-Caveat Lector- Why East Timor is Not Kosovo, Nebojsa Malic, 10 September Almost six months ago, NATO went on a crusade against Yugoslavia and the Serbian people under the banner of defending people from mass murder, ethnic cleansing, aggression and human rights violations. Since then, much has been said, written and filmed to prove that the shining crusade was in fact a brazen act of aggression, motivated by political ambitions, ideology and hatred. There is no sense repeating these arguments. All it takes it to point out that when things Yugoslavia was wrongfully accused of do occur, in a faraway place where victims are not white, perpetrators are American allies, and NATO bases are conveniently far away, the crusading banner does not rise. The media do not scream bloody murder, and there is no cable TV for refugees. One US official said Thursday that "East Timor is not Kosovo." Technically, of course, he was right. Politically, too, he was right. Militarily, too, he was right. This statement, however it was meant to sound, is perhaps the single most accurate statement ever issued by the State Department. Because East Timor is nothing like Kosovo � though everything like Kosovo was made out to be in the western government-media fantasyland. In Kosovo, it was all about a gang of racist thugs wanting to secede, while funding that cause by drug trade. In East Timor, it is all about a people who want independence from a foreign occupation, and government thugs who are killing them in droves, while financing their operation through drug trade. In Kosovo, "KLA" terrorists engaged in mass murder while screaming to the world they were the real victims of terror. The world listened � even though it was not true � because it wanted to listen. In East Timor, the real victims of terror can scream as much as they want. There is no one who wants to hear them. Pictures from Kosovo were all of crying Albanian babies and stern, faceless Yugoslav soldiers. There are no cuddly pictures from East Timor. Asian babies, apparently, do not make good TV. Also, the stern, faceless Indonesian soldiers doing the killing are supposed to be the good guys. In Kosovo, the might of NATO came down on Yugoslavia because a legal government tried to crack down on terrorists. In East Timor, NATO is standing by and requesting the illegal government to crack down on terrorists � that is, itself. In Kosovo, NATO bombed an industrialized country whose people refused to be NATO vassals. In East Timor, there is nothing industrialized to bomb - and besides, all industry is already owned by American vassals. Kosovo had American-made poster boy "Snake" Thaci. East Timor has a Nobel Prize winner no one cares about. Kosovo was inhabited by 2 million people. East Timor was inhabited by about half that much. Through the miracle of Western mathematics, 2,000 dead in Kosovo is "genocide," while 40,000 in East Timor are "violence." In Kosovo, the US sold weapons to the separatists to use against the government. In East Timor, they sold the weapons to the government to use against the people. Fabricated news of mass rape was "especially traumatic" in Kosovo, because Albanians were Muslims and rape is a great shame in their religion. In East Timor, rape is all too real, but never mentioned. Its primary victims, it will turn out eventually, are the Catholic Timorese. Apparently, rape is more acceptable in Catholicism. Or so they tell us. Kosovo war was started to get the US attention away from the alleged Chinese theft of American nuclear secrets. Bill Clinton is not in such a bad shape now, so East Timor has to curse only its own bad timing. Kosovo war was good because NATO said so. East Timor war would be bad because NATO said so. NATO always tells the truth � and if it errs occasionally, it is unintentional and in good faith. Finally, in Kosovo, the war was fought to destroy Serbia and take out the last bastion of resistance to colonialism in the Balkans. No great strategic purpose will be served by aiding the East Timorese; their tormentor, Indonesia, is one of the staunchest bastions of US power in the region. As anyone with eyes, ears and a brain can see, East Timor is definitely not Kosovo. If anything, it is more like Kurdistan, which has suffered for decades. But somehow, the impression is that the State Department did not mean all of this when they said so. Copyright �1999 Nebojsa Malic DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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