ABSTRACT
In November 2004 community members gathered under a banyan tree in the port village of Hera on the north coast of Timor-L’Este. They had come to participate in the Community Reconciliation Program organized by the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation of East Timor, commonly known as CAVR.1 The hearing was an attempt to reintegrate former East Timorese militia who were involved in violence during the withdrawal of Indonesian military and pro-integration militias in 1999.
