TY - BOOK AU - Cristalis, Irena TI - Bitter dawn: east timor a people's story SN - 9781848130135 U1 - 320.1 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Zed KW - Timor-Leste -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements KW - Timor-Leste -- Politics and government KW - Timor-Leste -- History N1 - Originally published: 2002. Includes bibliography, notes, index N2 - Few nations have endured a birth as traumatic as that endured by Asia's youngest country, East Timor. Based research, and interviews with East Timor 's leaders, priests, nuns, students and guerrilla fighters, this book explores the complexities of the country's internal politics ER -