Ed ecco un po' di timor, di nuovo...

Ed ecco un po' di timor, di nuovo...
Risaie sulla strada per l'Est -Rice fields on the way to the East

Friday 15 February 2008

curefw with no light - coprifuoco senza luce

Monday morning we heard police cars and ambulances all over town, then a text: it looks like the president was shot and injured... and then another message saying that tere were distrubances in Lahane, somewhere near the Prime Minister house... we went to work and it looks like most of our natioanl colleagues didn't know what was going on, but there we were with what in Italy is called a 'funeral-face', realising that maybe we were going through a coup...And because East Timor has only one tv channel which in addition only works part-time, there was no point in turning on the tv because in this side of the world (un)forutnately we wouldn't have been flooded with all the possible information and hypothesis available, comments, images of people desperated or scared, old images from previous happenings, and so on... so everybody on the net! looking at press, foreign press, newspapers that didn't have any idea of what was really happening, or at least no more than we did, but still we were looking for answers, confirmations, someone who came out and said 'I did it and this is why'.... but well things in here don't seem to work like this... so nobody said anything, then te prime minister finally gave a press conference and we were happy with it, but then the locals were not and there you go... the following day completely different theories popped up and amazing stories that had nothing to do with the original version started to be told around.
Result of all tehse speculations? Not much, for the moment the president is still in a hospital outside the country, the rebel commander has been buried, and the whole country is undergoing a 12 days curfew that could be extended or shortened... and in all this we obviously didn't have power for the past three nights, which is basically making our lives particularly interesting and imaginative... but we are fine.