Documents prove US approved Indonesian invasion of East Timor

Newly released US government documents have proven that the US administration approved Indonesia’s bloody and murderous invasion of East Timor in 1975.

The previously classified papers show that former President Gerald Ford and then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger approved the invasion at a meeting with Indonesian dictator General Suharto on December 6, 1975. The invasion began less than 24 hours later.

General Suharto’s soldiers and British-trained death squads killed or displaced hundreds of thousands of people in East Timor as part of their plan to suppress "communism" in the country, which was then a Portuguese colony.

Suharto, one of the most prolific war criminals in the recorded history of mankind, had the support of Britain, the US and Australia during his brutal rule.

East Timor eventually achieved independence from Indonesia with help from the UN in August 1999.