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. Before international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691135363
• ISBN13: 9780691135366
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"