"if You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor

by Geoffrey B. Robinson

Book Overview

A riveting firsthand account of the violence in East Timor in 1999

This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" tells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691150176
• ISBN13: 9780691150178
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.2"