Chomsky speaks

[Seth Ackerman]

Brad DeLong wrote:


> >                    East Timor Is Not Yesterday's Story
> >
> >                              By Noam Chomsky
> >
> >   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?
> 
> 
> 
	Chomsky doesn't say that. He usually cites estimates from Church
sources of 3000-5000 killed...

	Seth