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Sydney Morning Herald: 13 September 1999

EAST TIMOR: RAPE USED OVER AND OVER AS A SYSTEMATIC TORTURE

Indonesian soldiers have used rape as a secret weapon and a means of systematic torture in East Timor, but their "orphans" bear silent witness.

By LOUISE WILLIAMS and LEONIE LAMONT in Dili

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