This International Dateline episode includes two segments: Four Days in Dili and The Cost of Development.

Four Days in Dili  
In April, tensions between disgruntled soldiers and the East Timorese government escalated towards civil war, when the armed forces split along both ethnic and political lines. On one side, rebel soldiers from the west of the country called for the resignation of Prime Minister Dr. Mari Alkatiri, while on the other side, soldiers from the east remained loyal to the government. 

Soon, the police force fractured and rival mobs began fighting in the streets of Dili. On the scene, when the first shots were fired, was Dateline's David O'Shea. What follows is what David describes as "four dark, desperate and drama-filled days in Dili." A warning though - his report does contain graphic images of wounded, dying and dead Timorese that some of you could find confronting. 

The Cost of Development  
In recent years, most of what Dateline has been hearing from massively populated India is about the country's phenomenal economic growth, so much so that currently it rivals China as the engine for the world's resources boom. But this push for industrialization in India is coming at a cost. To make way for factories, mines, and industrial estates, subsistence farmers are being pushed off their land. In the poverty-stricken state of Orissa, the consequences were both dire and deadly.

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.