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The East Timor genocide refers to the "pacification campaigns" of state terrorism which were waged by the Indonesian New Order government during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor.
This occupation involved an estimated 170,000 deaths, about 25% of the 1975 population, between 1975 and 1999. The occupation came to the world’s attention after the massacre of 270 civilians protesting at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, the capital, was caught on video in 1991.
The Indonesian invasion of East Timor, known in Indonesia as Operation Lotus (Indonesian: Operasi Seroja), began on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military (ABRI/TNI) invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism and anti-communism to overthrow the Fretilin regime that had emerged in 1974. [7]
Neighboring Indonesia, a military dictatorship more than 200 times East Timor’s size, began attacking Timor in an effort to prevent the island nation from completing its move toward...
Welcome to the Yale East Timor Project, since 2000 a component of the Genocide Studies Program. Indonesia’s military dictatorship invaded the small territory of East Timor (then Portuguese Timor) in December 1975.
Following the "Balibo Declaration" that was signed by representatives of Apodeti, UDT, KOTA and the Trabalhista Party on 30 November 1975, Indonesian military forces invaded East Timor on 7 December 1975, and by 1979 they had all but destroyed the armed resistance to the occupation.
The occupation of East Timor: “crime against humanity” or “attempted genocide”? Faced with such figures, one may wonder whether the occupation of East Timor and its consequences can be described as a crime against humanity, or even attempted genocide.