The U.S. then doubled military aid to Indonesia, blocked the UN from taking effective enforcement action, and continued to sell new weapons, particularly helicopters for the next two decades. The 1997 State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices confirms that Indonesia's armed forces reported torture, extra-judicial executions and other severe human rights violations, including the detention and imprisonment of East Timorese for the expression of their political views. Although the rate of overt repression has lessened in Dili, East Timor's capital, since Suharto's resignation, arrests and killings persist, many East Timorese political prisoners remain in jail, and human rights conditions have hardly changed in rural East Timor. I was instructed to stay on the opposite side of the street from the Indonesian embassy and warned that if I pointed my camera at this agent I would be arrested. Minutes later an AP photographer showed up at the scene and was allowed to photograph at his leisure, including taking shots of this agent.
School children do street theater on the opposite side of the street from the Indonesian embassy.
Two school children narrate the street theater. Secret Service agents arrest three activists after warning them that they were trespassing. Activists are escorted by Secret Service agents to a police vehicle. After the arrests an activist talks to the media about the Indonesian government's genocidal policy towards East Timor. The Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor is one of the worst atrocities of this century.