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A Dirty Little War by Martinkus, John
Category: History
A Dirty Little War is the previously untold eyewitness story of Indonesia's sustained campaign of terror from 1997 to 1999 against one of Australia's closest neighbours. Written with urgency and compassion by a world-renowned Australian journalist, it is a story filled with drama, horror, human interest ...Show more
Indonesia's Secret War in Aceh by John Martinkus
Category: History
This is the latest from acclaimed journalist John Martinkus, whose first book, A Dirty Little War told the definitive story of East Timor
Lost Copy:The Endless Wars by John Martinkus
Category: History
“We, his friends, never knew if it was suicide or not but the reality was Tor [Norwegian journalist Torgeir Norling], who had shared so many dangers, hardships and fear, with us was gone. Tor was a journalist’s journalist. I had covered East Timor with him in the late nineties. Like me he had gone on t ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY ISSUE 7 2002 by John Martinkus; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2002 John Martinkus details what is being done to West Papua by its Indonesian overlords. He illustrates how those who seek independence are killed and tortured for their cause. There is now no one like the Papuan leader Theys Eluay, murdered in 2001 by the Indonesian mi ...Show more
The Road: Uprising in West Papua by John Martinkus
Category: Australian History
Chemical weapons deployed. Choppers taken out. Tens of thousands of people displaced. Communications repressed. The West Papuan independence movement has reignited, and Indonesian troops are cracking down. In The Road, John Martinkus gives a gripping, up-to-date account of the province's descent into a ...Show more
Travels in American Iraq by John Martinkus
Category: History
'As I struggled against the wave of terrified women and men outside the hotel, the fourth blast went off less than 100 metres away in the middle of the already fleeing crowd ... The orange flash was followed by screaming and the crowd thinned ... two men were still dying from horrible blast wounds and t ...Show more
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