By giving $40 billion in aid to rescue Indonesia from economic crisis "the western capitalist governments are helping the Indonesians to kill us and to stay longer in East Timor".
Mr Fernando de Araujo is a Timorese student activist who was released from prison in time to witness the last weeks of the dictatorship of President Suharto.
Gen Suharto stepped down on May 21st after "people power" street demonstrations, in which an estimated 1,200 were killed.
Like the Timorese guerrilla leader, Mr Xanana Gusmao, to whom he was close while in Cipinang prison outside Jakarta, Mr de Araujo sees Indonesia's current difficulty as East Timor's opportunity.
He appealed for a new Irish Government initiative on East Timor, and in the negotiated transition he expects, he would welcome Irish troops in blue UN berets.
In the meantime he and Mr Gusmao want to see the West make the current International Monetary Fund package conditional on improved human rights observance and self-determination for East Timor. It was in the process of being de-colonised from Portugal at the time of Indonesia's illegal 1975 invasion.
Mr de Araujo (33) served six years of a nine-year sentence in prison - almost a year of it was incommunicado - for writing to Amnesty International giving the news of the infamous November 1991 Santa Cruz cemetery massacre of perhaps 270 mourners. It was his actions, however, that were seen as "disgracing Indonesia in the eyes of the international community".
Although Indonesia's and East Timor's political problems remain unsolved by the succession of the civilian President, Mr J.B. Habibie, the recent turmoil has meant some political opening.
It's enough to mean that when Mr de Araujo returns to Jakarta next month after his current European solidarity tour he is less likely to be lifted by security forces for "subversion" than he would have been even weeks ago. He expects to be interrogated, however.
In Dublin this week he said that he had just received a message - through the email that has revolutionised the business of agitation and networking - from his friend, Mr Gusmao, urging him to stress the message that the international community should keep up the pressure on Indonesia to release its grip on Timor.
"Habibie talks about `special status' for East Timor but he continues the occupation." Asked whether, in view of the institutionalised political power of ABRI, the military, President Habibie meant to negotiate sincerely, Mr de Araujo pointed out that there was no precedent inside the Indonesian system for "special status".
"There is not even one signal of progress in the negotiations between Indonesia, Portugal and the United Nations. The US and the EU even criticise human rights violations but they still support Indonesia economically," he said, returning to his central point.
But on the ground several recent developments did point to change, he said.
Last weekend for the first time ever Indonesians were able to read in the press that 20,000 of their troops have been killed in Timor over the years and that 200,000 Timorese have lost their lives because of the struggle.
Indonesia's two most powerful Muslim leaders and the moderate opposition leader, Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri, have recently backed the Timorese Bishop Carlos Belo's call for a self-determination referendum.
And the resistance says as many as 150,000 transmigrasi, Muslim settlers from Indonesian islands, have fled East Timor this month alone - presumably in fearful expectation of a change in East Timor's status.