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Article: EAST TIMOR: FOR INDONESIA, SEPARATION STILL HARD TO ACCEPT
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- June 28, 2002
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JAKARTA, Jun. 28 (IPS) -- Indonesia's claim on what it says
are its assets in East Timor may reflect its unwillingness to
accept the fact that a former territory is now an independent
nation standing on its own feet.
But critics say there is much more than that. On the eve of
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao's visit to Indonesia on
Jul. 2, some say these new claims are a deliberate attempt to
divert the people's attention from the Indonesian state's
responsibility for human rights abuses in East Timor, including
the violence that followed the 1999 independence ballot.
At a meeting in mid-June, the Indonesian delegation again told
East Timorese officials that ...