Stolen as a boy, all memory of his family faded. Then a stranger came looking for Alis

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Taken from their war-torn homeland and raised as Indonesians, Timor-Leste's stolen children are finally coming home.

But in 2019, 42 years after he was taken, a jolt of memory returned with the death of Alis's adoptive Indonesian father and a visit from a stranger."That was when I remembered all my siblings. And somehow that was the time when Nina came looking for me."

Nina was just five years old when an Indonesian soldier took a shine to her and told her parents he wanted to take her back to Jakarta as his daughter. Nina's parents tried desperately to stop the Indonesian soldier from taking her, following him to the beach where they confronted him.

 

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