---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, September 26, 1999 Reactions: Aussie Soldiers' Brutality Elicits Strong Reactions Jakarta, sept 25 (ANTARA)- Reports that Australian soldiers in the International Force in East Timor (Interfet) have committed atrocities on pro-integration East Timorese are eliciting strong reactions from Indonesian intellectual circles. Eddy Nur SH MH, a lawyer, said the reports remind the Indonesian public of the uncivilized acts of Australians in the past and the fact that most of them are descendants of British convicts. Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the Commission on Human rights, said the Australia-led Interfet should be open in attitude by taking into account the human rights and security of East Timorese people. Australian troops should discard the "paranoid" attitude they had shown since their arrival in the troubled territory, he said. Uncivilized Addy Nur said torching a man to death in a public place was clearly an act that could only be perpetrated by members of an umcivilized society. By this misdeed, the Australian soldiers had shown themselves to be more brutal and sadistic than the communist Vietcong during the Vietnam war, he said. "Looking back at the history of the Vietcong guerilla war, we can say the Australian troops have proven to be more cruel, sadistic and uncivilized than communists," Nur said. Vietcong soldiers were brutal and inhuman but they never burned their prisoners to death, according to NUr. He suggested the brutality shown by the Australian troops was probably a trait they inherited from their ancestors, most of whom were British convicts. Nur said the Australian soldiers who had committed the human rights violations in East Timor should be arrested and answer for their crimes in an international court of justice. (T/PTU-03/RSI-03/20:45/INT-AJM-23:30/RSI-03/TB06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 30 Sep 1999 jam 09:15:52 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
