the average Timorese will actually see the 'petro dollar' flowon ?

Our latest incursion into the Solomon Islands, isn't about protecting the hoi polloi ! BHP-Billiton have substantial investment in "Ok Tiki" Bouganville.Gold, Copper, Silver is extracted. The tailings flow indescriminately into the River systems. Cyanide, arsenic, heavy metals and multiple carcinogenics pollute the waterways, poisoning the Natives, and contaminating the enviornment. Compensation claims are tied up in the Courts. Sinister implications of endemic corruption, money laundering, and Tax haven's are rife. A case of protecting Aust interest despite the hubris and overpowering stench of malfeasance permeating the Public arena, and newly elected PM.

P.T Freeport, Bechel have been operating a similar venture in Mimika. West Papua.The tailings outflow have destroyed livlihoods, entire villagers,and decimated the population bereft of Medical aid.Marine life has been systematically toxified. Great numbers of Indegine's depend on Fishing, abalone diving, troncus shell fossicking etc. Impoverished fishermen are being arrested and detained without trial or legal representation for up to 3 years by Our Custom's, and the RAN. Their rickety prahau's torched. Their fate and that of their families in limbo. Forced to borrow from shonky money lenders for fuel, motors and survival gear, their families are held for ransom. Forced to spend years in jail,away from their families, these destitute's have no way of redeeming usury debt.

The Red beret Indonesian Special Force's " Kopassus " have been incriminated in possibly every massacre, murder, sabotage,terrorism, slaughter of Political leaders, civilians, students, even Australian Foreign Journalist since 1965.

Successive President's,employing the 'death squads' have at one time or another, been involved in quelling public disquiet by murder and intimidation - that even rival the Nazi Gestapo exploits. Thousands have perished in Timor, Aceh, Iran Jaya, Ambon, West Papua, as the result of injustice's imposed by corrupt military Governors. BTW, we have allowed them to train with Our SAS in WA. The US Special Force's have undertaken extensive exercises with them since the 9/11 terrorist attack. According to the Age Newspaper, General P Cosgrove expressed misgivings about 'getting in bed' with his opponents in Dilli.

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@Dalma:

Indeed, white people are the worst murderers in world history. They happily slaughter each other in World Wars I and II, not to mention in every place they settle, they never forget to kill large numbers of indigenous inhabitants. Just look at the genocide of American Indians and Australian Aborigines. Only native people who can reproduce quickly and organise ceaseless resistence avoid the fate of the Indians or Aborigines. We Indonesians won bloody war of independence from the Dutch and kicked out the 500,000 white colonialists who had settled in our country. This is the only way to prevent the white men from stealing your land and enslaving your body.

And this Connelly is a queer kind of person: a war-mongering nun. What a goof! Fancy a "religious figure" trying to tell Australians to launch an aggressive war against a bigger and stronger neighbour, a war that Australia as aggressor will find no ally and a war you will lose.

PTBI,
Please quote the passage in Connely's article where she calls Australia to go to war against Indonesia! From the quote below of yours you are the warmonger threatening Australia would loose. Yes we will loose just as we lost in East Timor. Why because the moral right of the people saw we were there to give them freedom and peace. Indonesia was there to murder them.

Did you get your promotion in the military yet? I recognise you are spoiling for the opportunity of looking down the barrel of an Aussie soldier.

Quote, "And this Connelly is a queer kind of person: a war-mongering nun. What a goof! Fancy a "religious figure" trying to tell Australians to launch an aggressive war against a bigger and stronger neighbour, a war that Australia as aggressor will find no ally and a war you will lose.

So, PTBI, it is OK for Indonesians to kick out 500,000 Dutch settlers but not OK for the West Papuans to do the same to the transmigrants? And speaking of double standards, you forgot to mention the 500,000 Indonesians of ethnic Chinese background who were "ethnically cleansed" by your military in the 1960's. They had been there for generations but it seems that some folks were, and still are, more "Indonesian" than others. Or are you going to tell us that dead bodies floating in a river are also just another "quaint old Javanese custom".

And readers should not conclude that PTBI is in the military. He is far too jingoistic, and far too to reliant on outdated notions of numerical superiority, to have a real soldier's grasp of the reality of war. He has the strategic vision of a street vendor.

Yes, I think "Indonesian Ali" needs to re-examine his own country's true history...The dutch were vanquished by freedom fighters who bear no resemblance to the present TNI/Kopassus chocolate soldiers who have only succeeded in murdering defenceless old people, women and children .
They fled from the UN foces in East Timor led by General Cosgrove like the craven cowards they are.
I have ceased responding to his fanatical drivel as it is tantamount to attempting to have an intelligent debate with an imbecile

To: Proud-to-be-Indonesian

I hereby declare that anything I have written and authored in this Forum, and however remotely connected to you or your species, or used by you to push your inflammatory agenda, is herewith rescinded. DON'T use me as your scapegoat EVER AGAIN

Enraged,