A Genocide Story
“If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”:How Genocide was Stopped in East Timor
By Geoffrey Robinson
–Reviewed by Angilee Shah
The United Nations has defined genocide as “any act committed with the idea of destroying in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group,” but what does genocide really mean? Where does it come from and how does it feel? How do “ordinary men” become “willing executioners?”
Geoffrey Robinson gives offers an in-depth recounting of genocide in East Timor in “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die.” In …
