The lost children of East Timor...

The road to Joachim's house lies through East Timor's eastern mountains. An eight-hour drive down rutted jungle tracks littered with the ghosts of Indonesia's occupation.

Here, a decade ago, East Timor's guerrillas fought their long battle for independence. Now, the Jurassic plants stand tangled in the sunlight. Clumps of bamboo, the height of several men, creak and sway under the wide blue sky. 

This is still one of the world's wild places. No phones here, no e-mail. Here, if you have a message to deliver, you deliver it in person. More...

See also:

1. The New Rulers of the World ( The rape of Indonesia)
2. Genocide: India's missing daughters...
3. The lost boys of the Sudan...
4. Haiti and its hellish poverty...
5. Gaza: the images they are not showing you ...