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	East Timor Culture
		The culture of East Timor reflects numerous cultural influences, including Portuguese, Roman Catholic and Malay, on the indigenous Austronesian cultures of Timor.
		In spite of accusations by the Suharto regime that East Timor's independence movement, Fretilin, was communist, many of its leaders had trained to be priests, and their philosophy probably owed more to the Catholic liberation theology of Latin America than to Marxism.
		Another interesting point of culture is that it is duty for adult women (from the age of 15) in East Timor to remove all body hair (besides their head).
	www.easttimorgovernment.com /culture.htm (707 words)

	East Timor - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor is a nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
		To the north of the mountainous island are the Ombai Strait and Wetar Strait, to the south the Timor Sea separates the island from Australia, while to the west lies the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.
		East Timor is a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, and a member of the Latin Union.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/e/a/s/East_Timor_c0fb.html (1766 words)

	East Timor: Trudging Along the Road to Full Independence- Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		East Timor is facing a rough road ahead as it struggles to bring about peace in the territory and reconciliation between warring groups ahead of planned elections and subsequent independence by end-2001, analysts here say.
		East Timor, which has been under United Nations administration since November last year, is set to achieve full-fledged independence by end- 2001, after a crucial election earlier in the year of a constituent assembly that will draft and adopt a constitution for the former Portuguese colony.
		East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and annexed it for almost a quarter century.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/etimor/001221.htm (1075 words)

	East Timor
		East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor.
		Timor was incorporated into Chinese and Indian trading networks of the 14th Century as an exporter of aromatic sandalwood, slaves, honey and wax.
		Timor Sea petroleum resources were divided between Indonesia and Australia by the Timor Gap Treaty in 1989 [19] which established guidelines for joint exploitation of seabed resources in the area of the "gap" left by then-Portuguese Timor in the maritime boundary agreed between the two countries in 1972.
	www.link-ex.net /wiki_en/?title=East_Timor (3915 words)

	East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor.
		In late 1941, Portuguese Timor was briefly occupied by Dutch and Australian troops in an attempt to pre-empt a Japanese invasion of the island.
		Timor Sea petroleum resources were divided between Indonesia and Australia by the Timor Gap Treaty in 1989 [20] which established guidelines for joint exploitation of seabed resources in the area of the "gap" left by then-Portuguese Timor in the maritime boundary agreed between the two countries in 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Timor (4085 words)

	East Timor (Timor Leste)
		The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor is a nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, a political exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
		Timor inherited no permanent maritime boundaries when it attained independence, and the Government of East Timor is seeking to negotiate a boundary with Australia to a point halfway between it and Australia.
		East Timor is a member of the CPLP, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, and also a member of the Latin Union.
	creekin.net /n56-east-timor-timor-leste-.html (1665 words)

	Lingua Franca - 24/3/2000: Portuguese in East Timor...
		Tetum is the principal indigenous language of East Timor, and in particular, Tetum Praca, the creolised form of the language that evolved as the lingua franca for the Portuguese colonisers and the indigenous population over nearlyfour centuries.
		However backward the place may have been in material terms, East Timor was officially considered an integral part of Portugal, as integral as Lisbon or Coimbra, and Portuguese schoolchildren were taught that Tatamailau, south of Dili, was 'the highest mountain in Portugal.' Portugal's approach was to embrace the Timorese as fellow Portuguese.
		Portuguese rule in Timor was not sullied by massacres, arbitrary arrest and torture, the destruction of rural cultures, coerced conversions to a new religion, forced resettlement of populations, and plantations of privileged colonists.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s113139.htm (2149 words)

	East Timor Leste: Languages, Culture, Images (Timor Timur - Timor Lorosae) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A Course in Tetum-Praca (The Lingua Franca of East Timor)
		This paper is an attempt to disentangle the complex strands of multilingualism in East Timor, both historically and contemporarily, in terms of the relations of Portuguese, Indonesian, Tetum, and the indigenous local languages of East Timor.
		The outposts in Timor were established primarily to facilitate Portuguese access to the sandalwood trade, while their major fort, port, and religious seminary were located on the island of Solor and at Larantuka on the island of Flores further west.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/timor-lorosae.html (3598 words)

