EAST TIMOR: Genocide in Paradise by...
EAST TIMOR: Genocide in Paradise by Matthew Jardine (Odonian Press: $6; 95 pp., paperback original). The former Portuguese colony of East Timor was annexed by Indonesia after World War II, despite the wishes of its indigenous people. Human rights groups estimate that nearly one-third of the native population has been killed in a struggle for independence. Matthew Jardine says that the Australian and U.S. governments, eager for access to Indonesia’s enormous markets and lured by the prospect of offshore oil reserves, have chosen to overlook human rights abuses on the island.
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