#easttimor — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/117004199535693543

Oh wow, there's some 'precedent', but would a Barrister be sanctioned for even mentioning it in Court now?

#UKLaw #PalestineAction #Genocide #Gaza #EastTimor

Another excellent, sprawling series from the #TheDigRadio: Nusantara covers the history of #Indonesia from the period of Dutch #colonialism to the present.

Latest ep (no. 7) covers conflicts in the state's colonial periphery: #WestPapua, #EastTimor & #Aceh

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/nusantara-ep-7-suhartos-fall/

series site: https://thedigradio.com/Nusantara/

#DutchEastIndiaCompany #SoutheastAsia #colonialViolence #decolonization #Sukarno #Suharto #PKI #decolonialStruggles #FreeWestPapua #documentaries

cc @Jinjirrie

Jimmy Carter Illusions

To examine some main-stream media myths:

During his presidency, Carter proclaimed human rights to be “the soul of our foreign policy.” Although many journalists promoted that image, the reality was quite different.

Inaugurated 13 months after Indonesia’s December 1975 invasion of East Timor, Carter stepped up U.S. military aid to the Jakarta regime as it continued to murder Timorese civilians. By the time Carter left office, about 200,000 people had been slaughtered.

Elsewhere, despotic allies — from Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines to the Shah of Iran — received support from President Carter.

In El Salvador, the Carter administration provided key military aid to a brutal regime. In Nicaragua, contrary to myth, Carter backed dictator Anastasio Somoza almost until the end of his reign. In Guatemala — again contrary to enduring myth — major U.S. military shipments to bloody tyrants never ended.