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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land That Time Forgot | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...country. His song should be sung. Baucau's old city?built in the shadow of a limestone cliff overlooking the ocean?is home to some of the finest examples of Portuguese architecture in East Timor, including the newly restored and renamed Pousada Baucau, once the infamous Hotel Flamboyan. Now under Timorese management, this grand hotel is the place to enjoy spicy Portuguese-Timorese fusion food and a glass of fine Portuguese wine before retiring for the night. Reassuringly, the staff now carry corkscrews instead of M-16s. Rooms cost $50 a night, including breakfast?call (61418) 176 003 for reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land That Time Forgot | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

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