In 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor. Like Saddam’s attack on Kuwait, the occupation was declared by the UN to be illegal. But no action ever followed. In the last 18 years a third of the East Timorese population has been killed, while Western governments have remained silent, or, like Britain, have sold arms worth hundreds of millions to Indonesia…
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A Worse Slaughter
Blair makes much of ‘humanitarian values’ but sells arms to Indonesia which are used against East Timor.
A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor
Last month Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a “trade and cultural promotion” with Indonesia. Surrounded by businessmen and representatives of the arts, Keating made an extraordinary speech that was praised in the Australian press for its “maturity”.
Vietnam Now
John Pilger reported the Vietnam War for a decade, right up until the last day. Twenty years on he returns to find a country facing a new battle. This time there are no bombs and there is no napalm. But already the civilian casualties are mounting again.
East Timor: the coup the world missed
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the latest phase of East Timor’s struggle for independence, which, in the 1990s, he went undercover to report. One of the world’s newest and poorest states now faces the overweening power of its vast neighour, Australia. Once again, the prize is oil and gas.
Cover-up: a film’s travesty of omissions
John Pilger recalls his undercover reporting from East Timor and reveals that a major new movie, Balibo, perpetuates the cover-up of the role played western governments in the genocial invasion of East Timor by Indonesia and the Australian government’s part in the murder of its own journalists.
The press is obsessed with petty vendettas while British ministers continue to support a silent holocaust
There was a great deal of publicity and empathy last week for the four tourists, two of them Britons, murdered in Yemen. There has been nothing for the 68 Iraqi civilians murdered by the American and British governments shortly before Christmas.
Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us
The Foreign Office repeatedly hides the truth from the public: on Cambodia, on East Timor, on arms sales and now on sanctions.
In the Gulf war, every last nail was accounted for, but the Iraqi dead went untallied. At last their story is being told
The great American reporter Seymour Hersh is at war with the American military over his j’accuse in the New Yorker that a much-lauded general, now a member of President Clinton’s cabinet, ordered his troops to fire on retreating Iraqis on the eve of the Gulf war ceasefire in 1991.
Behind America’s facade
The destruction caused by Katrina has enabled us to glimpse realities that are usually carefully hidden away. And what we discover is that New Orleans and Baghdad are not so far apart.
