Bitter flowers, sweet flowers : East Timor, Indonesia, and the world community / [edited by] Richard Tanter, Mark Selden, and Stephen R. Shalom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanter, Richard.

Contributor:

Selden, Mark.

Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm, 1948-

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)

Asian voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Timor-Leste--Politics and government.

Timor-Leste.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xviii, 291 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom -- for its people, for Asia, and for the world -- this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and triumphs in an international context. The contributors -- a mix of scholars and activists -- explore the dynamics of the long struggle for independence and show how the case of East Timor, both during and after the Cold War, provides a litmus test for issues of international responsibility and reconciliation. The book includes remarkable eyewitness accounts of the 1999 UN-sponsored referendum and the concomitant militia violence supported by the Indonesian military. Compelling poetry and photographs bring an additional rich dimension to the work.

Contents:

Pt. 1. East Timor: resistance, repression, and the road to independence. The five-hundred-year Timorese Funu / Geoffrey C. Gunn ; A long journey of resistance: the origins and struggle of CNRT / Sarah Niner ; The student movement and the independence struggle in East Timor: an interview / Constâncio Pinto ; The Catholic church and the independence of East Timor / Arnold S. Kohen

Pt. 2. Referendum and independence. With UNAMET in East Timor

an historian's personal view / Geoffrey Robinson ; The militia, the military, and the people of Bobonaro / Peter Bartu ; Taking the risk, paying the price: East Timorese vote in Ermera / Helene van Klinken ; Grassroots in the field

observing the East Timor consultation / Charles Scheiner

Pt. 3. East Timor, the United States, and the world community. East Timor, the United States, and international responsibility: "green light" for war crimes / Noam Chomsky ; The East Timor ordeal: international law and its limits / Richard Falk ; U.S. support for the Indonesian military: Congressional testimony / Allan Nairn ; East Timor and Asian security / Wade Huntley, Peter Hayes

Pt. 4. East Timor and Indonesia. East Timor and the crisis of the Indonesian intelligence state / Richard Tanter ; Big states and little independence movements / Gerry van Klinken

Pt. 5. The future of East Timor. The transition of a small war-torn economy into a new nation: economic reconstruction of East Timor / João Mariano Saldanha ; East Timor faces the future / Richard Tanter, Mark Selden, Stephen R. Shalom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0742509672

0742509680

OCLC:

44794903