"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor

A riveting firsthand account of the violence in East Timor in 1999

This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" tells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. Before international forces intervened, more than half the popula...