	Meteoroloo.com :: East Timor - east timor torture photos
		The Democratic east timor history Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor is a nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
		Head of state of the East Timorese republic is the president, who is elected by popular vote for a five-year term and whose role is largely symbolic, though he east timor 2000 is able to veto some legislation.
		The east timor timeline country faces great challenges in continuing the rebuilding of infrastructure and the strengthening of the infant civil administration.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-countries-e-l/East-Timor.html (1909 words)

	Amnesty International - East Timor Crisis
		East Timorese refugees in West Timor and other parts of Indonesia continue to be harassed, threatened and attacked by pro-integration militia, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
		Following the adoption of a resolution on East Timor by the Commission on Human Rights at its special session in Geneva, Amnesty International said that it was now the UN Secretary-Generals responsibility to ensure that any Commission of Inquiry into suspected crimes against humanity and war crimes is independent, credible and effective.
		At a time when the people of East Timor could be celebrating a new start and looking forward to a peaceful future, they are instead left fearing for their lives in a critical situation which is rapidly deteriorating, Amnesty International said today.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/east-timor/index.html (2550 words)

	Culture - Atauro Island - East Timor Eco-tourism accomodation at Tua Koin
		Animism - Atauro is traditionally animistic and many of the animist beliefs, rituals and ceremonies are still practiced (eg through ritual and sacrifice, spirits of the ancestors are asked to give their blessings on activities related to land or sea use).
		Protestantism came from the missionaries in the Moluccas and was established on the island prior to Catholicism.
		Atauro people welcome you as their guests, to their island and are delighted to share their way of life and culture with you.
	www.atauroisland.com /content/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=4&MMN_position=4:4 (795 words)

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		In the case of East Timor, where I spent ten months observing the elections for a Constituent Assembly and the process of constitutional drafting, public consultations were seen as critical for public awareness and public ‘ownership' of the new nation's constitution.
		Listening to many of the concerns and suggestions expressed by East Timorese participants in the two sets of consultations, I also felt that there was often a disconnect or lack of fit between the ‘aspirations of the people' and the content of the constitution.
		It was considering what the East Timorese people might have learned during the Indonesian period in terms of attitudes and ideas about the Indonesian Constitution, in fact, that led me to reconsider the content of the ideas expressed during the East Timorese constitutional consultations.
	www.indopubs.com /lutz.txt (2147 words)

	Culture of East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Easily the most famous East Timorese author is Xanana Gusmão, the leader of the Timorese resistance organization Fretilin, and now the president of independent East Timor.
		In spite of accusations by the Suharto regime that East Timor's independence movement, Fretilin, was communist, many of its leaders had trained to be priests, and their philosophy probably owed more to the Catholic liberation theology of Latin America than to Marxism.
		An interesting point of culture is that it is duty for adult women (as from the age of 15 years) in East Timor to remove all body hair (except on their head), even the hair on their forearms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_East_Timor (498 words)

	About East Timor - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
		It consists of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor situated on the northwestern side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
		With the Philippines, East Timor is one of only two majority Roman Catholic countries in Asia.
		Indonesian rule in East Timor was marked by extreme violence and brutality one of the worst examples of being the Dili massacre.
	www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/East-Timor.html (587 words)

	East Timor history - post 1990
		A visit to East Timor by Portuguese MP's was to be allowed in early November 1991, but this was cancelled at the last minute as the Indonesians objected to the presence of an Australian journalist who was to accompany the visit.
		Bishop Belo, Carlos Filepe Ximenes Belo, was born in a village in Bacau, East Timor on the 3rd of February 1948 to a farming family.
		In this post he consistently fought to ensure that the history and culture of East Timor would be taught to future generations and also spoke out against the military regime.
	www.gla.ac.uk /~clubs/easttimor/History2.html (2422 words)

	ZNet \| Interviews \| Interview With Xanana Gusmao
		East Timor experienced greater loss of life on a per capita basis than any other nation in the 20
		We, East Timorese, were possessed by the revolutionary euphoria and now when we are accusing Indonesia, we don't see ourselves - we don't examine ourselves.
		Q: And yet East Timor was a victim of the Cold War.
	www.zmag.org /content/Interviews/vltcheck_eastimor.cfm (2066 words)

	Timor — Infoplease.com
		East Timor: History, Geography, Government, and Culture - Information on East Timor — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag.
		East Timor is the eastern part of the...
		The Timor Gap, Wonosobo and the fate of Portuguese Timor.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0848782.html (474 words)

