Australian Left Review

Article Title

Rogerio Lobato: How East Timor Fights On

Authors

Rogerio Lobato

Abstract

ROGERIO LOBATO is Minister for National Defence in the government of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, and commander f FALINTIL (East Timor National Liberation Forces).

He was sent out of East Timor with three other Ministers, by his government, a few days before the full-scale Indonesian invasion on December 7, 1975 to carry out the important diplomatic struggle abroad and to seek support for the war against the Indonesian invaders.