Mr. President,
During the Ford administration President Gerald was looking for allies to help counter communism.
On July 5, 1975 President Gerald Ford met with Indonesia's president Shuarto at Camp David. Ford received Indonesia's support.

A new report describes how the U.S. supplied weapons and looked the other way as Shuarto's troops raped, tortured and murdered their way through East Timor.

According to the CIA fact book, over the next two decades an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 East Timorans were killed.

An overwhelming majority of the people of East Timor voted in a UN-supervised popular referendum, for independence from Indonesia in August 1999.

• But before the multinational peacekeeping force arrived, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military:
• killed approximately 1,300 Timorese and forcibly pushed 300,000 people into West Timor as refugees.
• destroyed the majority of the country's homes, irrigation systems, water supply systems, schools, and nearly 100% of the country's electrical grid.

On September 20, 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) finally ended the conflict.

East Timor was internationally recognized as an independent state on May 20, 2002.

The East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation investigated the genocide. The final report will soon be made public after years of study.

The report said, "The support of the United States was given out of a strategically-motivated desire to maintain a good relationship with Indonesia, whose anti-communist regime was seen as an essential bastion against the spread of communism."

The nonprofit research group, posted a 119-page portion of the commission's 2,500-page report on its Web site Tuesday. The rest is expected to be made public in the coming weeks.

Papua, the largest providence in Indonesia, which has the world's largest gold deposit is also the poorest province in Indonesia. The massive gold mine is run by U.S. giant Freeport.

The people of Papua are desperately poor and like many other resource-rich areas around the world with poor populations, they are tired of the inequity.

About 100,000 Papuans are reported to have died due to the conflict, either because of military crackdowns or by disease and starvation but the number of dead is hard to corroborate because foreign journalists are not allowed near the area.

The United States became complicit in the murder, rape, torture and murder of hundred of thousands East Timor citizens; because President Ford wanted an ally against Communism in South East Asia.


Today it's Condi's turn to shop for allies against China, and she has agreed to supply Indonesia $7 million in military training and assistance if they sign off an agreement which exempts Americans from the ICC.

"Indonesia serves as an example for countries struggling to reconcile racial, ethnic and religious conflicts," Rice, said.

President Ford agreed to Shuarto's rampage through East Timor, Ford provided them weapons and now you are giving them military training.

How many more lives will be lost in that poor country, because you want to renew an old partnership against an old enemy?

Isn't this how we set up The Shah of Iran, the Taliban in Afghanistan with Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein?


Today it is Condelezza and Indonesia.


May God forgive you, because the survivors will not.
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