SYDNEY -- Still the broken skulls are being unearthed. And still the United Nations talks on. Soon, Australia fears, the evidence of atrocities in East Timor will be scattered and, worse, forgotten.
As Australian troops leading a U.N. peace-enforcing mission uncover more of the systematic carnage in the soon-to-be-free Indonesian province, shocked Australians are demanding to know how soon world revulsion will be translated into world justice.
The preplanned revenge that followed East Timor's recent vote for independence from Jakarta continues. Even as shocked villagers are persuaded to come out of their hideouts, the same Indonesian militia gangs that first burned their homes are raiding again, armed with military rifles and machetes.