Virginia Ribeiro, East Timorese
There were many young boys the Japanese told to be spies, but they would see Australians all the time and they wouldn’t say they did. The Japanese would just grab any Timorese and make them carry the bodies of their soldiers the Australians had killed and near Dili airport they sang their national song and burnt the bodies so there was an awful smell over the whole town...
...the guards in the concentration camp for Portuguese in Dili beat people and when they wanted a girl the parents had to give her - if they didn’t the guards would take the father away. All the girls were very scared...
There were girls that I know who got pregnant to the Japanese. Later they married Timorese and people just accepted the children... but some of the people said it would wreck the Timorese race because the Japanese were bad, so I heard they killed those babies.
(Michelle Turner, Telling East Timor, Personal Testimonies 1942 - 1992, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1992, pages 33, 34)