in broadcasting union suddenly. cites. ministry at a time. tried to go around. what's really going on. inside. the hotel business each to andrea and i were on the roof when we came on the fire. i was in the lobby on equasym militia man with a sword try to attack the journalist. who filed the last report. in. the field. the next morning we were forced to leave the indonesian military came to town put us on two trucks and drove us to the airport. we were removed from one of the largest international stories at the time. we were.

angry frustrated it was a horrible empty feeling. to be denied the ability to cover the event that we all knew. we feared for the lives of many and it was almost no one left to tell the world. we were forced to cover the story from afar. and the e.b.u. meanwhile found a way to get journalists back to dili as soon as australian peacekeepers arrived word got out that the european broadcasting your newbie you had charted and they managed to get approvals to land an aircraft in dili. once the airport had been secured we knew viewers coming in we set up. the mandarin oranges we just showed up put their names and contact each else. and pay for them out of this one way trip to east timor come to the mandarin oriental

hotel poolside will be someone there to meet you the cost is that a few thousand u.s. dollars for this one way trip you're not coming back you get on that aircraft you're getting off at the other end so it was not chips at all so. you can see what i describe myself like i really want to pay this much like ticket to hell one way ticket to hell and then pass the last of us showed up with his friend. start a conversation friendly. he struck me as a very friendly one of a kind of person i want to be i want to meet that. ok sure. he wrote down his name and. sums your voice from somebody you know yeah they speak very fluent in bahasa so i had to blanda oh ok so from all

of it and they were standard phones very friendly very. interactive and from what i remember jack we just met there never met him before never knew him before and he just played. everyone click with sander he was that kind of man young smart. he and i were part of a small group of dutch journalist based in jakarta friends who she had stories and travel around the country so much time there was the financial times correspondent and also some likely asked me to become a war correspondent so quickly i need to understand more about the people who killed him. these are the remains of seven four five the compound where they were based but also where they started to have bloody retreat. people were very very much afraid of seven four five in the last. they know that these soldiers

. were pretty violent. along i didn't examine them on top of the the. dominica. my do you know but i was missing. this was also not the only camp they had many more in this in this little town basically this town was dominated by seven four five. the people here were always reminded of the indonesian presence because of this this battalion. you can actually see seven four five seven. four. five. it's still here. they tried to remove it but it didn't really work. the out of america the back with

a big body to. monitor back you that oh we're going to go on with them seeing us with indonesia a gun we've got a gun i don't think i'm going to listen to bad. yeah. i'm like you have got on that i got a. phone. number for a new model and when they come by newbie moment the scene here in town america. colorado alarms other than that but when i got home i could look at arson i mean. i mean they knew an issue and i. moved i had. a. on the morning of september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred nine italian seven four five. and embark on the trail of murder.

as they began. they headed. north towards the beach at. the departure point of the battalion most of the soldiers left east timor back to indonesia right here. and the supply route for them so they kept their main supply some little bay. they didn't want anyone to have any profit from those supply so they destroyed everything when they left and it was a group of italians one hundred twenty members who are not allowed to go on the boats but they had to go back to indonesia overland they had to bring back the vehicles so sixty trucks and thirty motorbikes. from here and one in fourteen destroy and kill everything you find on your way.

to. this in. an italian members who hadn't set sail those charts which were turning to come for you to indonesia come down in lao to for the night. they left early on the morning of september twentieth the orange glow of everything that had satellite filling this guy. their route was now to the west following the coastal road along the northern shore of east timor towards laga once there they came down for another night at one of their supply bases. on the morning of september twenty first one thousand nine hundred

ninety. three turn to the east timor forced to leave but nervous and scared but what we would fight. for cites from the plane confirmed all worst fears destruction on a scale we could not even have imagined you ready dos also one of the hardest stories would have to cover. at the same time as we had set off on a journey to help the soldiers of battalion seven four five ready themselves for day a departure from lag on a journey of a very different intent. what was to become a very dark day began here with a day that would affect so many families not only in east timor. having

