Welcome to the Tyneside East Timor Solidarity Web site. Tyneside Solidarity has been working directly with communities in East Timor, the UK and Portugal since 1996.

During the occupation  Timorese activists found ways of escaping what was virtually a prison  camp. Several came to Britain to raise awareness of the Indonesian  invasion and of Britain’s involvement in the violation of their people. Britain was responsible for propping up the Indonesian military by supplying weapons and monetary aid.

Many of  the activists who came to Tyneside were from the Los Palos area, indeed Narciso Jose-Manuel, from the village of Mehara, Los Palos, lived in  Winlaton for nearly 5 years. Because of this Tyneside Solidarity has an  special affinity with the people of the Los Palos area.

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