---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, FEBRUARY 15, 2000 E JAVA MILY COMAMMANDER: US MUST APOLOGIZE TO INDONESIA Madiun, E Java, Feb 14 (ANTARA)-Chief of the Brawijaya military district command in East Java Maj. Gen. Sudi Silalahi said the US government must offer an apology to Indonesia for its role in forming a world opinion that the National Defence Forces (TNI) would launch a coup against President Abdurrahman Wahid's government. "A US military attache came to my office some time ago to offer an apology. But that is not enough. It is the US government that must offer the apology," Silalahi said here on Monday. Silalahi said the attache's apology was meaningless as the world community would not know about it. "The US military attache may 17 times offer an apology to me in just one minute, but nobody will know about it," he said. He said US Ambassador to UN Richard Halbrooke had formed the world opinion that the TNI would attempt a coup. "I asked the military attache what was the indication, proof and sign of the TNI intending to launch a coup attempt, and it turn out that he could not show anything," he said. Silalahi quoted the US military attache as asying that Richard Halbrooke's statement was his personal opinion and not formal statement of the US government. But he rejected the argumentation. "No, he (Holbrooke) could not make the personal statement. He is the representative of the US nation," he argued. While President Wahid was making a 16-day overseas tour, rumours were rife that the TNI would launch a coup but they did not materialize. (SBYSAN/SBY04/NN01/22:56/IAJM-00:32/TB02) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 17 Feb 2000 jam 06:15:14 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
