‘I never asked Kissinger to apologize’ for Indonesian invasion — BenarNews

UPDATED at 11:47 p.m. ET on 2023-12-01

Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta said Friday that he bore no anger towards Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state who died this week and had helped greenlight Indonesia’s December 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony.

But Virgílio da Silva Guterres, human rights ombudsman of the country formerly known as East Timor, was less conciliatory, saying it was unfortunate that the elder American statesman had died without retribution for his ruthless policies. More than 200,000 people were…