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These gruesome photographs of torture victims were smuggled out of East Timor in late 1997 by human-rights workers. They depict the apparent torture and murder of five women.
One woman shown in this series was apparently arrested for appearing at a rally for Nobel Peace Prize-winners José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo. The soldiers hold her hand-lettered sign over her body which reads "Hidup hadia Nobel" (Bahasa Indonesian for "Long live the Nobel award"). The soldiers have also written anti-independence slogans on her body.
WARNING: These photographs are extremely disturbing. Children should not view them. | |||
| Witness to a Massacre Allan Nairn was in East Timor on assignment for The New Yorker in 1991; a battalion of Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a crowd of East Timorese peaceably assembled in a cemetery for a pro-independence rally. Nairn recounted the events of that day, which claimed an estimated 271 lives, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1992. |
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