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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...
...lied, keenly aware that foreign journalists were less than welcome in Indonesian East Timor. "I'm a school teacher?on holidays...
...yanked me out of the dirt, and then, in a moment of sublime surrealism, looked across to the bay, and said: "Beautiful, no?" Though sweat?or perhaps tears?stung my eyes and clouded my vision, I nodded in agreement. A crumbling Portuguese fort?a remnant from the 400 years Timor spent under Lisbon's rule?presided over a perfect, white sand beach, complete with palms leaning lazily toward the clear waters. In another time, the scene could have been described as idyllic. But at that moment, East Timor's potential as a holidaymaker's paradise seemed to me minimal...
...suspended bilateral ties with the Indonesian military in 1999 because of horrifying human rights abuses in East Timor. While the needs of American policy may have changed, Indonesia's military has not. "The fear among pro-reform elements is that the money could provide an opening for the security forces to go back to the bad old days," warns Sidney Jones, Indonesia Project director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. Pakistan's dictator Pervez Musharraf found himself similarly in the U.S.' good graces after Sept. 11. His regime has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief...
...denim, with his long mane of hair trailing behind, accompanied by the scent of bountifully applied cologne. (At the judges' discretion, none of the defendants in any of the trials have been incarcerated.) He ducked into the trial of General Adam Damiri, who oversaw the military command for East Timor in 1999 and is the highest ranking military official on trial. When Damiri's session ended, Guterres hurried to greet the general with a handshake and a hug, and the two men walked out together, smiling?and confident in the belief that their version of history will live...