set their base alight with the talian departed towards delhi and began a pattern of violence that would continue for the rest of the day but. it wasn't long before the battalion met their first victims that morning. within ten minutes of leaving the base they came across two men on a motorcycle unfortunate enough to be on the same stretch of road at the same time that says two man were killed here by the indonesian military. twenty first. of succumb to the member one thousand and one. and i know these two guys or two brothers their names were gus and. unbeknown to the battalion the actions were witnessed by seeing me up into a. moment and land at a star the sun to keep does make. the qualities drop but the

bodies in their. home to give it become another thing i think if you look. at them battle isn't my in that them stand up won't their. them develop a balance and a lot of my a lot more don't want to come i had a bad think about him about that make them love me and i got in was in my business but then i'm sick and then bang my. dinner as a deal to put amanda doesn't. the meat of it matter dan not going to have a dope let me see at the end wasn't there. that are not want debbie i think he meant amber one man said about dope busted out of a set i have the as a fan of give it out on. it up it will not get out on eleven out on my sock eleven this is dog bare ass i don't have on a set at the moment and out of a bit of a lot of a solid dome complained in

a field ghana was live. that of them are the name on it. and then this. funny man. say yes bitterly sad story was the first of many tragedies that occurred on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred ninety. s. i continue to retracing the battalion's journey i met more and more people who had witnessed their violence and was she had with me story after story of grief and sorrow. just outside about this man show me where his uncle was gunned down in the doorway of his own house now abandoned and overgrown. this family lost a daughter a young mother callously shot in both lax she bled to death in front of them on this spot holding in her arms her infant child. now teenage school will.

retracing the steps of battalion seven four five was never going to be easy physically or emotionally and i'm finding it disturbing in every way and i know there is more and more to come. and there's still some way to go before i have to deal with how the battalion affected me. i reached the center of back out and like the battalion my straight. everyone at flight the mt town the beautiful market building had already been destroyed years before. by now what had to reach the file until soldiers hiding in the mountains with battalion seven four five was doing. in the saw as usual every day it was common man does this sort of us from the yard is a set of procedures

a fair martyrs does a set in the story of us. of course evil but only a cell. that care. i mean your farmers that there may not i gather. the president must praise you know when. they. said oh you do. gotta get. the oxy acetylene have. done it. but make up but one hundred eighty. so i even want to double check on that one to come up and go up each hour that interrupts you got him up what about what. despite the general's way shifts some fellow deal soldiers could take it no longer . they hid in the land next to this bridge and it was here that the battalion met with the only resistance they were to face that day there was a shoot out of around two hours between the indonesian soldiers and the fall until

the fight us not of the indonesian soldiers but four members of al until they got killed and then the indonesian battalion moved on and killed more people on the other side. having survived to fell into ambush the battalion struck again just beyond the bridge. a young man with his friends unaware of the danger return to his village to collect supplies. his own just in time told me what happened. more shocking a night out i imagine. adding going on in mountain man and through the lobby. out that show that i'm wanting to eat nothing i'm a medic that little. and a good deal. but how does she need should have been moving him at pin data.

in libya medica why would you assume when you can be chucked that challenge chalk she like it to understand that a. lot of how to do something and not be. going back much. but playing on the game on the phone. i. found it really neat to have to speak to. as i am lucky and look. after you just leave town and not take you a. bit. cheeky. we can make up a site. with a costella or an initial. wing ad to get daddy or indonesians into the stuff.

i want to do just. do a good clean me no good for. me to get up and. then let it get. at it at that and bad english at. me that will be through more of the world. than one. because i've gotten into the mission.

