I Love Indonesia

Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford voted to increase sales of arms in the late seventies.
Then the worst massacre happened there since the Holocaust, in terms of murders per population (source: Senator D.P. Moynihan)

AND
the worst the atrocities
the LESS the news coverage.

BUT
by the eighties, there was a little more coverage
with NO MENTION of the American part in the slaughter.

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Noam Chomsky talks about this stuff. Around 1:30 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDRXPGw7lRs

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Dan509 · 26-30, M

I'm going there for two years starting in October. Chomsky is got got me interested in East Timor in the first place

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Dan509 · 26-30, M

@Platoscave Peace Corps

Platoscave · F

@Dan509 you can also look up the story of news reporters Amy Goodman and Alan Nairn who were trying to report on things smack in the middle of a massacre and both were almost killed. But they got the story out and both survived.

Dan509 · 26-30, M

@Platoscave yeah that's a great one too. I've heard her reporting on it

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