Friday, January 12, 2007
Patterns of Conquest
Australian TV's Dateline reports on Indonesian Government's resettlement program and military preparations in advance of anticipated ethnic cleansing in colony of West Papua. Much like the Indonesian military's slaughter of East Timorese, the state-sanctioned genocide against West Papuans incorporates an active and well-armed paramilitary to perform preliminary atrocities to which the army can then claim to be responding.
And similar to large scale murder of civilians in other Indonesian colonies over the last forty-four years, American gold and oil extraction corporations are intimately involved in seeing that US weapons are not withheld from Indonesia by the US Congress nor condemned by the United Nations.
For more background on West Papua and US/Indonesian involvement there, see the West Papua information kit.
And similar to large scale murder of civilians in other Indonesian colonies over the last forty-four years, American gold and oil extraction corporations are intimately involved in seeing that US weapons are not withheld from Indonesia by the US Congress nor condemned by the United Nations.
For more background on West Papua and US/Indonesian involvement there, see the West Papua information kit.
