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	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)

	Timor - Background
		QUESTION OF EAST TIMOR - Report of the Secretary-General S/1999/705 - 22 June 1999 -- In many areas, pro-integration militias, believed by many observers to be operating with the acquiescence of elements of the army, carry out acts of violence against the population and exercise an intimidating influence over it.
		The Territory of East Timor corresponds to the eastern part of the island of Timor; it includes the island of Atauro, 25 kilometres to the north, the islet of Jaco to the east, and the enclave of Oé-Cusse in the western part of the island of Timor.
		East Timor was thus given the status of the 27th province of Indonesia.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/timor-bkg.htm (3392 words)

	EAST TIMOR : Encyclopedia Entry
		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.
		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.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/East_Timor (4075 words)

	The EU's relations with East Timor - Brief history of East Timor
		In East Timor, still ruled by Lisbon, three political parties are established, with different goals as to the future status of East Timor (Fretilin, Apodeti, UDT).
		In July 2001 the Timor Sea Arrangement was signed between UNTAET and Australia, allowing East Timor 90 percent of one of the oil and gas reserves from the Timor Sea.
		At the same time, the UN Mission of Support to East Timor (UNMISET) was established and renewed with the mandate of providing assistance to core administrative structures critical to the viability and political stability of Timor Leste, interim law-enforcement, and external and internal security.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/east_timor/history.htm (1729 words)

	Brief History of East Timor .:. Discover Timor Leste \| East Timor \| Timor Lorosae
		East Timor was first mentioned in 1260 by a Chinese traveler who noticed that the island was attracting traders interested in the huge forests of sandalwood.
		The proximity of Timor to major trade routes and its abundance of sandalwood led these two European superpowers to split the island and begin colonizing it.
		Following the war, Portuguese rule was restored until 1975, when during the process of decolonization and the creation of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Indonesian troops invaded and occupied the country.
	www.discoverdili.com /briefhistory.html (367 words)

	A short history of East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Timor becomes a Portuguese colony, Portuguese Timor, subordinated to Portuguese India in 1632.
		During World War II Portuguese Timor is occupied by Dutch and Australian forces between 1941 and 1942 and by Japan between 1942 and 1945.
		In 1975 Portuguese Timor becomes independent as the Democratic Republic of East Timor, but in the same year Indonesia occupies the country.
	www.electionworld.org /history/easttimor.htm (187 words)

	East Timor flag history
		East Timor was before 1974 a forgotten colony, with a small military contingent of portuguese troops.
		They had their known opposition against an independent East Timor, and when they understood that that was on the way, and a marxist one for that matter, they decided to act.
		East Timor’s status remained by international law as a territory with a pending decolonization process, still nominally under portuguese administration, though Indonesia managed to convince a few of it’s closest friends, such as Australia, to recognize the annexation.
	flagspot.net /flags/tl_hist.html (803 words)

	Short History of East Timor
		East Timor's struggle for independence has been a long and bloody one.
		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.
		In East Timor itself much of the territory lies in ruins and many of those who carried out the destruction disappear into refugee camps across the border in Indonesian controlled West Timor.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~mybetim/history.htm (832 words)

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		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 relation with the period of decolonization of East Timor we have a history on
		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)

	History of East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On November 28, FRETILIN declared East Timor an independent state, and Indonesia responded by launching a fullscale military invasion on December 7.
		Declaring a provisional government made up of Timorese allies on January 13, 1976, the Indonesian Government said it was acting to forestall civil strife in East Timor and to prevent the consolidation of power by the FRETILIN party.
		East Timor became a fully independent republic on May 20, 2002, following approximately 2-1/2 years under the authority of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/easttimor.html (683 words)

	East Timor \| Catholic Relief Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CRS sees its primary challenge as accompanying the people of East Timor as they strive to develop their new country and economy, and overcome their colonial and authoritarian history, which has left scars on the national psyche.
		East Timor, which lies in the eastern part of the island of Timor, is one of the world's newest independent nations.
		CRS/East Timor was established as a sub-office of CRS/Indonesia and became an independent country program in June 2000 to better respond to the devastation of East Timor and work directly with partners and beneficiaries.
	www.crs.org /our_work/where_we_work/overseas/Asia/east_timor/index.cfm (661 words)

	East Timor: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		East Timor is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
		East Timor's resistance movement was violently suppressed by Indonesian military forces, and more than 200,000 Timorese were reported to have died from famine, disease, and fighting since the annexation.
		East Timor's offshore gas and oil reserves promised the only real hope for lifting it out of poverty, but a dispute with Australia over the rights to the oil reserves in the East Timor Sea thwarted those efforts.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0902237.html (1094 words)

	History of East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later.
		The Dili Massacre was to prove the turning point for sympathy to the East Timorese cause in the world arena as, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union that same year, the "Marxist bogey" that Indonesia had often used against the idea of an independent East Timor had vanished.
		East Timor became a member of the UN on September 27, 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_East_Timor (3590 words)

	AidEastTimor: History of East Timor
		East Timor is located 400 miles northwest of Australia, at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
		And migrants from parts of Indonesia were encouraged to move to East Timor, that they might dilute the native population.
		In the shadow of these threats, the International Federation for East Timor established an Observer Project, whose mission was to monitor and report on the conditions in East Timor, universally acknowledged to be far from free and/or fair.
	www.aideasttimor.org /history.html (2252 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 /student/clubs/easttimor/History2.html (2422 words)

	eG Features - East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		However, the east side of the island of Timor was a Portuguese colony and was not integrated into greater Indonesia.
		East Timor posed absolutely no military threat to anyone,” said Brière, who produced an award-winning documentary on the occupation entitled Bitter Paradise: The Sellout of East Timor.
		Timor is also a valuable piece of real estate because of its location as it lies directly in the path of major shipping routes.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/features/stories/timor (2399 words)

