Students With A View

Genocide is hurting the life of East Timor’s People. Kids are being killed and women are being raped. The places involved with this are the United States, Canada, Australia, and other western countries. In 1975 East Timor had a tiny population of 700,000 nine days later the Indonesians attacked. Since that day 200,000 East Timorese (or East Timor’s people) have died and we helped the Indonesians

All this started in 1975 and ended in 1999 but still some conflict remains. This started because the East Timorese wanted to become independent, and wanted their own political power, but the Indonesians weren’t going to let them do that so the East Timorese were going to try to leave Indonesian power. That is what started the whole thing.

Very little things in the past have tried to be done to help. So we need to take the position to help them. First we could send them food because all of their food was burnt for another way to kill them. Plus we could send troops to help them we may not get anything out of helping them. Also in the past children have been killed and women by women have been raped we can help prevent that. So we are lucky to not be living with genocide in our lives because we may not get any help.

–Jonathan Erlenmeyer