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A Dream Deferred in East Timor

NPR

By Michael Sullivan

Published June 9, 2006 at 1:00 PM EDT

Some of the estimated 100,000 people who have fled their homes because of the violence in East Timor are staying in the gym of Dom Bosco Catholic Church in Dili.

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Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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