From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Protest Demands End of US Military Aid to Indonesia
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Protest Demands End of US Military Aid to Indonesia
East Timor Action Network/Rhode Island

March 19, 1992--More than 50 Brown University students and 
faculty braved blizzard conditions on a march to the Rhode Island 
Federal Building to call attention to the ongoing human rights abuses 
in East Timor and to call for the immediate cessation of all military 
aid and commercial arms sales to Indonesia.
	Since Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, a move twice 
condemed by the United Nations, over 200,000 people (or one-third 
of the population) have died.  Last November, nearly 200 unarmed 
civilians were massacred by Indonesian soldiers who open fired into 
a crowd with American M-16s.  Indonesia gets much of its arms from 
the US.
 	The march, organized locally by East Timor Action 
Network/Rhode Island (ETAN/RI), represents a response to the call 
of an England based Indonesian human rights group called TAPOL. 
According to TAPOL, simultaneous demonstrations will go on in many 
world cities to draw attention to four political prisoners who began 
trials for subversion on Monday.  Subversion carries the death 
penalty in Indonesia.
	Addressing the marchers, ETAN/RI spokesman Lorne Rider 
said, "The people on trial might be sentenced to death merely for 
trying to alert the world of the killings in East Timor.  If you were in 
Indonesia right now you would stand a good chance of also facing 
execution for your actions."
	"Fortunately, this is not a crime in America.  What is a crime in 
America is that we continue to be an accomplice to murder on a 
massive scale," Rider continued.
	Representatives of the group met with the office director of 
Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) and with the press scheduler of Senator 
John Chafee (R-RI).  The representatives asked Mr. Dennis Reily to 
thank Senator Pell for his long concern for the situation in East 
Timor, and urged him to live up to his concern by introducing 
legislation to cut military aid to Indonesia until Indonesia allows for 
a referendum on the self-determination of East Timor.
	Brown students who participated on the Peace Mission to East 
Timor assured East Timorese exiles in Portugal and Australia that 
they had a leader in the US congress. "Whether Senator Pell likes it 
or not, he now has a personal responsibility to the East Timorese 
people," said Jef Bekes, one participant of the Mission.
	Representatives of the group aked Mr. Jim Barden to urge 
Senator Chafee to work with Senator Pell to introduce legislation 
against Indonesia.  "US sponsored genocide is a non-partisan issue," 
said an ETAN member.
	ETAN delivered to each Senator over 150 signed letters 
demanding the immediate suspension of military aid and arms sales 
to Indonesia.

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