Chomsky speaks

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 17 20:51:16 PST 2000


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Brad De Long wrote:


> > According to recent reports, the UN mission in East Timor has been
> > able to account for just over 150,000 people out of an estimated
> > population of 850,000. It reports that 260,000 "are now languishing in
> > squalid refugee camps in West Timor under the effective control of the
> > militias after either fleeing or being forcibly removed from their
> > homes," and that another 100,000 have been relocated to other parts of
> > Indonesia.
>
> So that's 350,000 slaughtered in the past two years? Brad DeLong

Oh, go ahead: read the next sentence...



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