East Timor: A Nation's Bitter Dawn

by Irena Cristalis

Book Overview

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 reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists to refuse to be evacuated during the nightmarish Indonesian withdrawl, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848130139
• ISBN13: 9781848130135
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"