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Accomplice to Mass Atrocities: the International Community and Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor
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Abstract This paper examines early warning of, and political responses to, mass atrocities in East Timor in the late 1970s. Using newly-declassified intelligence and diplomatic records, it describes Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975 and its
three year military campaign to crush the East Timorese re... mehr
This paper examines early warning of, and political responses to, mass atrocities in East Timor in the late 1970s. Using newly-declassified intelligence and diplomatic records, it describes Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975 and its
three year military campaign to crush the East Timorese resistance. It shows that the campaign resulted in mass deaths due to famine and disease, and considers the United Nations’ response to the unfolding crisis. It evaluates the level of
international awareness of the humanitarian crisis in East Timor by inspecting contemporaneous eyewitness reports by foreign diplomats from states with a keen interest in Indonesia: Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Canada. In contrast to a popular, highly lauded view, the paper shows that these states did not “look away”; rather, they had early warning and ongoing knowledge of the catastrophe but provided military and diplomatic assistance to Indonesia.
The paper contrasts a counter-productive effort by civil society activists with a very effective one, and thus demonstrates the role that robust scholarship can play in terminating atrocities. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Timor-Leste; Massaker; Bürgerkrieg; militärischer Konflikt; Ursachenforschung; humanitäre Intervention; politische Intervention; militärische Intervention; UNO; Schutzmacht; internationale Politik; Diplomatie; Sicherheitspolitik
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 1-11
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 3 (2015) 4
Heftthema
Mass Atrocity Prevention (Part II)
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)