On 2/12/06, Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To generate the East Timor report, HRDAG researchers spent three > years in the country -- now called Timor-Leste -- collecting and > analyzing mountains of raw data. The group marshaled 8,000 > testimonies and developed innovative sources of information, > including the first human rights retrospective mortality survey to > determine how many people died and why. > Ronny
Untuk kasus East Timor deskripsi yg mereka tuliskan bisa memberi kesan Indonesia meng-invade East Timor semata tanpa memberi gambaran konteks yg terjadi pada tahun 1975. http://www.hrdag.org/about/timor-leste.shtml "...In December 1975, as the Portuguese colonial administration in Timor weakened, the Indonesian government launched a massive invasion of the eastern part of the small, divided island...." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/ "..the fate of a post-colonial East Timor paled in comparison to the strategic relationship with the anti-communist Suharto regime, especially in the wake of the communist victory in Vietnam, when Ford and Kissinger wanted to strengthen relations with anti-communists and check left-wing movements in the region..." Pada saat itu Indonesia telah mendapatkan restu dari Mbah Kissinger "...But it is not simply a matter of omission; on several occasions Kissinger has explicitly denied that he ever had substantive discussions of East Timor with Suharto, much less having consented to Indonesian plans.(2) The new evidence contradicts Kissinger's statements: Indonesian plans for the invasion of East Timor were indeed discussed with Suharto, and Ford and Kissinger gave them the green light. As Kissinger advised Suharto on the eve of the invasion: "it is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly" but that "it would be better if it were done after we returned" to the United States...." HRDAG mengimplistikan jumlah yg tewas di East Timor akibat kondisi perang yg tidak mendukung, penyakit kelaparan dkk yg sebenarnya jauh lebih banyak dari jumlah yg terbunuh/hilang. "...Benetech's statistical analysis establishes that at least 102,800 (+/- 11,000) Timorese died as a result of the conflict. Approximately 18,600 (+/- 1000) Timorese were killed or disappeared, while the remainder died due to hunger and illness in excess of what would be expected due to peacetime mortality..." Yg menjadi menarik adalah setelah melihat list project mereka http://www.hrdag.org/about/projects.shtml untuk Middle East hanya ada Iran, untuk Asia tidak ada Vietnam, untuk South America tidak ada Chile :) Meskipun tetap menarik juga mereka mampu menggunakan statistik yg credible untuk memprediksi sesuatu yg selalu jadi debat, jumlah korban di daerah konflik. Sebentar lagi sepertinya Papua bakal menjadi portofolia mereka nih... :D -edo-
