Thousands of people in Timor-Leste welcomed the mortal remains of three prominent Church leaders who led people through Portuguese colonial rule, the Japanese occupation, the Indonesian invasion and occupation, and the long struggle for independence.
[in English and in Spanish] Izaira López Sánchez writes: Since the dawn of humanity, human beings have been creators of culture, shaping it according to their world-view to construct an identity. With the arrival of the colonizers, many of these pieces were stolen from their place of origin and scattered around the world, uprooting a valuable part of a Peoples’ history. Since the late 1960s Native Americans have asked for their rematriation.
