There were people herded into fields and machine-gunned. We knew the place was a free-fire zone. There was little verifiable news for two years. The invaders,' he wrote, 'have intensified their attacks. The bombers do not stop all day.
Hundreds die every day.
The bodies of the victims become food for carnivorous birds. Villages have been completely destroyed. The barbarities, understandable in the Middle Ages, justifiable in the Stone Age, all the organized evil, have spread deep roots in Timor. The terror of arbitrary imprisonment is our daily bread. I am on the persona non grata list and any day I could disappear.