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Lucio Benedetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Ethnically-plural states?" Since when has East Timor been part of a
>so-called Indonesian plurality (any more than the Albanians were part of a
>so-called Yugoslavian plurality, or Tibet part of a Chinese plurality, and
>we could go on)?
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Hold on! I didn't mean to imply that East Timor was ever part of an Indonesian
*majority*. But Indonesia is, for better or for worse, composed of a large
number of ethnic groups. Thanks to the IMF, each of those ethnic groups is
caught in a double-bind: they can opt for political independence, and put
themselves in the hands of international capital; or they can resist the
world's new colonial masters and remain subordinate to Djakarta. Neither
option is an appealing one. What I am suggesting is that the legitimate
national aspirations of the East Timorese--which were repressed by the
Indonesians, with the connivance of the U.S., in 1975--have been used as a
pretext by the IMF to break up a large, ethnically-complex country (please
note, I don't call it a nation as such) which happens to sit on top of massive
natural resources, among them petrochemicals.
I don't have a ready solution to the problem posed by East Timor. The rape of
East Timor *is* as bad as what the Khmer Rouge did to Cambodia--you're
absolutely right about that; I'd also compare it to the Rape of Nanjing by the
Japanese Army in 1937. Condoning that obscenity is out of the question. But
the alternative seems to be to create another microstate, whose existence will
depend on the largesse of international corporations and which will exist as
the client of some larger, wealthier state. There *has* to be a better way to
accept and encourage the national dreams of the Timorese than what we see
before us now.
I am horrified by what I see happening. What worries me even more is that the
terror being inflicted on East Timor appears to have been carefully set up--by
whom, for what purposes, I can't say; but I believe that the hidden hand
belongs to the IMF and its masters. In short, 2 + 2 = 4. Q.E.D. (I think)...
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