Étiqueté : scavenging

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Poisonous mark of rubbish scavenging in East Timor

Dili, East Timor – Smouldering fires. Haphazard explosions. Malnourished children. The disintegration of law and order and the absence of social services. In 1999, images such as these sparked widespread public anger around the world and the dispatch of an international peacekeeping force to East Timor after anarchy erupted following the country’s independence referendum on…