Margherita Tracanelli - Candidate for Bennelong 2007
Climate Change Coalition = www.climatechangecoalition.com.au
     
     
   
     
     
 
Margherita Tracanelli with Prime Minister John Howard   Margherita Tracanelli with Prime Minister John Howard
     
 
Margherita, Dixie Colton, Dr Karl & Patrice Newell at Customs House, Sydney   Margherita, Dixie Colton, Dr Karl & Patrice Newell at Customs House, Sydney
     
 
Margherita & Patrice Newell at John Adams launch in Avalon NSW. John Adams is the Climate Change Coalition candidate for Mackellar.  

Margherita, Dixie Colton, Dr Karl & Patrice Newell at Customs House, Sydney

     
 
Patrice Newell & Dr Karl   Patrice Newell & Dr Karl
     
 
Margherita & Patrice Newell   Dr Karl & Patrice Newell at Customs House Sydney
     
 

The following photographs were taken during 1994 to 2000, and document Margherita's time in East Timor working with Jose Ramos Horta, and FALINTIL & FRETILIN guerillas in the Timor & Burmese jungle.

Click this link to read an article written by Margherita in 2000 titled "The Pain of a Sinner Betrayed". This is a firsthand account of her time in the Timor jungle.

     
 
Margherita and Jose Ramos Horta boarding the long boats to travel up the Salween River to go to Mannerplaw in the Burma jungle to teach diplomacy training program to Burmese activitists in 1994.
 
The Timorese FALINTIL Guerilla Army in the Timor jungle around 1995
 
 
Margherita and Jose Ramos Horta teaching the diplomacy training program at Mannerplaw in the Burma jungle 1994.
 
Commander David Alex handing over information to be taken to the clandestine network for distribution to media worldwide about killings by the Indonesian military.
     
 
Jose Ramos Horta & Margherita teaching diplomacy training program at Mannerplaw in 1994
 
Commander Sabica with Margherita's translator Helio Tavares, during INTERFET in 1999 in East Timor
     
 
FRETILIN guerillas in East Timor jungle.
 
Margherita interviewing Burmese refugee family on the Thai Burma border in 1994. Camerman is Frank Coorey, now a barrister based in Byron Bay.
 
 
Leki Loro, FALINTIL guerilla fighter and now personal bodyguard to Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak. Affectionately named Lionel Richie by the SAS in cantonment during INTERFET.
 
Margherita in her office in the cantonement during INTERFET.
 
 
Refugee village on the Thai Burma border
 
Fretilin Guerillas. The sign the soldier is holding up reads "FREE XANANA"
 
 
 
FALINTIL guerillas in the Timor jungle
 

Margherita, an SAS soldier, Vice-Commander Taur Matan Ruak and his cousin celebrating his 44th birthday in Oct 1999 at catonment 1 at Atelari. Photo taken by Sgt Shane Abdoo.

 
 
FALINTIL fighters, including the son of Commander David Alex (centre) guarding the cantonment at Remexio
 

The Night of the Screening of documentary "The Diplomat" in Sydney in 2000. Freedom Fighters Margherita, John Ondawame (West Papua), Jose Ramos Horta (East Timor) and Kamal Fadel (Western Sahara)

 
 

Dr. Matthew Wright (in red tshirt) who accompanied Margherita to theFALINTIL cantonment during INTERFET, to provide medical help to the guerillas.

 
FALINTIL guerillas guarding the cantonment at Remexio
 

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Burmese refugee on the Burmese border with baby and his toy wooden gun.
Photo taken by Philipinno photographer Lito Ocampo

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FALINTIL guerilla soldiers in East Timor

Margherita Tracanelli - filmmaker & human rights advocate.