Summary
According to a committee of the Australian parliament, "at least 200,000" died under the occupation, a third of the population. Williamson's original script described the effect of the cover-up on the families of the murdered journalists, their anger and frustration at being denied information and their despair at Canberra's scandalous decision to have the journalists' ashes buried in Jakarta with Ambassador Woolcott, the arch-apologist, reading the oration.
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A Travesty of Omissions
On 30 August it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum and vote for their freedom and independence. A "scorched earth" campaign by the Indonesian dictatorship followed, adding to a toll of carnage that ...
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