And avenge it we did.

In prime time no less

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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)

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.

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.

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.