Australia and Timor -- WW2
How do people interact in an occupation situation?

Personal Testimony 3

Paulo Quintao, East Timorese

Like all our people. I liked the Australian soldiers. They were kind, we all thought that about them. They had sympathy for Timorese people. They shared what they had with us, showed our people love and attention and we loved them in return.

(Michelle Turner, Telling East Timor, Personal Testimonies 1942 - 1992, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1992, page 23)

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