Tag: East Timor

A Master of Terror

Indonesian and Australian media are largely silent on Prabowo’s record in East Timor, writes Pat Walsh. This leaves voters in the dark about on an extended and revealing period of the likely next president of Indonesia.

East Timor’s Suffering and Survival

East Timor, which gained its independence from Indonesia in 1999 after suffering years of genocide, is now a beacon of democracy in Asia but faces new colonial pressures from globalization, writes John Pilger.