Naldo Rei East Timor

Bio
Author of Resistance: A Childhood Fighting for East Timor, Naldo Rei has a Master of Arts in International Communications from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was an infant when he and his family fled to the jungles as Indonesian troops annexed East Timor as one of its provinces in 1975. Naldo later worked as a journalist, a media advisor for East Timor’s former prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, and a media officer for the United Nations and the European Union in Dili, East Timor.



What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I love Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. Mandela's story is so touching and inspiring. After I read and re-read again I understood the meaning of the struggle for freedom that you have to sacrifice yourself to be voice of the voiceless people and even death. More than 200,000 people killed by the Indonesia army for last 24 years I understand that we have to pay with a very high price for our freedom, until end of our bloodshed or independence.

Our life is proof that no amount of danger and loss can crush the human spirit for freedom."

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