Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there

This week the satanic verses and the moment tensions between British Muslims and the wider society were exposed.

We felt passages in the book were very offensive of Islam and Islamic identity and we felt

that that was really not acceptable.

Also a criminal plan to smuggle endangered birds out of South America.

A particular Hyacinth macaw could sell anywhere from 10 to 12,000 dollars apiece on the black market.

And the unusual inspiration behind the writing of the James Bond theme tune.

I was born with this unlucky sneeze and I split the notes so it suddenly became

dum d d dum dum dum dum dum and I thought my god that's exactly what I'm looking for.

That's all to come.

But we begin with the troubled history of one of the world's newest nation states.

By the 1990s, the people of East Timor had endured centuries of occupation and colonial rule. First it was the Portuguese who laid claim to the

territory at the southeastern end of what is now the Indonesian archipelago. That lasted right up

until 1975 when East Timore's nationalists declared independence.

It was though a short-lived attempt to break free.

Nine days later, Indonesian troops invaded and the territory was renamed an Indonesian province.

But despite the constant presence of Indonesian security forces, the Nationalist

fervour never died and in November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in

East Timor's capital, Dilly.

Marco Silver has spoken to a British cameraman who filmed the attack on unarmed demonstrators at the Santa Cruz graveyard.

It's November the 12th, 1991, and in the Easty-More's capital, Dealy, overlooking the Bandas Sea, there's a sense of an ease in the air.

The tension in the city and in the country was palpable. I have been to many war zones and I've never come

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