Region: East Timor


Economy Extra!: 20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

Press Release: Is East Timor Really "Out of Control"? (9/15/99)

Action Alert: U.S. Role Missing From East Timor Coverage (9/1/99)

Extra!: East Timor on the Wires: AP, Reuters transmit Indonesia's official version (May/June 1999) By Richard Mercier

Extra!: Murder in Java: Psychological warfare and the New York Times (January/February 1999) By Peter Dale Scott

Extra!: Good and Bad Genocide: Double standards in coverage of Suharto and Pol Pot (September/October 1998) By Edward S. Herman

Article: Whitewashing Suharto (4/19/98) By Jim Naureckas

Extra!: East Timor: Media Turned Their Backs on Genocide (November/December 1993) By Matthew Jardine

Extra!: The Year of Dangerous Reporting: Indonesia Bloodbath, New York Times Whitewash (July/August 1990) By Renita Steeley



Links:

East Timor Action Network, news and activism.

The Struggle for East Timor, an on-line primer from MoJo Wire.

East Timor's Struggle for Independence, essays and resources from ZNet.

Survival International, extensive news and background on the indigenous struggles of Indonesia.

Democracy Now! has had some of the best reporting from East Timor.

U.S. Complicity in Timor, an important report from Allan Nairn.

Grassroots International's East Timor: A New Nation.

world-newspapers.com, Indonesian newspapers online and news sites in English.

Books:

East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, by Matthew Jardine.

East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance, by Constancio Pinto and Matthew Jardine.

Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor, by Jose Ramos Horta.

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.