Telling: East Timor Oral Accounts, 1942-1992

By Michele Turner

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868400777
• ISBN13: 9780868400778
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Univ of New South Wales
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

bleak accounts

The book is a bleak rendition of life in East Timor under 2 or 3 occupations. By the Japanese in World War 2. By the Portuguese and then by Indonesia. Of these, the Portuguese rule was the most benign, imperialistic though it was, and with more than a twinge of racial discrimination against the local Timorese. The accounts from World War 2 depict the brutality of Japanese rule. Executions were routine, for trifling offenses. Some Timorese aided Allied servicemen fleeing the Japanese, at terrible risk to the Timorese if they were caught. The relatings of Indonesian occupation are not quite as stark. Though the reader should be aware that still some hundred thousand are estimated to have died from 1975 to 1992, when the book came out.