Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East TimorReadHowYouWant.com, 16/03/2011 - 488 páginas Naldo Rei was just six months old when Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975. He spent the first three years of his life in the jungle, where his family had fled for safety. After his father was murdered for his work in the resistance movement, nine-year-old Naldo was recruited by the clandestine Fretilin network and began his own extraordinary journey fighting for East Timor's freedom. Throughout his teenage years, Naldo was imprisoned and tortured regularly for his covert resistance to the brutal Indonesian regime. Eventually, in too much danger to remain in his homeland, he escaped to Indonesia and then Australia for several years. Now living in an independent East Timor, Naldo Rei can tell his incredible story. His life is proof that no amount of danger and loss can crush the human spirit. |
Índice
In the Beginning | 1 |
My fathers Activities | 10 |
Village Life in Occupied East Timor | 28 |
My Recruitment into the Dlandestine Movement | 35 |
Tightening the Network | 48 |
Meeting Ines | 60 |
The Santa Cruz Massacre | 64 |
After the Santa Cruz Massacre | 72 |
Speaking Out | 259 |
Changes in Indonesia and the referendum for independence | 267 |
After the Referendum | 274 |
East Timorese Refugees in Australia | 285 |
Planning my Return Home | 290 |
Arriving Home | 297 |
My two Families Meet | 306 |
Return to Iralafai | 313 |
In the Hands of the Military | 79 |
Fiftynine days in the Iron Prison | 86 |
Escape or not? | 93 |
Living at Aileu | 101 |
Human Kindness | 105 |
Normal Life | 111 |
Visiting Alarico in the jungle | 124 |
Living by my Wits | 136 |
Working with Sabalae | 140 |
In Trouble Again | 150 |
In the jungle with the Guerrillas | 160 |
Into the Enemys Land | 177 |
A journey to Remember | 180 |
Jakarta | 186 |
Letters from Xanana | 195 |
The Occupation of the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta | 203 |
Surviving in Troubled Times | 214 |
Indonesia in Labour | 223 |
A Letter from Linda | 233 |
A Needle in the Jakarta Haystack | 240 |
Escape to Australia | 251 |
The Family Sword | 321 |
Life in A Free Country | 326 |
Weaving my Life Together | 337 |
Darkness | 347 |
East Timors First Election | 349 |
The Sun has Risen | 355 |
Restoration of Independence Day | 364 |
In the End | 372 |
My Mother Julia Remembers | 382 |
Acknowledgments | 395 |
My family tree | 398 |
Useful words and acronyms | 399 |
History of the Resistance in East Timor | 405 |
Structure of the East Timorese Resistance | 411 |
Letter from Wilson | 417 |
Interview following the Dutch embassy action in Jakarta | 424 |
Mortality rates in East Timor 19751 999 | 443 |
Back Cover Material | 446 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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