Region: East Timor
Extra!: 20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By
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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
Extra!: Murder in Java: Psychological warfare and the New York Times (January/February 1999) By
Extra!: Good and Bad Genocide: Double standards in coverage of Suharto and Pol Pot (September/October 1998) By
Article: Whitewashing Suharto (4/19/98) By
Extra!: East Timor: Media Turned Their Backs on Genocide (November/December 1993) By
Extra!: The Year of Dangerous Reporting: Indonesia Bloodbath, New York Times Whitewash (July/August 1990) By
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.
