Crisis In East Timor: City of hopes and horrors It is easy to look on the bright side in Dili, but it could just be a lull before the next storm of violence, warns Richard Lloyd Parry

From: The Independent - London | Date: September 26, 1999| Author: Richard Lloyd Parry | Copyright information

ON THE street in front of the former militia house in Dili, a boy and a girl in T-shirts and dirty shorts were eating mangos and playing in the sunshine with a yellow tennis ball.

With their skinny limbs and the worn grey of their clothes, they looked like refugees just returned from hiding in the hills. The boy grinned as he sucked on the plump mango and the juice ran down his chin. After a while, he took his little sister by the hand and led her into the garden where people had gath...

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