When the Indonesians landed in Dili in December 1975, they began a campaign of genocide which has been compared in its savagery to Pol Pot's takeover of Cambodia.

Hundreds of people were gunned down in the streets, in schools, homes, hospitals. Live grenades were thrown into houses and women and children were raped in front of their families.

As in Cambodia, the first to die were the educated - public officials, teachers, students and nurses.

One eyewitness reported the words of an Indonesian officer. When asked to justify the slaughter, he said: "When you clean the fields, don't you kill all the snakes, both large and small?"

 In 1981, in an attempt to flush out Fretilin guerrilla fighters, the Indonesian army subjected the East Timorese population to a forced march across the island.

Thousands of civilians including the elderly, women and children were beaten, raped and murdered. This atrocity was dubbed the 'Fence of Legs.'

In the summer of 1983, Indonesian forces in East Timor overan the small town of Curaras and massacred between 300 and 400 civilians, wiping the town off the face of the earth.

Meticulous church records account for almost 300 of the victims.

After reports of East Timorese women being forcibly given the birth control drug Depoprovera in an attempt to 'depopulate' East Timor of its native population, John Pilger sent a British doctor to investigate.

He found that up to 500 women were herded into one clinic to be given the drug without any explanation.

Shortly after, General Suharto was awarded a UN prize for his 'support' of family planning along with a cheque for 12,000 dollars.

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