During Indonesia's occupation of Timor-Leste, the hotel in Baucau was used by the military and became notorious as a place of detention, torture and sexual violence, according to accounts from survivors.
Maria de Fátima says she was first arrested in 1975 after her brother was suspected of supporting Fretilin, the movement that led the country's resistance to Indonesian rule. She says she was taken to the hotel, where soldiers beat her, held her under water and threw her to the ground.
That night, she says, she and another woman were forced into a bathroom at gunpoint, their clothes torn from their bodies before they were raped by a group of Indonesian soldiers.
"Their faces were covered ... I heard their voices, but I did not see their faces; that night was dark," she said.
The assault was not the end of her ordeal. Ms de Fátima says Indonesian soldiers continued to abuse her periodically for more than 20 years as a way to pressure her into giving up her brother's whereabouts. She never did.
She says she was among dozens of women arrested and taken to the Hotel Flamboyan. The building, with its aging pink facade, remains a reminder of Timor-Leste's Portuguese colonial past, but for survivors it holds far darker memories.
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