Declassified Files Show How Australia Whitewashed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor

Australian Ambassador Tom Critchley enjoyed his May 1980 trip to military-occupied East Timor, receiving the happy hospitality and generous assistance of his kind hosts, the Indonesian military. The trip followed inconvenient media reports of the genocidal famine that had killed as many as 180,000, and that the Australians had worked so hard to keep secret. Photo: Department of Foreign Affairs.

By Peter Job – Oct 16, 2022 Newly declassified files from the National Archives of … Continue reading Declassified Files Show How Australia Whitewashed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor

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