Timor : a people betrayed
by James Dunn
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Timor: A People Betrayed
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Gough Whitlam; Suharto
- Important places
- East Timor; Balibo, East Timor; Santa Cruz Cemetery, Dili, East Timor; Lisbon, Portugal; Canberra, Australia; Jakarta, Indonesia
- Important events
- Carnation Revolution (1974-04-25); Indonesian Invasion of East Timor (1975); Assassination of journalists in Balibo; Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (1975-11-11); Santa Cruz Massacre (1991-11-12)
- Epigraph
- Do that good mischief, which may make this island
Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
For aye thy foot-licker.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest - First words
- Almost thirteen years have elapsed since the first edition of this book went into print, and more than two decades have passed since the Balibo incident, which marked the first major military operation against East Timor by I... (show all)ndonesia's armed forces.
- Quotations
- Unlike the Tiananmen Square massacre, the slaughter of perhaps 200 young Timorese brought no tears from Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Significantly, Woolcott went on to say: 'Although we know it is not true, the formal position of the Indonesian government is still that there is no Indonesian military intervention in East Timor. If the Minister said or impl... (show all)ied in public the Indonesian Government was lying we would invite a hurt and angry reaction.
After the orgy of killing at Lacluta a Timorese asked an Indonesian soldier why he had killed the wife and child of a FRETLIN guerrilla, and the reply was: 'When you clean the field, don't you kill all the snakes, the small a... (show all)nd large alike?'
The US representative to the UN, Daniel P. Moynihan, later made the following revealing comment: 'The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that t... (show all)he UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. The task was given to me and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.' - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A real test of that commitment, which in effect is a measure of the state of our civilisation, is the international community's resolve to remedy a gross violation of those standards against a small and vulnerable people.
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 959.8 — History & geography History of Asia Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam Indonesia
- LCC
- DS646.5 .D86 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) Timor
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
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