The East Timor Question
Title | The East Timor Question PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen McCloskey |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2000-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857712292 |
Originally colonized by the Portuguese, East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about a third of the population through massacres, starvation and disease. Subsequent events in Indonesia, however, have given rise to expectations of a fundamental change in its position on East Timor. Considering the potential for change against a backdrop of growing popular and political support for the Timorese cause, this book addresses its emergence as an issue of global importance. The authors set out to show how local, grassroots, individual, organizational and campaign initiatives have contributed to this state of affairs, in the context of an increased international-relations emphasis on ethics, international morality and human rights.
Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor
Title | Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Kammen |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2015-08-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813574110 |
One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor’s independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor’s failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor—from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China—where mass violence keeps recurring.
The East Timor Question
Title | The East Timor Question PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Jolliffe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | East Timor |
ISBN |
Consists of clippings, correspondence, photos and other documents gathered in the course of twenty years of reporting on East Timor by Australian journalist Jill Jolliffe.
International Law and the Question of East Timor
Title | International Law and the Question of East Timor PDF eBook |
Author | Catholic Institute for International Relations |
Publisher | Catholic Institute for International Relations |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement
Title | Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Shane Gunderson |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2015-03-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498502350 |
Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor examines the campaigns by people in the United States on behalf of those seeking peace for East Timor. The diplomatic work of voluntary advisors and supporters living in the United States in the early years of the movement have not been thoroughly explored until now. Through in-depth interviews with twenty activists and intellectuals involved in the East Timor movement from 1975-1999 and qualitative data analysis on information obtained from these interviews, this book explores “momentum” and “turning points” as perceptions in the minds of individual movement actors. The author takes readers through a combination of historical events that shaped social movement actors' attitudes and started a social movement momentum sequence in 1995. The East Timor All Inclusive Dialogue, the Timorization of Indonesia, the public outcries, organizational evolution, and a number of other turning points in the movement represented a series of successes that led to East Timor's independence.
"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die"
Title | "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Robinson |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2011-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691150176 |
Colonial legacies -- Invasion and genocide -- Occupation and resistance -- Mobilizing the militias -- Bearing witness, tempting fate -- The vote -- A campaign of violence -- Intervention -- Justice and reconciliation.
Funu
Title | Funu PDF eBook |
Author | José Ramos-Horta |
Publisher | The Red Sea Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780932415158 |
First published in 1986, this is a re-issue of 1996 Nobel Peace Price winner Jose Ramos-Horta's book on the struggles in East Timor and the world's indifference to them. With a preface by Noam Chomsky.