Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NOVEMBER 12 massacre of 100 men, women and children in East Timor by the Indonesian army was unusual only because there were American witnesses to the crime. Since Indonesia's 1976 occupation of the island, 200,000 people, or roughly a third of East Timor's population, have been killed by the army or starved by the Indonesian occupiers...
Goodman and Nairn arrived in East Timor, which is off the North coast of Australia, to cover the visit of a United Nations/Portuguese team investigating the island's political future. Portugal ruled the island for 270 years until its withdrawal...
...investigation was cancelled by the Portuguese due to the tension it created in East Timor. The army threatened to kill anybody who would meet with the delegation. One senior officer told villagers in the Venilale region that if they spoke to the foreign delegates, everyone between the ages of 10 and 45 would be shot. They said that the army had already dug mass graves...
Security forces have killed thousands of independence fighters in East Timor since 1976, when Indonesia annexed the former Portuguese territory, but there was no significant outcry from world opinion. This time it may be different...