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twenty meeting in argentina because of his busy schedule it comes as a sentence due to be briefed on wednesday about the ongoing u.s. involvement in the war in yemen and the murder of the saudi journalists. the head of the cia gina hospital has listen to recordings of her shall g.'s death but reportedly won't be at the briefing mike hanna has more from washington. well there's been no confirmation as yet but various reports do indicate that this was done at the instruction of the white house now what is happening is that the secretary of state and the secretary of defense will be addressing the senate behind closed doors on the whole issue of jamal khashoggi but some speculate that in the absence of the director of the cia it's not going to be a briefing about the death of it's more going to be about reasons why the senate should not impose sanctions against saudi arabia tunisia's judiciary has launched an investigation into a complaint accusing the saudi crown prince of human rights violations. hundreds of

people protested against mom had been solomon's arrival in tunis as part of his tour of arab nations u.s. president donald trump says he may cancel a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the g twenty summit in argentina. in response to russian maritime forces opening fire on ukrainian naval vessels early this week in china and explosions killed at least twenty two people near a chemical plant and province happened in the city of young jocko more than twenty others were hurt the government's launched an investigation to find the cause of the accident five international aid groups of call in the u.s. to hold all military support for the saudi led war in yemen that joint statement the aid groups warn that fourteen million people are at risk of starvation. and polls are now closed in the u.s. state of mississippi one of the election for a senate seat that follows a campaign which highlighted the area's troubled past involving the lynching of

black people come been republican senators and the odd smith was caught on camera saying she would happily attend a public hanging if invited she's facing african-american democrat mike espy well those are the headlines back to al-jazeera correspondent stage of that sort. when andrea and i boarded the e.b.u. flight bound for east timor on september twenty first one thousand nine hundred ninety two gather with sandor tunis all dylan and all the other journalists we weren't the only people heading for daily italian seven four five was approaching from the east and coming in the opposite direction from west timor where john swain of the sunday times with american photographer chip ryan they were the top hauser's shells of homes. the roads the streets were very empty and

security had completely fall apart delhi airport was eerie when we came in at the same time as aircraft that is training in peacekeeping forces the f one building was deserted and partially destroyed there were no formalities no security checks. nor was there any transport not a traditional kind anyway. we managed to flag down a cattle truck but i can remember seller standing at the front of the of the tip. with his head up above looking down the highway the australian peacekeepers that set up in one of the beachfront or tells them in the early ring didn't steal they've made a headquarters in the main hotel which is called the tourist my hotel which is also on the beach we didn't want to get involved with the australian army we didn't want to be controlled in any particular way we wanted to. stay independent because we

hadn't flown in with the australian forces we were prevented from entering into that protected hotel and instead walked down the beach from the promise about three hundred meters to where there was a nunnery an abandoned nunnery. andrea and i also took shelter in this town from that day. this is the first time that half returned to one thousand nine hundred nine and it's only partially familiar i've come back to independent east timor many times i have avoided the nunnery for fourteen years. i really very strongly remember how afraid we were when we were staying here and what we thought it would be a lot safer. before we actually went to the lead and we experience when we actually got here. it was very unpredictable very eerie. you know the gunshots fires we did we just didn't know we had we had no idea where we had to

look out for. we thought that the indonesians would have left but many of them were still here. but there was no time for fear we were all here to work and that's what we did our story that day was right across the road from the convent where thousands were crammed together on the beach looking for safety went out to interview them i saw this huge collection of. humanity on the beach and went to talk to the refugees and found this young refugee family headed by sweet young i'm called and i try to so. spoke some english and said well i'd like to use you as an interpreter but we need some transport so they are not there to. come in my city i see them with so family and their close to two coming summer summer they will see the depth to more. study

in my arm i am with or. at the more likely one by one or no he didn't want to go very far we didn't want to go and you are unsafe particularly here it's our first day in delhi. florindo aroud you have been driving journalists around delhi on the back of his small motorcycle all day as he dropped one of them off at the three small sander was next in line. at them was a way to get their beloved is in the bank. in india but that early there were diaries in a day that will have. a chorus everyone because there's a lot of. said. that we did to them oh they must have. that is a our idea. i think set off early and then florindo and sander john

