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. 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. As this brief history suggests the violence of 1999 in east timor was emphaticallynotthe result of immutable ethnic religious or socioeconomic tensions among east timorese or between them and indonesians nor was it the result of age old traditions or predispositions toward violence indeed what is most striking about the violence in east timor is the almost complete absence of underlying . Request pdf on sep 26 2011 morton winston published if you leave us here we will die how genocide was stopped in east timor find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Pacific affairs volume 84 no 1 march 2011 18 if you leave us here we will die how genocide was stopped in east timor by geoffrey robinson princeton and oxford princeton university press 2009 xvi 319 pp figures maps bw photos us2795 cloth isbn 978 0 691 13536 6 after a 1999 united nations sponsored referendum in which a strong majority of east timorese voted for independence indonesias military the tni and its militia allies waged a campaign of terror