Wayne Sievers
Wayne Thomas Padraig Sievers (born 13 May 1957) is a former Australian police officer, trade union official, a social justice campaigner and has stood in numerous elections. He exposed the failure of the Australian Government, despite being forewarned, to prevent widespread Indonesian military-backed militia violence in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor during the territory’s 1999 independence ballot. Thousands of people are believed to have died and East Timor’s economic infrastructure was shattered. Sievers had served as an Australian police officer attached to the United Nations during the infamous militia siege of the United Nations compound in Dili, East Timor.
Read more about Wayne Sievers: Early History, Police Work in East Timor, Politics
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