The other people did not want to bury our child there, they said it was not right that one of their leaders' sons should be buried like this, in a hole without a coffin. I said to them, 'Our baby died for the same reason your babies die, for our country's freedom. Their lives were taken for the same thing we are all looking for. For each we made a small place, close together. We join our hands and pray, offer the souls of these innocent ones for our country to be free.
People stay crying by the grave.
We could not console each other. Inside our land Timorese all know each other. If you go there you will know, their eyes will tell you they are not happy.