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Article: A 'pebble' then, a peace prize now. (1996 Nobel Peace prize awarded to two prominent leaders who have worked hard to bring peace to East Timor, a small island in Asia that has been brutalized by Indonesia's General Suharto)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- October 21, 1996
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East Timor is a Connecticut-sized speck of a place, occupying the eastern half of the easternmost island in a chain from Asia to Australia. Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas once described it as "a pebble in Indonesia's shoe." Thus it's been since the world's fourth most populous nation annexed East Timor in 1975--shortly after Portugal withdrew from its former colony. Indonesia's General Suharto cut a bloody path through East Timor, killing about a third of the population. "This could well be the worst slaughter in proportion to population since the Holocaust," says linguist Noam Chomsky, an East Timor supporter, "and one of the easiest to stop."
That cause ...
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