Tough times continue for people of East Timor

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated March 25 2017 - 9:48pm, first published 9:42pm

Dili: When invading Indonesian troops parachuted into Dili in 1975 Filomena Gomes fled into East Timor's cloud-shrouded mountains and for four years scrounged food and cooked for guerrilla fighters.

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