Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Thugs in uniform go about their bloody business - Aceh
'Just five hours into Indonesia's renewed war in Aceh, Indonesia's discredited soldiers were already providing evidence they had learnt little from the atrocities it committed in Timor and the human rights trials that followed.'

Tough but no doubt accurate reporting from SMH. In other stories:
- 49 schools burnt down on first night of Indonesian military operations.
- Australian Defence Minister Defence Minister, 'Robert Hill, insisted the crisis would not "complicate" relations between the two countries. "Indonesia's got the perfect right to maintain its internal integrity and we regret those who are in armed revolt," he said. The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, echoed that view. "The violence perpetrated by the separatist movement is absolutely unacceptable," he said from London.' Presumabley state terrorism is ok. Shame.

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