The UN-endorsed Australian military intervention in East Timor occurred after the referendum in which the people of East Timor voted for independence. The purpose of the intervention was to suppress the attempt of pro-Indonesia militias - backed by the occupying Indonesian army - to overturn the referendum result.
The question I was dealing with in my previous message was why the Indonesian government agreed to allow the holding of an internationally supervised referendum in the first place. I linked this to the rise of the democracy movement in Indonesia. Of course , a section of the Indonesian ruling class did not agree with the decision to hold the referendum, and instigated a violent response to the result. Michael Karadjis rightly points out that the Democratic Socialist Party joined the mass demonstrations in Australia calling for troops to sent to East Timor to defend the referendum result. Chris Slee -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30883): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30883 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106818185/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
