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 cr...
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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Suharto was pure evil he also killed TWO MILLION INDONESIANS supported by WESTERN NATIONS simply for believing that communism can be viable political option !!!!!
people east timor have always persevered more power to them ...
fuck off suharto, nugroho wisnumurti,benny murdany,ali alatas
garet evans,gough whiltlam, malcolm fraser, henry kissinger, daniel, archie hamilton, alan clark, alan thomas, marianne haynes, douglas heyard, richard woolcoltt were bastard and bithces !
may all these rest in hell as they committed so much crimes againt humanity !
Thanks for John Pilger and Max Stahll for their effort to let whole world knew this great injustice slaughtering and occupying of the tiny nation for decades!
Cyprus and East Timor have suffered under invasion by two large nations(Turkey, Indonesia). Henry Kissenger knew about the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus(British Colony). Kissenger knew about the 1975 Indonesian military invasion of East Timor. Both nations who invaded killed innocent people and engaged in ethnic cleansing.
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people east timor have always persevered more power to them ...
garet evans,gough whiltlam, malcolm fraser, henry kissinger, daniel, archie hamilton, alan clark, alan thomas, marianne haynes, douglas heyard, richard woolcoltt were bastard and bithces !
may all these rest in hell as they committed so much crimes againt humanity !
Thanks for John Pilger and Max Stahll for their effort to let whole world knew this great injustice slaughtering and occupying of the tiny nation for decades!
HIDUP INDONESIA!
Don't u mean the UNITED NATIONS?
ps the united nations wont leave until East timor ask them too