Geoffrey Basil Robinson

Geoffrey Basil Robinson (* 1957 ) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles .

Life

From 1989 to 1995 he headed the South East Asia Islands Research Department at Amnesty International's London headquarters . In this capacity he wrote two monographs and many shorter reports on human rights conditions in Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines. At McGill University he obtained his bachelor's degree , in 1992 he was awarded a doctorate in history from Cornell University with the work The Politics of Violence in Modern Bali, 1882-1966 , where he was a student of Benedict Anderson and George Kahin .

Since 1997 he has been Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was on leave from UCLA from June to November 1999 and was political officer in Dili for the United Nations Mission in East Timor .

His current projects at UCLA include a volume of photographs and images relating to mass violence in Indonesia from 1965–66, a study of the "Swedish connection" to that violence, and a book on the history of mass killing in the United States States called "Running Amok in America".

Publications

• The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1995
• East Timor 1999: Crimes against Humanity. 2003.
• "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die." How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor. Princeton University Press, 2010
• The killing season. A History of the Indonesian Massacres 1965-1966. Princeton University Press , 2018 PUP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Library of Australia , [1]
2. ^ Shane Gunderson, Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America's, p. 142
3. ^ Department of History at UCLA, [2]
4. ↑ S.XI ; Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, 155
5. ↑ Timor Tumur 1999, Kejahatan Terhadap, Umat ​​manusia
6. ^ East Timor