I’ve had to escape Indonesia for a while. Not because I am on the run for the authorities, but because my free entry stamp into Indonesia is only valid for 30 days, and my days are numbered. The country of choice for my self-imposed exile was Timor Leste, also known as East Timor, a one-time Portuguese colonial backwater. Despite its backwater status, it attracted the attention of Indonesia when the Portuguese left the country in a hurry, and so not much later the Indonesians took their place. The East Timorese, however, were not at all happy about being treated this way, and soon took up arms. For the next twenty something years the protests rumbled on, until a particularly nasty massacre at the Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, by Indonesians troops, was captured on film by
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