ISBN: | 978-5-5093-0697-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Indonesian invasion of East Timor began on 7 December 1975 when the Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism. The overthrow of a popular and briefly Fretilin-led government sparked a violent quarter-century occupation in which between approximately 100–180,000 East Timorese soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed or starved.