Originally colonized by the Portuguese, East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about a third of the population through massacres, starvation and disease. Subsequent events in Indonesia, however, have given rise to expectations of a fundamental change in its position on East Timor. Considering the potential for change against a backdrop of growing popular and political support for the Timorese cause, this book addresses its emergence as an issue of global importance. The authors set out to show how local, grassroots, individual, organizational and campaign initiatives have contributed to this state of affairs, in the context of an increased international-relations emphasis on ethics, international morality and human rights.

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Information

Publisher

I.B. Tauris

Year

2000

ISBN

9780857712295

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

Holocaust History

Index

History

Cover
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction: East Timor – From European to Third World Colonialism
2 A Personal Journey through East Timor
3 Reporting East Timor: Western Media Coverage of the Conflict
4 Balibo: The Cover-up that Led to Genocide
5 The Legacy of the Suharto Dictatorship
6 The Indonesian Propaganda War against East Timor
7 Seeds of Hope – East Timor Ploughshares Disarming the Hawks
8 New Labour, New Codes of Conduct? British Government Policy towards Indonesia and East Timor after the 1997 Election
9 The United States: From Complicity to Ambiguity
10 Canberra: Jakarta’s Trojan Horse in East Timor
11 The Local Meets the Global: East Timor and Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union
12 East Timor and Western Sahara: A Comparative Perspective
13 South Africa’s Transition: Lessons for East Timor?
14 Conclusion: East Timor After Suharto – A New Horizon
Index of Names
Index of Places