Image Gallery 2009
14 January 2009
Chief of the East Timor Defence Force vists Australian troops in East Timor
Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak, Chief of the East Timor Defence Force escorted Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), Brigadier Mark Holmes MVO, and Deputy Commander ISF, Colonel Peter Wood on a tour of Manatuto.
The General spent 25 years as a key member of the Resistance during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, and had in place many hide-outs across the country. He spent 1998/99 hiding from the Indonesians in Manatuto, in the home of Resistance sympathisers.
Today he took the ISF Commanders to the house that became his home, and to meet the family that had protected him during that period. There he regaled them with stories of discovery near misses, and his exploits with the Resistance.
| 20090110adf8143085_034 Chief of the East Timor Defence Force, Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak, tells Lieutenant Bill Tannock and Colonel Peter Wood of the elaborate ruses used to evade capture from Indonesian forces. (Date taken: 10 January 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090110adf8143085_037 Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), Brigadier Mark Holmes MVO, and Deputy Commander ISF, Colonel Peter Wood listen as Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak, Chief of the East Timor Defence Force, talks about time with the East Timor Resistance. (Date taken: 10 January 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090110adf8143085_069 Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak, Chief of the East Timor Defence Force, with children from Manatuto. (Date taken: 10 January 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090110adf8143085_071 Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), Brigadier Mark Holmes, chats with soldiers from Charlie Company (Forward Operating Base Baucau) who were on hand to secure the landing zone at Manatuto. (Date taken: 10 January 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20090110adf8143085_076 Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), Brigadier Mark Holmes, chats with soldiers from Charlie Company (Forward Operating Base Baucau) who were on hand to secure the landing zone at Manatuto. (Date taken: 10 January 2009) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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