East Timor - Stoking the Fires (2006)

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Title........: Four Corners - Stoking the Fires

Runtime......: 00:45:00 (67,494 fr)

Genre........: Documentary

Languages....: English

Translations.: English subtitles

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When East Timorese grabbed their independence and, with the help of

Australian-led forces, withstood the murderous onslaught of

Indonesia-backed militiamen, the world saluted their courage.

A new nation was born, dirt-poor but filled with hope and optimism.



Seven years on, the Australian soldiers are back, trying to stop more

bloodshed. Again, thousands of terrified East Timorese have become

refugees. Lives have been taken and properties burnt and trashed,

in fewer numbers this time. Now Xanana Gusmao walks in pain and

weeps with his people.



The tiny country?s convulsions have given rise to an uncomfortable

notion, that it could be lurching towards failed statehood, that

the bold independence journey might derail into civil war. But the

key question of East Timor?s future is bound inextricably to the

present: What ? who ? is causing the present turmoil?



Four Corners looks for an answer by peeling back the layers of this

multi-tiered conflict that pits soldier against policeman, easterner

against westerner and prime minister against president.



Reporter Liz Jackson reports from East Timor?s capital Dili and the

outlying mountains, tapping into the secret agendas and shifting

alliances of key players and showing how their power struggles are

grinding down an already traumatised people.



Jackson broke the recent story of the claims by former Falintil

fighters that they had been hired by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri

to kill and intimidate opponents ? an allegation denied by Alkatiri.

This report will also break news as well as providing insight into

the evolving tragedy of East Timor.



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