Why did Australia go into East Timor?
If East Timor was a pebble in the shoe of Indonesia, as former Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas once dubbed it, then it was a black soil on the conscience of Australia. Sine 1979, successive Australian governments had placed great emphasis upon building a strong relationship with the Indonesia...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14478 |
| Summary: | If East Timor was a pebble in the shoe of Indonesia, as former Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas once dubbed it, then it was a black soil on the conscience of Australia. Sine 1979, successive Australian governments had placed great emphasis upon building a strong relationship with the Indonesian regime. |
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