#482
Title: East Timor: Genocide in Paradise
Author: Matthew Jardine
Publisher: Odonian Press
Year: 1995
95 pages
I read the first edition; that cover is unavailable.
I picked up this little book the other day because I was having trouble tracking the events in Cardoso's The Crossing: A Story of East Timor (q.v.). Jardine (and the introduction by Noam Chomsky) considerably clarify the events leading to East Timor/Timor-Leste's declaration of independence from Portugal and the subsequent first-world-backed invasion by Indonesia. When it was published in 1995, East Timor was still occupied by Indonesia and officially dissolved as a sovereign state. Since then, it has regained its independence.
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