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World Service,22 Sep 2004,22 mins

Return to East Timor

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One reporter returns to East Timor, five years after the independence vote took place. Jonathan Head returns to East Timor, five years since the people voted for the country to become a sovereign state. He has come back to talk to the people he meet on the 30 August 1999 and talk about the violence that followed.

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