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Medical aid, East Timor

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Medical aid, East Timor

Using the back of a truck as his clinic and local people as aides, New Zealand medic, Michael Cocker, assists an East Timorese person while others watch. At the time – June 2001 – East Timor was preparing for the first elections in its history, after decades-long occupation by Indonesia and centuries of Portuguese colonisation.

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David Capie, Peacekeeping – Bougainville and East Timor, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/36093/medical-aid-east-timor (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by David Capie, published 16 April 2012, updated 1 June 2015.