Deliverance : the inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom /
Don Greenlees & Robert Garran.
- xvi, 375 pages : map ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Fractured History: Occupation and Resistance, 1975-92 -- Search for a Solution: Habibie's Plan for East Timor Autonomy -- A Violent Inheritance: Tensions Escalate in East Timor -- The Master's Apprentices: Habibie and Wiranto in Suharto's Shadow -- Seizing the Moment: Habibie Rejects Australia's Plan and Offers an Immediate Choice -- The Backlash: Responses to Habibie's Surprise, in the UN, Australia, East Timor and Indonesia -- Brothers in Arms: The Military and the Militias -- Leap of Faith: Preparing for the East Timor Ballot, Indonesia's Peaceful Election -- Race Against Time: The UN Goes In -- The Vote -- Bumihangus: East Timor Burns -- The World Responds -- Backdown: The Pressure Mounts and Habibie Agrees to Peacekeepers -- Peacekeepers Arrive -- The Nationalist Backlash and the Fall of Habibie -- Out of the Ashes: Building a Nation -- Deliverance. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
"Deliverance tells the inside story of East Timor's agony, drawing on hundreds of secret documents and dozens of 'off the record' interviews with government and military insiders in Indonesia, Australia, the United States and the UN. It paints a startling picture of Indonesia's bloody retreat from East Timor after a brutal 24-year occupation." "Unparalleled access to sources in Jakarta and Canberra and many months of patient research have enabled the authors to strip away the myths and self-interested accounts to reveal in close and hitherto unreported detail the real story - from a distracted president's bold decision, to an internationally monitored ballot, to descent into the cauldron of violence and the arrival of the peacekeepers."--BOOK JACKET.
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Timor-Leste--Politics and government--20th century. Timor-Leste--History--Autonomy and independence movements