
	Where results make sense

Topic: East Timorese Declaration of Independence

Related Topics

East Timor

Dili

Culture of East Timor

Roman Catholic

In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Declaration of independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (1835) - This was a declaration of the independence of the Maori tribes.
		Declaration of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (1973) - Guinea-Bissau, formerly Portuguese Guinea, declared independence from Portugal in 1973.
		Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (1983) - The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was proclaimed in northern Cyprus in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Declaration_of_Independence (1632 words)

	Encyclopedia: Declaration of Independence
		Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
		A Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand was the title of a declaration of independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand, drafted by the official British Resident of New Zealand, James Busby, and signed by himself and 35 Maori chiefs at Waitangi on October 28, 1835.
		The Finnish declaration of independence was adopted by the Parliament of Finland on December 6, 1917.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Declaration-of-Independence (4754 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Declaration of independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A declaration of independence is a proclamation of the independence of a newly formed or reformed independent state from a part or the whole of the territory of another, or a document containing such a declaration.
		Declaration of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (1973) - Guinea-Bissau, formerly Portuguese Guinea, declared independence from Portugal.
		One notable example of de facto independence in the absence of a formal declaration of independence is Taiwan, which is administered by the Republic of China (ROC).
	www.nowtryus.com /article:Declaration_of_independence (1506 words)

	History of East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Some were mestizos, of Timorese and Portuguese parentage, others were Timorese from traditional ruling families, but the majority were native Timorese who gained their education through the Catholic minor seminary.
		The next day, on 29 November 1975, the Balibo Declaration, a document which had been written by the Indonesian intelligence, was presented to the leaders of the UDT and Apodeti parties, who were coerced into signing it under threat of being repatriated into the hands of their former adversaries, Fretilin.
		It was an Indonesian strategy to use the disgraced UDT and Apodeti leaders as a means of replying to Fretilin's declaration of independence and of preparing the world for the planned all-out invasion of East Timor.
	www.solidamor.org /english/content/history/koloni.htm (984 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for East Timorese in Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At present, East Timor is the only ethnic group in Indonesia to have successfully mobilized during the chaos of the 1998 economic crisis and gained independence after the fall of Suharto.
		East Timor remains at a crucial juncture, and the actions of its leaders in the near future may have important implications for whether its population will remain at risk in the coming years.
		As the people of the surrounding islands of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) began to politicize their demands for independence in the mid-20th century, the small urban sector of indigenous East Timorese also began to mobilize in preparation for self-rule.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=85004 (1283 words)

	Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
		The UN took control of East Timor in 2000 and 2001, although the island formally remained a "territory under Portuguese administration until completing the process of decolonization", which ended with the formal declaration of independence on May 20, 2002.
		East Timor is the poorest country in East Asia, and its only possibility for development seems to be the fossil fuels that lie beneath the seabed that Australia refuses to hand over, according to Oxfam.
		The figures are staggering: 41 percent of East Timor's 760,000 inhabitants live in extreme poverty, 51 percent are illiterate, one in 10 children dies before reaching age five and around half of the working-age population is unemployed.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FE22Ae02.html (1469 words)

	CNN.com - Nation of East Timor debuts on world stage - May 20, 2002
		The declaration of independence was followed by the swearing in of East Timor's first president, former guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao.
		For the vast majority of East Timorese he is the hero of the resistance struggle -- the main reason some 80 percent voted for him in last month's presidential election.
		Most East Timorese say they do not expect their lives to transform overnight as a result of independence, but as they partied into the night many had high hopes that if they can work together they can build a better future.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/05/19/timor (1366 words)

	washingtonpost.com: East Timorese Wave Their Flag As Independence Is Proclaimed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		DILI, East Timor, May 20 (Monday) -- Tens of thousands of ebullient East Timorese cheered and waved their new flag as this violence-wracked former territory proclaimed itself an independent country shortly after midnight, 2 1/2 years after its people overwhelmingly voted to separate from Indonesia.
		East Timor's campaign for independence dates to 1975, when Portugal ended more than 400 years of colonial rule and Indonesian soldiers invaded from the western half of Timor island.
		Although many East Timorese people interviewed here in the capital said they supported a normal relationship with Indonesia, they criticized the Indonesian government for its limited prosecution of military and police officers allegedly responsible for the violence.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A42288-2002May19?language=printer (1255 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		The declaration of independence brings to a close a history of foreign rule in which the half-island of East Timor was for 400 years a Portuguese colony and then, after an invasion in 1975, Indonesian for almost a quarter of a century.
		Gusmao told visiting international diplomats that their presence at East Timor's official birth as a nation is a reminder of the responsibilities the tiny country has as a new member of the community of nations.
		Indonesian President Sukarnoputri also was in Dili today to congratulate the East Timorese on their statehood, a marked change of heart from her rejection of the referendum's results in 1999.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/05/20052002094456.asp (1110 words)

	CBC News:East Timor bristles at arrival of Indonesian fleet
		DILI, EAST TIMOR - On the eve of their nation's birth, the people of East Timor were angered on Saturday by the arrival of six Indonesian warships.
		East Timor becomes the first new country of the millennium when the administration of the small region with a population of fewer than one million is turned over to a locally elected government.
		East Timor's security officials say their forces are up to the task of protecting the Indonesian president.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/print/2002/05/18/timor_ships020518 (406 words)

