Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East TimorUniv. of Queensland Press, 2007 - 338 páginas Naldo Rei was just six months when Indonesia invaded East Timor om December 1975. He spent the first three years of his life in the jungle, where his family had fled for safety. An unforgettable true story of courage and survival. |
Índice
In the beginning | 3 |
My fathers activities | 10 |
Village life in occupied East Timor | 23 |
My recruitment into the clandestine movement | 28 |
Tightening the network | 37 |
Meeting Ines | 45 |
The Santa Cruz massacre | 48 |
After the Santa Cruz massacre | 54 |
A needle in the Jakarta haystack | 177 |
Escape to Australia | 185 |
Speaking out | 191 |
Changes in Indonesia and the referendum for independence | 197 |
After the referendum | 202 |
East Timorese refugees in Australia | 210 |
Planning my return home | 214 |
Arriving home | 219 |
In the hands of the military | 60 |
Fiftynine days in the Iron Prison | 65 |
Escape or not? | 70 |
Living at Aileu | 76 |
Human kindness | 80 |
Normal life | 84 |
Visiting Alarico in the jungle | 93 |
Living by my wits | 101 |
Working with Sabalae | 104 |
In trouble again | 111 |
In the jungle with the guerrillas | 118 |
Into the enemys land | 130 |
A journey to remember | 133 |
Jakarta | 138 |
Letters from Xanana | 145 |
The occupation of the Dutch embassy in Jakarta | 150 |
Surviving in troubled times | 158 |
Indonesia in labour | 165 |
A letter from Linda | 172 |
My two families meet | 226 |
Return to Iralafai | 231 |
The family sword | 237 |
Life in a free country | 241 |
Weaving my life together | 249 |
Darkness | 256 |
East Timors first election | 258 |
The sun has risen | 262 |
Restoration of Independence Day | 269 |
In the end | 275 |
My mother Julia remembers | 282 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 291 |
My family tree | 294 |
Useful words and acronyms | 295 |
History of the Resistance in East Timor | 300 |
Structure of the East Timorese Resistance | 304 |
Letter from Wilson | 308 |
Mortality rates in East Timor 19751999 | 326 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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