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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor (Hardcover)
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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor (Hardcover)
Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass
political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place
over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in
Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region's
tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a
small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of
trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara
experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese
colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive
campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of
brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of
particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored
referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor's
independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during
East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of
state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail
and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading
families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how
recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities
within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those
legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights
violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship
between local experience and the identification with the East
Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict
in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply
to many other places besides East Timor-from the Caucasus to
central Africa, and from the Balkans to China - dash;where mass
violence keeps recurring.
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