Don, You mentioned the Nazis. Remember how in France they lined up 10 townspeople women
and kids, and shot them every day till the resistance stopped.
Was that worse than bonbing civilians and their homes till the resistance of Serbia
capitulated? Or any other miliatary mission by the worlds "leaders" in this modern
world. Kill the women and kids to get at the men. Called "modern morality" I really
wonder if our miliatary would be any different in this modern environment?
philip Madsen.
Dion Giles wrote:
> Indo President Wahid has told the people of Aceh that anyone raising the
> national flag of Aceh will be shot.
>
> The ending of boycotts and restoration of normal relations with the pariah
> state of Indonesia has obviously come far too soon.
>
> Here is the ABC item reporting Wahid's threats (it wrongly called resistance
> fighters "separatists" -- a colonial overlord's propaganda term which even
> Nazi Germany didn't use in describing the resistance ion occupied territory).
>
> -------
> Aceh separatists mark anniversary of struggle
>
> Separatists in Indonesia's troubled province of Aceh are to mark the
> anniversary of their arms struggle today, vowing to push Jakarta to hold a
> referendum on independence as in East Timor.
>
> Leaders of the Free Aceh Movement have called on people not to raise their
> separatist flag for fear of provoking a miilitary crackdown.
>
> The Indonesian armed forces has warned anyone raising the flag could be shot.
>
> Indonesia's President, Abdurrahman Wahid, says that repressive measures will
> be taken if the country's prize terroritorial integrity is challenged by
> Aceh separatists.
>
> The guerilla commanders of the Free Aceh Movement will however go ahead with
> flag raising ceremonies in their mountain strongholds.
>
> They claim 90 per cent support from the people of Aceh after an often brutal
> decade long campaign against them by the Indonesian military.
>
> They are demanding a referendum on independence, similar to the one held in
> East Timor. The Indonesian Government may agree to a ballot, but only
> offering greater territorial autonomy.
> ------------------
>
> Dion Giles
> Fremantle, Western Australia
>
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