The Acts of the Democracies

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1977

Indonesia

Indonesia begins to run out of military equipment due to its activities in suppressing the independence movement in East Timor. Adam Malik (former Foreign Minister) states:

"50,000 or 80,000 people might have been killed during the war in East Timor... It was war... then what is the big fuss?"

The USA authorises $ 112,000,000 in commercial arms sales.

The UK continues to arm the regime. The UK Foreign Secretary justifies the sales a year later by saying: "the scale of the fighting [has] been reduced".

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