Masters of Terror Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor

by Tanter, Richard; Ball, Desmond; Klinken, Van Gerry; Chomsky, Noam; Bourchier, David; Ham, KPP; Kammen, Douglas; Klinken, Gerry Van; McDonald, Hamish

• ISBN13: 9780742538344
• ISBN10: 0742538346
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The terror campaign by pro-Indonesian armed groups before, during, and after East Timor's independence referendum in 1999 was a blatant challenge to the international community as many of the acts of murder, political intimidation, destruction, and mass deportation took place before the eyes of the world. Yet still the ultimate responsibility has been denied and obscured. Masters of Terror provides an authoritative analysis and documentation of the brutal operations carried out by the Indonesian army and its East Timorese allies. The authors carefully assemble detailed accounts of the actions of the major Indonesian officers and East Timorese militia commanders accused of gross human rights violations. This indispensable work explores a horrific frontal attack on democracy and calls for the establishment of an international tribunal for crimes against humanity in East Timor.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Foreword	ix
Noam Chomsky
Acknowledgments	xv
List of Abbreviations	xvii
Select Chronology	xxiii
James Dunn
List of Major Incidents: East Timor, 1999	xxxiii
Map of East Timor	xxxix
Introduction	1	(12)
Hamish McDonald
Richard Tanter
Masters of Terror: The Indonesian Findings	13	(8)
Hamish McDonald
Full Report of the Investigative Commission into Human Rights Violations in East Timor	21	(46)
Kpp Ham
The Key Suspects: An Introduction	67	(16)
Gerry van Klinken
David Bourchier
Douglas Kammen
Crimes against Humanity in East Timor in 1999: The Key Suspects	83	(74)
Gerry van Klinken
David Bourchier
Practical Justice in Doe v. Lumintang: The Successful Use of Civil Remedies against ``an Enemy of All Mankind''	157	(20)
Richard Tanter
Silent Witness: Australian Intelligence and East Timor	177	(26)
Desmond Ball
Afterword: 2005	203	(4)
Gerry van Klinken
Index	207	(10)
About the Contributors	217