2015年8月20日 · The bottom two bullet points are still on my "too-read-about" list, but, being unfamiliar with Indonesian history and having never even heard of Suharto, I decided to do some research on him and his regime. Apparently in 1975, Suharto invaded East Timor and occupied the country until 1999, killing 100,000 people all in all.

Admittedly Australia's lack of involvement in the invasion of East Timor is a disgrace, but when labour is in power the mice can play. Click to expand... Actually the time period I will write about is the 1961-1974 period.

2014年8月27日 · This is a great candidate for a forgotten war. The only place I've seen it in British media has been Ross Kemp on Gangs; he interviewed a gang member in Timor Leste about seeing the massacre of hundreds of civilians in a cemetery. Thinking he must've been far too young to remember it, I looked up its date, and was unpleasantly surprised.

East timor wasInvaded because they were not Indonesians and because they were tribals. Timor was never part of Indonesia historically. Claiming goa as notpart of India is like claiming british isles as part of scandinavaia.

2019年8月17日 · They have very close languages, are pretty similar peoples, were all part of the Russian Empire and/or Soviet Union, are all overwhelmingly Slavic, are all traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries (with atheism possibly becoming much more popular during the 20th century under Communist rule), and largely share a common history such as being a part of Kievan Rus' in the Middle Ages ...

2015年2月22日 · In fact a few months ago, someone shoved the East Timorese torture picture in my face on another forum and claimed it was a Chinese, again. If anyone wants to see the images and proof of the original sources (that correctly label them as from Banyuwangi, Kalimantan, and East Timor) send me a PM and I'll send you the links because they are too ...

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2008年10月24日 · The sycophantic back-slapping triumphalism that politicians and media have displayed in relation to the Australian military intervention in East Timor is a timely reminder that, as a nation, we have still not outgrown our penchant to …

2025年1月27日 · When it comes to great powers, in my opinion, it's too easy to think in terms of "greatest." The search for the superlatives is as old as history itself: Herodotus focuses on them, and even Homer frequently ranks the heroes in terms of the fastest, strongest, loudest, best of the Achaeans. But...

2024年12月15日 · Overall, these weapons display both Celtiberian and Roman influences according to Gunter Ulbert. The burial also revealed a unique iron conical helmet decorated with ears, which, according to G. Waurick, is unlike any other known type, although a tradition of conical helmets existed in the Celtic world and the East.