Rod Hagen wrote:
> At 05:18 PM 7/9/99, Trudy and Rod Bray wrote:
> snip
> >
> >On the ABC news at noon they reported that most of the media within
> >Indonesia (although not all) portrayed
> >the violence as from two opposing forces - a civil war. Maybe this is an
> >extension of that if it wasn't
> >believed.
> >
> >Trudy
> >
>
> The Indonesian newspapers on the WWW have generally been running the line
> that the conflict was the result of voting irregularities in the
> referendum, aided and abetted by the UN and Australia. Australia is
> definitely being painted as the big bogie, with burning of Australian flags
> by students in Jakarta etc.
>
> It is interesting that the Malaysian offer of peace keeping troops for a
> multi-national force hasn't received wider publicity. It was announced
> yesterday, but hasn't been mentioned by Downer et al.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rod
>
There's no glory in that for the Howard gang - besides, they're not white so they
don't count.
The civil war line was reported by someone on the ground in Indonesia. I think it will
probably keep
changing as Indonesia looks for a way out of the shame-light.
Trudy
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