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...times they refused. I was crying when I left. I was looking around seeing this place I had grown up farming, seeing the place where I used to play as a little boy." Today Kumar, his wife and four children are crammed into an 8 m by 5 m shack located in the middle of a mosquito-infested mangrove swamp. Around them is a garbage tip of old tyres, tins and broken-up asbestos sheeting; human waste fills a network of stinking open drains that regularly overflow during high tide. Kumar and his wife bring in about $80 a week...
...Rotarian Peter Drysdale leads a campaign to build 700 homes for squatters. He says landowners take advantage of the squatters' lack of rights, citing the case of a woman who organized an unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into her supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick, but it was that she could not pay these electricity bills. I moved her out. But when I went...
Every day, the fancy jeeps cruise past Palmira Pereira's shack on the northern coast of East Timor. Sometimes, the passengers inside the air-conditioned vehicles raise their hands in greeting, and Pereira, or one of her 10 children, waves back. But the occupants of the cars-owned by the government, the U.N. or other organizations that are helping to run this infant country, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002-have never stopped to meet the Pereiras. If they did, they would find a family that has not eaten rice in three months because of shortages that have nearly...
...says Bishop of Baucau Basílio do Nascimento. "Are you saying these people do not exist?" Even if the April presidential election is supposed to give these citizens a voice, many are so disenfranchised that they see little point in participating in the democratic process. Back in her shack on the northern coast of East Timor, Pereira just laughs when asked which candidate she will choose to lead her country. "When I am asked to vote for President, I will just close my eyes and pick one," she says. "The leaders don't care about people like...
...paved road is announced by a sign bearing the President's face and the slogan GLORIA CARES. In many villages, government troops are dug in behind sandbags and razor wire. Three hours later, we transfer to trail bikes and roar along deserted tracks to a semi-derelict logging shack. Waiting there are five N.P.A. soldiers with M-16s, who guide us through the darkening jungle to a camp lit by flickering oil lamps. "The comrades are very excited you're here," says a voice from the gloom...