Australia's hidden Empire
5 Mar 2008
In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger reports from his homeland on Australia's hidden empire - a 'sphere of influence' that stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to East Timor and Afghanistan. The arrival of a new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, offers important continuity.

Suharto, the model killer, and his friends in high places
28 Jan 2008
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger says the death of General Suharto, the former dictator of Indonesia, is an opportunity to review the role of this "model" for high crimes in the modern era - from Indonesia, to Chile, to Vietnam - and the powerful friends who ensured he would never suffer the fate of Saddam Hussein.

East Timor: the coup the world missed
22 Jun 2006
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the latest phase of East Timor's struggle for independence, which, in the 1990s, he went undercover to report. One of the world's newest and poorest states now faces the overweening power of its vast neighour, Australia. Once again, the prize is oil and gas.

Secret war against defenceless West Papua
9 Mar 2006
The terrible history of East Timor is repeating itself in nearby West Papua, another stolen resource-rich province of Indonesia, whose notorious army is again colluding with the West.

Only Australia remains true to the uber-sheriff in Washington
5 Apr 2004
Ten years ago, I filmed secretly in East Timor, a small country in south-east Asia whose brutal occupation was largely unknown to the outside world.

Australia ignores the plight of the East Timorese, but keeps a watchful eye on their oil and gas
11 Dec 2000
The Australian prime minister, John Howard, recently described his government's actions over East Timor last year as "wholly honourable and decent".

A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor
23 Jul 2000
Last month Prime Minister Paul Keating launched a "trade and cultural promotion" with Indonesia. Surrounded by businessmen and representatives of the arts, Keating made an extraordinary speech that was praised in the Australian press for its "maturity".

A moral outrage
2 Nov 1999
It was the public, not politicians, who forced the Australian government to end the betrayal of East Timor.

Australia's under side
5 Oct 1999
What is the "international community" really doing in East Timor? After their arrival almost two weeks ago, Australian troops have secured only the capital, Dili, and a few towns. In West Timor, fewer than a dozen foreign aid workers struggle to guarantee the safety of 230,000 refugees, including 35,000 children, while the power of life and death remains with the Indonesian military.

We helped them descend into hell
23 Sep 1999
It had been a long night of waiting for the Indonesian troop convoy to pass. Two of us then crossed the border into East Timor clandestinely, through a forest of dead, petrified trees that appeared as silhouetted needles around which skeins of fine white sand drifted, like mist. As the sun rose, there stood the surreal crosses.

Under the influence
21 Sept 1999
For the few of us who reported East Timor long before it was finally declared news, the "disclosures" last weekend that Washington had trained Indonesia's death squads are bizarre.

Jakarta's godfathers
7 Sep 1999
It is grotesque hypocrisy for Tony Blair to weep for the children of Dunblane. Having finally discovered East Timor, most of the media have now left, blaming a "descent into violence". The long, silent years mock these words. The descent began almost a quarter of a century ago when Indonesian special forces invaded the defenceless Portuguese colony.

Cowards of Oz
27 Jul 1999
Few care about their subjection to the Queen. But they're jumpy about the Asiatic hordes.

A worse slaughter
1 Jun 2006
Blair makes much of 'humanitarian values' but sells arms to Indonesia which are used against East Timor 

Blood on our hands
25 Jan 1999
More than 200,000 people have been killed since Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975. For decades, the British government was complicit in these killings. All that was supposed to change in May 1997. Instead, it's been business as usual. John Pilger reports on the sham of Labour's ethical foreign policy.

The West's dirty wink
12 Feb 1994
In 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor. Like Saddam's attack on Kuwait, the occupation was declared by the UN to be illegal. But no action ever followed. In the last 18 years a third of the East Timorese population has been killed, while Western governments have remained silent, or, like Britain, have sold arms worth hundreds of millions to Indonesia...