ACbit – Chega! Ba Ita Learning from the Past, for A Better Future
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 …
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Felismina dos Santos da Conçeição
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 …
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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 …
Read More »Maria Imaculada
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 …
Read More »Stories from The Past for Future Hope: Commemorating Torture Sites and the Experiences of Women Victims of Torture in Dili, Timor-Leste
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 …
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