I think Lizzie's statement that East Timor is "some sort of Arabian place" serves to highlight the point of this song. No offence, since I did not know anything about East Timor till I read: John Pilger's 'The New Rulers of the World'. (A good read, highly recommended).
East Timor is actually near Indonesia (south east Asia) and is not Arabian. General Suharto, the second president of Indonesia, forcefully occupied East Timor killing 200,000 of the East Timorese people.
He was supported by the West because he was anti-communist and because he was buying weapons from many western countries, e.g. UK and Tony Blair. He also oppressed his own people, the Indonesians, by forcing them into slave labour for the western factories.
This was the reason their was little to no coverage by the "bc". Everything was considered fine over there, and General Suharto was treated like a great man ("The good guys are in power").
Until this day, no one really cares about these people and what happened to them (despite Amnesty International's efforts).
I think Lizzie's statement that East Timor is "some sort of Arabian place" serves to highlight the point of this song. No offence, since I did not know anything about East Timor till I read: John Pilger's 'The New Rulers of the World'. (A good read, highly recommended).
East Timor is actually near Indonesia (south east Asia) and is not Arabian. General Suharto, the second president of Indonesia, forcefully occupied East Timor killing 200,000 of the East Timorese people.
He was supported by the West because he was anti-communist and because he was buying weapons from many western countries, e.g. UK and Tony Blair. He also oppressed his own people, the Indonesians, by forcing them into slave labour for the western factories.
This was the reason their was little to no coverage by the "bc". Everything was considered fine over there, and General Suharto was treated like a great man ("The good guys are in power").
Until this day, no one really cares about these people and what happened to them (despite Amnesty International's efforts).