Four Days in Dili - East Timor

June 2006
Days before foreign peacekeepers arrived, journalist David O'Shea travelled to East Timor to chronicle its descent into chaos. His frontline report reveals what's really happening there.

"Watch out for grenades. They're using the grenade launcher!", warns rebel leader and former police chief Alfredo Reinaldo, as government forces opened fire on them. First the army splintered after Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri sacked a third of the force for complaining about discrimination. Then Reinaldo's defection led to the police fracturing. The hope is that foreign peacekeepers will restore order but reuniting the country behind the government may prove much harder. As one woman states: "we need good leaders to govern this country otherwise these things will continue."

Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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News & Politics

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• Timor
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• Dili
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• Foreign
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• War
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[watchitnz]

Wow that journalist was at the right place at the right time. Awesome footage.

[jllk]

Yeap. I agreed with you. The problems are more of a political context than some division between the eastern and western side of Timor.

[zahkti]

Indonesia doesnt want any more additional province, we have many province.. and indonesia have enough problem to solve internally...but we can be brothers.

so, good luck timor leste...

greeting from indonesia

[apteka2]

@annieearly0500 One word for indonesia: sama

[opxian]

Nice video guys

[annieearly0500]

One word for timor: durhaka

[armelix73]

wow, I wish i could be there to make history. It's always fascinating with all the journalists risking their very lives to make stories, go guys!

[sohartogila]

Viva Timor Leste..... you kick Indog ass for good.

[sohartogila]

@EGASANJAYA

hahahah...are you Indog all like this?hahhahah pitty...