The Pit and the pendulum; For 20 years John Pilger has followed the joy and pain of miners' families in the Durham pit village of Murton. He went there for the Daily Mirror in 1973, on the eve of the national stoppage. He returned during the great unrest
East Timor A land of crosses; A great silence has accompanied the Indonesian occupation of East Timor: John Pilger reports on the betrayal of a courages people, The New Internationalist (NI), 01 March 1994, pp. 1, 4-7.
A paler shade of blue; John Pilger is away. This is an extract from a new edition of his book "Distant Voices" (Vintage), which includes extended and updated versions of much of his best work in NSS and elsewhere, New Statesman & Society, 24 June 1994, p.
We resist to win; It is 20 years since Indonesia invaded East Timor. From a prison cell in Jakarta, the leader of the resistance smuggled out a message of defiance in a remarkable interview with John Pilger, The Guardian Weekend, 02 December 1995, pp. 26-
A cry for freedom; Burma has one of the worst human-rights records in the world. But its ruling junta is keen to present a new face to the world. John Pilger goes to Burma and discovers the terrible human price its people are paying for that new face, The
The ghost of Pol Pot will haunt Cambodia; Pol Pot is reported to be dead. John Pilger says the despot who slaughtered up to a third of his people while the West looked on has left a continuing legacy of violence and terror, The Observer, 09 June 1996, p.