Sofia da Costa, Baucau Sofia da Costa has said enough. When Sofia was 22 her husband was killed in a conflict between UDT and Fretilin. A year later Sofia began …

Felismina dos Santos da Conceicao has said enough. In 1991 Felismina was employed at a local military base where she had been copying military documents and smuggling them to resistance …

Amelia Conçeição has said enough. When the Indonesia invaded Timor Leste, Amelia fled with her family to the forest without having a chance to take any belongings, including any important …

Domingas de Araujo Mendonca  has said enough. When Domingas was 17, she was captured by the Indonesian military. She and six other women were tortured daily: stripped and forced to …

Lucilia da S. Alves Choosing not to feel fear after her father and brother were killed by Indonesia soldiers, Lucilia and her mother continued their clandestine activities. Every day they …

Maria Imaculada has said enough. Maria supported the resistance by transporting food and clothes to the guerilla forces in the forest.She was arrested, detained, tortured and repeatedly raped for over …

Augusta de Jesus Araujo has said enough. In 1980, after the arrest of Augusta’s father who was a village headman, her entire family was exiled to Atauro.  On Atauro, the …

  Dec. 6th, 2015.  A male student of Saõ Jose Operario High School couldn’t hide the shock in his face when he told us how he never knew such stories …