Sad and shameful...attack on a vulnerable man regardless of his religious views. It will only stop when the department of religious affairs decide to treat an issue with fairness and without pressure from radical groups.

I see that DrDez is at it again with his or her elaborate feedback on the news "du jour". How about setting up a newspaper to the faithful local readers. It will be an advantage with the research made on each article. Sometimes I wonder if they are more than one DrDez sharing the same screen writing on here. The style, logic and attitude are certainly different when adding comments from one article to the next. Well keep up the good work...

Lets just recap JPB

I have now linked you to goodness knows how many global reports on Indonesians abuses in ET including details of the hundreds of thousands killed

I have also provided links to photographic evidence of the above and also prison camps.

In addition I have suggested that if ET want strengthen ties then I think thats good

PS - the media was different in 1975 it is silly to expect swathes of photographs - PLUS of course Surharto had a no entry policy for just about anyone

In response you have provided nothing more than there are ET gangs in Jakarta - Surharto built roads and the rest is just ETAN propaganda

Please provide evidence to support your claims

Please also note this is about some foul beast attacking a poor disabled Ahmadiyah who has been driven to live in a ghetto by Muslims for daring to be different - something you still have not condemned

JPB - and still you have not condemned this brutal attack on an Ahmadiyah

Re No pix - a google image search returns 68,000 images -

But better still read Mathew Jardines 'Genocide in Paradise' you will have to find it via the net because actually its banned in Indonesia...There are some graphic images showing prison camps among other vile acts carried out under the Indonesian flag

Now... That is evidence. All I ask is that you now provide evidence that ET want to be rejoined with Indonesia

JPB - I linked you to over 1200 articles - If you cannot be bothered to read them do blame me - There were thousands herded into prison camps along with hundreds of thousands slaughtered

I hope ET gets closer ties with Indonesia I really do - But that requires seeing ET as an equal - If in the future ET want to rejoin Indonesia I would be all for that as long as it is the will of the people... Today that is not the case there are too many wounds inflicted by Indonesia - It is a credit to the ET leaders that they can bite their pride and deal with us through need

As to survival on a small Island... Why don't you let them try and stop this colonial attitude

Given how expensive things are in East Timor now, I think if people can vote again, they will choose to remain in Indonesia. They are still even sending their children to Indonesian school, some even counterfeit Indonesian ID card so that they can pay local Indonesian tuitition. They are just a half of a small island. I just cant imagine how they will survive alone like that. The oil will be dry soon enough, what then? Australia is far, and its people are much different indonesia is right next door and our people are very similar.. so I expect in the future ET will be closer to Indonesia than Australia. Perhaps they will ask for some special relation with Indonesia. Certainly after the current ex rebel leadership dies off.