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> .. but the reference to the massacre of perhaps tens of thousands of people as a somewhat crude and clumsy intervention is about par for the course for #TheFreePress.

> Shaplen continues: “the so-called Fight for Freedom had turned into a civil war among five factions, one of which, the left-wing #Fretilin objected strenuously to the manner in which Indonesian troops moved in to take over the former colony.” Comment seems unnecessary.

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