{"id":264,"date":"2006-05-31T01:16:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-05-31T01:16:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:16:01","slug":"1999-east-timor-war-crimes-evidence-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"1999 East Timor war crimes evidence stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Gusmao: you'd throw your hands up too (image: ABC)\" title=\"Gusmao: you'd throw your hands up too (image: ABC)\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/Xanana_Gusmao_abc.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The only thing which could possibly be worse than the recent violence in East Timor is exploitation of the unrest to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/World\/1999-evidence-looted-from-office-in-Dili\/2006\/05\/30\/1148956340729.html\">steal and destroy evidence<\/a> from the TNI-supported militia killings of pro-independence Timorese in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Gusmao has gone softly-softly on the massacres since independence&#8230; but then again, what else could he do? Trials of TNI soldiers and officers for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ictj.org\/static\/Timor.CAVR.English\/12-Annexe1-East-Timor-1999-GeoffreyRobinson.pdf\">crimes against humanity<\/a> so far have been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canb.auug.org.au\/~wildwood\/kopassus.htm\">a total farce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will Wiranto and his co-conspirators get away with it in perpetuity?<\/p>\n<p>Sure seems like it.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing which could possibly be worse than the recent violence in East Timor is exploitation of the unrest to steal and destroy evidence from the TNI-supported militia killings of pro-independence Timorese in 1999. Gusmao has gone softly-softly on the massacres since independence&#8230; but then again, what else could he do? Trials of TNI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}