East Timor Ten Years On
Legacies of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey B Robinson (corresponding author), Geoffrey Robinson (0000-0001-9483-8207) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1007-1021 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911811001586 |
| OpenAlex | W1995477301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
On August 30, 2009, East Timor's Prime Minister, the former resistance leader Xanana Gusmão, quietly authorized the release of a man directly implicated in one of the country's most notorious massacres. Maternus Bere, a commander of the pro-Indonesian Laksaur militia group, had been indicted for his role in the September 1999 killing of as many as 200 unarmed supporters of independence who had taken refuge in the Catholic Church in Suai. Of the 40 victims whose identities could be determined, three were priests, ten were under the age of 18, and more than a dozen were women. The Suai Church massacre was part of a shocking campaign of violence that followed a United Nations-organized referendum in which Timorese had voted overwhelmingly for independence from Indonesia
Ancient history · Criminology · Dozen · Independence (probability theory) · Indonesian · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Referendum · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · History · International Development and Aid · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |