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Australia casts a shadow over East Timor's future; Sydney helped liberate its tiny neighbour but now claims ownership of vast oil riches beneath its sea. Kathy Marks reports.(Foreign News)
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Byline: Kathy Marks
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Julmira Babo collapsed unconscious while playing outside in her village in East Timor's Ermera district. Her family carried her to a hut and gave her traditional medicines but, a few days later, she died. An autopsy was performed by a United Nations pathologist, who was astonished by what he discovered.
Inside Julmira's body were hundreds of large worms that had travelled from her stomach up her oesophagus and into her mouth, blocking her trachea. She died of asphyxiation. "In my entire career as a pathologist in the Third World, I have ...
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