--- Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33714 > > Australia - Peacekeeper or Petroleum Predator? > Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne > > SYDNEY, Jun 22 (IPS) - A two month old rebellion by > sacked army officials and police deserters in East > Timor, one of the world's newest and poorest > countries, has resulted in an Australian-led > "peacekeeping" force arrival in its capital Dili, > and a media-supported push for 'regime change'. > > Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, a Muslim leading a > predominantly Catholic country, is the leader of > the Fretilin Party which fought for independence > from Indonesia for over two decades, and which won a > landslide victory in the first legislative elections > in 2001. > > In Australian media reports, which in turn influence > regional and international reporting of the issue, > the crisis in East Timor is painted as an internal > power struggle where an "unpopular" Prime Minister > is opposed by a peoples' movement. The words "oil" > and "gas" are hardly mentioned in these reports, > even though this is at the heart of the Australian > intervention. > Mario adds: > Yeah, let's blame it all on "oil and gas". Never mind that the feckless UN is supposed to have had Timor Leste under control and, as usual, messed up another international situation - AGAIN. > The US should not have had to intervene in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Australia should not have had to intervene in Timor Leste. It should have been the UN taking the lead and organizing it's membership to make peace with the moral authority of the world behind it, using force if necessary. > When will the left-wing wake up and realize that the international community set up the UN to deal with such situations, but that the organization has become so corrupt under Kofi Annan that it achieves just the opposite. From Rwanda and Burundi to the west African countries, to the Sudan, to Yugoslavia, to the middle-east, to Timor Leste, the modern UN can be counted on to cause nothing but chaos. > Then, almost on cue, the left-wing media begins the blame game, and the finger is never pointed at where the blame really lies - at the UN. >
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