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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: East Timor: Media Turned Their Backs on Genocide By Matthew Jardine Imagine that a small country is invaded in 1975 by a powerful neighbor well over 100 times its size, a major recipient of U.S. military and economic aid. About one-third of the population- -- over 200,000 -- people die as a result of the invasion, politically created starvation, and the ongoing occupation. Despite the atrocities and numerous U.N. resolutions condemning the invasion and occupation, the U.S., Japan and a number of Western European countries continue to provide the invader with about $5 billion in annual economic assistance. There's no need to imagine such a situation. The aggressor is resource-rich Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and a major center of multinational corporate activity: The victim is East Timor, a former Portuguese colony 400 miles north of Australia. But most Americans have never even heard of East Timor. Given the geopolitical and economic importance of Indonesia, characterized by Nixon as the "greatest prize in the Southeast Asian area," the U.S. has been more than willing not only to ignore but in fact to facilitate Indonesia's annexation of East Timor. Following Washington's lead, reporting by the U.S. establishment media has been paltry at best. Ignoring Invasion In the months preceding the Indonesian invasion, there were a number of reports in the U.S. press on Portuguese Timor. At that time, the territory was in the throes of decolonization, and many Western elites feared leftist influence within the independence movement. However, as Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman pointed out in The Political Economy of Human Rights, reporting on East Timor by the corporation owned media in the U.S. actually decreased significantly in the aftermath of the Indonesian invasion. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1220 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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