FREIGHTER IN DARWIN HARBOUR: POLICE BOAT OUT TO FREIGHTER: REFUGEES BEING BROUGHT ASHORE ON STRETCHERS: INTERVIEWS WITH REFUGEES WHO DESCRIBE IN BROKEN ENGLISH WHAT HAPPENED DURING EVACUATION: AMBULANCE LEAVING IN BACKGROUND.




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Background: Refugees who arrived in Darwin, Australia, from the Portuguese colony of Timor, described the situation in the colony as deteriorating deeper into civil war. Fighting, they said, between rival political groups had now spread outside the capital Dili, to the interior of the island.