These oral accounts of East Timor shed new light on some of the worst human rights abuses in our region-from the brutality of the Japanese during the Second World War and the callous indifference of Australian authorities then and now, to the ongoing horror that is being perpetrated by the Indonesian army. Collected over ten years, these testimonies come from ordinary people -young and old, men…
The authors explain how, in the late 1990s, the forgotten genocide became thye subject of serious UN inquiry for the first time.Finally, in the 2003, the UN and the Cambodian government agreed to hold a trial in Phnom Penh conducted jointly by international jurists and Cambodian lawyers and judges. Fawthrop and Jarvis reveal why it took 18 years for the UN to recognise the crimes against humani…
This book examine the causes of the Soeharto government's change in tapol policy between 1975 and 1979 from one of long-term detention to large-scale releases.