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Death of a Nation - East Timor
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On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly - but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US, the UK, and Australia - invaded the small nation of East Timor. Two Australian television crews attempting to document the invasion were murdered.
In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew including director David Munro, slipped into East Timor and made this film. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese - 1/3 of the population - had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. The C.I.A. has described it as one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century.
Pilger tells the story using clandestine footage of the countryside, internment camps and even Fretlin guerillas, as well as interviews with Timorese exiles, including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose Gusmao, and Australian, British, and Indonesian diplomats.
Nixon had called Indonesia the "greatest prize in southeast Asia" because of its oil reserves and other natural resources. Even though Indonesia had no historic or legal claim to East Timor, it was convenient for diplomats to declare that East Timor, just gaining its independence from Portugal, would not be a viable state.
However the lie was given to this argument when Australia and Indonesia signed the Timor Gap Oil Treaty and carved up the huge oil and gas reserves in the seabed off East Timor.
None of the politicians from that period - President Ford, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Gough Whitlam - has clean hands. The Indonesian military used US and British planes to bombard the island, while the defense ministers proclaimed ignorance.
As Pilger gets an Austrlian diplomat to admit, East Timor was considered "expendable."
But no one watching the massacre in the Dili cemetery can excuse the geopolitical machinations that led to this genocide.
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There is no better historical documentary on E. Timor.
It's long, boring, horrifying, fascinating and totally worthwhile. Much of the footage is not to be seen elsewhere.
If there is a slant to the reporting, it's only uphill against the simplistic story... that nobody knows anyway.
If there is truth in journalism, there are plenty of facts to be tested here.
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the most up to date analysis of East Timor.
cavr-timorleste[DOT]org/en/chegaReport[DOT]htm
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Lowest possible number of conflict related deaths between 1974-1999 = 102,800
This minimum conservative estimate does not include conflict related hunger and illness deaths, which would bring the number up to a speculated 183,000.
Spilger came to the 200,000 number based on a 1974 Catholic church estimate of the population of East Timor as being 688,711 people; in 1982 the church reported only 425,000.
What a hypocrite - read his diaries and it's clear he doesn't give two shits about his constituents, so long as they voted him back in and then left him to his arms-selling and adultury.
don't blame us for what happened in east Timor.
I feel sorry for them too.
and now they are in the middle of civil war.
if u wanna blame, blame the fucking Shoeharto (ex-president) and his family for their greediness to conquer the whole state