Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor

Timor-Leste, covering the Indonesian occupation. The commission concluded that at least 102,800 Timorese died during the occupation, most of them from hunger and illness. Its starkest finding was that Indonesian security forces consciously decided to use the starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Its reception shows the pull between truth and diplomacy. Xanana Gusmão accepted the results as a way to heal the wounds while saying the figures could be disputed; he favored restorative over punitive justice and had kept the report secret for fear of upsetting Indonesia. Worth reading for a small new state weighing an honest record against its powerful neighbor.