Description: Year 2012 is a crossroads for East Timor, which celebrates ten years as an independent nation. Asia's youngest nation should go to the polls and the UN to withdraw. Why so many fear the future? Author and journalist Klas Lundström traveling from west to east, north to south, and in myth and reality. What happened, what's happening and what will happen? Crocodile The country is a literary story of hope and despair, poverty and opulence, history and conspiracies, about people and mother earth. . If East Timor and abroad through stories from the country's leading politicians, ex-soldiers, UN staff, tourists, nuns and students. What tells us the development in East Timor, where the UN project really meant to pave the way for a democratic and independent nation? And what a debt carries Sweden for the genocide that took place between 1975-1999? Many answers are in the first eyewitness account from inside East Timor for a Swedish audience -- Google.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index.

Text in Swedish.