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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. The majority of sources consider the Indonesian killings in East Timor to constitute genocide , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while other scholars disagree on ...
Indonesian soldiers who had just suffered a heavy loss attacked a refugee camp housing around 5,000 to 6,000 Timorese refugees near the West Timor border, the soldiers massacred over 4,000 people. Assalaino and Sepelata killings 14 May 1978 Assalaino and Sepelata, Lautém Municipality: 7
War, Genocide, and Resistance in East Timor, 1975–99: Comparative Reflections on Cambodia by Ben Kiernan; Historical Dictionary of East Timor by Geoffrey C. Gunn; Fibiger, Mattias (11 June 2020). "A Diplomatic Counter-revolution: Indonesian diplomacy and the invasion of East Timor". Modern Asian Studies. 55 (2): 587– 628. doi:10.1017 ...
It was abolished in 1999 following East Timor independence. East Timor voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. East Timor acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 18 September 2003. [1]
Oxford University held an academic consensus calling the occupation of East Timor a genocide and Yale University teaches it as part of its Genocide Studies program. [14] [15] The invasion of East Timor and the suppression of its independence movement caused great harm to Indonesia's reputation and international credibility. [16] [17]
Independence for East Timor, or even limited regional autonomy, was not allowable under Suharto's New Order. Notwithstanding Indonesian public opinion in the 1990s occasionally showing begrudging appreciation of the Timorese position, it was widely feared that an independent East Timor would destabilise Indonesian unity. [24]
A few months before the invasion of East Timor five journalist, reporter Greg Shackleton and sound recordist Tony Stewart who were both Australian, a New Zealand cameraman Gary Cunningham and two Brits cameraman Brian Peters and reporter Malcolm Rennie were summarily executed by the Indonesian Army. Matadouro massacre: 7 December 1975 Matadouro ...
Genocide Watch, Besi Merah Puti - Alan Williams; Health Alliance International website - More information on health projects in East Timor by HAI; Jornal Nacional - Semanário (Portuguese) Links to Timor Leste government sites; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; Suara Timor Lorosae - (Tetum and Indonesian) CIA World Factbook on East Timor