	EAST TIMOR - Simply... a brief history of East Timor
		During the Second World War Timor was occupied by the Japanese, who encountered widespread resistance to their attempts to force the population to grow food, both for their troops and for export.
		East Timor’s lingua franca, Tetum, was banned, and Bahasa Indonesian taught in schools.
		In January 1985 the East Timorese Council of priests called for the right of East Timor to determine its own future and referred to the Church as ‘being witness to a process which is slowly leading to the ethnic, cultural and religious extinction of the people of East Timor’.
	www.newint.org /issue253/simply.htm (2077 words)

	East Timor history - pre 1990
		Timor was "discovered" by Portuguese navigators in the sixteenth century.
		Portugal was given East Timor back after the war and continued to neglect the island.
		Officially, the decolonisation process was never completed in East Timor and the UN recognises Portugal as the administrative power.
	www.gla.ac.uk /~clubs/easttimor/History1.html (1768 words)

	Why Australia is in East Timor
		The violence in East Timor has its roots in a split within the armed forces--but also in the legacy of poverty and conflict inflicted during a quarter-century of brutal military occupation by U.S.-backed Indonesia, whichonly ended in 1999.
		In 1975, when East Timor declared its independence from Portugal, the Australian Labor Party government encouraged Indonesia to invade, fearful that an independent East Timor would become a South Pacific “Cuba,” open to the influence of China and Russia.
		In 1999, Prime Minister John Howard was intent on ensuring that East Timor’s transition to independence didn’t result in a chronically unstable state on Australia’s doorstep, nor one that was open to any outside influence but Australia’s.
	www.socialistworker.org /2006-1/592/592_07_EastTimor.shtml (1117 words)

	East Timor
		At the time, East Timor was (and technically still is) a colony of Portugal that was in the process of declaring its independence.
		This was a funeral for a young Timorese that had died at the hands of the Indonesian forces; in response a number of those in the procession decided to carry protest signs and Fretilin (part of the resistance movement) flags.
		In the Shadow of Mount Ramelau: The Impact of the Occupation of East Timor.
	www.scn.org /~davidb/timor.html (1431 words)

	East Timor: Current, History, United Methodist Responses
		The people of East Timor continue to struggle under rule by Indonesia, according to Bishop Melvin Talbert of the San Francisco Area in a United Methodist news release September 2, 1997.
		Bishop Talbert led a 10-member delegation to East Timor and Indonesia as president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. from August 17 to 29, 1997.
		The current conflict in East Timor may be traced to the 1975 Indonesian invasion of this former Portuguese colony.
	gbgm-umc.org /asia-pacific/east-timor/etimor1.html (1136 words)

	Timor Today, Daily News and Information on East Timor
		To contribute to the building of a pluralist, democratic, just and sustainable East Timor through the development of a strong, independent and responsible civil society committed to upholding and making real in the daily life of the community, both village and urban.
		The situation in East Timor especially along the TCL remains calm and peaceful, the United Nations Military Observer Group (UNMOG) reported Saturday to Lieutenant General Winai Phattiyakul during the weekly briefing at the Peace Keeping Force Headquarters.
		Imanuel, a member of the East Nusa Tenggara police Mobile Brigade, were shot on Wednesday evening in a clash between security officers and East Timorese refugees in front of the local police headquarters.
	www.timoraid.org /v1/timortoday/index.htm (1208 words)

	A Brief History - Timor Aid
		Timor Aid Inc. was an initiative that was set up to carry forward the humanitarian aid work that various East Timorese and their overseas supporters had for several years been involved with.
		Timor Aid Inc. was a membership-based, charitable, non-profit association legally incorporated under the laws of the Australian State of Victoria.
		Yayasan Timor Aid was totally obliterated by the destruction campaign that followed the outcome of the UN-sponsored consultation, in which the East Timorese chose to become independent.
	www.fspi.org.fj /affiliates/timor/history.htm (383 words)

	East Timor: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Nightmare in East Timor - Nightmare in East Timor 1999 News of the World A Portuguese colony for 400 years until abruptly...
		A matter of small consequence: U.S. foreign policy and the tragedy of East Timor.
		Peace building in East Timor: East Timor won its independence on 20 May 2002, becoming the first independent nation to emerge in the......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0902237.html (1228 words)

	East Timor Internet Resources
		TimorNet's History, Geography and Anthropology Pages - In our pages you will find detailed information and pictures and maps about East Timor's History, Geography, Ethnology and other features, as well as an account of the situation in East Timor since the 1975 invasion by Indonesia.
		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.
		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 Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		The ambiguous taste of freedom is fresh in East Timor's mouth.
		Travellers should avoid East Timor due to the ongoing uncertain security situation.
		Check out what other travellers are saying about East Timor.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/east-timor (222 words)

	History - East Timor - Oceania: chinese trade, colonial east, ancient chinese, east timor, 16th century
		Timor was a destination on ancient Chinese trade routes and was particularly known for its sandalwood.
		The Portuguese began colonizing Timor in the early 16th century as European trade and influence expanded in the region.
		They exploited Timor for its forest products and spices, and made slaves of Timorese people.
	www.countriesquest.com /oceania/east_timor/history.htm (74 words)

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