Sunday June 10, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

In Indonesia today there were 2 large rallies protesting Israel.
The rallies were held in Jakarta and Medan, the two largest cities in Indonesia. The protests focused on Israel's human rights abuses over the past 40 years - since the Six Day War of 1967.

Indonesia is the most-populated Muslim country in the world.
Indonesia is one of the worst abusers of human rights in the world.
In February 2004 the US State Department's Human Rights Report described the Indonesian government's human rights record as "poor."

The report said: They have "continued to commit serious abuses."
Murders, torture, rape, beatings, and arbitrarily detaining civilians and members of separatist movements were all documented as abuses by security force members. The report accuses them of failiing to protect the rights of children, women, peaceful protesters, journalists, disabled persons, religious minorities, and indigenous people. Aceh and Papua provinces were where the most apparent human rights abuses took place.

These 20,000 protestors were probably professional rally goers.
If they did not attend the rally condemning Israel they would probably have been arrested and tortured or at the very least - they would not have been paid.