Rob Schaap wrote:
> One gut feeling I've recently acquired (as
> opposed to my contempt for Australian policy makers, which goes back
> somewhat further) is that Falintil were deliberately quiet throughout.
> They might not be the military equal of Kopassus, but their apparently
> absolute abstention from aggro might indicate either orders/promises from
> outside or (shudder) the (strategically tenable) view that the rest of the
> world wasn't going to help at all unless murder unto the meek was being
> seen to be done by western TV viewers.
>
Conventional wisdom had it that Falintil was silent so indonesia couldn't use the pretext of a civil war to justify further military actions and preventing the vote from being implemented. Is there any reason why you didn't consider this motive?