this message appeared on my screen today and although i tend to think the
way Nato acted in Kosovo made things worse, something does need to be done
in East Timor and Indonesia (and of course, it should have been done a long
time ago to avoid what is happending today). Maybe crit-geog-forum members
will find this a useful way to do something?
jane
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> Dear Colleagues and Friends This message is not on the field of
>industrial relations. The main purpose of it is to contribute to save a
>people that is now suffering a genocide, the second in 24 years, after a
>referendum recognized by the international community: the people of
>East-Timor. Please, send the petition below to the addresses I join here.
>It is VERY URGENT to send international troops to East-Timor. The
>indonesians are killing everybody and they attack everything, including
>the Red Cross, the ACNUR and the church (some priests were killed until
>now, the Bishop that was Nobel Prize in 1998 escaped to Australia and the
>other one was wounded and is now in the mountains of Timor). I hope you
>can join us. Thanks. Yours sincerely Paulo Alves
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> PETITION
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>Widespread death and destruction are happening in East Timor.
>Unless world leaders exert maximum pressure on the Indonesian Government
>the results of the referendum will be only this massacre and the
>destruction of thousands of citizens who braved everything to vote,
>expressing overwhelmingly their wish to become independent.
>Regrettably, the Indonesian Government is not fullfiling the New York
>agreements and has allowed the violence to spread.
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>An international force is essential to prevent the total slaughter
>of the people by the anti-independence militias and the indonesian
>army.
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>Therefore,
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>I call upon you to URGENTLY exert all of the available means at your
>disposal to make the killings stop and prevent the deportation and
>massacre of the people of East Timor.
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Department of Geography
Queen Mary & Westfield College
London
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