>From: "F J BERNAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >One year after the independence referendum: >Which way for East Timor? > >by Jean Duval, 1/9/00 > > >The author analyses the situation in East Timor one year after it >gained "independence". Far from solving the social and economic >problems the presence of the UN is simply proving to be a cover for >a >new form of colonialism, this time under the control of Australian >imperialism. As the article says: > >"...listen to the plight of the ordinary Timorese. Look at the class >abyss dividing East Timor. Food is too dear for them. The consumer >price-index has jumped by 200% from August to October 1999. There are >no jobs and almost no houses for them. 70% of all buildings and houses >have been destroyed by the Indonesian army and the militias. > >Thousands have been killed by the Jakarta sponsored paramilitaries. >120,000 are still languishing in camps in West Timor (Indonesian >territory). They are held as hostages by the militias who fled after >the arrival of the INTERFET (Australian led UN intervention in East >Timor) troops and cannot go back to their villages. The militias and >the Indonesian army also use those camps as recruiting and training >grounds. West Timor is also becoming the staging area for raids into >the East. Tens of thousands of other Timorese who have been kidnapped, >forced at gun point into ships, planes and dumped in other parts of >Indonesia are part of a new diaspora. > >Most of the Timorese in Dili, whose size has doubled since one year, >live in plastic shelters or in roofless ruins. The first houses to be >rebuilt have been for the UN staff and aid agencies. In the >residential areas where the former Indonesian military officers and >high ranking bureaucrats lived, their empty houses are guarded by UN >troops with the aim of keeping local people out of them. Those villas >are kept aside for the new rich. They could house thousands of >homeless Timorese. The lavish lifestyles of the new "foreign invaders" >cannot hide the fact that East Timor is one of the 10 poorest >countries of the world." > > > >- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- --- If you would like to be informed by email of new additions to the >In Defence of Marxism web site send us an email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe What's new" as the message > body. If you want to be removed from this list send a message to the >same address with "unsubscribe" as the body of the message. >- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >- --- > >Yours in solidarity, > > >Socialist Appeal's "In Defence of Marxism" web site >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.marxist.com >http://www.socialist.net >PO Box 2626 >London N1 7SQ >Britain > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
