Are the Olympics financing murder and rape?

East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has seized upon the crisis sparked by the February 11 wounding of President Jose Ramos-Horta and killing of former major Alfredo Reinado to enforce a number of repressive measures aimed at consolidating his unstable government. A spokesperson for Gusmao’s government announced on Monday that the “state of siege” — which involves a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and a ban on demonstrations and unauthorised meetings — has been extended to March 23. More than 200 people have already been arrested, mostly for violating the curfew, although opposition parliamentarians and journalists have also been targeted.

By Peter Symonds | World Socialist Web Site

The death of former Indonesian dictator Suharto on Sunday at the age of 86 has elicited a stream of tributes from world leaders and in the international press. There is something both disturbing and ominous about praise for a man who was responsible for the murder of at least half a million people in the 1965 coup that brought him to power and the deaths of another 200,000 following the 1975 Indonesian annexation of East Timor.

...[C]ritics contend that Washington's enthusiasm for its Indonesian military "partners" has been at the expense of any accountability for military atrocities. On April 26, the U.S.-based East Timor and Indonesia Human Rights Network (ETAN) condemned the participation of Indonesian Major General Noer Muis in a joint U.S.-Indonesia military exercise. ETAN pointed out that General Muis has been indicted for crimes against humanity in East Timor.

Everyone’s favourite and forgotten national liberation struggle of the 90’s-East Timor-is about to introduce mandatory military conscription on the decimated island.

The patriotic Australia media, that has unquestionably fallen into line over every part of (Prime Minister) John Howard's Pacific agenda...is now trumpeting the ousting of (East Timor Prime Minister Mari) Alkatiri, a man who has gamely defied Australia's claims over it's oil and gas, many of the paper's foreign editors clearly more in tune with the exhortations of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade than the sentiments among Timorese.

The Irish Times - Jan 20, 2006

EAST TIMOR: Indonesia killed up to 180,000 East Timorese through massacres, torture and starvation during its 24-year occupation, a report to be handed to the United Nations has found, an Australian daily said yesterday.

Napalm and chemical weapons were used to poison food and water and some victims were burned or buried while still alive, and others sexually mutilated, the Australian newspaper quoted the report as saying.

On September 1, 1965, the US State Department prepared a Special National Intelligence Estimate for Indonesia. Written by the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organisations of the Departments of State and Defence and the National Security Agency, it assessed the prospects for, and strategic implications of, a communist takeover in Indonesia....It assessed that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) was "by far the best organised and most dynamic entity in Indonesia". Only a few months later, the PKI would cease to exist. Its destruction, according to former US ambassador Marshall Green, "was a momentous event in world affairs, and I don't think that the press and the public has ever seen it that way"....This article will discuss aspects of that event.