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_b.R63 2011
100 1 _aRobinson, Geoffrey,
_d1957-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIf you leave us here, we will die :
_bhow genocide was stopped in East Timor /
_cGeoffrey Robinson.
246 3 0 _aHow genocide was stopped in East Timor
300 _axiv, 319 pages :
_billustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aHuman rights and crimes against humanity
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [297]-311) and index.
505 0 _aColonial legacies -- Invasion and genocide -- Occupation and resistance -- Mobilizing the militias -- Bearing witness, tempting fate -- The vote -- A campaign of violence -- Intervention -- Justice and reconciliation.
520 _a"Tells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. Before international forces intervened, more than half the population had been displaced and 1,500 people killed. Geoffrey Robinson, an expert in Southeast Asian history, was in East Timor with the United Nations in 1999 and provides a gripping first-person account of the violence, as well as a rigorous assessment of the politics and history behind it. Robinson debunks claims that the militias committing the violence in East Timor acted spontaneously, attributing their actions instead to the calculation of Indonesian leaders, and to a "culture of terror" within the Indonesian army. He argues that major powers--notably the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom--were complicit in the genocide of the late 1970s and the violence of 1999. At the same time, Robinson stresses that armed intervention supported by those powers in late 1999 was vital in averting a second genocide. Advocating accountability, the book chronicles the failure to bring those responsible for the violence to justice. A riveting narrative filled with personal observations, documentary evidence, and eyewitness accounts, [this book] engages essential questions about political violence, international humanitarian intervention, genocide, and transitional justice"--Publisher description.
650 0 _aGenocide
_zTimor-Leste.
650 0 _aPolitical violence
_zTimor-Leste.
650 0 _aGenocide intervention
_zTimor-Leste.
650 0 _aHumanitarian intervention
_zTimor-Leste.
650 6 _aViolence politique
_zTimor oriental.
650 6 _aDevoir d'ing�erence antig�enocidaire
_zTimor oriental.
650 6 _aDroit d'ing�erence humanitaire
_zTimor oriental.
650 7 _aGenocide.
_2fast
650 7 _aGenocide intervention.
_2fast
650 7 _aHumanitarian intervention.
_2fast
650 7 _aPolitical violence.
_2fast
651 7 _aTimor-Leste.
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830 0 _aHuman rights and crimes against humanity.
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