CANBERRA (Reuters) - 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 on Thursday. 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 saying.Multiculturalist take note. It makes a BIG difference which government is in charge. The world community is composed of not a few such repressive and murderous regimes.
We should cherish the government that we have in the U.S. and and do more to safeguard the liberties we enjoy, vastly diminished though they may be at this point.
It would be wiser of us if we presented more of a united front to the world instead of celebrating foreign cultures and languages and denigrating our own. None of us has done much to create or refine that culture, but it is no less ours. It will not easily be reconstituted if it is diluted too greatly.
Report says Indonesia killed 180,000 in E.Timor." Reuters, 1/19/06 (link omitted) <-- "The post-post colonial world." The Belmont Club, 1/19/06.
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