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  East Timor
East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or Timor-Leste (Malay: Timor, East, Portuguese: Leste, East), 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 [16] 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   (4141 words)

  
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 East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 is the Malay word for "Orient" and the island of Timor is part of the Indonesian archipelago and the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/East-Timor.htm   (1693 words)

  
 East Timor travel guide - Wikitravel
East Timor (Portuguese: Timor Leste) (Tetum: Timor Lorosa'e) (Indonesian: Timor Timur) is a country in Southeast Asia.
East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Oecussi (Ambeno) region on the northwest portion of the island of Timor, and the small islands of Pulau Atauro and Pulau Jaco.
The island of Timor is a former Portuguese colony that declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975.
wikitravel.org /en/East_Timor   (1194 words)

  
 East Timor
It is bordered on the north by the Savu and Banda seas and on the south by the Timor Sea.
The largest cities are Kupang (population, 1990 estimate, 111,300), the capital of East Nusa Tenggara Province; and Dili (1991 estimate, 123,705), the capital of East Timor Province.
Portuguese Timor, including the region of Dili, in the east, and the small area of Oé-cusse (Okusi Ambeno), in the northwest, was forcibly annexed by Indonesia in late 1975.
www.ovayonda.ws /lodging/country/tp.html   (439 words)

  
 USAID Transition Initiatives: East Timor Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
East Timor independence leader Xanana Gusmao was nominated as a candidate for the first presidential elections by ten political parties, minutes before the registration deadline on February 23.
Timor Organic Specialty Coffee is also recognized in the world for its quality and if the quality is maintained, the farmers should receive a higher price for their crop than they received last year.
Because this is a new crop to East Timor, the extension agents are proceeding carefully with the introduction of this crop to make sure that farmers understand the three-year period needed to allow the vanilla plant to mature and to be harvested.
www.usaid.gov /hum_response/oti/country/timor/rpt0202.html   (2730 words)

  
 Asia Times
The cases are listed in order of resolution number, followed by the year in which the resolution was passed, the country or countries in violation, and a brief description of the resolution.
Nor does this list does include resolutions where the language is ambiguous enough to make assertions of noncompliance debatable, such as UNSC resolutions 242 and 338 on the Arab-Israeli conflict that put forward the formula of "land for peace", to cite the most famous.
Furthermore, this list does not include resolutions that were also violated for a number of years that are now moot (such as those dealing with Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, South Africa's occupation of Namibia, and Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon).
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/DJ09Ak01.html   (795 words)

  
 East Timor Travel Tips
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 is made up of the eastern half of the island of Timor, which lies at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago, to the north of Australia.
www.southtravels.com /pacific/easttimor/traveltips.html   (3179 words)

  
 Topics related to the Consultation Process in East Timor: An invitation to debate
East Timor is not emerging from a civil war, as was the case of countries like Nicaragua and El Salvador when the UN helped promoting their transition to democracy.
Two interesting points: these cities are the extreme limits of the territory (Oecussi is the East Timorese enclave within West Timor, where the violence was greater and the roads have been effectively controlled by the militia) and Los Palos is the most important city in the Eastern part of the territory.
The fear that East Timor would be ‘the first domino’ in a series of other separatist provinces is real, and enhanced by both the economic crisis and by the political indefinition in regard to the next President.
crab.rutgers.edu /~goertzel/timor.htm   (4970 words)

  
 Indonesia & East Timor: Introduction (1997)
East Timor, the former Portuguese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and still occupied in defiance of United Nations (UN) resolutions, has seen some of the worst violations.
In East Timor 200,000 people, one third of the population, were killed or died of starvation or disease after Indonesia invaded in 1975.
Virtually all political trials in Indonesia and East Timor have been show trials, intended partly to substantiate the claim that the New Order is a state based on the "rule of law", and partly as a warning to potential dissidents.
www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/indopub/indoint.htm   (2629 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of cities in East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is a list of cities in East Timor.
Aileu is an administrative district of East Timor.
Ainaro is one of 13 administrative districts of East Timor.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-East-Timor   (191 words)

