East Timor's unfinished struggle : inside the Timorese resistance / Constâncio Pinto and Matthew Jardine..

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

Preface / Jose Antonio Ramos Horta -- Foreword / Allan Nairn -- Introduction / Matthew Jardine -- 1. Origins of the Struggle -- 2. The Indonesian Invasion -- 3. Life in Remexio -- 4. Making a New Life in Dili -- 5. Joining the Underground -- 6. Emergence of the Underground -- 7. Founding the Executive Committee -- 8. Arrest and Torture -- 9. Working as a Double Agent -- 10. Preparing for the Portuguese Delegation -- 11. The Santa Cruz Massacre -- 12. Life Underground -- 13. Escape Abroad -- 14. Reflections on the Struggle -- Epilogue / Matthew Jardine -- East Timor Peace Plan / Jose Antonio Ramos Horta -- App. East Timor Support and Solidarity Groups / Edited by Charles Scheiner.

The 1996 Nobel Peace Prize pointed the world spotlight on East Timor, the Catholic, Portuguese-speaking province that Indonesia has been trying to suppress since invading it in 1975. Timely though this book is, it bears no trace of a rush job. It is predominantly the memoir of a 33-year-old Timorese man with supplementary matter by others, including a 250-word endorsement from prize co-winner JoseRamos Horta. Pinto was only 11 when the Timorese turmoil erupted after the fall of Portugal's empire. His family supported the independence party. They fled before the Indonesian takeover, and Pinto became an adolescent guerrilla, then opted for teaching before rejoining the underground in 1983. He pulled off a brave exploit by organizing a demonstration at a papal mass in 1989. Later, he was arrested, tortured, and, a hunted man after an appalling massacre in 1991, escaped into exile. Unbowed, with deep faith in his country and religion, Pinto adds the substance of suffering to the publicity generated by the Nobel Prize.