In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of Ren Girard to show how the East Timorese …
Originally colonized by the Portuguese, East Timor was brutally invaded and occupied by Indonesian military forces in 1975. According to the UN, this resulted in the death of about …
Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's …