Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US ambassador to the UN at the time, wrote in his autobiography that "China altogether backed Fretilin in Timor, and lost. In Spanish Sahara, Russia just as completely backed Algeria, and its front, known as Polisario, and lost. In both instances the United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with not inconsiderable success." Later, Moynihan admitted that, as US ambassador to the UN, he had defended a "shameless" Cold War policy toward East Timor. Memorials There is a monument commemorating Operation Seroja in Halilulik, Tasifeto Barat (West Tasifeto), Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The monument, which contains a soldier statue and reliefs depicting the operation, was built in June 1990 and inaugurated by the regent of Belu Col. (Inf). Ignasius Sumantri on 17 August 1990. Seroja Monument (Monumen Seroja) was built by Indonesian government under Megawati Sukarnoputri administration in June 2002 as a memorial to the Indonesian soldiers and civilians who killed in Operation Seroja. It is located within the TNI central headquarters complex in Cilangkap, East Jakarta. Depictions in fiction Balibo, a 2009 Australian film about the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists who were captured and killed just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor Beatriz's War (A Guerra da Beatriz), a 2013 drama film produced by East Timor set during the Indonesian invasion See also East Timor (province) Annexation of Goa Notes Bibliography Taylor, John G. (2003). Chapter 8 “Encirclement and Annihilation”: The Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, in The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective [see above]. Edited by Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan. Cambridge University Press. updated and released in late 1999 as East Timor: The Price of Freedom Indonesia. Department of Foreign Affairs. Decolonization in East Timor. Jakarta: Department of Information, Republic of Indonesia, 1977. . Further reading Indonesian Casualties in East Timor, 1975–1999: Analysis of an Official List Gendercide Watch. Case Study: East Timor (1975–99) History of East Timor – Indonesia Invades USING ATROCITIES: U.S. Responsibility for the SLAUGHTERS IN INDONESIA and EAST TIMOR by Peter Dale Scott, PhD War, Genocide, and Resistance in East Timor, 1975–99: Comparative Reflections on Cambodia by Ben Kiernan Historical Dictionary of East