The invasion of East Timor

1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor. With US, Australian and British complicity, the dictatorship of Indonesia invaded and annexed the small state just north of Australia, overthrowing the popularly elected government. Genocide occurred (200,000 probably killed, an estimated one-third of the East Timorese population) but almost no attention was paid in most Western media for many years ...

Categories: indonesia, east-timor, australia, usa, uk, genocide