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My 🇹🇱 Timor Leste we love my father is dead🙏❤

My country missss. You🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱❤❤💪✊️

I am the nephew of Bruce Cameron Smith of the 2/2. I designed and sculpted the bronze plaque at Wilsons Prom for the Aust Commando Units in WW2. I watched with interest the ceremony in Kings Park this year. Sadly I would have liked to have been there as I visited your memorial in Kings Park only 2 weeks ago. I was searching for the Korean War bronze in instaled last year and it was so hard to find. I stumpled over your 2/2 memorial and it was a suprised as I knew it was soome where there in the park. My Kokoda Trail series at KP I did many years ago so I have fond memories of your park. I grew up with Bruce Smith and he would talk to me about the Timor battle on many occasions. He spoke to few others. Bruce was a strong personality in my life but he had a dark side to him that may or may not be war related. He was a sniper on Timor and a great shot as I testify to that when we would go out rabbiting in Metung in my youth. I dont think he ever missed a rabbit. He died in his 70th year when by his own choice, he killed himself in the dense bush around Albury. He took his own life after he had been out to visit his unit commander Bernie Kellahand (?) some weeks earlier and had a fear of retiring into a nursing home as had his senior officer. That was what triggered his suicide. His wife Fay spoke to me about it after his body was eventualy found months after his lonely death. This was surely war related. Bruce was a lonely figure, who had few friends, fathered 2 sons who he alignated, and lived a rigid life to the end. I look back through the years and see a flawed peron but in my youth he projected a man who had seen the harshnes of war on Timor and who wanted to forget and get on with life. But his life was not a normal one and his family paid a high price for his failings.

Timorese People have suffered a lot of wars in history. From Portuguese Colony, The wars beetwen Kingdom of Manufahi led by Dom Boa ventura in late 1912. Again with the World War II, when Japan Empire fought with Australians. Continuing with declaration on Independence from Fretilin Party in 1975 after 1 week the Invasion from Indonesian Military. The blood, tears, hunger and death gaves nightmare until 1999 stand as a Sovereign nation.

I love to thanks the journalist who made this movie of my beloved country. Hope to see more your work!🍻

Thaks ..for This Video..Its ..Wonderfulll..Klasick video May Kountry..Timor Leste..😊❤🎉

I am Timorese.

I am so glad I came across this wonderful service. I am an East Timorese who lives in Melbourne. I have always wanted to meet the brave Australian 2/2 Commando Squadron POW men who my deceased father helped rescue from the Japanese camp. I wish I will meet the families. Thank you.

I am so glad I came across this wonderful service. I am an East Timorese who lives in Melbourne. I have always wanted to meet the brave Australian 2/2 Commando Squadron POW men who my deceased father helped rescue from the Japanese camp. I wish I will meet the families. Thank you.

Let me explain the meaning of “CRIADO”, it means a “servant” who serves its employer or master, and it’s offensive to say it in this context because the criados you mentioned here are not servants but a genuinely devoted people who helped and fought alongside the Australians as allies by getting rid of the Japanese in WW2 because the Japanese were brutal against the Timorese. My Dad and and his few friends bravely risked their lives by infiltrating behind the enemy lines to rescue and release the Australians prisoners of war (POW’s) from the Japanese base. By the way this was an excellent video, thank you so much.

Thank,s for this video

Thank,s for this video i love it❤

a beloved country full of long history

In different society we living now.

thx for the video

Timor Leste negara yang benar benar bodoh 😂 negara yang benar benar diambil tambang minyak dll oleh Australia dan Portugal 😅

Obg pelo a video

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bandara hudilaran ,yg sekarang jd istana presiden

It seems that the condition of this country has gotten worse since Indonesia left this region..... High illiteracy rates, low education standards, and poverty still haunt this country..... Even the health facilities are inadequate, to the point of getting strong protests from Indonesians who don't want to accept Covid 19 patients from that country.....

Thanks for sharing such outstanding video, this would remain the great footage ever.

My country🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱❤

Such an important part of our military history that gets way to little mention or recognition sadly.

16:15 I hear bahasa Indonesia in child's song.

I’m sorry I missed the service. Interesting stories. ♦️♦️

Great footage !

Loved seeing this again ! RIP Pop. I miss you!

Portugal Colonized East Timor for 450 years but too little development. Poor, coitado

Very infloinse for people future in east Timor. Obrigado.

Barely a year later and they're subjected to another 25 years of fighting the Indonesians for their independence

Timor leste miss V is very best in the world

asphalt roads only exist in the city of dili, indonesia which started construction in timor, but why now they glorify portuguese which makes them very poor, this is really strange

Thank you for this upload!

Viva Portugal Timor Centro Leste.

VIVA RDTL❤️🇹🇱

Sou Timorense

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Dili 🇹🇱

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Indonesia mencuri kemerdekaan Frentilil.

So peaceful and living in harmony in maubesi

Eram felizes e não sabiam... O pior veio depois

Muito bom. Parabéns pelo vídeo.

Este é o colonial dos portugueses em Timor_Leste

Clean and tidy, uma linda paisagem no tempo Portugues

Hello, i'm trying to contact Peter Epps, re: former service members. Any help with contact information would be greatly appreciated.

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Sou indonésio, mas lamento que nosso país tenha colonizado seu país (Timor Leste), mas por que você glorifica mais os portugueses do que os invasores de Timor-Leste?

Calm before chaos

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