Dan Nicholson
dpn78.bsky.social
Dan Nicholson
@dpn78.bsky.social
Human rights - access to justice - SE Asia - Timor Leste - NMFC - MCFC - views are my own.
And avenge it we did.
November 23, 2024 at 6:12 AM
In prime time no less
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
This is great, thank you
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Good. Has anyone done a #sokkahtwitter starter pack yet?
November 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM
So today, like every year on 12 November, I reflect on the courage of those young people at Santa Cruz and the role they played in winning freedom against the odds. Viva Loriko Aswain! (pic via ETAN)
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 AM
While the massacre was devastating to the youth resistance movement in the short-term, it is widely acknowledged as one of the turning points in the occupation and in the struggle for East Timorese independence.
November 12, 2024 at 9:22 AM
The iconic image at the end of the footage, of the young man cradling his injured friend, is now memorialised in a statue on Dili's waterfront.

Astonishing, the injured young man survived and saw his country become independent in 2002.
November 12, 2024 at 9:20 AM
The protest at which the massacre took place was the culmination of the first uprising of young East Timorese people that started in 1989 with the visit of the Pope.

Those brave young people became known as the Lorikeet Warriors, or Loriko Aswain.
November 12, 2024 at 9:18 AM