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Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia 's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists to refuse to be evacuated during the nightmarish Indonesian withdrawl, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith with the East Timorese whose story she wanted to tell.
Her book is a vivid first-hand account of the lives of individual Timorese during the long decades of Indonesia 's repressive occupation, their often heroic struggle for freedom, and their efforts to cope with the dramatic historic shifts engulfing them and their endeavours to rebuild their homeland.
Based on years of research, and lengthy interviews with East Timor 's leaders, priests, nuns, students and guerrilla fighters, this moving and extremely readable book is at the same time also an exploration of the complexities of the country's internal politics.
Table of Contents
1. A View from the Ditch
2. Distant Glimmers
3. The Past Casts its Shadow
4. Requiems
5. The Bishop and the Mountain
6. Timor's Joan of Arc
7. The Crocodile Bares its Teeth
8. The Dam Breaks
9. Big Brother Xanana
10. A Difficult Time Never to be Forgotten
11. No Sanctuary
12. 'Fear is the parent of cruelty'
13. 'Asking the fox to look after the chickens'
14. Dancing with Falintil
15. Life in Uaimori
16. 'The Mouth of the Tiger'
17. The Price of Freedom
18. 'A Sea of Flames'
19. Under Siege
20. Counting Bodies
21. Healing the Wounds
22. Reconciliation
23. Independência!
24. Broken Dreams
25. Moving Mountains
Product details
| Published | Apr 01 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781848130135 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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