Twenty years on, Timorese-Australians look back on the struggle for independence
To mark the anniversary, photographer Alex Soares spoke to three cousins who lived through Indonesia’s brutal occupation
This week, Timor-Leste celebrates 20 years of independence. On 20 May 2002, the United Nations formally handed power to the new Timorese government and, thus, to its people.
It ended a struggle often described as spanning the 24 years from the Indonesian invasion in 1975 to the UN referendum in 1999. But before Indonesia’s bloody and brutal occupation, there had been four centuries of colonial Portuguese rule.
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