/default.cfm?BandID=111310
======
Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination
http://ctka.net/links.html
======
The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X
excerpts
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0922915822/realhistoryarchi
http://www.webcom.com/lpease/index.htm
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Los Angeles Organic Vegetable Express
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