The crew

Producer and Editor: Brooke Shelby Biggs

Art Director: Cal Joy

Development Director: Chanette Manso

Contributing writers: j.j. richardson, Jeffrey Benner, Lindsay Sobel, Noam Chomsky, Tim Eaton, Dennis Hans, Russel Mokhiber, Robert Weissman

Research maven: Suzie Larsen

Copy editor: Wendy Weiner

Fact-checkers: j.j. richardson, Jeffrey Benner, Lindsay Sobel, Jennifer Barrios

Photo researcher: Maren Levinson

Production assistant: Judy Krasnick

Webmaster: Robert Wise

Additional thank yous:

Most of what we know about the history of East Timor is second-hand. That's because the Indonesian government kept outsiders -- especially journalists -- from visiting the island for decades. As a result, we owe a great deal to the few journalists and human-rights workers who have gone to East Timor and made it back out alive (or managed to have their words and pictures smuggled out for them) to tell their stories to us so that we might tell them to you.

Our thanks for the education-by-immersion go out to all of them, and especially: Allan Nairn; José Ramos-Horta; Xanana Gusmão; Noam Chomsky; John Pilger; James Dunn for his book "Timor: A People Betrayed"; Matthew Jardine for his indispensible book "Genocide in Paradise"; John G. Taylor for his book "Indonesia's Forgotten War"; Constâncio Pinto for his book "East Timor's Unfinished Struggle" and his other contributions to our project; the crew at Human Rights Watch, especially Sidney Jones; Amnesty International; the East Timor Action Network, especially Lynn Fredriksson and John Miller; the International Federation for East Timor (IFET); the East Timor Human Rights Centre in Melbourne; the good folks at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; and TimorNet at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.

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