We should all be ashamed of ourselves and the way we have cowardly stood by for the last 40+ years while the indonesians have brutalised and murdered women and killed all with our government's tacit approval and continue to do to the West Papuans.
If we weren't such gutless scum we would have stepped in like good neighbors and stopped this vile behavior immediately.
If those muslim scum raped and killed hundreds of thousands of our fellow Australians we would be horrified if no-one could be fkked to come to our aid.
And these pieces of sh1t found it funny enough to write down their 'opinions' on official reports.
AUSTRALIA and East Timor have finally ended a longstanding feud, after the two countries yesterday signed a treaty defining a permanent maritime border.
But little has been said of research detailing the extent to which the Australian government trivialised severe human rights abuses against the Timorese in the 1970s, after they were invaded by Indonesia.
Over and over again, officials within the Fraser government were told of the mass killings, sexual violence, theft and bombing attacks taking place.
They didn’t just deny the allegations. They mocked them unmercifully.
In December 1975, shortly after Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was deposed, Indonesia invaded East Timor in what was the country’s largest military operation, backed by Australia.
The new Fraser government believed the operation would be quick and peaceful. Not so.
By 1977, the situation was dire. Severe human rights abuses, massacres, beatings, rapes and forced starvation became the ugly reality for the people of East Timor. The conflict raged for 25 years and cost over 100,000 lives.
As The Diplomat recently reported, accounts of these events were made public by former military intelligence officer James Dunn, who served as Australia’s consul in Portuguese Timor.
He published a crucial report on the atrocities taking place in East Timor in the 1970s, called The Dunn Report On East Timor.
The report featured interviews with Timorese refugees in Portugal, who spoke of widespread killings, sexual violence and deliberately induced famines.
Dunn’s findings were published in Australian newspapers and sent to politicians, including his old colleagues in Foreign Affairs.
He described the brutality of Indonesia’s invasion, stating that “refugees became prisoners in the refugee camps and none of the aid channelled via the Indonesian Red Cross reached the refugees”.
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