The US backed the invasion of East Timor

[cheeni]

Nothing surprising here, move along... (via MeFi)

Newly declassified US documents show that the US government knew well in advance about the invasion plans of Indonesia into East Timor. Once in East Timor, Indonesian forces committed a mass genocide of the local population - anywhere from 100,000 to 250,000 people, which was only 600,000 to begin with according to Wikipedia. As the first link shows, The US government actively suppressed news stories from getting out about the genocide. This isn't exactly news to Those who followed the invasion, But most people are unaware of the US government's support, perhaps the number of Newspapers covering the story according to GoogleNews can go some way to explain why many are unaware of this fact.

Also see, E. Timor timeline (via BBC)

Comments

[thaths.livejournal.com]

Prosecute Kissinger in the International Criminal Court, I say.

Mark my words. 30 years from now revelations will come out that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld gang were dong equally evil stuff. And they will go scot free too.

[nakulshenoy.livejournal.com]

30 years? Tomes have already been written on this gang's misdemenours... by some of the most respected journalists of our time.

And they are still going scot free, ain't they?

Nakul

[nakulshenoy.livejournal.com]

Will somebody start taking Chomsky a little more seriously now?

Nakul