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As I came home in the morning, I was asked by my mother: “Where were you?”
I said, “I was taken to Flamboyan.”
Then they would take turns to *** me.
Sometimes by 3 or 4 soldiers.
They turned all the lights off, I could not see.
They just held me down and told me to be quiet.
Everybody here were afraid, very afraid.
Because all the girls around here were taken and ***...
When I was pregnant, I did not know that I was pregnant.
I found out that I was pregnant when I felt the baby’s movement in my belly.
I don’t know precisely who was the father of my child.
Because they always took turns.
I could only resign to my fate.
Maria’s story is only one of the stories from thousands of similar stories...
in various torture facilities In Timor Leste at that time.
The Women of Flamboyan Hotel