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The **Indonesian Occupation of East Timor** was a violent example of
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modern colonialism where the New Order government in Indonesia occupied
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East Timor and carried out a campaign of repression so brutal some have
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considered it to be a genocide.
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## Background
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## Crimes Against Humanity
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### Conscription
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### Economic Warfare
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The military confiscated land and businesses
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### Enforced Starvation
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### Massacres
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### Sex Slavery
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### Torture
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Torture methods used by the Indonesian military included
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## End
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## International Response
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### Australia
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Starting under the most [left-wing
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government](Whitlam_Government "wikilink") in Australian history,
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Australia became the most enthusiastic supporter of Indonesia's
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occuapation.
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### Canada
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Canada abstained from voting in UN resolutions about East Timor, and
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opposed three. The Canadian government regularly sold weapons to
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Indonesia during the occupation, and in the 1990s approved over
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CDN$400 million in exports for spare weapons parts.
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### India
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### Japan
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### Portugal
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Portugal became the strongest critic of the occupation,
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The day after the invasion, Portugal cut diplomatic ties with Indonesia
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and went on to support UN resolutions condemning the invasion. However,
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in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Portuguese government appeared
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reluctant to push the issue; American Indonesia specialist, Benedict
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Anderson suggests this stemmed from uncertainty at the time over its
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application to the European Community.<sup>\[207\]</sup> Portugal's
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criticism mounted sharply from the mid-1980s, and due to public
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pressure, the country became one of the highest profile campaigners in
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international forums for East Timorese
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self-determination.<sup>\[219\]</sup> Throughout the 1990s, Portugal
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took part in UN-brokered mediations with Indonesia.<sup>\[220\]</sup>
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### Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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### United Kingdom
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### United States of America
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## References
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[Indonesian Occupation of East
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Timor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor)
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- [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") |