East Timor A Western Made Tragedy

Judul	:	East Timor A Western Made Tragedy
Penulis	:	Mark Aarons & Robert Domm
Bahasa	:	Inggris
Penerbit	:	The Left Book Club
Tahun Cetak	:	1992
Halaman	:	96
ISBN	:	1 875 285 10 5
Harga	:	Rp. 100.000
Status	:	Ada

The massacre of an as yet undetermined number of unarmed civilians in Dili on 12 November 1991 was only latest in a series of massacres which have been carried out by the Indonesian army since the 1975 invasion. Indonesia’s 16-year occupation of East Timor has resulted in the death of 200,000 people by war, famine and repression. One-third of a whole people perished in a genocide comparable with Pol Pot’s in Cambodia.

Yet the West, including Australia, accepted Indonesia’s illegal annexation of East Timor almost without protest. And successive Australian governments –Whitlam’s, Fraser’s Hawke’s and Keating’s- encouraged, accepted and recognized Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor. Even after the Dili massacre, Australia signed a further treaty giving BHP and other oil companies a share in exploiting Timor Gap oil and gas.

Mark Aarons and Robert Domm have written a damning indictment of the Indonesia’s and their policies which will remind all Australians of the continuing tragedy going on just off our coast; a tragedy we helped to created.