Tag: Timorese Independence

Aussie priest remembers East Timor’s troubled, violent beginnings and the glimmers of hope

by Mark Bowling

26 August 2019 - Updated on 1 April 2021

Hope: Children in East Timor, 1999, were looking to a brighter future. AMID the bullets and terror surrounding East Timor’s ...

Path to freedom – looking back on the terror and hope 20 years after East Timor’s independence vote

by Mark Bowling

22 August 2019 - Updated on 1 April 2021

Freedom push: East Timorese villagers proclaim their support for independence ahead of the 1999 referendum. Despite the presence of militia ...

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Tag: Timorese Independence

Aussie priest remembers East Timor’s troubled, violent beginnings and the glimmers of hope

Path to freedom – looking back on the terror and hope 20 years after East Timor’s independence vote

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