Sir, - The Indonesian military and gangs operating with at least their acquiescence are clearly carrying out massacres of civilians and ethnic "cleansing" in East Timor, yet the international community has taken no action. When Serbia was merely suspected of planning atrocities on this scale it was robustly confronted. Is it not past time for the international community's military to kill thousands of Indonesian civilians and destroy the Indonesian economy in order to teach the Indonesian military a moral lesson? - Yours, etc.,
William Hunt, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6W.