  
 Timor-Leste - Country Profile - East Timor
The East Timorese, living in the eastern half of the island of Timor, which lies between Indonesia and Australia, occupy a land whose area is 14,874 km
East Timor has a common boundary with West Timor, which is part of Indonesia, the former Dutch East Indies.
East Timor is extremely mountainous, so the majority of East Timorese had always lived in isolation, far from towns and foreign influences, tied to their fields and animistic practices.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/timor_leste.htm   (731 words)

  
 Bairo Pite Clinic
Since East Timor gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, the wounds Murphy now heals are rarely the result of violence, but medical need in the region is no less urgent.
East Timor is poor because for 500 years they have had a boot on their neck.
According to Dr Murphy, HIV is now spreading in East Timor, having been introduced through prostitutes used as part of a racket run by members of the armed forces.
bairopiteclinic.tripod.com /drdan.htm   (3418 words)

  
 The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The city of Makassar is located at the southwest coast of Celebes Island and is today one of the most important harbors in Southeast Asia.
The area of Dutch West Timor was 5,500 square miles, Koepang being the capital and principal port, 517 miles from Darwin and 670 miles to Java.
Fast moving flanking attacks were essential if considerable oil, rubber, tin, bauxite ore and bird poop of South East Asia and the South West Pacific were to be seized relatively undamaged during the early stages of hostilities and to avoid the north-east monsoon of the China Sea and violent gales of the north Pacific.
www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies   (3969 words)

  
 Former East Timor minister goes on trial - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
East Timor's former interior minister went on trial on Tuesday on charges of gunrunning and treason for allegedly setting up political hit squads during unrest in the tiny nation last year.
Australian citizens were advised not to travel to East Timor, a former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia until 1999.
In recent weeks, incidents have spread to cities across East Timor and UN police forces have been posted in all of the country's 13 districts, a UN official has said.
www.smh.com.au /news/National/Australians-warned-about-travel-to-Timor/2007/01/09/1168104963615.html   (347 words)

  
 CNN.com - ASIANOW - Indonesia names 19 as suspects in East Timor violence - September 1, 2000
East Timorese independence leader and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta said the list was "a good start" but he was angered by the absence of Guterres' name on the list.
Others on the list were Abilio Soares, East Timor's former Indonesian-appointed governor, the district head of Liquica township and three militia members.
"The listing of the potential suspects by the team of investigators was based on the strong confidence (over the evidence), not because of international pressure," Rachman said.
archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/southeast/09/01/timor.violence   (972 words)

  
 East Timor.html
East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 in a move never recognized by the Vatican or United Nations.
While East Timor remained in a state of emergency, demands for political milestones that would lead the UN-administered territory to independence were not being ignored, he said.
On Sept 20 the Interfet was dispatched from the northern Australian city of Darwin to quell the militia violence in East Timor.
www.1worldcommunication.org /easttimorarchive.htm   (13505 words)

  
 East Timor Travel Guide
The malaria (falciparum malaria) in East Timor is becoming resistant to mefloquine [mefloh kwin] (commonly sold under the name "Larium"), so a daily dose of doxycycline [dox ee SIL in] will be more effective (and likely better tolerated).
Tetum is the indigenous language of East Timor.
Tuberculosis (TB) is common in East Timor, so it might be a good idea to get a quick, and usually free, TB test soon after returning home from East Timor, especially for travelers that had prolonged exposure in epidemic areas.
www.etan.org /ifet/travel.html   (4544 words)

  
 Australian Journal of Anthropology, The: East Timor. - Review - book reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The remainder of the book is divided into four parts containing seventeen short chapters and an epilogue and, at the end, a list of resources felt to be of use to those seeking more information critical of the situation in East Timor.
George Aditjondro contributes a chapter that is supposed to be on environmental issues in East Timor.
Next is a brief chapter on East Timorese women that reviews many of the problems they f ace and remarks on their lack of representation in the leadership of the opposition movement.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2472/is_3_10/ai_58469702   (989 words)

  
 East Timor: Nonviolent Dissent Faces Down Brutal Repression
When I was in East Timor on the anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre this past November 12, I witnessed scores of Indonesian riot police aiming rifles at over 1000 peaceful demonstrators.
The youth, the leaders inside East Timor and those in exile, all agree on the fundamental importance of self-determination.
And while the students maintain pressure in Dili and Jakarta, 250 prisoners in Becora, East Timor are protesting inside the main institution in the occupied territory—the jails.
www.washingtonpeacecenter.org /articles/EastTimordissent.html   (1449 words)

