JOHN PILGER: Did it ever bother you personally that this British equipment was causing such mayhem and human suffering? ALAN CLARK: No, not in the slightest, never entered my head. I mean you tell me this was happening but I didnt hear about it or know about it. Well even if I hadnt told you it was happening, the fact that we supply highly effective equipment to a regime like that then is not a consideration as far as youre concerned? Its not a personal consideration? No, not at all. I ask the question because I read you are a vegetarian and you are quite seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Yes. Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed? Curiously not, no. --from Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy [1994 vimeo/17633599 ] by John Pilger. Alan Clark was Thatchers Minister for Trade, responsible for overseeing arms sales to foreign governments (including Saddam Husseins Iraq regime), when Britain and the U.S. sold arms to Indonesia before, during and after its 1979 attack on the Timorese people, killing 150,000 - 200,000 of them.
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