translate English to French: The truth is that throughout this period, the Indonesian occupying forces were claiming hundreds of thousands of victims, inflicting immense suffering on the people of East Timor, who have never wavered in their heroic struggle for freedom and independence, a struggle which we acclaim.
La vérité est que durant toute cette période, les forces d' occupation indonésiennes ont fait des centaines de milliers de victimes, des sacrifices innombrables du peuple du Timor oriental, qui n' a jamais cessé sa lutte héroïque pour la liberté et l' indépendance, lutte que nous saluons.