Three Years On In East Timor

Three years year on in East Timor and they are re-building Dili Town The houses and the businesses that the Indonesian militia burnt down These so called emergency soldiers poor East Timor did destroy Whilst the Indonesian military to stop them did not try. Three years on in East Timor but what's to celebrate It came at such a heavy cost the birth of a new State They can replace the houses and life goes on they say But they can't bring back the murdered innocents in unmarked graves they lay. They can't bring back the murdered innocents they are gone forever more And the poor of poor East Timor no better off than before Their separation from Indonesia they are still in poverty Is this the price for freedom of so called liberty? . Three years on in East Timor and all is far from well And the poor traumatized survivors have been through living hell And though they can replace the houses the dead forever gone And not much use to them now if their names are living on.