The Santa Cruz massacre took place during a 1991 funeral procession to the grave of Sebastião Gomes.
Location
East Timor province, Indonesia (East Timor under Indonesian occupation)
Date
Occupation lasted from 1975 to 1999, though much of the killing occurred in the 1970s
Target
Population of East Timor
Attack type
Forced disappearance, Genocidal massacre
Deaths
Estimates of the total number of war dead range from 100,000 to 300,000
Motive
Forced capitulation of the East Timorese people to Indonesian authority, Greater Indonesia
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The East Timor genocide refers to the "pacification campaigns" of state terrorism which were waged by the Indonesian New Order government during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor. The majority of sources consider the Indonesian killings in East Timor to constitute genocide,[1][2][3] while other scholars disagree on certain aspects of the definition.[4]
^Payaslian, Simon. "20th Century Genocides". Oxford bibliographies. Archived from the original on 16 May 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
^Sidell, Scott (1981). "The United States and genocide in East Timor". Journal of Contemporary Asia. 11 (1): 44–61. doi:10.1080/00472338185390041.
^"War, Genocide, and Resistance in East Timor, 1975-99: Comparative Reflections on Cambodia". Retrieved 31 March 2023.
^Saul, Ben (2001). "Was the Conflict in the East Timor 'Genocide' and Why Does it Matter?" (PDF). Melbourne Journal of International Law . 2 (2): 477–. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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