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Eterno Retorno: El regreso a la filosofía en su edición 2023. Una vez mas Goris y Fernandez retornan a la constante búsqueda del saber de color. En esta oportunidad el retorno es el tópico, y se barajan en el episodio las implicancias varias que tiene el tema para los disertantes.

De Oost-Timorese bisschop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo heeft jongens jarenlang seksueel misbruikt tijdens de onstuimige Indonesische bezetting van Oost-Timor. De bisschop is zelfs in bezit van een Nobelprijs voor de Vrede voor zijn rol in dit conflict. Na uitgebreid onderzoek en meerdere getuigenverklaringen brengt Tjitske Lingsma dit nieuws deze week naar buiten in De Groene. 

In 2021 werd de Amerikaanse priester Daschbach al veroordeeld voor het seksueel misbruiken van jonge meisjes, ook in Oost-Timor en ook deze week te lezen in De Groene. Het verhaal over Belo was lang een publieksgeheim en Belo leek onaantastbaar door zijn nationale heldenstatus. Slachtoffers en getuigen durven de jarenlange stilte nu te doorbreken. Zullen zij nu excuses krijgen van de bisschop en de katholieke kerk?

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Trapped is a six part series about a group of Australian airmen stranded on Japanese-occupied Timor during the Second World War. 

Using diaries of the airmen, wartime records and interviews with survivors, Trapped brings to life one of the greatest stories of survival and escape of the Pacific War. A true story of leadership, courage, mateship, and, at times, cruelty and violence that played out on a remote tropical island during one of history’s bloodiest conflicts.  

Welcome to the fourth episode of the Australian War history podcast. In this episode, we look at the hallowed corridors of the Australian War Memorial there is a section that is focussed on Winnie the War Winner. This makeshift piece of equipment was central to the Double Red Diamonds' ongoing survival on Timor. For two months after the Japanese invasion on February 19, 1942, Australia believed that the troops on Timor had been overcome by the Japanese juggernaut pushing south. Australian technicians/soldiers on Timor had been working on an apparatus that would establish contact with the mainland. This episode deals with this amazing story of Australian ingenuity and improvisation.

As well, the Japanese were searching for a panacea to alleviate the difficulties dealing with these problematic Australians. They were looked upon as phantoms because of their propensity to inflict maximum damage and then disappear into the Timorese jungle. The Japanese thought their saviour would be the Singapore Tiger. Their hopes proved to be illusory.

Some of the books we use to cross-check facts:

All the Bull's Men

A History of the 2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron

Welcome to the second episode of the Australian War history podcast. In this episode, we look at the arrival of the Australians in Timor and the difficulties in finding a suitable base. As well as an "edge of your seat" story of one man's first encounter with the Japanese changing the course of his life. Buckle in, this one really is an incredible story of surviving the impossible. We also uncover some of Uncle Jack's colourful past.  

Some of the books we use to cross-check facts:

All the Bull's Men

A History of the 2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron

Welcome to the first episode of the Australian War history podcast. In this episode, we look at our interest in military history, briefly cover the storm clouds building in Europe after the German blitzkrieg batters Poland on September 1, 1939, the total unpreparedness of the Australian armed forces, the genesis of 2nd 2nd Independent Company, its training at Wilson’s Promontory and Katherine, their journey to Darwin and eventually Timor.

In this podcast, Adam refers to World at War, Narrated by Laurence Olivier

The comic books Wayne referred to Commando: Battle of Britain - Scramble!

Some of the books we use to cross-check facts:

All the Bull's Men

A History of the 2nd Independent Company and 2/2 Commando Squadron

Imagine a teacher from primary school remembering you vividly, fifty years later.

Sister Josephine Mitchell is a Josephite nun. A renowned champion of human rights and social justice, she is, among other roles, a former teacher, both in Australia and East Timor.

Educare, she says, means to grow. Teaching means helping young people to grow and realise their dreams. Providing education and being a small part of someone’s life is, to her, a privilege.

Sr Josephine tells a story about a little boy that she taught 50 years ago, on the banks of the Richmond River, in northern NSW. It seems, to me, remarkable, that she remembers individual students from so long ago.  

“I can remember that little kid and many many little kids like that.”

“Most of the ones we dealt with in Timor really wanted to make something… they wanted to go further, but didn’t have any way to do it.”

The criteria for accepting children into the schools she taught in in East Timor were simple: The children couldn’t afford to pay for an education. Sr Josephine is fiercely passionate about working to alleviate poverty and to respect human dignity.

“A human person who is inhibited because… they’re not respected, they’re being persecuted, oppressed, living in poverty - in such poor conditions they can’t break out of that.”

To her, such injustice is intolerable. She doesn’t see it as helping though. There is a condescension to helping someone. It’s about working towards freedom, and that is a mutual process.

“They can reflect back to me who I am. Sometimes I’m not the most desirable sort of person and they can let me know that things aren’t going too well. They can affirm me. Their values, they can share with me, some things that I have not considered. Some of them overcome huge difficulties to keep developing. That’s heroic, some of them have very big obstacles.”

This starts with music buy the Indo pop group The Steps, and ends with a long informative conversation with Daniel Shewmaker of MTC coffee traders, who sources coffee in Indonesia. He also grew up in Sulawesi and speaks Bahasa! While in Timor and Flores we were having good conversations about Indonesia coffee processing and quality, and the way it relates (or doesn't) to current coffee trade trends. So I wanted to capture some of that in a recording. Sadly, its probably the worst recording I have made, with wind noise, vehicles, dogs, pigs and airplane noise. But still I wanted to share it, because I feel there's some good information here. Plus, everyone keeps telling me to post more recordings. So here it is, for better or worse.  -Tom

Submarine oil and gas reserves in what is known as the Timor Gap has been an issue since the Portugese controlled Timor Leste, and is believed to be behind the invasion of Timor Leste by Indonesia in 1975. The legality of agreements between Australia and Indonesia over the sharing of resources in the Timor Sea have been questioned since Timorese independence was achieved in 1999.

The Australian government refused to UN rulings on the sea boundaries. In 2016 Timor Leste launched proceedings for compulsory conciliation.

Australia and Timor Leste are currently negotiating in thee Conciliation Commission for permanent maritime boundaries, but given Australia's record, supporters of Timor Leste are not confident of a fair outcome for Timor, and the Commision itself says the process will be 'protracted'.

A delegation of the Timor Sea Justice Alliance approached Senators on June 13 to raise the issue in Parliament, and if a fair decision is not arrived at by the time of the Commission's deadline on September 17, to initiate a Senate enquiry.

(Graphic; Foreign Minister Gareth Evans celebrates the now contested Timor Gap 'treaty' with Indonesia's Ali Alitas with champagne in 1989)

On the 19th of February 1942 Japanese carrier and land based aircraft attacked the Australian port of Darwin. The 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was fresh from it's attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbour just 10 weeks prior and focused its attention on Darwin to prevent the allies using it as a base to interfere with the Japanese conquest of Timor and Java. This is an interview with Peter Grose, author of 'An Awkward Truth' an excellent account of the Darwin raid.