Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor

Unerwünschte Bücher zum Faschismus #11

by José Ramos-Horta, Noam Chomsky (Preface)

A personal story by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the shocking genocide of the Timorese people at the hands of the Indonesian occupants.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Asia, Memoir, War

207 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

From Indonesia, José Ramos-Horta, resistance leader, politician, and an exiled spokesman for the liberation of East Timor, shared the Nobel Prize of peace of 1996 with Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and in 2007 took office as president.

Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo shared the Nobel Prize for peace of 1996 with José Ramos-Horta.


Since independence, José Manuel Ramos-Horta served second on 20 May 2007. From 2006, he, a fellow recipient and a former prime minister, won the election of 2007, and afterward served until his inauguration. From 1975, Ramos-Horta founded the revolutionary front for independence and served during the years of the occupation to 1999. Ramos-Horta continued to work with revolutionary front for independence, the party, and meanwhile resigned in 1988.

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Global Read 191 - Timor Leste/East Timor

I didn't know a lot about Timor Leste and their long history of being colonized and invaded. It was interesting to learn more about it. But the author chose to focus on a lot of boring political minutiae rather than actual life on the ground for people. Also years later some of his statements (praise for Qadaffi and Mugabe for example) are jarring to read. Overall I'm glad I got the information from this book to learn more on my own, but this isn't where I'd turn if I wanted to learn more about this country or read a good story.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn't finish it. Just so boring.