Obama's Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and East Timor genocide

East Timor was never a genocide. East Timor = Tibet. It was an old fashion annexation of a territory.

True there were more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis but six million is the approximate number that historians use to describe that genocidal event. The old Greek language was used to transcribe early Hebrew texts (the Bible for instance) for Medieval European readers. Holocaust was first invented to describe Jewish suffering therefore Holocaust is a Jewish word, at the time when it was first used it would have been described as a neologism. This is a good post glad I found it.

First off. The United States taught Nazi torture techniques to the Shahanshah's SAVAK who according to The Federation of American Scientists poured boiling water and and inserted glass into people's rectums, tied weights to men's testicles, and extracted teeth and nails, and who whipped, beat, and electrocuted people. Psychological torture, such as caging the head, bonding the body, and beating the bottoms of the feet so the victims screams echo in their ears were also used.

And Second, Suharto's Kopassus were worse than the Taliban, over one million people perished under his regime. Not that it matters anyway, since the United State are the ones who initially funded the Mujahideen who "became" the Taliban who were nice to Al-Quaida when they were still in Afghanistan. We were helping them fight their war on drugs until 2001. Maybe we should know who we're giving guns to so we make sure we're not giving it to people who have a horrible record with human rights? Our intelligence didn't realize this, couldn't check up on the people we give billions of dollars worth of weapons to, so as to make sure they're not using them on innocent people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANQjYsZGIQ&feature=player_embedded

http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/langguthleaf.html

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/savak/index.html

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Democracy Now videos:

Bill Clinton in East Timor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYcQUQgcpw

Obama applauds Dennis Blair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4pIEYzVqY

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Excerpts: (do Cntrl+F search to verify I have not changed one iota)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tt.html
Religions of East Timor: Roman Catholic 98%, Muslim 1%, Protestant 1% (2005)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/
In 1979 the U.S. Agency for International Development estimated that 300,000 East Timorese—nearly half the population—had been uprooted and moved into camps controlled by Indonesian armed forces. By 1980 the occupation had left more than 100,000 dead from military action, starvation or disease, with some estimates running as high as 230,000.(18)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html
Religions of Indonesia: Muslim 86.1%, Protestant 5.7%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 1.8%, other or unspecified 3.4% (2000 census)

Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, second is Pakistan, third is India.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rgwhitma/classweb2/US%20ploicy%20toward%20East%20Timor.htm
Indonesia launched its 1975 invasion of East Timor hours after Indonesian dictator Suharto and US president Ford and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger met. The US doubled Indonesian’s military aid following the meeting. . The US also blocked the United Nations from taking any action in support of East Timorese independence. During the peak of genocide in the late 1970's the US provided Indonesia with equipment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/world/asia/28suharto.html
Mr. Suharto — who like many Indonesians used only one name — stepped down on May 21, 1998, just two months after arranging to have himself elected to a seventh five-year term. He departed with an apology to the nation. “I am sorry for my mistakes,” he said. But his quiet statement came only after the deaths of 500 student protesters, an event that shocked the people into a consensus that the president must go.

His precise role in the violence is not clear; he managed to keep his name from being directly attached to it. What is clear is that in many areas the army, which he controlled, supplied weapons to and whipped up a tense population to mutilate and murder people suspected of being Communists, many of them of Chinese ancestry. Estimates of the number of dead have ranged from 500,000 to as many as one million.

Whether it was those forces or his timing, good fortune came to him. Just as the United States was becoming embroiled in Vietnam, he stood as a bulwark against Communism in Asia. The United States rewarded him with a foreign aid program that eventually amounted to more than $4 billion a year. In addition, a consortium of Western countries and Japan established an aid program that in 1994 alone totaled almost $5 billion.

http://www.yale.edu/gsp/east_timor/unverdict.html
THE Indonesian military used starvation as a weapon to exterminate the East Timorese, according to a UN report documenting the deaths of as many as 180,000 civilians at the hands of the occupying forces.

Napalm and chemical weapons, which poisoned the food and water supply, were used by Indonesian soldiers against the East Timorese in the brutal invasion and annexation of the half-island to Australia's north, according to the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation report.

It documents a litany of massacres, thousands of summary executions of civilians and the torture of 8500 East Timorese - with horrific details of public beheadings, the mutilation of genitalia, the burying and burning alive of victims, use of cigarettes to burn victims, and ears and genitals being lopped off to display to families.

Thousands of East Timorese women were raped and sexually assaulted during the occupation and the report concludes that rape was also used by the Indonesian military as a weapon of war.

It recommends reparations from Indonesia and the members of the UN Security Council, including Britain and the US, who gave military backing to Indonesia between 1974 and 1999, as well as those nations that provided military assistance to Jakarta during the
occupation, including Australia.