East Timor
December 7, 2005 6:19 PM   Subscribe

Thirty years ago today, on December 7 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. Over 200,000 East Timorese lost their lives in one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. A recently-completed East Timorese commission of inquiry into human rights abuses during the occupation makes use of extensive documents that show the US government knew in advance of the invasion and worked behind the scenes to hide it from public scrutiny.
posted by j-urb (8 comments total)

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It's been a few days, but...double post.
posted by nevercalm at 6:22 PM on December 7, 2005


That's not fair because my links are way better. There should be a rule that it is okay to double post as long as you do better than the other guy.
posted by j-urb at 6:24 PM on December 7, 2005


No, there really shouldn't be.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:27 PM on December 7, 2005


This post has better links, and a better bunck of commentators...;)

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posted by Balisong at 6:39 PM on December 7, 2005


No, it just says that MetaFilter should be WikiFilter. ;)
posted by jeffburdges at 6:43 PM on December 7, 2005


At least the link is posted upon the anniversary. Sorta of sad we let an attack like that on 12/7 -- Pearl Harbor.
posted by narebuc at 6:49 PM on December 7, 2005


Kinda like how the US knew there weren't WMD's in Iraq before the war?
posted by parallax7d at 7:16 PM on December 7, 2005


What a coincidence, just this evening I'm going to be watching Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent which talks in some detail about East Timor as it relates to the nearly non-existent media coverage.
posted by ryanhealy at 7:34 PM on December 7, 2005


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