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Kiak Mesak's Story 2008-06-28 09:45:16 From East Timor: The poor still live in the struggleFor the 17 years he lived in the mountains, Jose Soares was known as “Kiak Mesak”, meaning “only the poor” in Tetun.During Timor’s 24 years of occupation by the Indonesian armed forces, scores of Timorese fled to the mountains for protection, and to engage in guerrilla warfare against the invaders.Kiak Mesak was a member of FALINTIL, th
Dare Refugees appeal to return home 2008-06-27 07:01:48 Suara Timor Lorosa'e Edition 26 June 2008 DILI - The Dare Suco Chief, Jose dos Santos, says that 44 families who are refugees in the Dare Suco in the Sub-District of Vera Cruz have asked again that they return to their homes. “As the Suco chief, I have delivered their request to the government through the Ministry of Social Solidarity. The answer was that the repatriation to their homes can onl Read more:Refugees
Homecoming fraught with danger 2008-06-05 15:24:27 DILI, 5 June 2008 (IRIN) - At night Tomas Agusto and his family lie in their tent hoping nobody will set it alight. When he was moved out of the displacement camp in April, he was given US$4,500 to rebuild his house, but he is still too scared to do so. Agusto was moved out of the camp on the grounds of the national hospital in Dili, the capital, by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, after living Read more:Homecoming
Ambou: Head of Student Senate UNPAZ Technical Faculty 2008-06-04 20:44:42 The island of Atauro was a silent witness when a woman gave birth to a baby son. That baby was named Jose Reis alias Ambou. He was the fourth of six children of Joselino dos Reis (Maubara) and Paulina da Silva Reis (Same).This husband and wife were on Atauro Island as detainees of the Indonesian military because of their involvement in the clandestine organization (the underground movement)Can you Read more:Faculty
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Boss of Bus Juvinil Found Completely Naked & Dead 2008-06-02 01:10:06 VIQUEQUE - The boss of Bus Juvenil, Jacinto Amaral (73), on Wednesday (21/5) last, at about 20.38 local East Timor time, was found dead and completely naked in a kitchen owned by a husband and wife with the initials ALF dan DN, in the old Public Works Housing Estate in Beloi, Viqueque, about 40 metres from his house.Information obtained from one of the children of the victim, Manecas, in Beloi, Vi
The murder of Sister Erminia & friends 2008-05-26 05:47:32 This story is taken from East Timor 1999 Crimes against Humanity A Report Commissioned by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robinson, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2003. Joni Marques was named in President Jose Ramos-Horta's 20 May 2008 Presidential Pardons Decree as qualifying for a reduction of his sentence for his crimes in 1999 - some Read more:murder
Gregorio Lobo Pinto: Former Sub-District Head of Ossu, Now Rector of Unital 2008-05-22 07:29:52 If nothing gets in the way, the Oriental University (Unital) will graduate about 200 students this coming October. Perhaps this news will lighten the worries of parents about the status and quality of the East Timor Oriental University. The thing is that, apart from not yet having been accredited by the Democratic Republic of East Timor government, its name is less well known compared to other pri Read more:District
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Domingos Barreto jailed just for being at 12 November Demo 2008-05-22 07:28:34 During the Alkatiri government (2000 - 2006), the 12 November
demonstration* that climaxed with the bloody tragedy in the Santa Cruz public cemetery in Dili was made a national political issue. Prime Minister Alkatiri and the Fretilin Party wanted to make “12 November” National Labor Day. Every component of the country, the community, the youth of East Timor (more so those who were involved wi Read more:jailed
Sacrifice for Independence 2008-05-22 07:27:32 Forum Tau Matan (FTM) is already identified with the life of a man whose full name is João Soares Reis Pequinho. He is the founder of this NGO that is active in the humanitarian field.Beginning with his bitter experience during the Indonesian occupation, the heart of this man is empassioned to do something for this new state and country. “We developed this program to illustrate my life's vision Read more:Independence
Izaura's home destroyed by landslide 2008-05-22 07:26:32 A house owned by Izaura Gomes Faria that is located in the Fusam neighbourhood, Bairo Pite suburb, sub-district of Dom Eleixo (Dili District) was ruined by a natural disaster (landslide) that occurred at noon on Tuesday (22/4). Although no one was killed, all of the owner's possessions were also hit by the landslide and were scattered about outside where the house stood. The bedroom and wardrobe w
Paulino Amaral - We don't want to be refugees any more 2008-05-22 07:26:00 Although the refugees in the Kolmera Jardin are ready to leave the camp, some of the refugees still object because the government has forbidden them from living in their houses because there is a new project to be undertaken. “Our house is not far from the Rapid Response Unit Headquarters in Fatuhada. Now, the government has forbidden us from living in that house. Where will my family go?" said Read more:Amaral
