Last Flight Out Of Dili
David Scott's remarkable story of East Timor's rise from "hopeless cause" to freedom will interest any reader who ispolitically aware and interested in the region amd finding out what shaped East Timor's recent turbulent history.
David is an Australian humanitarian aid leader an was in Dili on 28 November 1975, at the swearing in of the cabinet of the Democratic Republic of East Timor. Next day he was ordered to leave by the Australian Government who were aware of the impending large-scale Indonesian invasion.
Australia's role in these terrible events is critically documented. He uses personal correspondence with Jose Ramos-Horta to give immediacy to the story.
Find out what eally happened and why!
