Cover Story: Eyewitness in East Timor*

Eyewitness in East TimorIn early November, Peter Westmore spent 10 days in East Timor, to evaluate the conditions in the country which will become independent in May this year.Since the East Timorese people voted for independence from Indonesia in August 1999, and the subsequent terror which ended only when Australian troops, under UN auspices, landed in Dili, capital of East Timor, I wanted to make an on-the-spot assessment of developments in the country, which many News Weekly readers have ass…

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