A Quote by Antonio Tabucchi
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
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Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
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Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
First of all, Indonesian people have to be educated and to know what they want and what their country is all about. The interests of the people have to be put first! The entire society has to work day and night in order to improve the lives of the majority. Basically, we need the opposite of what is Indonesia right now, which is: the majority-serving business interests of the local gangsters and their foreign handlers.
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