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Author Greenlees, Don, 1962-

Title Deliverance : the inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom / Don Greenlees & Robert Garran
Published Crow's Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002

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 MELB  959.8603 Gre/Dti  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 375 pages : map ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents 1. A fractured history: occupation and resistance, 197592 -- 2. Search for a solution: Habibie's plan for East Timor autonomy -- 3. A violent inheritance: tensions escalate in East Timor -- 4. The master's apprentices: Habibie and Wiranto in Suharto's shadow -- 5. Seizing the moment: Habibie rejects Australia's plan and offers an immediate choice -- 6. The backlash: responses to Habibie's surprise, in the UN, Australia, East Timor and Indonesia -- 7. Brothers in arms: the military and the militias -- 8. Leap of faith: preparing for the East Timor ballot, Indonesia's peaceful election -- 9. Race against time: the UN goes in -- 10. The vote -- 11. Bumihangus: East Timor burns -- 12. The world responds -- 13. Backdown: the pressure mounts and Habibie agrees to peacekeepers -- 14. Peacekeepers arrive -- 15. The nationalist backlash and the fall of Habibie --16. Out of the ashes: building a nation -- 17. Deliverance
Summary "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
Analysis East Timor
International relations
Indonesia
Independence
Federal issue
Timor-Leste - History - Autonomy and independence movements
Timor-Leste - Politics and government - 20th century
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography : pages 363-365
SUBJECT Timor-Leste -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004011674 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Timor-Leste -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103064
Genre/Form History.
Author Garran, Robert, 1957-
ISBN 1865083674 :
Other Titles Inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom