- Title: AUSTRALIA: TIMORESE REFUGEES, MANY SICK AND INJURED, ARRIVE IN DARWIN.
- Date: 27th August 1975
- Summary: 1. GV Lloyd Bakke being escorted into Darwin Harbour (5 shots). 0.35 2. SV Officials waiting at quayside. 0.40 3. LV Refugees on ship 0.43 4. SV Small boy being carried to ambulance. 0.58 5. SV Sick person on stretcher 1.07 6. CU Man being interviewed 1.12 7. CU Woman speaks. 1.38 TRANSCRIPT: LESLIE: "The end of the mercy mission came about two o'clock Darwin time climaxing a thirty-six hour ocean voyage from Dili followed by a long and painful wait for the eleven hundred refugees in Darwin harbour. To add to the delay there were no tugs. Darwin Harbour has none. The Norwegian freighter came under her own steam. And close enough to the wharf where opens were thrown and engines drop all to allow the ship to edge slowly into its berth. On board, exhausted faces lined the railing. Some, even despite their ordeal, still excited enough to smile and wave. It was a mixed group --??? Portuguese, Timorese and people of mixed blood, brought together in a common plight. Then a full six hours after the Lloyd Bakke had dropped anchor, things started to happen. But only for a handful. The first to come ashore were the sick and injured. They were ferried by police launch to waiting ambulances. It was the that I managed to get the first, if not disjoined account of the evacuation. Amongst the first off was a Timorese man, his wife and family." MAN: "In Timor .. the people .. they suffer." WIFE: "My father, seventy one years, and my sister, and older sister, seventeen and fort seven years .. (indistinct) .. my son won't come, my sister .. (indistinct) .. my brother." Initials MV/2235 1700/1940/2305 IAN LESLIE Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th September 1975 13:00
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- Location: DARWIN, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Reuters ID: LVABCG84W7UC2DI6M89SP5J14VAS
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