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E. Timor violence bring it on the brink of civil war
Chinese return from East Timor
(Feb. 2008)
Suharto's criminal history began after a failed counter-coup allegedly carried out by members of Indonesia's Communist Party. With CIA assistance, Communist leaders, party members, their families and minorities were killed or taken and held without trial for years. Various religious and conservative nationalist groups participated in a slaughter so widespread in 1965, TIME Magazine reported that rivers and streams were literally clogged with corpses.
On Dec. 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor with U.S. approval and Australian encouragement. Within a year, 60,000 Timorese died so Communism would not spread from the small country. That many Timorese died during Japan's three-year occupation in World War II.
Human rights abuses in East Timor were common throughout Indonesia's 24-year occupation... Muslim Indonesia's illegal campaign to annex Christian East Timor with arms sales in violation of U.S. law. Before a United Nations peacekeeping force routed Indonesian forces to the border, the military and its civilian auxiliaries would wage a scorched-earth campaign that included the sexual subjugation of Timorese females.
The mainstream media was neither interested in covering Indonesia's abuses nor taking U.S. officials to task for their complicity while Suharto promoted himself as a bulwark against Communism. It was as if journalists could not rouse their curiosity without deliberate media campaigns from successive administrations to direct the networks' focus.
Today, stories of Indonesian Muslims protesting, burning churches and killing children are not hard to come by. The proliferation of technology and cellular phones capable of taking pictures and recording images partly explains why there is more content coming out of nation. But a second reason is the global war on terror meme. There has been no shortage of media campaigns touting the threat of global jihad in the last seven years and pundits and bloggers monitor the archipelago because of its status as the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation on cue.
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2008/02/06/Opinion/Mass-Murderer.Enjoyed.U.s.Backing-3191521.shtml
Professors laud East Timor leader
(Feb. 12 2008)
...Teague said that before the vote for independence, Muslims were in charge of the military and Christian citizens were afraid to vote because of it. ...
There are currently a sizable number of Muslim radicals supporting former officials. Retish, who has visited East Timor "four or five times,"
http://www.dailyiowan.com/home/news/2008/02/12/Metro/Professors.Laud.East.Timor.Leader-3203030.shtml