Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

Journalist John Pilger examines conditions in East Timor in the aftermath of its 1975 invasion by Indonesia, whose military resources included hardware supplied by western nations such as Britain, Australia and the United States. Included: clips from Pilger’s tour of the region., Accusations of genocide fly in this disturbing and controversial British documentary by David Munro and John Pilger who had to film sequences in secret. According to them the Indonesian government has been systematically destroying the native population of East Timor, an island which they took over from the Portuguese in 1975. Since that time, one third of the population, approximately 200,000 Timorese have been slaughtered. The Timorese are not related to the Japanese. Just off shore from Timor are large underwater oil fields. The filmmakers make disturbing accusations regarding the complacency of the U.S., British, and Australian governments who purportedly knew about the killing and did nothing. Included in the film is footage of the 1991 massacre, and interviews.