Mas Anjas,
Untuk sekedar perbandingan, saya sampaikan laporan teman di Australia mengenai
"kehebatan" tentara Australia yg anda anggap jagoan itu.
Salam
Mahendra
Mamat wrote:
Kang Yuyun dan Mat Ajat... tadi (23.09.99)sempat liat warta berita ABC jam
19.00 nggak...? Wah ada adegan yang lucu banget tuh.., sampe anak-anak bule
di asramapun, yang sama-sama nonton di ruang TV, ketawa kenceng....
Pasalnya... ada adegan kota Dili yang yang tenang dan damai... Lantas
terdengar dor-dor-dor... tembakan beruntun. Terus orang-orang berlarian,
pasukan Aussie panik berat, ribut teriak sana-sini... setiap orang lewat
lantas ditodong senjata disuruh tiarap... yang lucu lagi sampe ada tentara
bule yang larinya kenceng banget... hampir jatuh karena kesandung-sandung...
Persis adegan Perang Vietnam saat serbuan Tahun Baru Tet itu...
Eh, usut punya usut... nggak taunya cuman ada sekelompok milisi naik truk
diluar kota, terus pada main-main nembak-nembak keudara (ini keterangan dari
reporter ABC di Dilli). Dasar milisi mabuk, bikin panik seluruh batalyon
Aussie.... hihihihihi...
Katanya profesional, kok gituan aja....
Mamat
Jeffrey Anjasmara wrote:
> Rupanya milisi pro-integrasi hanya berani bila tidak
> ada lawan. Seorang wartawan Irlandiapun mengemukakan
> hal senada. Sementara itu pasukan unyil TNI semakin
> kelihatan bertambah unyil. ABCNews menyinggung pasukan
> unyil yang melongo melihat pasukan raseksa Aussie yang
> tinggi besar dengan pakaian tebalnya, sehingga makin
> mengesankan keperkasaannya.
>
> Di bawah ini artikel dari Sidney Morning Herald, yang
> menyebutkan pasukan TNI sbb:
>
> "...They ran across the dusty tarmac, securing the
> perimeter. But waiting and watching were a few dozen
> Indonesian soldiers, representatives of a humiliated,
> embittered and culsively violent force that is leaving
> East Timor in disgrace.
>
> Saya jadi ingat dengan acara dalam 'Animal Planet' yaitu
> tentang sekelompok anjing liar (wild dog) di Masai Mara,
> Afrika. Mereka kelihatan perkasa dan mengandalkan jumlah
> untuk memburu zebra, wildebeast, ataupun kerbau liar.
> Hal ini hanya terjadi bila tidak ada Singa atau kucing
> besar lainnya di sekitarnya. Sering sekali mangsa yang
> diperoleh dengan susah payah harus ditinggalkan saja
> bila seekor singa mendekat. Gambaran ini rasanya pas
> dengan wajah TNI masa kini.
>
> Pada akhirnya, pasukan TNI makin kehilangan muka.
> Rasanya mereka sudah harus mulai latihan senam pagi lagi.
> Terlama banyak dan terlalu lama mereka duduk-duduk minum
> kopi di belakang meja birokrasi, shg membuat personil TNI yang
> seharusnya kekar menjadi berperut buncit karena kurang
> olah raga. Sungguh tidak mempunyai kebanggaan diri dan
> tidak membanggakan rakyat Indonesia.
>
> Pidato Wiranto tentang Lapangan Ikada tak lebih dari
> romantisme sejarah yang dibesar-besarkan. Tekadnya untuk
> mempertahankan tanah air serasa terlalu dibesar-besarkan.
> Tidak ada real power di dalam tubuh TNI. Yang ada hanya
> real loser. Sudah sepantasnya bila mereka minggir teratur
> dan memberikan jalan bagi pemimpin sipil untuk tampil.
> Sejarah membuktikan pimpinan militer tidak bisa membangun
> militer yg disegani. Yang dapat melakukannya justru
> pimpinan sipil seperti jaman Sukarno.
>
> Demikian layar pertunjukan secara pelan ditutup, sejalan
> dengan selesainya serial cerita 'TNI gugur'.
>
> +anjas
> ------------------------
> Bullies melt away after soldiers hit the
> streets
>
> By LINDSAY MURDOCH, Herald Correspondent in
> Dili
>
> The thugs of Dili's streets disappeared quickly. When the
> first Australian soldiers arrived in full combat dress, their
> rifles at the ready, the militiamen pretended they were the
> very refugees they had terrorised for weeks.