chip and nick lotto in century ramesses car was some way you had on the same stretch of road. it would be to first meet the battalion. that's just beyond the city limits ready bought off among us because. there was this noise of motorbikes arriving came around the corner and there were about thirty or forty . men on motorbikes with long. slow let us. get the sort of them up to. one of the first scenes that it was they attacked my driver i watched some of them my time up something in. the last. bus. one of them just took his rifle and bashed his eye out with the rifle but. i just saw it. coming down his face like a. snake ready it was just like a break and i can just hang it on that on his cheek but if

a book will do sleep due to those who spoke with what dog or there was suspicion very suspicious of him because he was with two western as i said. i'm in charge it to get. those down good luck it's. not a question i do more with. we were ordered back into the vehicle and driver with his eye still hanging out of his order to drive the car down the hill. to beg him on essential a mobile they had said to my thank you mark good to spare my supper was a well what would give me something. well up. to the motor bikes swapped them stopped in front of us so we couldn't talk to them don't. we couldn't go any further. sell us out to.

supper it doesn't look good at those who have come on us soil us up to come on down below the dose of it i love boom boom medical i want to be that they're marked out of a lot of them are better luck on tuesday that there are thumbs up to be our best buddies to do the way you do. i said to chip and to to ramos i said. we've got to get out over a dead. loss and a lot of. loss a low somebody. buttercup them up to the scummy there was a lot of good. there wallace who moved those. to. go up monasteries with the good the lucky i don't mean they came off to us short which you can really look behind we just kept going as fast as we could we could and looking for cover. so that it was a lot of luck to them but us. least started you know. what our society those

things were. but. we didn't know much of gone you know just an idea where it was safe used to be and. you know he's an east timorese in that time he might have brown eyes that he was safe was beyond he said i was bibi to westerners who took this terrible. episode of. jon and chip it through didn't i'm sure of what had happened to any connect to unsigned. italian in the meantime continue on its bloody route of destruction. getting this. and that they and i find that this it would be policy to. say i'm up this is that it says at that at what they thought it though i know what and it. to grow or a place to move a leg up and since other. ballot model was on the thing he got out and.

said america so a lot of americans who didn't get edited they did it in the unit. to mark this more . and say you couldn't but that if i didn't say that giving the. goodness a lot of troops so. that they have a lot of new community or a good plan for their own interests. it's about the knitting that we most of it's in the low to the center. and most of you look at every said in a very nice and resentful. but it was a. little something but you need. to come back a minute and he has got a lot of merit it would take them to say develop america restore your lost. hello stepper says with a look at him what did the little guy at the political atmosphere so that obama got

it out of a horse i would end up dead there might be. a little bit of no idea. battered bruised and bleeding in a rainbow made his way to the turismo tell everyone he could not have happened. we heard that santa was missing so it was very confusing. my husband and ray was looking for him next door in the tourist motel while i was still working i had to keep working because i had deadlines and so it was all like really. messed up because we were also really worried about your own safety i mean not much was standing lots of for building still burning you could hear gunshots so it's very very times very eerie situation here. didn't feel learned or we say.

that all night i spent here with my friends with colleagues trying to make phone calls like really you know trying to get through to anyone who would have any news about and. the following morning all dylan was one of the first journalist to find her out of the convent. to reste guy came up to me sort of talking he said i know where there's this step for a joke we take you. so there we have this long. thirty thirty minute walk out to the corner. and then off left and started the road to a small gully looked up almost a driveway was charitable. want to side. it was new it was a very unpleasant you know you get used to seeing bodies in repose if you like

almost with a sense of sort of calm. but i didn't get that often i didn't get that sense. i got a sense of reaching you know. the only thing i could imagine west's. family friends. fellow journalists. i could hear people crying in the corner. very real moment for everyone. could just as easily be. anybody else in the nunnery that way. that. i was the part of it art.

school. life here at least that's what.