It is a community haunted by its past. In April 1999,Indonesian soldiers and Timorese militias stormed into the village church, where 2,000 residents had sought refuge.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

(MUSIC IN A CHURCH) In a church where Martin Luther King preached more than 50 years ago, President Obama talked about the past, the present and the future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

"We believe that, with the experience of Thailand handling this situation in the past two decades, where at times there were several hundred thousand came over the Thai borders this is,on one hand,serious issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

And as the story acknowledges, that's where we'll be," He explains, as Pentagon officials have in the past, that the deployment of major combat or training units always requires the deployment of additional support troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

"These ideas are probably better seen in some European communities where they have a long tradition of trying to preserve their historical development identity and had,in the past, much more orientation to walking and the use of transit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26