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Map, xiii + 193pp, index, a very good paperback copy. The Indonesian invasion and annexation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor on the Java archipelago resulted in the massacre of over a third of its population within a twenty-year period. Some 210,000 East Timorese, mostly civilians, women and children, lost their lives in the bombardments and "cleaning" maneuvers of the Indonesian army during the months following "D-Day" - the invasion on December 7, 1975. The forgotten drama of East Timor is clearly one of the biggest genocides this century has seen. The pleas of the East Timorese have often fallen on deaf ears, particularly within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, of which Indonesia is a member. Using a wide range of sources, Sonny Ingaraj documents the open display of mindless back-scratching within ASEAN on the East Timor question, and exposes the island's searing irony of history. …