	Free East Timor
		The invasion took the lives of one third of the population of East Timor "due to starvation, epidemics, war and terror," the Nobel committee said.
		The military assault on East Timor, its subsequent "annexation" and the ongoing abuses of human rights are made possible by U.S.-supplied weapons and political support.
		East Timor was a peaceful Portuguese colony for over 450 years.
	www.prop1.org /protest/timor/timor01.htm (2034 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page
		Cultural Nationalism: The Nation as Positive Focus of Identity
		To present a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures and global studies.
		Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook.html (951 words)

	Lucy Law Webster Overcoming War and Empire
		Nevertheless, when militias supporting Serbia or Indonesia attack the people of Kosovo or East Timor, I would assert that the international community has a responsibility to protect the people attacked and that the UN has a duty to act.
		In the case of East Timor, the intervention force approved by the Security Council on September 15, 1999 succeeded in mitigating a humanitarian disaster.
		A democratic response to any challenge to peace and human rights is required by the people from within nations and cultural regions to uphold their own civic values, their own cultural norms and the peaceful global norms that have been endorsed by the United Nations and by governments worldwide.
	www.canonmagazine.org /winter2004/webster_empire.html (2504 words)

	East Timor Women Australia April tour : Melbourne Indymedia
		ETWA is conducting a weaving tour to East Timor 11th - 23rd April 2006.
		The first of it's kind to East Timor, the tour will help participants discover the compexities of traditional East Timorese waeving and culture.
		This will be a wonderful experience for anyone interested in textiles, weaving, traditional culture and East Timor.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/02/105888.php (289 words)

	indonesiaphoto.com - East Timor
		The environment of East Timor is highly diverse; in terms of geology, topography, climate, as well as terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna.
		Obviously man has affected the East Timor environment, but it is equally true that most resource uses are curtailed by and adapted to the island's natural conditions.
		The differences in practises and livelihoods found throughout East Timor reflect these varying natural conditions in highly specialised systems for resource use.
	www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/blogsection/14/66 (162 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After an introdutory discription of the situation and limits of East Timor's composing territories, we begin with a brief history that comprises the prehistoric vestiges and a historiography regarding mainly the
		In respect to the land there are entries about geomorfology, geology, climate, flora and fauna, and finally natural resources with a call on the importance of petrol and coffee for the economy of an independent East Timor.
		Due to it, while Portuguese governor left East Timor, Indonesian interference increased and culminated with the invasion (December 1975), for which the posture of superpower USA and neighbour Australia is considered to have been important.
	www.uc.pt /timor/atop.html (320 words)

	East Timor Internet Resources
		According to the United Nations, the political situation in East Timor is far from being settled, since its decolonization process was interrupted in December the 7th 1975.
		Six years after the invasion, the UN General Assembly still condemned East Timor's occupation: Resolution 36/50 from November 24th 1981.
		East Timor Human Rights Center - Home page from this Australian NGO that supports East Timorese prisioners, torture victims and refugees.
	www.uc.pt /timor/netret.htm (923 words)

	East Timor Photo Gallery by Hakan UGURLU at pbase.com
		I´ve been in East Timor from 2001 to 2004 and i´ve shared that with your pictures...congratulations!
		I really wanted to visit East Timor last year while I was in Asia, and now I don't think I'll be able to for a while.
		I spent 2 months in East Timor in 2002, and had the time of my life.
	www.pbase.com /hugurlu/east_timor (611 words)

	Web-and-Flow Hunt: east_timor
		East Timor is one of Australia's nearest neighbours and the worlds newest nation.
		Describe the 'diversity of culture' in East Timor.
		For further insight into East Timor complete the activities that have been developed on the Through the Eyes of the Children Subject Sampler
	www.web-and-flow.com /members/lhayman/east_timor/hunt.htm (250 words)

	East Timor: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
		Conversation with the "Representative of the Council for National East Timorese Resistance (CNRT) to the United Nations and North America [about] a number of the problems currently facing East Timor" (Oct. 28, 1999)
		Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999
		Law and Justice in East Timor: A Survey of Citizen Awareness and Attitudes Regarding Law and Justice in East Timor
	newton.uor.edu /Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/timor.html (594 words)

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