@ -4216,8 +4216,8 @@ At the beginning of 1975, this party, which had become the most popular, dominat
It declared that the only possible way for the people to be freed from exploitation and oppression in all its forms \enquote{was none other than that of independence}.
For several years, Indonesia, led by the fascist General Suharto, had been preparing, not without hesitation, the implementation of its project to take control of East Timor.
It acts in a skillful and sustained way through the practices of an organization linked to the army, the BAKIN, (Agency for the Coordination of National Intelligence Services), which can be compared to the secret services of all capitalist countries, as, more singularly, to the Nazi Gestapo.
False news was broadcast by Indonesia's national radio, claiming that Soviet, Chinese and Vietnamese military advisers and armaments had been sent to East Timor to support a \enquote{minority group of communist intellectuals}.
Indonesia acts in a skillfull and steady way trough the actions of an organization linked to the army, the BAKIN (Agency for the Coordination of National Intelligence Services). The BAKIN can be compared to the secret services of all capitalist countries, and to the Nazi Gestapo in particular.
False news were broadcast by Indonesia's national radio, claiming that Soviet, Chinese and Vietnamese military advisers and armaments had been sent to East Timor to support a \enquote{minority group of communist intellectuals}.
The agents of this very special service managed to provoke a rupture between the leaders of the UDT and the Fretilin.
They did not go out of their way by proclaiming that Indonesia would never accept a communist government sitting in East Timor, next to Indonesia itself.
@ -4296,7 +4296,7 @@ From September 1977 to March 1979, it launched three offensives as part of a str
The primary objective was to isolate the guerrilla fighters from their logistical support, the Timorese population.
Then came two successive campaigns reducing the civilian population to starvation, in 1979 and 1981.
These military operations used new and modern armaments, bombing aircraft, and the systematic destruction of crops under the slogan \enquote{research and destruction}.
These military operations used new and modern armaments, bombing aircraft, and the systematic destruction of crops under the slogan \enquote{seek and destroy}.
The resistance was fierce, but eventually suffered inevitable setbacks.
The Catholic clergy did not abandon the patriots. Here is what a priest from Dili wrote to two Dominican sisters:
@ -4310,7 +4310,7 @@ There are very few Timorese left, they are refugees in the forests, dead or in p
After some time and after furious engagements, the Fretilin fighters and sixty thousand unarmed civilians withdrew to the mountain areas deep in the jungle.
The surviving key leaders were captured after fighting of appalling intensity and killed.
The president of Fretilin, Nicolau Lobato, was first wounded, then they died on the plane that transported him to Dili, probably assassinated.
The president of Fretilin, Nicolau Lobato, was first wounded, then died on the plane that transported him to Dili, probably assassinated.
With the exception of those who belonged to the external delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor and three members of the Central Committee, all Fretilin leaders were exterminated.
Fascist barbarism, quietly approved and supported by the Americans and deliberately ignored by Western and Australian rulers, had the same characteristics as that of the Hitlerites.
@ -4366,18 +4366,18 @@ At the same time, the fascist occupiers burned all the expanses of grass where r
However, a number of Falintil fighters managed to cross the human barrier thanks to the spontaneous complicities of their compatriots.
Realizing this reality, the officers of the Abril became more and more criminal, if it was still possible. In the autumn of 1981 they began to massacre more and more systematically.
Following the mutiny of a unit of auxiliaries organized by them, on September 7, 1981, they annihilated the entire population of the Craras camp, near Viqueque, first 200 people, then 800 others who had managed to cross a river, mowing them down with machine gun fire. There was only one survivor.
Later fascist soldiers who had participated in these operations boasted about it and explained how they had Timorese dig their graves, then shot them at point-blank range by making them fall into the hole.
Later fascist soldiers who had participated in these operations boasted about it and explained how they had Timorese dig their graves, then shot them at point-blank range, which made them fall into the hole.
Operation \enquote{barrier of limbs} had another appalling consequence. The people required for this criminal task were almost all peasants who could not take care of their crops.
As a result, the result of agricultural production used to feed local populations was therefore very low. Malnutrition and disease were the direct consequences.
The second great famine then reached the people of East Timor, causing thousands more victims.
Contrary to the hopes of the fascist generals, the Falintil escaped this new form of encirclement and annihilation quite easily.
On the other hand, all the civilians who were forced by force to participate in the human chain, at least those who survived, spontaneously asked to join the Falintil.
On the other hand, all the civilians who were compelled by force to participate in the human chain, at least those who survived, spontaneously asked to join the Falintil.
Xanana refused to integrate them into the already existing units, to which he intended to retain the characteristics of the guerrillas.
But he had them organized into groups of three to six, remaining in the city or in the villages, with the mission of monitoring all the activities of the Indonesian soldiers and reporting immediately to Fretilin.
There were groups called \enquote{Nurep} everywhere. The failure of the Indonesian initiative became bitter.
There were some of these groups called \enquote{Nurep} everywhere. The failure of the Indonesian initiative became bitter.
Also at the end of 1982, a new military commander of East Timor, Colonel Purwanto, was appointed.
His mission was to try to win the sympathy of the Timorese not through gun violence, but through negotiation.
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