Amy Goodman
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East Timor Minister Constâncio Pinto Reflects on 25th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre
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While covering the United Nations climate summit, we speak with Constâncio Pinto, minister of commerce, industry and environment of TimorLeste, or East Timor. East Timor was compared to Western Sahara for decades. Both countries were occupied in 1975, Timor by Indonesia and Western Sahara by Morocco. Both populations supported U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for referenda for selfdetermination, which Timor got in 1999 and voted overwhelmingly to become independent. The people of Western Sahara, however, are still calling for that referendum to take place. Minister Constâncio Pinto just came from East Timor, where on November 12 he was involved in the 25th anniversary observance of the Santa Cruz massacre, where the Indonesian military attacked, using U.S. weapons, gunning down over 270 Timorese. Pinto was a lead organizer of the peaceful procession that got gunned down.
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