| Die Beteiligung der USA an der Übernahme durch Indonesien |
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| Geschrieben von Administrator | |
| Sonntag, 30. November 2008 | |
Die nach 25 Jahren Geheimhaltung im Sommer 2004 veröffentlichten
Dokumente zeigen, dass die USA an der Annexion West Papua durch
Indonesien entschieden mitgewirkt haben. (1967 unterzeichnete Freeport
bereits die Pachtverträge mit Indonesien) Auch der UN-Botschafter
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Chomsky 2001: War against people, S. 9)
bestätigt dies. THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding. Its budget is supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and individuals.Documents show U.S. backed a sham referendum in Papua province. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB128/index.htm JAKARTA, July 10 (AP): Documents recently declassified by the State Department and the Richard Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), have revealed that the United States supported former dictator Suharto, when he incorporated West Papua into Indonesia in 1969, after a self-determination vote later dismissed as a sham.  “You should tell Suharto that we understand the problems they face in West Papua,” U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger wrote to President Richard Nixon before Nixon's July 1969 trip to Indonesia, according to the U.S. State Department documents. The documents were received on Saturday 10. July 2004 from the Washington-based National Security Archive think-tank.Nixon's trip coincided with the Indonesian-controlled vote “Act of Free Choice” in which West Papuan tribal and community leaders - hand-picked by Jakarta - unanimously voted to join Indonesia, thus legitimising the annexation of the territory of West Irian (now West Papua). Improving relations with Indonesia's authoritarian regime was a U.S. priority at the time. Kissinger characterized Suharto as: “a moderate military man ... committed to progress and reform.” In these newly declassified papers, Kissinger also advised the president that: “You should not raise this [West Papua] issue with Suharto, except to note U.S. sympathy with Indonesia's concerns.” Top U.N. officials who supervised Indonesia's takeover have now admitted that most West Papuans were intentionally excluded, emphasizing that this “Act of Free Choice “ vote, used to justify the annexation of West Papua, is now clearly viewed as a sham. The revelations of these formerly secret archives have been published as Indonesia is in the midst of its first direct presidential elections, and as it is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the “Act of Free Choice”. This briefing book is the first publication of “the National Security Archive's Indonesia Documentation Project”, which is seeking the release of thousands of secret U.S. documents concerning U.S. policy toward Indonesia and East Timor from 1965-1999. The project aims to assist efforts to document and seek accountability for more than three decades of human rights abuses committed during the rule of President Suharto (1965-1998) in Indonesian Other revelations in these formerly secret documents include: * Agreement among U.S. and other Western officials that “Indonesia could not win an open election” and that the vast majority of West Irian's inhabitants favoured independence. * U.S. officials attempted to convince the United Nations representative present at the “Act of Free Choice,“ Bolivian diplomat Ortíz Sanz, that independence for West Irian was “inconceivable.” * U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Frank Galbraith warned that Indonesian military operations and abuses in West Irian, (resulting in the deaths of possibly hundreds of civilians), „had stimulated fears and rumours of intended genocide among the Irianese.“ |
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