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Politics / Bali bombing
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2002-10-23 21:17:33-04
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John Pilger: 'US, UK, Australia backs I'nesian state-terror'
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'Last week's atrocity in Bali, ... did not happen in isolation. They were products ... of the past.'
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The Australian award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker commented on the latest bombings in Bali in an essay published Wednesday in the Daily Mirror, UK. "State terrorism, backed by America, Britain and Australia, has scarred Indonesia for the past 40 years. For example, the source of the worst violence is the Indonesian army, which the West has supported and armed. Today, troops continue to terrorise the provinces of Aceh and West Papua, where they are "protecting" the American Exxon oil company's holdings and the Freeport mine" John Pilger wrote. Pilger said Australia's long complicity with state terrorism in Indonesia... makes a mockery of the self-deluding declarations last week that the nation had 'lost its innoncence' in Bali." He hinted that Indonesia's generals could have been behind the Bali bombings, saying they have "plenty of motives to destabilize the elected government" and that a number of the generals have been implicated in war crimes with minimal interest from the West for the guilty to be tried. "Democracy has ended important army privileges, including a block of guaranteed seats in the parliament," Pilger said. Approx. 190 people, including about 100 Australians, were killed in the October 12 bombing of two tourist bars on the paradise island of Bali. Pilger was among the first reporters to expose the horrors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia and point the finger at Pol Pot's western supporters.
The full article in Daily Mirror Google Search on John Pilger
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