Timor

East Timor East Timor, or otherwise known as Timor-Leste is a sovereign state in South East Asia right next to Indonesia. The country was previously known to be a colony of Portugal. But centuries before the Europeans walked up its shores, East Timor was occupied by waves of migrants such as Chinese, Arab and Gujerati with its local inhabitants. The location was known for its prized valuable, the sandalwood. By 1566, the Portuguese had settled on a nearby island to enhance the sandalwood trade, soon followed by the Dutch who gained control of what we now know as Indonesia. For over 2 decades, the Indonesian government subjected the indigenous population to routine tortures, massacres and deliberate deprivation of all resources. In 1702, the Portuguese established a colonial administration in Timor and for the next few hundred years, fought over the control with the Dutch. By 1913, the two sides agreed to sign a peace agreement with Portugal taking the east and Dutch taking the west part of the…

Genocide:"a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves" (What Is “Genocide”). This invasion is considered a genocide because it was a mass killing of a specific ethnic group. The Indonesian genocide was an invasion by Indonesia on East Timor. East Timor is a country that was a Portuguese colony up until 1975 when the country gained its independence from Portugal and…

1. One word I encountered that I didn’t know (and what it means): One term that I came across that I did not know was unflinchingly. After researching the word I found that it meant, “steadfast or unflattering” as defined by Dictionary.com. This made me have a better understanding of how the truth commission in Timor-Leste was not going to halt in holding Indonesia responsible for the death of between 100,000 to 180,000 East Timorese civilians by intentionally starving them to death. 2. Main…

through East Timor, in comparison to other interventions such as Syria and Rwanda through legal and non-legal measures. The effectiveness of the United Nation’s legal response and non-legal responses from the media, Australian aid and NGO’s in relation to global cooperation of East Timor peace-keeping operations has been predominantly effective in restoring world order over time. However, state sovereignty has limited enforceability and…

Australia’s response to the conflict in East Timor included leading a multinational taskforce called the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET), in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1264, which addressed the crisis in East Timor, where pro - Indonesian militia caused the mass murder of individuals in East Timor following the voting for independence from Indonesia by the East Timorese during a UN sponsored referendum in 1999. INTERFET’s role of establishing order in East Timor…

Indonesia's Suharto and Australia's Whitlam leading up to the invasion of East Timor. Later, we come to find out that the US also had a close hand in the violent invasion by giving approval and supplying weapons to Suharto’s military. I chose to write about the devastating event of East Timor because it really helped me grasp the true nature and history of genocide. It opened my eyes to some of the ways our world was run throughout history and what is still taking place today, right under our…

observe Noam Chomsky—in various interviews, debates and forums—make a relationship between big corporations and the media. In this documentary, Noam Chomsky makes us realize how we, the people, are conditioned to believe certain things in the media because of the business elites. This idea will be demonstrated through The New York Time’s coverage of the atrocities in East Timor and Cambodia and through Chomsky’s idea of “necessary illusions. At some point in the documentary, Chomsky discusses…

successful, limited success and failure. Their research found various results but for the most part, the findings agreed with their arguments that nonviolent campaigns are more successful than violent campaigns. Following their research, we examine three different areas in the world where nonviolent campaigns had taken place. The first country we look at is East Timor, which was seeking independence from Indonesia. East Timor has started their civil war using violent tactics, such as…

On the 19th of February 1942, the Japanese came in with their airplanes and land-based bombers to bomb Darwin. This attack on Darwin happened 10 weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor under the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida. The Japanese had 54 land-based bombers and around 188 attack aircraft which were launched from 4 Japanese aircraft carriers in the Timor Sea. On Darwin’s Harbour there were 46 ships docked there yet the boats couldn’t prevent the attack from the Japanese having around 900…

com/pov/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ab981afd-111a-4c6f-8863-609049f7c45d%40sessionmgr4001&vid=5&hid=4107 The Howard government's foreign policy objectives concerning East Timor remain the subject of intense historical debate. Given that some Indonesians harbor suspicions about Australia's role in East Timor's independence, it is important to reflect on Australia's diplomacy throughout this period. This article draws on 15 interviews with former politicians and officials—including Prime Minister…