	[No title]
		The initial declaration, of May 11th, made apology of democratic principles, distribution of revenues and, the fulcral aspect, a progressive autonomy materialized with an increasing participation of the Timorese but always in the light of the Portuguese flag, to culminate with the integration of East Timor in a Portuguese language community.
		By it, the Timorese were officially and for the first time confronted with the possibility of independence.
		Remounting it's origins to the Topasses (see Ethnology of the Timorese), KOTA postulated the restoration of powers to the liurais who could trace their ancestrality back to the Topasse period in order to constitute a democratic monarchy, with the king to be elected amongst the liurais.
	www.uc.pt /timor/parties.html (1526 words)

	Teaching free Timor.
		East Timorese children study in a roofless school destroyed by anti-independence militia in Dili.
		The East Timorese guerrillas intensify their activities, and are met with a brutal crackdown by Indonesian troops.
		The East Timorese are 90 percent Catholic, and identify closely with a church that was on their side during the bloody 24-year Indonesian occupation, in which 300,000 people were killed.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_11/uk/apprend.htm (1367 words)

	E Timor Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is despite the regime's brutal invasion in 1975 and occupation of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor which has claimed hundreds of thousands of Timorese lives, and its denial of human rights in Indonesia during the past three decades.
		Timorese groups claimed that as many as 100 of the arrested demonstrators and other witnesses of the massacre were subsequently executed.
		Tens of thousands of East Timorese are forced to flee their homes; entire villages are burned to the ground, much of the territory's infrastructure is destroyed and unknown numbers are killed.
	www.interactorg.com /East%20Timor%20timeline.htm (3598 words)

	East Timor declares its independence in joyous ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		DILI, East Timor East Timor, a land long brutalized by foreign occupiers, was declared independent Monday in a joyous ceremony in this seaside capital, and took its place among the community of nations.
		Thousands of East Timorese smiled, cheered and hugged each other in an outpouring of emotion marking the end of four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule, 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation and 21/2 years of interim rule by the United Nations.
		Megawati, a longtime opponent of East Timorese independence, nevertheless attended Sunday's independence celebrations in a decision that angered hardline Indonesian lawmakers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/685954/posts (1227 words)

	East Timor: Can we trust the United Nations?
		This is clearly shown in the case of East Timor, where the Australian government (shamefully, the Labour government of Gough Whitlam) actively encouraged the Indonesians to invade.
		The presence of unarmed observers was a farce which merely played the role of fooling the East Timorese into a false sense of security and disarming them in the face of armed reaction.
		Your enemy is not the people of East Timor but the Indonesian landlords and capitalists, the generals and politicians whose hands are soiled with the blood of the people, and their foreign backers in Washington, Canberra and London, the biggest criminals of all.
	www.marxist.com /Asia/easttimorun.html (5612 words)

	East Timorese priest says justice essential to reconciliation efforts
		DILI, East Timor (CNS) -- An official of East Timor's reconciliation commission said the only way to reconcile with Indonesia is to bring Indonesian authorities to justice for human rights abuses during their 24-year occupation.
		Speaking prior to the country's formal declaration of independence May 20, Father Araujo said the Indonesian government, "the mastermind of all the atrocities," should be held accountable, as should "external forces that provided the opportunity for human rights violations."
		The fact that the East Timorese Constitution does not provide for an official state religion is good, the priest added.
	www.etan.org /et2002b/may/19-25/22etprie.htm (596 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Gusmao wants East Timorese back
		East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao is visiting the Indonesian province of West Timor in an attempt to encourage his compatriots to return home.
		More than 250,000 East Timorese fled their homeland during 1999 because of violent attacks by the Indonesian military and local militia groups.
		After stability was returned to East Timor by the United Nations and the subsequent declaration of independence in May this year numerous attempts were made to encourage the refugees in West Timor to go home.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2386549.stm (288 words)

	MSN Encarta - Republic of Indonesia
		But growing Indonesian nationalism led to a declaration of independence in 1945, and the Dutch finally transferred sovereignty in 1949.
		Indonesia is located south and east of mainland Asia and north and west of Australia.
		Indonesia controlled the eastern part, East Timor, from 1975 until 1999, when the East Timorese voted for independence.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573214/Indonesia_Republic_of.html (1839 words)

	UN sees itself in East Timor well after independence next year
		The key event before independence will be the election of an East Timorese constituent assembly that will draft and adopt a constitution, Sergio Vieira de Mello said.
		He said the creation of a transitional Cabinet in July and the inauguration of a 36-member Timorese National Council in October marked "a significant new phase" in power-sharing between the U.N. administration and East Timorese representing all areas, parties and sectors of society.
		The organization must find and train qualified East Timorese to run the country for the transition to be a success, he said.
	www.etan.org /et2000c/november/26-30/28un.htm (983 words)

	AllRefer.com - Indonesia - Introduction \| Indonesian Information Resource
		A great deal has been and doubtless remains to be written about the Dili killings and their aftermath, including the range of Indonesian responses to the event itself and to foreign reactions (one of which, of course, was Jakarta's decision to break all economic aid ties with the Dutch).
		In a sense, Jakarta's message was a second declaration of independence, and with it, after more than forty years of freedom from colonial rule, Indonesia had "joined the world" as a power intent on--and now for the first time strong enough to demand--being taken seriously.
		Such was the foundation of the new sense of self that appeared in the wake of the East Timor incident of late 1991.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/indonesia/indonesia11.html (4173 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: UN Certifies East Timor Vote -- April 17, 2002
		The head of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, congratulated Gusmao on his electoral victory, but cautioned the work of building the world's newest independent nation had just begun.
		The 56-year-old Gusmao joined East Timor's independence movement in 1974, when the territory was still a Portuguese colony.
		The East Timorese began to form their own government when Portugal withdrew from the area in 1975, but that effort was snuffed out only days later when neighboring Indonesia invaded citing security in the region.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/etimor_04-17-02.html (507 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)