Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, <strong>East Timor</strong>. Born amid the flames, pillage and may... » 

Few new nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Born amid the flames, pillage and mayhem that surrounded Indonesia's reluctant withdrawal in 1999, it has been struggling for years to rebuild itself from the ashes. The author, one of a handful of journalists who refused to leave during that nightmare, stayed on to report East Timor to the world, and to keep faith with the East Timorese whose story she wanted to tell. «