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To: Dayuhan who wrote (9296)	9/12/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Ron Bower	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

Steve, What sort of military leadership does Indonesia have? Is there the chance that the military would try to take over the government? Wouldn't this be the biggest obstacle to constructive change? TIA, Ron

To: Dayuhan who wrote (9296)	9/12/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Hello Steven. All very good points you make and thanks. I think, however, world opinion is solidifying around the following ideas: (A): ... Indonesia was an aggresor when it marched into East Timor: (B): ... the Indonesian Army (with teh help of American "counter insurgency training") has used the East Timorese as target practice for the last two decades. It has created in the process a genocide on a relative scale of population size as large as that of "Anka" in Cambodia. Depressing. Deplorable. Awful in the sense for us that yet again we knew what was happening and sat wringing our hands and count PAC money. (C): ... the East Timorese people have voted for "independence" from a country that illegally occupied their land in the first place: (D): .... yes, the "invasion" of East Timor by UN forces will be accomplished to right these various wrongs. The result of this is ....that it will come out exactly the scale, scope and details of the military "rule", or rather the terror the military has fostered in East Timor for the last 20 years. By extension these various crimes will reflect little credit on the government in the capital, and the backers of that government (the US). This will bolster centrifugal political forces already in motion towards "Balkinization" of Indonesia. It follows that the military are in for a very rough time in Indonesia. ...it remains at that, however, for the governemnt of Indonesia not impossible to stuff the genie back into the bottle...perhaps one last time. But they really are hacks and thieves aren't they? Can you honestly even like these bureacrats and soldiers? They all just glisten with corruption. Best to you and hoping you are well and thriving, Clark