It’s December 1975 and seventeen-year-old Francesca is about to find out if that which does not kill her will make her strong. Caught in the crossfire of the Indonesian army’s brutal invasion of East Timor, she escapes with her...

Winner of the E.M. Forster Award and shortlistedfor the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautifulnarration of the guerrilla war against theIndonesians in Timor, praised by Fretilin ForeignMinister and Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Hortafor its ‘perfect authenticity’.

At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking...

The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger’s reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesia’s genocidal...

A personal story by the Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the shocking genocide of the Timorese people at the hands of the Indonesian occupants.

Joe is young and idealistic, with a thirst for adventure and a desire to make a difference in the world. When given the opportunity to travel to East Timor as an aid worker, he jumps at the chance, with...

In Jakarta’s gleaming center a man and a woman watch each other from adjoining skyscrapers. The man, a journalist, has on his desk reports he doesn’t dare publish of a massacre in East Timor. He contemplates the demands of...

What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left? No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis follows the return journey of a former aid worker...

Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he’s seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to...

East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia – one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit and its oppression. Before that – as a Portuguese...