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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (54911)9/9/1999 4:54:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Posted the last in haste, and aside from the typos there are some other points that need enlargement. When I wrote that the pro-Indonesian militias are "a major threat to the personal security of pro-independence leaders." I did not mean to dismiss the threat they pose to ordinary pro-Independence Timorese. I was thinking in the context of obstacles posed to the development of a normal political process. If a period of limited autonomy were accepted, it is unlikely that the kind of large-scale violence we are seeing now would occur. Life would, however, be very dangerous for the identified pro-independence leaders.

It should also be noted that Indonesia has a track record of political violence on a very large scale. If intervention were followed by a coup, as I fear, and if the military subsequently moved into East Timor on a large scale there could easily be a massacre on an African scale. It would be very difficult for any intervening power to halt this.

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