East Timor

1975-1999

Overview

Websites

Videos (and Audio)

Overview

Easttimor.pdf

Find the original source here: UMASS Amherst East Timor

Websites

East Timor profile - TimelineA chronology of key events in the history of East Timor from the first Portuguese colonisation in the 17th century to the present day.

East Timor Genocide - Holocaust Museum Houston

The Holocaust Museum in Houston gives an overview of the East Timor genocide.

Justice Denied for East Timor - Human Rights Watch

"Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world." This report highlights gives an overview of the conflict and the aftermath.

Digital Exhibits: East Timor

Read an overview of the genocide and click on the links to hear testimony from an survivor of the East Timor genocide and the UN's Special Envoy to East Timor.

Videos (and Audio)

This video gives a short overview of the conflict in East Timor.

Nov 12, 2021... marks the 30th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor, when Indonesian troops armed with U.S. M16s fired on a peaceful memorial procession in the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, killing more than 270 East Timorese. Indonesia had invaded East Timor in 1975 and maintained a brutal occupation until 1999, when East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence in a United Nations referendum.... We play an excerpt of “Massacre: The Story of East Timor,” a 1992 documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn, who witnessed and survived the killings after being severely beaten by Indonesian troops.

Massacre: The Story of East Timor"MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor was aired on the first anniversary of the Dili massacre On November 12, 1991, Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a procession of peaceful East Timorese, killing more than 140 of them. Journalist Alan Nairn and I were covering the commemoration procession that day and walked between the soldiers and the people to try to head off the attack. The soldiers beat us, fracturing Nairn's skull. "In 1975, when Indonesia invaded East Timor, soldiers executed six Australian journalists, leaving no journalists to cover the invasion and subsequent events. For more than a dozen years, Indonesia closed East Timor to the outside world and killed more than 200,000 Timorese. While the soldiers lined up to shoot us, they decided not to execute us, probably because we are from the United States, the same country which supplies their weapons. "We escaped from East Timor a few hours after the massacre. When we made it to a hospital on Guam, we reported the story to news outlets around the world. The Indonesian government then banned us from returning, saying we were a threat to national security. "MASSACRE is the only US radio documentary ever made about East Timor. It looks at the massacre, world reaction to it with special emphasis on the United States, and documents the history of East Timor since the Indonesian invasion. In addition to our initial reports and the documentary, we testified before the United Nations and the US Congress. After debate in which our coverage was cited extensively, Congress cut off all military training aid to Indonesia."-- 1992 Peabody Awards entry form.

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