WHEN East Timorese voters go to the polls on Saturday to choose a new president, every candidate with a chance will be a veteran of the struggle against Indonesia.
The thousands of fighters in that long war, including the oldest and best-known, the ''generation of 1975'', were recently awarded a generous compensation scheme by the government in recognition of service.
But barely mentioned by this country's tight-knit political elite are other victims of the invasion, many of them women, who were raped or brutalised or lost parents, husbands or children in the long occupation.