> > 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?
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Chomsky doesn't say that. He usually cites estimates from Church sources of 3000-5000 killed...
Seth