Lost in Dili
| 12:12 UK time, Thursday, 25 May 2006
The trouble in East Timor is one of those stories we find hard to cover at the best of times.
Phone lines are poor, so we tend to rely on comment from outside the country.
Today, after a couple of failed phone calls and the difficulty the UN spokeswoman had even leaving her compound because of the shooting left us with little hard informaton.
We raised a good journalist in Jakarta, Indonesia. But that's more than two thousand kilometres away - a bit like covering Warsaw from London.
So we'd like to enlist your help.
If you have contacts, friends or relatives in the region, please ask them to join this post and tell us what they can about an obviously dangerous and globally important situation.
Important not least because after so much international effort and the UN's best attempts at nation building, if East Timor disintegrates into chaos, the prospects for future international intervention look bleak.
East Timor has a million people and it's 200 km long. If the world's resources can't bring peace and prosperity there, what can it do in..... well, you can fill in your own troublespot.
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