Blood on our hands; More than 200,000 people have been killed since Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975. For decades, the British government was complicit in these killings. All that was supposed to change in May 1997. Instead, it's been business as usua
Blair shed his tears for Diana. Does he have any for the 6,000 children being killed by the west in Iraq each month?, New Statesman, 19 March 1999, p. 17.
In Baghdad, the babies are dying: there's no anaesthetic, no antibiotics, no clean water, and sometimes no breast milk, New Statesman, 01 May 1999, p. 11.
Are we going to let them fall before our eyes? John Pilger's 1994 documentary, Death of a Nation, was among the first to alert the world to East Timor's sufferng. He returns to the theme , The Sunday Age, 12 September 1999, p. 12.
We helped them descend into hell; As the people of East Timor face genocide at the hands of their Indonesian oppressors, the west seems to forget how this crisis began, writes John Pilger, New Statesman, 13 September 1999, pp. 11-12.