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A Dream Deferred in East Timor

By Michael Sullivan
Published June 9, 2006 at 10:00 AM PDT
This story was published more than 19 years ago.
Some of the estimated 100,000 people who have fled their homes because of the violence in East Timor are staying in the gym of Dom Bosco Catholic Church in Dili.
Some of the estimated 100,000 people who have fled their homes because of the violence in East Timor are staying in the gym of Dom Bosco Catholic Church in Dili.

Copyright 2006 NPR

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Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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