P04315.024
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial licensed copyright
- ID number
- P04315.024
- Photographer
- Dupont, Stephen
- Object type
- Black & white - Film original negative 120 safety base
- Place made
- East Timor: Dili
- Date made
- September 1999
- Copyright holder
- Dupont, Stephen
- Copying provision
- Copy provided for personal non-commercial use
- Copyright details
- Stephen Dupont, 6/154 Brighton Blvd, Bondi Beach, NSW 2026, Australia; email: info@stephendupont.com
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Dili burns as An Australian Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) drives through a Dili street on patrol, past burning buildings set ablaze by either the Indonesian military or the pro-Indonesian militia. Following the announcement of the pro-independence ballot result in September 1999, the pro-Indonesian militia launched a campaign of arson, murder and destruction. Shortly afterwards, on 20 September, the first Australian troops were deployed to East Timor as part of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET), an Australian led international mission to bring peace and stability to East Timor under the United Nations mandate.
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