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East Timor
Welcome to the Yale East Timor Project, since 2000 a component of the Genocide Studies Program.
Indonesia’s military dictatorship invaded the small territory of East Timor (then Portuguese Timor) in December 1975. Up to a fifth of the East Timorese population perished during Indonesia’s 24-year occupation (1975-1999), a similar proportion to the Cambodians who died under the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot (1975-1979). As Indonesian forces finally left the territory in 1999, they massacred over a thousand civilians and burned down eighty percent of the buildings in the country.
In the left sidebar you will find research products of the Yale East Timor Project.
UN-sponsored Truth Commission Verdict on East Timor: “Extermination as a Crime Against Humanity”
War Crimes
According to the Crimes of War Project,
Since 1945, a far-reaching body of law – whose centerpiece is the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – has developed to regulate conflict between and within states. In recent years there have been significant developments in the legal mechanisms through which these laws can be enforced. At the same time, changes in international politics have provided, and will continue to provide, challenges to the existing system of international law, provoking debate about whether the law should evolve further to meet new threats to international order.
War Crimes Research Links
Nuremberg International Military Tribunal
Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center
Nomination of Prof. Saburo IENAGA for Nobel Peace Prize
Vietnam Veterans’ Winter Soldier Investigations
Vietnam: Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths
Bringing Iraqi War Criminals to Justice