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Tammy Pemper

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Tammy Pemper has worked with the United Nations, Australian Federal Police, and the US Peace Corps to name a few.

The book, Scorched Earth, was completed through five years of interviews and first-hand experiences in Timor-Leste (East Timor). Tammy lived in Timor from 2000-2001, 2004-2006, and 2016-2018. To bring you this book, in 2000 she suffered dengue, where blood seeped from her pores and she needed to be hooked up to a drip in a military makeshift hospital. In 2006, she came under fire during Timor-Leste’s civil unrest. Grenades exploded in the hills behind her house, rounds hit her neighbours’ home, and gunfights erupted in the streets next to her. In 2018, she completed her research and final manuscript. Today, that book is in your ...more

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	Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed.
You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.

I had to break it to allow myself to live the passion that drove and controlled me, that distinguished one decision from another and determined where I drew my lines. I broke the rule to remain human.”
― Tammy Pemper, Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction

tags: biography, memoir, peace, peacekeeping, remain-human, war

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“But daylight brought with it a wonder. None of us had expected to see it again. And as the darkness lost its intensity, the new beginning carried with it sounds of subdued Timorese chatter. I hadn’t realised I’d started counting survival in hours.”
― Tammy Pemper, Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction

tags: hope, indonesia, peacekeeper, peacekeepers, peacekeeping, survival, timor, timorese, war

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