Word: letefoho
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...young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace. He was a child in 1999 when, swept up in the militia violence that followed East Timor's vote for independence, he burnt down his aunt's house and fled. When he finally came home this year, the teenager had no idea of what he would face. He bought new roofing material for his aunt and waited. And in a public ceremony last month, he apologized to her and to his neighbors, and was forgiven...
...Across East Timor, hundreds like him have come home. A few have returned to beatings. But many more, in village hearings organized by the nation's one-year-old Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR), have been accepted back into their communities. In the Letefoho area alone, the CAVR has been asked to help with 39 such meetings since December. But reconciliation with their neighbors is not the only justice the East Timorese want. For more serious crimes, for the killings, rapes and torture of 1999 and the 24 years of Indonesian occupation before that, they want the justice...