The East Timor question : the struggle for independence from Indonesia / edited by Paul Hainsworth and Stephen McCloskey ; foreword by John Pilger ; preface by José Ramos-Horta..

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / John Pilger -- Preface / José Ramos-Horta -- Introduction : East Timor : from European to Third World colonialism / Stephen McCloskey -- A personal journey through East Timor / Peter Carey -- Reporting East Timor : Western media coverage of the conflict / Hugh O'Shaughnessy -- Balibo : the cover-up that led to genocide / Maureen Tolfree -- The legacy of the Suharto dictatorship / Carmel Budiardjo -- The Indonesian propaganda war against East Timor / Estêvão Cabral -- Seeds of hope - East Timor ploughshares disarming the hawks / Andrea Needham, Jen Parker and Jo Wilson --New Labour, new codes of conduct? British government policy towards Indonesia and East Timor after the 1997 election / Paul Hainsworth -- The United States : from complicity to ambiguity / Charles Scheiner -- Canberra : Jakarta's Trojan horse in East Timor / Jim Aubrey -- The local meets the global : East Timor and Ireland's presidency of the European Union / Eilís Ward -- East Timor and Western Sahara : a comparative perspective / Pedro Pinto Leite -- South Africa's transition : lessons for East Timor? / Adrian Guelke -- Conclusion : East Timor after Suharto : a new horizon / Paul Hainsworth.rth.