American Trouble Makers
February 29, 2008 by txhistoryteach
According to the on-line Dictionary Genocide means the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
In East Timor in 1975 they became independent from Portugal. In article of Publishers Weekly they stated that: when East Timor became independent Indonesia decided to take over East Timor because they wanted their land. At first they let them vote to choose to be independent, but the problem was that if they chose to be independent they would kill them. Basically their choice was either die being independent or be a slave. Most people chose to be independent. Indonesia started attacking East Timor, and the United Nations allowed that to happen. In 1975 the population was roughly 700,000. Between then and now about 600,000 Timorese have died. On a CNN report the US has discovered that the Indonesians are currently trying to kill the government.
What can we do to help? Well for one we should send trained soldiers to East Timor to get the Indonesians out, and then Help rebuild it. It was our fault this happened, and we should fix it.
–TAI
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