East Timor - Jose Ramos-Horta at a Fretilin meeting

Jose Ramos-Horta age 25 holding a gun at a meeting with Xavier do Amaral then President of East Timor and other members of Fretilin freedom fighters. Jose on the left, Do Amaral sitting at desk on right.RogerioLobato next to Jose. During this time Indonesian forces were making incursions into East Timor from the west, burning farms and crops and terrifying the local population. This is prior to the illegal full on invasion on December 7th 1975. East Timor was then under brutal Indonesian occupation until 1999. (Photo by Ben Tweedie/Corbis via Getty Images)