Ballot box taken out for counting

Ballot box taken out for counting

DILI, East Timor - United Nations staff unload a ballot box out of a helicopter in Dili on Aug. 31 after the voting in a U.N.-sponsored referendum on the future of East Timor came to a close the previous day. Ballot boxes across the territory are brought to Dili for counting, escorted in transit by Indonesian police and international police observers.

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