Mrs Artemicio goes to Parliament 2008-05-22 07:25:23 At the National Parliament
Building in Dili on Wednesday, there came a woman from the town of Los Palos in the District of Lautem. Her name is Artemicia Rodriques Silva, a resident of the Kota Bemoris neighbourhood in the Village of Fuiloro, Sub-District of Lospalos. She came carrying her child, who is still an infant. Her face was sad, her eyes clouded, occasionally gazing at the ceilings of the
The tragic death of Domingos Guterres Silva 2008-05-22 07:23:41 The fate of Domingos Guterres Silva
(24) is truly tragic
. Since childhood, he suffered from epilepsy so his appearance was not completely normal. He lived in Fatu Meta Surikmas. On 29 April last, at about 6.00 a.m., he walked from Fatu Meta Surikmas towards Beduku and Manleuana, and did not return home. His parents and siblings became worried and went out to look for him but could not find him. Af Read more:death
At school - on the floor and with the goats 2008-05-22 07:21:08 The principle of Primary School III in Benunuk in the sub-district of Metinaro just to the east of Dili, Apolinario Manuel Luis Belo, says that the school he runs does not have enough desks and chairs so some of the students sit on the floor.“Although our school does not have enough desks and chairs, the teaching-learning process is still smooth" said Apolinario when meeting the journalist of th Read more:goats
Feeling Deceived by the National Parliament, Students threaten hunger strike 2008-07-03 06:01:35 DILI - The East Timor Students Forum is threatening hunger strike
s because its members feel deceived by the NationalParliament
about the agreement to purchase luxury motor vehicles being reduced from 65 to 26 vehicles.The threat was pubicised by the spokesperson for the ETSF, Sisto dos Santos, in a press conference at the East Timor National University Old Campus in Kaikoli, Dili on Wednesday (2/ Read more:Feeling
Church Mediates To Help Refugees 2008-08-03 19:28:08 July 30, 2008 TL05440.1508DILI (UCAN) -- Martinho Gusmao's former neighbors do not want him back and refuse to allow him to rebuild his home, razed to the ground by rioters two years ago, he says.So Gusmao and his family remain in a refugee camp near the Dili airport. "I am very sad, disappointed and suffer a lot because this kind of situation has forced me to live in tents for more than two years Read more:Church
, Refugees
Letter: The long way home in Dili 2008-09-04 04:12:11 By Simon Roughneen in Dili for ISN Security Watch (03/09/08)East Timor's capital now seems serene and lively, and a version of normality looms - but the country has confounded observers before.The first thing a returnee to Dili notices upon emerging from the airport is nothing: Empty fields behind the fence across from the parking lot, where until recently hundreds of tents sheltering some of Timo Read more:Letter
Castration ritual part of rural East Timor's oral history 2008-11-17 00:24:18 Submitted by Jesse Wright on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 05:15 Ossu Rua, East Timor - Jose da Silva thinks he's 70 years old, though he isn't sure. His hair is white and his eyes are cloudy and his teeth just aren't what they used to be.He smiles, showing off gaps where teeth are missing and those that remain are wiggly and red from chewing betel nut. He says his teeth have failed him. He tells of a time, Read more:Castration
Naldo Rei: Giving Voice To The Silenced in East Timor 2008-11-05 01:48:22 The Jakarta Post 26October 2008 Prodita Sabarini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - Naldo Rei, 32, was a baby when he and his family fled to the jungles as Indonesian troops invaded East Timor in 1975, starting a 24-year period of brutal oppression.His formative years were spent in the jungles, where he used to ask his parents why they were living in the jungle like wild animals. His questions would bri Read more:Giving
, Voice
The Forgotten 2008-11-04 16:31:05 Canberra Times (Australia) 15 October 2008The village of Tai Tete is a 40-minute climb from the town of Maliana, in the west of East Timor.The rangy figure of Joana Fatima leads us along a small track to her village. We walk past groves of lontar palm, clamber over black volcanic rocks and skirt around the grounds of a crumbling, Portuguese-era boarding school. As we get higher, the air thins and Read more:Forgotten
Human face of brutal memories in East Timor 2008-12-03 21:57:02 Northern Territory (Australia) News Human face of brutalmemories
ALYSSA BETTS December 4th, 2008 - MARIA da Silva Benfica's face is thinner and lined, but it has the same air of quietness that was captured in a black-and-white photo 31 years ago.She was 23 then, sitting outside the Belide prison, one of the first to be imprisoned after the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and on the receiving e
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