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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.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: February 6, 2007 at 7:13 am
Author: DeEnlightener

Length: 14:36
Rating: 4.74
Views: 30173

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sk8ertvd2000 (August 18, 2008 at 9:59 pm)
Only the truth can set the world free. We need to inform ourselves and spread the knowledge. How can we, as a people, live, day in and day out, and do nothing, while capitalist western countries destroy people'slives and this world?
ghqwpo (August 7, 2008 at 7:21 pm)
Conspiracy thats..all!
ghqwpo (August 7, 2008 at 7:20 pm)
Video like this that starts war.
vitoduval (August 7, 2008 at 5:54 am)
I thought the justification was that the Soviets were going to expoit the unrest after Portugal left, and use Timor as a naval base and maybe have Cuban troops there like Angola.
indulf (August 2, 2008 at 10:18 am)
Richard Holbrooke and Henry Kissinger supported the 1975 invasion. The USA and UK put Suharto and the military into power.
chingonhernandez (July 31, 2008 at 7:28 pm)
John Pilger is a professional! This material has a lot of information.
faifaalelei (July 24, 2008 at 10:31 am)
Dont worry, when you are standing their on your judgement day, you can ask god if jesus was Gay?...lets see how cocky you are then,you fuckin coward.
takotheoktopus (July 14, 2008 at 3:08 pm)
The CAVR report is rather lengthy so I'll just give you the numbers. Lowest possible number of conflict related deaths between 1974-1999 = 102,800This 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.
takotheoktopus (July 14, 2008 at 2:47 pm)
According to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, "Qualitative historical accounts have estimated the total death toll during the Indonesian occupation from a conservative 50,000 deaths to more than 200,000 deaths."
takotheoktopus (July 14, 2008 at 2:42 pm)
Read the extensive CAVR Report titled Chega! for the most up to date analysis of East Timor.cavr-timorleste[DOT]org/en/chegaReport[DOT]htmReplace [DOT] with .


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