Making Them Indonesians: Child transfers out of East Timor
Monash University Publishing, $29.99 pb, 213 pp
East Timor
Rare, smuggled animals
by Jill Jolliffe •
Think of Syria today and you have East Timor in 1975–78, the main difference being that the story of Indonesia’s brutal invasion was totally hidden from the world. It was in this framework of pain, trauma, and confusion that an estimated three to four thousand Timorese children were carried off to Indonesia without informed parental consent.
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