BIRTH OF A NATION (War and Peace)

Running Time: 24 minutes  Producer: Nick Sturdee
Reporter: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Aired on: Channel 4 Year: 2007
Eight years on from it’s bloody split from Indonesia, one of the world’s youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang violence and disorder as a UN force tries desperately to keep the peace. And, as filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy finds out, elements of the rebel group, which spent more than 20 years fighting the Indonesian army, are threatening to restart their armed resistance, putting the future viability of the fledgling state of Timor into doubt.