Declassified documents - US backed East Timor massacres

[Freakaloin]

many genocides of the 20th century were caused by american foreign policies...and yet our retarded populace thinks we are the most moral and greatest ppl on the planet...

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

My Indonesian friend doesn't think highly of the Timoresianinites.
He said they were ungrateful and and Indonesians were doing a them a favour.
I didn't bother arguing the point but I thought it was funny he has to grow a beard when he goes over (and on his drivers license) lest he gets killed going home without it. Crazy fucking part of the world.
But are you saying they gave them the weapons and then said "go kill them" or did they just sell weapons to them like lots of countries do and then when they heard about what the Indonesians wanted to do ,not asked for them back/ add a clause saying we reserve the right to recall the weapons at any time if we feel like it?
Because thats what I think your implying.

Countries like the U.S. Canada, and the U.K. continually provided weapons for over a decade while knowing full well that hundreds of thousands of people were being killed

i can see why the Timorese weren't grateful.

i hope this answers your question

[ScooterG]

Noam Chomsky spoke of the lack of press for Timor in the documentary version of Manufacturing Consent, where he compared it to the HUGE amount of press given to Cambodia during the same time frame. Two massacres, one covered well and one barely covered at all. He discussed how The New York Times frequently writes history as we know it.... In this case perhaps we can now assume the US gov't pressured the Times into low coverage of the event, so they wouldn't be exposed as having known about it, let alone having approved of it....

[Nightshade]

Imagine someone supplied hitler with gas chambers, and encouraged him to go along with it, even when under international law the use of gas chambers to kill civilians is illegal.

I'm not sure what your position is Canidae.

How about supplying him with vehicles, engines, and computing machinery to track "work camp guest laborers"?