HTML pages designed & maintained by Alifuru67 Copyright © 1999/2000 - 1364283024 & 1367286044		ATAMBUA OR MOLUCCA No More Time to wait by Jacky Manuputty Dear Friends, I was very suprised to see the reaction from international world that occured over the murder of three members of the UNHCR in Atambua, East Timor recently. Even more to the statement made by the UN Security Council as a strong response toward the incident. At the same time I am disappointed to see that our struggle to get the international attention on the humanitarian tragedy in the Moluccas gets a weak slow response. I was struck by a reality of injustice not only in a national scale in Indonesia but also internationally. I do not disregard that many clashes in the international agenda. However, it is ironic that the more important humanitarian agendas are only regardes as second-class instrument in international relations. These agendas or even international political and economical conspiracies are always put on a primary level in most inter-coutry relations. In this instance I see the quick response and anger from the United Nation regarding the Atambua incident as a representation of their pride and arrogance as a respectable institution whose pride was stained with the killing of three of their staff. I am certain that Kofi Annan will not stand up and ask the participants of the congress to have one minute silent if only those who died in Atambua were not aid workers of the United Nations. In this case I feel that our struggle to get the attention and appropriate response from the international world towards the humanitarian tragedy in the Moluccas in the past two years has been far harder than asking the attention and responsibility of the Indonesian government. In other words our struggle against the injustice done by the Indonesian government on the Moluccans more or less is a global struggle against the political and economical hegemonies in international relations, which eliminates and destroys human dignity. I remember what I said to friend in Paris, that humanitarian aid workers around the world should have a solid coalition against the coalition of the politicians and economists whose words are not trustworthy for myself, unless if I experience myself that they put into practice what they say they would do. In relation to what I mentioned above, one day I was devastated by the reaction of one member of parliament in one debate in the House of Lord in England, when he said that the humanitarian tragedy in Indonesia is no more than a result of a rise of democracy, which has been and still will be supported by the British. He gave an example of 2 million pound financial aid given to support the 1999 election in Indonesia. Therefore he thought that the problem in Moluccas is an internal problem an a dynamically developing democracy. It became very strange to me and I started questioning myself, how can that comment be made by a member of parliament ia a country who has the oldest democratic system in the world. How can a support to the uprising democracy should be paid by thousands of Moluccans with tears, blood and death??? Here I can see the political and economical agendas between countries hidden behind jargons of democracy or a country's sovereignty will in turn giving birth to many more humanitarian tragedies in many parts of the globe. The question that remains in my head lately is, "what's the difference between a facist president who is being mocked internationally when killing thousands of his citizens, with a weak president who upholds democracy and is backed by the international community, but letting thousands of his people be killed?" Well thousands of the moluccans have been slaughtered without knowing what for and why. While the government and the international politicians prefer to take it as a tragedy of democracy in Indonesia. It is more dignified to support a democrat but weak president for the sake of politic and economic, or it is more dignified to accuse the killing of the three workers in Atambua in comparison to accuse or bring to trial the murderers of the Moluccans in the International Tribunal. I the started wishing, if only I were a world millionare, maybe I would be a big benefactor to the United Nations, so that the humanitarian tragedy in the Moluccas will get a quicker response like what happened in Atambua. Or radically I think that if only we in the Moluccas could kidnap and kill other UN workers in other parts of Indonesia, maybe we would get the response from the world on the tragedy in the Moluccas in the past two years. These are ridiculous thought, but for me personally not any less ridiculous than the reaction of a dignified institution such as the United Nations who has seen the tragedy in the Moluccas or other parts in the world with one eye. I realise that the hegemony of the colonialism is being softened in the global society while pulling on the universality jargons as a justification in world interactions. Lately I become more intensive in encouraging the Moluccans wherever they are to keep vengeance and grow it in our hearts. Vengeance for all the injustice of the Indonesia government. Also vengeance of the unconcerned international society. Yes, we have to have the vengeance. Our children have to grow in this vengeance. Only with this we can defend ourselves and show that we do exist. Only with this we can be dynamic in our struggle to change our fate. I remember that in vengeance too, a Marthin Luther King Junior started his struggle when he had to give away his seat on a bus to white man, just because he was black. Here than I want to encourage us all to have the same vengeance. Vengeance for all the injustice and untruthfulness, and there is only one word to face that : "RESIST".   Received via e-mail from : Jacky Manuputty by way of PJS Copyright © 1999-2000  - Ambon Berdarah On-Line * http://www.go.to/ambon HTML pages designed and maintained by Alifuru67 * http://www.oocities.org/ambon67 Send your comments to alifuru67@egroups.com