![]() ![]() To emphasise human rights promotion as grounded in exchange with the actual patterns of social practice involved casts a different light on the apparent self-evidence of that polarisation, as the story of East Timor suggests. This chapter examines the immediate background to Indonesia's violent process of incorporation and the pattern of abuse that characterised it. At the time of writing, the United Nations Transitional Authority for East Timor (UNTAET) is effectively the Government of East Timor, with elections for a constituent assembly to determine a constitution expected in August 2001. Now the territory, poised on the edge of statehood, is undergoing transition, but also flux and confusion. East Timor was forcibly incorporated into Indonesia in 1975 and managed to become independent almost twenty-five years later. ![]()
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