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"Mr President, the population of East Timor has endured and continues to endure truly tragic events before the eyes of the world. We have the courage of various reporters to thank for the fact that the world is adequately informed of what is going on.
The reason for the current great suffering of the East Timorese people is clear: pro-Indonesian militias are endeavouring to smother in blood the desire expressed by the vast majority of people for political independence, and take careful note, this is a downright denial of the outcome of the referendum which took place on 30 August 1999. The army units present on the spot, as well as the official local police forces, are direct accessories to this orgy of violence. Nor, however, have the Indonesian military leadership nor the Indonesian government kept their hands clean in this respect. In fact, the latter bear full responsibility for what, according to reports, are thousands of dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees and hundreds of thousands of East Timorese deported to West Timor.
After all, in a civilised country politics presides over guns, the former instructs the latter. The next obvious step is to prosecute those responsible for the crimes recently committed in East Timor, indeed President Habibie’s pledges support this. Therefore, the task that needs to be attended to by Djakarta as a matter of urgency, in anticipation of the arrival of a UN peacekeeping mission to East Timor, is to call an immediate halt to the wrath of the militias. Only action of this kind would bear witness to an intention to truly serve the interests of the country.
It is precisely at a time like this, when Indonesian national pride is so openly at issue and stirring up phoney feelings over the country’s sovereignty, that restoring the constitutional state in the Molucca Islands is entirely appropriate in this context.
Following heavy international pressure, President Habibie has at last said that he will accept military intervention in East Timor. Now then, the great need of the indigenous population cannot brook any further diplomatic procrastination on the part of the UN Security Council. What is more, Djakarta has made official the fact that it does not intend to impose preconditions on a mission of this kind. In other words, the peace mission can begin its task in East Timor without delay.
In view of the lawlessness that now prevails in East Timor, only a powerful military mandate can offer political prospects to the East Timorese, who have long been terrorised, in which case, the financial aid that the European Union has already undertaken to provide, will be every bit as worthwhile."@en1
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