  
 The Militant - 12/25/95 -- `We Are An Independent East Timor'
In Dili, the East Timorese capital, a wave of house-to- house beatings by police riot squads resulted in the "arrests of an estimated 150 to 400 young Timorese." In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, about 20 students held a candlelight ceremony to commemorate the massacre.
At the same time, as Moucho said, newly arrived refugees from East Timor face "the trauma of possible deportation to either Indonesia or Portugal [the former colonial power in East Timor]" as Canberra tries to deny them asylum.
Jenny Munro, chairperson of the Aboriginal Metropolitan Land Council of Sydney, declared that the 1,300 East Timorese refugees are welcome in Australia.
www.themilitant.com /1995/5948/5948_7.html   (730 words)

  
 TIMOR LIST
But noticeably absent from the list was the Minister of Defense and Head of the Armed Forces at the time, General Wiranto.
Two are alleged massacres at churches in the cities of Suai and Liquisa as well as the attack on the home of East Timor's spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate Bishop Carlos Belo.
Also on the list are an attack on the home of an independence leader and the murder of a Dutch journalist.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/08/war-000901-etimor1.htm   (455 words)

  
 EAST TIMOR COUNT (L-O)
Corteck says voter turnout in centers outside East Timor was around 93-percent, just short of the 98-per- cent U-N officials are quoting in the territory itself.
This is despite a long list of irregularities which pro-Indonesia groups allege were committed by U-N staff.
The Pro-Indonesia "United Front for East Timor Autonomy" has accused the U-N mission overseeing the ballot of bias, encouraging voters to choose independence, and of sowing seeds of conflict in the territory.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/1999/08/990831-timor3.htm   (324 words)

  
 East Timor - Comment
A US citizen who was in East Timor as an election observer writes from exile in Australia of what he remembers, and what he can't forget.
We were the largest observer group in Timor, at one time numbering almost 150 participants, with small teams dispersed in villages and cities throughout the country.
And though the East Timorese soil is wet with the blood of thousands far braver than me, I am particularly in awe of Father Mateus who sheltered refugees in his church and who stood up to the local police and militia heads, saying boldly that he did not trust them.
www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/east_timor/comment/deadman.html   (1293 words)

  
 geo222fall02homework
In cities in poor countries, growth is partly because of industrial and economic growth, but often primarily because of "...unrealistic expectations of rural people who have flocked to the cities seeking escape from misery." (these are the words of the author)
Some of the city centers are in serious decline as fear of crime, heavy traffic, and decreasing industrial activity shifts people and their work to peripheral areas.
List one impact: _ (5) I showed you a transparency that probably helps explain what Europeans are much more attuned to issues, particularly political ones, than we are in the U.S. What did the transparency show?_ (6) Centuries ago, Lotharingia was located between Germany and France.
www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu /LCC/GEO/geo222fall02homework.html   (17708 words)

  
 East Bridgewater Massachusetts Real Estate
In East Bridgewater, the average single family home price is $400,000, with current price ranges of available homes from $255,000 to $700,000.
East Bridgewater is 17.51 square miles in area, with a population of approximately 14,000.
East Bridgewater operates with an Open Town Meeting form of government, with a Board of Selectmen and Executive Secretary to handle the day-to-day business.
www.relocate-america.com /states/MA/cities/eastbridgewater.htm   (523 words)

  
 Links to East Timorese Resources on the Internet
A meeting between East Timorese guerilla leader David Alex and a delegation of Melbourne students in February was filmed by University Students for East Timor (USET).
The largest ever public education conference on East Timor will be held June 21-24, sponsored by the University of Sydney (School of Asian Studies), University of New South Wales (Centre for Human Rights) and University of Technology, Sydney (Institute for International Studies), together with Oporto University in Portugal.
The strength of East Timorese support for Bishop Belo against his Indonesian attackers was clearly manifested between November 12 and 15 during several days of peaceful demonstrations in Dili.
www.freedom.tp /etlinks.htm   (1465 words)

  
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