The East Timor Question

Author : Stephen McCloskey,Paul Hainsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857712295

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The East Timor Question by Stephen McCloskey,Paul Hainsworth Pdf

Originally colonized by the Portuguese, East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about a third of the population through massacres, starvation and disease. Subsequent events in Indonesia, however, have given rise to expectations of a fundamental change in its position on East Timor. Considering the potential for change against a backdrop of growing popular and political support for the Timorese cause, this book addresses its emergence as an issue of global importance. The authors set out to show how local, grassroots, individual, organizational and campaign initiatives have contributed to this state of affairs, in the context of an increased international-relations emphasis on ethics, international morality and human rights.

Author : Catholic Institute for International Relations
Publisher : Catholic Institute for International Relations
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Annexation (International law)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060617110

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International Law and the Question of East Timor by Catholic Institute for International Relations Pdf

Author : Shane Gunderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498502351

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Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement by Shane Gunderson Pdf

Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor examines the campaigns by people in the United States on behalf of those seeking peace for East Timor. The diplomatic work of voluntary advisors and supporters living in the United States in the early years of the movement have not been thoroughly explored until now. Through in-depth interviews with twenty activists and intellectuals involved in the East Timor movement from 1975-1999 and qualitative data analysis on information obtained from these interviews, this book explores “momentum” and “turning points” as perceptions in the minds of individual movement actors. The author takes readers through a combination of historical events that shaped social movement actors' attitudes and started a social movement momentum sequence in 1995. The East Timor All Inclusive Dialogue, the Timorization of Indonesia, the public outcries, organizational evolution, and a number of other turning points in the movement represented a series of successes that led to East Timor's independence.

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : East Timor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019302764

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East Timor and the United Nations by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

In the forceful tradition of Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta's FUNU (Red Sea Press 1987), the present worl advocates self-determination for and the urgent need for UN intervention in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Since 1975, when neighboring Indonesia invaded and occupied this small Southeast Asian half-island, an amazingly creative and dedicated international community of activists has arisen over this question. Now, the Nobel Committee's award of the 1996 Peace Prize to Mr. Ramos-Horta and his compatriot, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, is drawing worldwide attention to this ongoing tragedy.

Author : José Ramos-Horta
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013517928

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Funu by José Ramos-Horta Pdf

A personal story by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the shocking genocide of the Timorese people at the hands of the Indonesian occupants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Assembleia Da Republica
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : East Timor
ISBN : 9725562178

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Hearings on the East Timor question by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Webster
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774863001

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Challenge the Strong Wind by David Webster Pdf

In 1975, Indonesian forces overran East Timor, which had just declared independence from Portugal. The occupation lasted twenty-four years. Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the evolution of Canadian government policy toward East Timor during that period. Canada initially followed key allies in endorsing Indonesian rule, but Canadian civil society groups promoted an alternative foreign policy that focused on self-determination and human rights. Ottawa eventually yielded to pressure from these NGOs and pushed like-minded countries to join it in supporting Timorese self-determination. David Webster draws on untapped government and non-government archival sources, demonstrating that a clear-eyed view of international history must include both state and non-state perspectives.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PURD:32754077263915

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Human Rights in East Timor and the Question of the Use of U.S. Equipment by the Indonesian Armed Forces by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations Pdf

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : East Timor
ISBN : UCSD:31822030365324

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Complicity in Genocide by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

Author : Douglas Kammen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813574110

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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor by Douglas Kammen Pdf

One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor’s independence. Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor’s failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor—from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China—where mass violence keeps recurring.

Author : Ali Alatas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064243143

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The Pebble in the Shoe by Ali Alatas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Assembleia Da Republica
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Timor-Leste
ISBN : 9725562305

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Hearings on the East Timor Question, 1997 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1569020450

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East Timor and the United Nations by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

An analysis of the present situation in East Timor which advocates a policy of self-determination for the country and urges intervention by the United Nations whose previous resolutions have been ignored by the occupying Indonesians.

Author : Peter Carey,G. Carter Bentley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824817885

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East Timor at the Crossroads by Peter Carey,G. Carter Bentley Pdf

In a rapidly changing post-Cost War world, where many age-old conflicts and injustices are at last being put to rights, East Timor stands out as a still unresolved tragedy. In the past twenty years (1975–95), this former Portuguese colony has been under Indonesian military occupation, an occupation responsible for the death of over 200,000 of its inhabitants (a third of its pre-1975 population) and the destruction of much of its indigenous society. Yet, despite enormous odds, the people of East Timor continue to fight for the independence which was denied them in the mid-1970s. Twenty years on, there is now a very real chance for a new beginning in East Timor. This book, which brings together contributions by both East Timorese and Western specialists of East Timor, provides a compelling account of the process by which a once isolated and traditional society has been forged into a nation with a deep sense of its own identity rooted it its unique religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical heritage. Indonesia is at last beginning to realize the cost of Third World colonialism, and its Western allies are becoming less tolerant of its ‘security state’ methods. The last section of this book considers the new diplomatic initiatives which are currently in train, under the auspices of the UN, to bring about a resolution to the Timor problem without jeopardizing the integrity of the Indonesian Republic. An extensive bibliography of titles on East Timor published between 1970 and 1994 will prove especially useful for scholars.

Author : M. Anne Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719061059

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Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering by M. Anne Brown Pdf

Argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates.