Death of a Nation - East Timor

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Description: On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly - but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US, the UK, and Australia - invaded the small nation of East Timor. Two Australian television crews attempting to document the invasion were murdered. In 1993, with the Indonesian army still occupying the country, John Pilger and his crew including director David Munro, slipped into East Timor and made this film. In the intervening 18 years, an estimated 200,000 East Timorese - 1/3 of the population - had been slaughtered by the Indonesian military. The C.I.A. has described it as one of the worst mass-murders of the 20th century. Pilger tells the story using clandestine footage of the countryside, internment camps and even Fretlin guerillas, as well as interviews with Timorese exiles, including Jose Ramos Horta and Jose Gusmao, and Australian, British, and Indonesian diplomats. Nixon had called Indonesia the "greatest prize in southeast Asia" because of its oil reserves and other natural resources. Even though Indonesia had no historic or legal claim to East Timor, it was convenient for diplomats to declare that East Timor, just gaining its independence from Portugal, would not be a viable state. However the lie was given to this argument when Australia and Indonesia signed the Timor Gap Oil Treaty and carved up the huge oil and gas reserves in the seabed off East Timor. None of the politicians from that period - President Ford, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Gough Whitlam - has clean hands. The Indonesian military used US and British planes to bombard the island, while the defense ministers proclaimed ignorance. As Pilger gets an Austrlian diplomat to admit, East Timor was considered "expendable." But no one watching the massacre in the Dili cemetery can excuse the geopolitical machinations that led to this genocide.
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lechad84 ::: Favorites Funny, East Timor, now known as Timor Leste voted for the independance they now have. They chose it despite Indonesian aggression and violence against people who couldn't defend themselves. The result of the atrocities was the boot up the arse the TNI got from INTERFET. 07-09-17 02:45:33 __________________________________________________
aviationdoc78 ::: Favorites hahah..thats what USA doing all over the world,raping and killing other and then"help"people.. stupid bastard,hey listen..help yourself first to find other president rather to let your people and your maniac president killing other country 07-09-16 03:29:19 __________________________________________________
Immortal9 ::: Favorites Let me rape ur sisters and kill all ur families and let u flee and have a good life in other country and ask u to thanks me for doing that so u have a good life in other country. yes sound good right? 07-09-12 04:06:02 __________________________________________________
nickvanzetti ::: Favorites to hell with ALL the rich and powerful and all who follow and are envious of these pigs!! all good people please wake up and unite!! 07-09-11 13:09:59 __________________________________________________
aviationdoc78 ::: Favorites what aid?see wht happn in the field..many fuckin bastard western bring media,do small thing there,take picture disaster,then say to the world:look we help ppl so give us donation.our army,our people,they workin hard and neversay that they allready help others,now look east timor,become the poorest country in asia, civil war.its happen under western and aussie,under us95 %budget come from indo,we give em live education,feed them,now many ofthem want back to indo,no,eat that freedom 07-09-08 04:13:27 __________________________________________________
textthing ::: Favorites What aid? 07-09-06 15:06:05 __________________________________________________
textthing ::: Favorites I never thought I would leave a comment like this, but I hope you burn in hell. 07-09-06 15:05:43 __________________________________________________
TomthatiscalledTom ::: Favorites 'Go to Hell with your aid?' hmmmmmnow who said that before???? let me think...oh yes Dr Sukarno, who was too busy screwing as many women as he could while the country slid into economoc ruin and civil war in the 1960s. Indonesia should be richer than Japan but instead 50 million live inabsolute poverty, foreign investors won't touch the place cos it's so corrupt and now radical Islam is taking over, no wonder the Timorese want independence. Would Jews want to live in Germany? 07-09-06 11:56:17 __________________________________________________
aviationdoc78 ::: Favorites hey..remember..we never ask you air for tsunami,you come to my country just for show off to media,go to hell with your aid 07-09-05 23:56:05 __________________________________________________
daengsat ::: Favorites Lets be gone be by gone.............. Timorese should said thanks to Indonesia what happen now you see it Timorese hunger no food under Ramos. Timoresse people remain poor. Coz of Indonesian Timoresse becoming clever Indonesian build University to make Timoresse smart, under portugis only portugis can go to school. Indonesian Invade east Timor, The Timorese escape to Australia./ Now Tomorese In Australia have good life, got house, cars etc. they should say thanks to Indonesia 07-08-23 10:01:34 __________________________________________________