Socialist Outlook

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Portuguese left rallies to support East Timor

Socialist Outlook no. 28, October 1999 · 419 words

statement According to a leaflet A issued by Portugal's radical Left Bloc, "President Habibie's acceptance the entrance of a United Nations peace force into East Timor consuture a sigatecant acical Of the Indonesian dictatorship that has occupica ine térritory for 24 years, with the complicity of the United States of America and the whole "international community».

This defeat was possible, on one hand, thanks to the heroic resistance Popular ot the people mobilisation was East Timor, and their decades- and still is the long fight for great force that can self-determination and inacoca" determine the dence. The course of history massive mobilisations, and the results 0. the referendum August 30th, show clearly what the East Timorese peopic *a=:

The amazing popula: interta. tonal mobilicator one as: ma days helped achiese the detea: 0i expression, revolt took the streets coments of the world took e forcing the East Timor, and stop the return of the silence of the cemeteries.

Through our mobilisations, we have encouraged the reinforcement of diplomatic pressure for the end of the massacres and for the respect of the will of the Timorese people.

This first success proves that popular mobilisation and still is the great force that can determine the course of history.

The deployment of a UN peace force cannot, struggle of solidarity. The murderers are still in the territory, developing their politics of burned land, forced deportations thousand of rese and persis sales the leaders and fighters FALIN TIL Those responsible for these tional diplomacy, gaining time in order to pursue their genocide plan. Enough wasted time! It is necessary to act now!

Humanitarian help can arrive immediately to the territory and to the refugee camps of East and Western Timor if the necessary means are deployed...

T he army, the police and the militias cannot killing. The interna. tional community cannot accept- under any condimaintenance more than 20,000 murderers of the Timorese people in its territory One the same mistake twice.

The entrance of the UN force must be accompanied by the total and immediate retreat of the Indonesian forces occupy East Timor!

The UN forces bare :: as.re tance, and of commander Xanana Gusmao, as well as the immediate disarmament of the pro-integration militias. Army behind milirias Those responsible for the massacres and must espond to a International Court to answer the accusation of genocide and extermination of the people of East Timor. Bloco de Esquerda, Lisbon, 13 September (The left bloc includes the PSR, Portuguese section of the Fourth International]

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