Kissinger?
Baaah!
He and Ford gave Indonesia the green light to invade East Timor 9 days after it
gained its independence from Portugal, using US weapons it was supposed to be using only for defence.
200,000 East Timorese people were genocided...UN report.
Where's the war crimes trial?
Actually, Ford was possibly a cover under the guise of showing him the ropes.
This entire story was reported by Amy Goodman. About Spring of 2002, just before I moved from the farm, a family if Indonesians suddenly arrived as neighbors/tenants of a Mennonite friend of mine. She felt they didn't look Dutch to her. To relieve her anxiety I went over with a welcoming present since the trees that I'd begun before moving from the Princeton area,Hopewell to be precise , were now in bloom. The tenants weren't Dutch but often went back to collect the welfare that Nederlands offered profusely. The wife would take one or the other of the two daughters; and, it was assumed that they were still living there. The Dutch are very liberal with Christian welfare assistance.
Our problem however was that we had an airstrip on the acreage; that had been obviously visible by anyone driving up to or down from State Hill. The wife checked that out immediately, after moving into a house with plentiful window views of the entire layout. She went to see the landowner with his welding shop in the back near the hangar beyond the barn and asked if he could repair a piano wire attachment inside the piano.
Her husband did not know much about things Dutch, however. He made a point of inviting me to a church he was conducting which sounded more like a bank: First Capital. I pointedly responded that wouldn't be necessary as I used to go to the Dutch church in Blawenburg just northwest of Princeton (which had been there since the first Dutch migrated inland from New York. They had a beautiful church organ at the front of the church, where other denominations might have an altar. It had gilt pipes and blue fleur de lis decoration, as a gift from the King of France,to make up for earlier persecutions. This was how I began to discover this guy from Indonesia did not know much about the Dutch, when in truth I usually went to Blawenburg church only at about this pre-Christmas time of year, to attend the Tentoonstelling which was like a Dutch market-fair where you bought bulbs like paperwhites to start in time for Christmas; other Christmas hand sewn items, spices like pink peppercorns; baby buntings, antiques, second-hand clothes. I've bought a tin lamp, sofa pillow covers, a spindle-back rocking chair from Mr. Verbost, our dry-cleaner in Princeton. Then you go to eat erwtensoep, apples and Gouda cheese, and apfel kuchen.
While we were talking, I noticed an older Asian couple, more Chinese than Indian in appearance come out the kitchen back door, and the rather tall Indonesian became upset and motioned to them to go back in the house. But then his daughters came running out. This is when I noticed, as I handed her the Pussy-willow branches, when she turned into the sunlight that her eyes were that give-away gray color, and I immediately said something like "...oh,my goodness"
"you have eyes like my friend Indi Den Das who was born in Java, Indonesia."
The Indonesian then replied in utter astonishment," That's where I am from, Java, Indonesia". Which of course is a very short flying distance from Timor.
I found it impossible to contact INS in Philadelphia. They no longer answered the phones because they had a five year back log. I moved, the war began in March 2003; and, I was so shocked that it had begun, I phoned my Mennonite friend and cried and cried until I calmed down. She told me before our conversation was over that her tenants had moved out to somewhere near the vineyards on the Strasburg road but she didn't know exactly where.
