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Concern for Timorese people used as a political weapon - Cover Story
The rightist element in the US media consistently ignore Indonesia's abuses in E Timor. In 1975 when Henry Kissinger gave Indonesia permission to invade, the media was largely silent. Media attention on civil rights abuses, after ties from the Clinton administration to Indonesian business was revealed, are discussed.See the full content of this document
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The right discovers East Timor.
Never underestimate the power of partisanship to alter the consciousness of America's pundits and policymakers. In the final months of 1996, soon after the Clinton-Riady-Lippo scandal broke, rightwingers throughout the media and political establishment suddenly became champions of human rights for the people of East Timor, whose plight had until then gone unnoticed in both official...
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