Where is East Timor Today?
By CHRIS WHITE 8:30 am EST, December 7, 2003. Not 8 hours into this day and google retrieved over 100 American news articles that have been published commemorating the day that will forever live in infamy. 62 years ago today, 2,400 Americans lost their lives in Pearl Harbor. Just for kicks, I did a search for East Timor and found nothing. I figured it must have been a mistake, because it was also on December 7, but 28 years ago, that the Ford administration supported the Indonesian invasion of unknown-to-Americans island, leading to the slaughter of 200,000 people, 1/3 of the population. How could the so-called “liberal”, “objective”, “independent” or “fair and balanced” media have overlooked such an anniversary, while commemorating the hell out of another, while East Timor lost 83 fold the number of Pearl Harbor? Does the American public know what happened that fateful day, 28 years ago? In 1975, and I am drastically oversimplifying history here, in the wake of the collapse of Portugu
