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East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the
road to independence. The significance of its passage to
freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-is manifold.
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of East Timor's travail
and its triumph in its international context. East Timor's
independence constitutes one of the final and most poignant moments
in a long and bitter history of European colonization and
decolonization. For the people of East Timor, independence from
Portugal in 1975 was only the beginning of a new struggle against
Indonesian invaders a struggle that took the lives of 200,000 East
Timorese and one that is by no means over. The case of East Timor,
both during and after the Cold War, provides a litmus test for
issues of international responsibility, posing questions of double
standards in unusually clear-cut form. It reveals the active
support by the United States and other powers for the military
forces of Indonesia throughout the years of that nation's invasion
and repression of East Timor, until 1998 when the collapse of the
Indonesian dictatorship ushered in a new phase in the East Timorese
struggle. Contributions by: Peter Bartu, Noam Chomsky, Richard
Falk, Geoffrey C. Gunn, Peter Hayes, Wade Huntley, Gerry Van
Klinken, Helene Van Klinken, Arnold S. Kohen, Allan Nairn, Sarah
Niner, Constancio Pinto, Geoffrey Robinson, Joao Mariano Saldanha,
Charles Scheiner, Mark Selden, Stephen R. Shalom, and Richard
Tanter."
The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during,
and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a
blatant challenge to the international community as many of the
acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass
deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the
ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of
Terror provides an authoritative analysis and documentation of the
brutal operations carried out by the Indonesian army and its East
Timorese allies. The authors carefully assemble detailed accounts
of the actions of the major Indonesian officers and East Timorese
militia commanders accused of gross human rights violations. This
indispensable work explores a horrific frontal attack on democracy
and calls for the establishment of an international tribunal for
crimes against humanity in East Timor.
The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during,
and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a
blatant challenge to the international community as many of the
acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass
deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the
ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of
Terror provides an authoritative analysis and documentation of the
brutal operations carried out by the Indonesian army and its East
Timorese allies. The authors carefully assemble detailed accounts
of the actions of the major Indonesian officers and East Timorese
militia commanders accused of gross human rights violations. This
indispensable work explores a horrific frontal attack on democracy
and calls for the establishment of an international tribunal for
crimes against humanity in East Timor.
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