Timor: A People Betrayed
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Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In one of the twentieth century's most devastating political betrayals, the people of East Timor were abandoned to a brutal Indonesian occupation that the international community chose, with calculated indifference, to ignore. Timor: A People Betrayed chronicles the tragic fate of the Timorese nation through the eyes of James Dunn, a former Australian consul to Portuguese Timor and one of the most authoritative Western witnesses to the events that preceded and followed Indonesia's 1975 invasion — a conflict that claimed the lives of up to a third of the entire population. Drawing on firsthand diplomatic experience, extensive interviews with survivors, and meticulous documentary research, Dunn presents a damning indictment of the geopolitical cynicism that allowed a small, vulnerable people to be sacrificed on the altar of Cold War realpolitik. The narrative is measured yet morally urgent, illuminating the complex interplay of colonial legacy, superpower complicity, and regional ambition that sealed Timor's fate. A landmark work of both historical record and humanitarian conscience, it leaves the reader confronting an uncomfortable question: when great powers look away, who speaks for the powerless?
Author: James Dunn
Format: Hardback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In one of the twentieth century's most devastating political betrayals, the people of East Timor were abandoned to a brutal Indonesian occupation that the international community chose, with calculated indifference, to ignore. Timor: A People Betrayed chronicles the tragic fate of the Timorese nation through the eyes of James Dunn, a former Australian consul to Portuguese Timor and one of the most authoritative Western witnesses to the events that preceded and followed Indonesia's 1975 invasion — a conflict that claimed the lives of up to a third of the entire population. Drawing on firsthand diplomatic experience, extensive interviews with survivors, and meticulous documentary research, Dunn presents a damning indictment of the geopolitical cynicism that allowed a small, vulnerable people to be sacrificed on the altar of Cold War realpolitik. The narrative is measured yet morally urgent, illuminating the complex interplay of colonial legacy, superpower complicity, and regional ambition that sealed Timor's fate. A landmark work of both historical record and humanitarian conscience, it leaves the reader confronting an uncomfortable question: when great powers look away, who speaks for the powerless?