they flew off to meet another dictator, ferdinand marcos, and indonesia invaded east the small half island by land by air and by sea. 90% of the weapons used were from the united states indonesian army, the fourth largest in the world was trained, financed and armed by the united states. and from december 7th,. 1975 until 1999, indonesia committed one of the great genocides the late 20th century, killed off a third of the population of east timor. i learned all from noam so. we went in 1990 and then in 1991 went back because we heard, for the first time ever, the u.n. was going to send a delegation in to east timor. and we thought this is a critical to see what would happen. and we went in october of 1991, fully armed with all the information and noam had been writing about for so long, as well as writings of timorese themselves in their testimonies, who got out and when we got there, we to the main church in dili, the capital of east timor, and we heard that the indonesian military surrounded the church. they shot a young man who had taken refuge there and the next day was the funeral a t