East Timor: Genocide in Paradise

by Matthew Jardine, Noam Chomsky (introduction)

Introduction by Noam Chomsky This book tells the story of East Timor's heroic struggle against impossible odds and explains why you so seldom hear about it in the western media.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics, War

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1995

Reviews

[Monique · Rating 4 out of 5]

This succinct yet efficient history of Timor-Leste spans the Indonesian invasion of 1975 until the publication in 1999 just before the half-island country's independence. It's well-researched and educational, demonstrating how Western countries turned a blind eye on the 600,000 East Timorese while Suharto's Indonesian military massacred, controlled and destroyed their lives for 25 years.

All this for political "pacification" preserving the investments, arms sales and natural resources of western powers. So many countries had the capacity to stop this genocide but none did, meanwhile it became a conflict forgotten in the media in no small part due to the occupation's isolating the island.

[Jared Palencia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read for everybody who is critical of American foreign policy propping up and supporting and providing weapons, arms, and money to the worst right-wing leaders during the Cold War.

[heyoka0 · Rating 3 out of 5]

snapshot of past and present of east timor's deep struggle against indonesianization

[Farkas Library]

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