Secretary-General Visits East Timor
Title
Secretary-General Visits East Timor
Date
17 February 2000
Description
Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited Liquica, a town which has been called the "killing field" of East Timor after a wave of murders, rape and destruction by the militia that followed last year's vote for independence. At an emotional wreath-laying ceremony at the site of a massacre at a village church, the Secretary-General was embraced by family members of the victims.
Type
Photographs
Source
United Nations, UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Format
JPEG
Identifier
ANNANPHOTO0004
Rights
United Nations
Original Format
Photograph
Collection
Citation
“Secretary-General Visits East Timor,” The Selected Papers of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan 1997-2006, accessed April 29, 2024, https://ccnydigitalscholarship.org/kofiannan/items/show/4721.