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During the recent riots in East Timor, 150,000 refugees fled to displacement camps. Five months on, they still can't return home. With the rainy season weeks away, the situation is getting desperate.
East Timor is once again in turmoil. But this time, the violence isn't being led by Indonesia. The country's own soldiers are turning on each other.
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Since the gruesome massacre of three UN workers in September, West Timor has been sliding into lawlessness. "The worst case scenario is beginning to materialise", says a senior UN official. The worst case scenario is a repeat of the bloodbath in East Timor a year ago - this time west of the border.
In Jakarta Eurico Guterres is welcomed with waving flags. The man behind some of the bloodiest massacres in East Timor in 1999 is hailed as a celebrity.
Two months ago nearly half a million East Timorese fled the chaos and death after the referendum on Independence. Up to 400,00 people are still missing from the region. No one knows exactly where they are.
In 1999 East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence. However celebrations did not follow - brutal violence did. This documentary speaks to those who bore witness to the tragic events which lead to the death of 1,400 civilians.
In the past few months, there have been dozens of pro-independence supporters gunned down. Hundreds have been beaten and tortured, and thousands have fled. Here we reveal ABRI's links with pro-Indonesian integration militias who have been terrorising East Timor.
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