black dog books’ award-winning history series The Drum uses first-person accounts and non-fiction to bring history roaring to life.
Australia’s involvement with East Timor began in the second world war when many Australian soldiers would have died without the aid of the East Timorese.
Since that time, East Timor has been left on its own to fight a bloody battle for freedom for Indonesia.
An election in 1999 saw the massacre of thousands of East Timorese televised into our loungerooms.
How could this be allowed to happen? What was it that the East Timorese were prepared to die for? And what was Australia’s part in it?
