Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

 

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0h 56m 1996 HD

The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesia.


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