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==Atrocities in East Timor==  

==Atrocities in East Timor==  

Suharto ordered an invasion of the small island of East Timor to overthrow the murderous communist front group FRETELIN.  A Truth Commission found that 17,600-19,600 Timorese were violently killed and about 100,000 died from hunger and illness.  The deaths were spread out evenly over the entire 25-year occupation.  Indonesian forces were responsible for more than two-thirds of the killings.  The excess deaths have not been attributed definitively to either side.<ref>http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Radical leftists attempted to conflate the sluaghter with the Cambodian Holocaust, in which the communists massacred or starved to death 2.2 million people in four years of peacetime--27% of Cambodia's 1975 population of 8.1 million.  There is no comparison between the two crimes.

Suharto ordered an invasion of the small island of East Timor to overthrow the murderous communist front group FRETELIN.  A Truth Commission found that 17,600-19,600 Timorese were violently killed and about 100,000 died from hunger and illness.  The deaths were spread out evenly over the entire 25-year occupation.  Indonesian forces were responsible for more than two-thirds of the killings.  The excess deaths have not been attributed definitively to either side.<ref>http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Radical leftists attempted to conflate the slaughter with the Cambodian Holocaust, in which the communists massacred or starved to death 2.2 million people in four years of peacetime--27% of Cambodia's 1975 population of 8.1 million.  There is no comparison between the two crimes.  The closest comparison would probably be the brief period of communist rule in East Timor.

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