>
> Some of the killers, rapists and looters walked in small
> groups along debris-strewn streets waving at the
> Australians who began arriving shortly after dawn
> yesterday in huge cargo planes from Townsville and
> Darwin in what is likely to be Australia's most significant
> military operation since World War II.
>
> But the militias no longer carried the rifles given them by
> the Indonesian armed forces or brandished their
> machetes, knives or home-made pistols.
>
> A couple of the thugs were confronted by heavily armed
> New Zealand soldiers on Dili's docks but handed over
> their pistols without argument.
>
> "They are basically cowards," said an Irish journalist,
> Robert Carroll, who has spent the past nine days hiding
> out in Dili and the surrounding mountains. "They ran
> away when real soldiers arrived."
>
> The militia last night emptied their rifles into the air as
> they had done every night since the United Nations
> announced that the East Timorese had rejected
> Indonesia's brutal rule and voted to become the world's
> newest independent state.
>
> They set alight or trashed the few buildings still
> habitablein the town from which 70,000 people have fled.
>
> But as hundreds of foreign troops arrived, tense and ready
> for action, the bullies disappeared and the fires were
> burning themselves out.
>
> Major Chip Henriss-Anderssen, of Townsville's 3rd
> Brigade, said at Dili wharf that genuine refugees appeared
> to be frightened and remained in small groups.
>
> "But after a while they came up, one or two at a time, and
> shook our hands," he said. "The little kids were saying,
> hey mister! Perhaps after a while we will be able to teach
> them to say g'day."
>
> The scene at Dili's airport was surreal. Shortly after dawn
> crack Special Air Service troops based in Perth were
> among the first Australians to arrive in giant Hercules
> transports.
>
> They ran across the dusty tarmac, securing the perimeter.
> But waiting and watching were a few dozen Indonesian
> soldiers, representatives of a humiliated, embittered and
> convulsively violent force that is leaving East Timor in
> disgrace.
>
> Indonesia has never suffered so great a humiliation - the
> world's fourth most populous nation rejected by people
> who had suffered 24 years of repression, most of whom
> are now homeless and still living in terror.
>
> The few dozen Indonesian soldiers who remained to
> watch wave after wave of troops arriving did not seem too
> fussed. Asked about the destruction and looting, one said:
> "This incident happened before we arrived." He declined
> further comment.
>
> Major-General Peter Cosgrove, the Australian
> commander of the multinational peacekeeping force,
> described the reception his soldiers received as "benign".
>
> "We have had a cordial reception from the TNI
> [Indonesian armed forces]."
>
> Nobody mentioned that it was the TNI which through its
> proxy militias had destroyed most of what Indonesia
> claimed was its 27th province and stood by and watched
> mass killings and other atrocities.
>
> General Cosgrove was not underestimating the risks as
> more than 1,000 of his troops sat under the few trees at
> the airport with shade. "It is still from my point of view a
> very risky environment beyond the sight of the nearest
> Australian soldier."
>
> Our group of 40 journalists was ordered not to leave the
> airport after we arrived in a crammed Hercules from
> Darwin.
>
> The first soldiers who went into the now wrecked
> departure lounge found it smeared with excrement. Red
> and white banners, the colours of Indonesia's flag, still
> hang outside the VIP lounge, one of the few buildings in
> Dili not destroyed.
>
> Tonight we will be escorted under armed guard to the
> Turismo, the waterfront hotel from where many of us had
> fled in fear of our lives.
>
> The hotel is trashed but we will set up a makeshift camp
> in the mosquito-infested garden where only a couple of
> weeks ago Australia's former deputy prime minister, Mr
> Tim Fischer, and an Australian delegation of ballot
> observers sat and drank beer and talked confidently of the
> birth of a new nation.
>
> There is some good news, though. The UN compound
> where we spent six long and scared days before being
> evacuated has not been burnt and much of the UN's
> equipment is untouched.
>
> But a UN official who has been staying at the fortified
> Australian consulate, not far from the airport, said: "It's a
> pretty horrific picture overall. There are thousands of
> people dying up in the hills without food or water. They
> need urgent help. There is nothing left in the town for
> people to return to."
>
> Robert Carroll, the Irish journalist, said he had seen
> young children with bloated stomachs and families with
> nothing to eat but small portions of rice.
>
> "People have been told the peacekeepers are coming but
> they don't believe anything any more," he said.
>
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