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Before long we come upon an open stone building — the meeting room. We enter to find 60 weathered women seated on mats on the dirt floor. Their saris fill the enclosure with colour. Their faces tell the poignant stories of their lives.
Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.