The tears seemed unable to stop from welling in the beautiful eyes of Olandino Mauberi. The five-year-old child held a worn-out black shirt close to his chest. It was the favorite shirt of his father, Stanis Mauberi, who died of bullet wounds inflicted by police border guards in Timor Leste, at noon on Friday two weeks ago. Daddy is no more now, he said, sobbing.

Seeing her brother in tears, two-and-a-half-year-old Yudit Mauberi, cradled in her mo