January 13, 2008

Ex-Military Dictator Suharto in very critical condition

General Suharto, the 86-year old former military dictator who ruled Indonesia for more than 3 decades, is lying somewhere deep inside this unattractive concrete structure, dying or more precisely in a "very critical condition" after almost all organ functions failed, as his doctor told a news conference on Sunday January 13.Read the article at the link:Here are the comments on digg:Suharto's 1965 coup in Indonesia was particularly welcome to the West, because it destroyed the only mass-based political party there [the Communist Party the PKI - the CIA handed Suharto membership lists, then crossed people out as they were murdered]. That involved the slaughter, in a few months, of about 700,000 people, mostly landless peasants - "a gleam of light in Asia," as the leading thinker of the New York Times, James Reston, exulted, assuring his readers that the US had a hand in this triumph.The West was very pleased to do business with Indonesia's new "moderate" leader, as the Christian Science Monitor described General Suharto, after he had washed some of the blood off his hands - meanwhile adding hundreds of thousands of corpses in East Timor and elsewhere. This spectacular mass murderer is "at heart benign," the respected London Economist assures us - doubtlessly referring to his attitude towards Western corporations.http://www.oikos.org/ecology/timor.htmWhy Americans should care about East Timor by Noam Chomsky for further information.His best buddies in genocide are weeping, especially Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford's dead ass, Bill Clinton, even Jimmy Carter.Well said. Kissinger being a primary catalyst. Watch the trials of Henry Kissinger for more informationhttp://thepiratebay.org/tor/3791822/The_Trials_of_ ...The film 'Manufacturing Consent' has a detailed look at how the American press handled the genocide in East Timor - quite simply, they didn't. It remains one of the greatest atrocities we've never heard of. For the sake of comparison, the film compares the coverage given to East Timor to that given to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia - East Timor received only a few column inches.Here is the section of the film from YouTube (for anyone not familiar with it, the rest of the film is well worth watching, and the related videos and responses contain more of Chomsky's commentary):http://youtube.com/watch?v=uauGvzXV3w8http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-281588156 ...

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