The Antisocial Socialist

Oh yeah. I mean I always try to think "No man is an island, ask not for whom the bell tolls..." but when it comes to someone like Suharto? Seems a bit hollow. Mind you, I did see Jose Ramos Horta call for East Timorese to forgive Suharto before he died, so if they can - but I suspect that was more political expediency than anything else. (East Timor was my big campaigning thing of the mid-to-late '90s.)

I can't believe what a soft spot the BBC seems to have for the bastard. They're being very easy on his record now; and I remember the day he fell the BBC correspondent in Indonesia described him as a 'relatively benign dictator'. Sheesh.