Complicity

By Sharon Sharfe and Sharon Scharfe

A fearless expos of Canada's moral failures on the international stage, Complicity is a groundbreaking investigation into this country's role in enabling one of the 20th century's most brutal occupations. Meticulously researched and passionately argued, Sharon Scharfe's work lays bare how Canada's economic and political support for Indonesia helped sustain the decades-long atrocities committed in East Timor.

From Indonesia's 1975 invasion to the show trial and sentencing of East Timorese leader Xanana Gusm o, Scharfe traces a harrowing record of massacres, repression, and genocide?acts that Canada continued to ignore while maintaining arms deals, trade ties, and diplomatic niceties. Drawing on her experience as national coordinator of the East Timor Alert Network, Scharfe applies a rigorous analysis of foreign policy frameworks to show how human rights were routinely subordinated to economic interest.

Complicity is more than an indictment of Canada's foreign policy?it is a call to conscience. Bold, urgent, and deeply unsettling, this book challenges Canadians to reckon with the costs of silence and the dangers of diplomatic pragmatism in the face of atrocity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551640325
• ISBN13: 9781551640327
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Length: 249 Pages

Customer Reviews

This book will get you involved!

It is impossible to read this book and to remain uninvolved in the impending need for government aide in East Timor. It is shocking to realize how reluctant the government is to become involved in stoping the holocost that is occuring. This book will educate you, then suggest ways that you can assist in the fight to save East Timor. The pictures are wonderful, and the author has done an excellent job in putting together this book. I look forward to reading other works by Sharon Scharfe.