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| A child lights candles at a memorial service held at the Santa Cruz cemetary in Dili on the 12th November, marking the 9th Anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre. Indonesia soldiers gunned down more than 200 East Timorese on the 12th of November 1991, when thousands gathered at the cemetary to place wreaths onto the grave of an independence activist, 18 year old Sebestian Gomez, who was also shot by Indonesian soldiers while taking refuge in a church in Dili 2 weeks earlier. |
| At the main market in Dili, a family wait for sales at their makeshift stall, selling commodities and bottled water, earning less than a dollar a day. Unemployment remains high in Dili, where incomes varies from those who get jobs from the United Nations or the many restaurants and hotels run by Australians to those who scrape by selling scrapes of metal or food. |
| At a village near Lospalos, 300km East of Dili, family members reunite after spending more than a year at refugee camps in West Timor. Almost two hundred thousand East Timorese were forced to flee to West Timor by pro-Indonesian militias before the arrival of the United Nations. Many have since return but more than a hundred thousand refugees continue to live in camps along the West Timor boarder. |
| A child looks at drawings made by East Timorese children on Human Rights Day December 12. The drawings depict Indonesian soldiers killing and torturing East Timorese. It is reported that more than 200,000 men, woman and children were killed by Indonesian soldiers or died of starvation during their 25 years of occupation. |
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| Associated Press |
| photography , east timor |
| Associated Press |
| Associated Press |
| Associated Press |