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	Politics of East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of East Timor takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of East Timor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		The 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 is able to veto some legislation.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in East Timor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_East_Timor (502 words)

	East Timor HISTORY
		While Portugal's colonial hold on East Timor failed to avail the local population of educational and general advancement opportunities, even leaving the island with barely 30 km (19 km) of paved asphalt road, its detachment enabled the East Timorese cultural identity to remain largely intact and unscathed by modernity.
		Within days of an invasion marked by public torture, rape, and the random killing of mass civilians, Portuguese governor Mario Lemos Pire and his remaining administration made a covert and final exodus during the night to the island of Atauro, marking the end of over 460 years of colonization, without decolonization achieved.
		An overwhelming 99% of eligible voters were present during the 30 August 1999 referendum, which secured the vote for independence.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/East-Timor-HISTORY.html (1242 words)

	East Timor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The country occupies the somewhat narrower, eastern half of Timor island, the exclave of Ambeno (or Oecussi) on the northwest coast of Timor, and offshore islands.
		Although East Timor, whose economy is largely agricultural, was one of the world’s poorest nations at independence, it has offshore oil and gas fields in the Timor Gap off East Timor’s southern coast that are under development and are expected to generate income beginning in 2005.
		In 1950, Dutch Timor and the rest of the surrounding Dutch East Indies became the Republic of Indonesia.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ea/EastTimor.html (664 words)

	OnlineWomen: East Timor
		East Timor is a territory of 19,000 km2, located between Australia and Indonesia.
		Timor voted for independence in 1999 and is now administered by the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.
		East Timor made significant progress in establishing its institutions of democracy and governance; however, during its first full year of independence from Indonesia, reconstruction and recovery from the September 1999 violence that ravaged the territory was a central focus of activity, and numerous problems remained.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /etimor/timormain.htm (795 words)

	Asia 2001
		East Timor's media faced their first real test under a democratic environment when they covered September's United Nations—supervised poll electing a constituent assembly and a transitional government.
		The electoral victory of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin), the formerly Marxist political party that led the independence movement, caused some anxiety among journalists, who accused the party of interfering with media efforts to cover opposition parties.
		In December, CPJ commended a U.N.-administered court for convicting members of an anti-independence militia of crimes against humanity, including the murder of Agus Muliawan, an Indonesian journalist slain in the violent aftermath of the 1999 referendum.
	www.cpj.org /attacks01/asia01/easttimor.html (385 words)

	East Timor (07/06)
		East Timor witnessed its largest and longest political demonstration in April and May 2005 when several thousand protestors took part in a demonstration led by the Catholic Church that lasted 20 days.
		East Timor maintains an embassy at 4201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008 (telephone: 202-966-3202).
		East Timor's foreign policy has placed a high priority on its relationships with Indonesia; regional friends such as Malaysia and Singapore; and donors such as Australia, the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Portugal.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35878.htm (2937 words)

	World InfoZone - East Timor Information - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) is in Southeastern Asia, northwest of Australia, at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago.
		East Timor includes the eastern half of the island of Timor, the Oecussi-Ambeno enclave (separated from the rest of East Timor by West Timorese territory) and the islands of Pulau Atauro and Pulau Jaco.
		The population of East Timor was estimated at 1,040,880 in 2005.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=EastTimor&page=2 (322 words)

	East Timor (05/05)
		East Timor is located in southeastern Asia, on the southernmost edge of the Indonesian archipelago, northwest of Australia.
		East Timor witnessed its largest and longest political demonstration in April and May 2005 when several thousand protestors took part in a demonstration led by the Catholic Church that lasted twenty days.
		East Timor joined the United Nations on September 27, 2002, and is pursuing observer status in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and membership in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/e/47446.htm (1746 words)

	East Timor
		An estimated 100,000—200,000 Timorese, out of a total population of around 650,000, were killed in the military crackdown and the subsequent spread of famine and disease.
		An eight-member power-sharing provisional government, composed half of UNTAET officials and half of East Timorese was formed.
		The country is on the island of Timor in the Malay Archipelago.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/easttimor.html (775 words)

	History of East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On November 28, FRETILIN declared East Timor an independent state, and Indonesia responded by launching a fullscale military invasion on December 7.
		Under an agreement among the United Nations, Portugal, and Indonesia, the referendum was held on August 30, 1999.
		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: History
		An agreement resolving most border issues was signed with Indonesia in 2005; peacekeeping forces were withdrawn the same year.
		Oil and gas fields in the waters between East Timor and Australia made the settlement of their ocean boundary contentious, but in an agreement signed in 2006 East Timor postponed settlement of the issue for 50 years in exchange for an increased percentage of oil and gas revenues.
		A report by an independent truth and reconciliation commission concerning the effects of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, including an estimate of up to 183,000 deaths as a result of Indonesia's policies, was submitted to the United Nations in Jan., 2006, drawing protests from Indonesia and chilling relations with Jakarta.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0921122.html (552 words)

	Timeline East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Timor is an island, twice the size of Massachusetts with more than 900,000 residents.
		East Timorese are Roman Catholic and speak Tetum and Portuguese because of the 400 year colonial rule by Portugal.
		Yudhoyono was greeted in East Timor on a visit to bolster reconciliation between Jakarta and the territory it once occupied with brutal force.
	timelines.ws /countries/EAST_TIMOR.HTML (3859 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Jose Ramos-Horta
		East Timor's freedom and independence is owed also to the international community, to the United Nations, particularly to the leadership of the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, and to individual countries like Portugal.
		There is no sensible and rational government in East Timor, now or in the future, as there is none anywhere in the world, that could tell the Acehnese and the Papuans that we support their right to secede from Indonesia.
		East Timor is, after all, a country in Southeast Asia, geographically speaking, although culturally and ethnically it is much closer to the islands of the Pacific.
	www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/horta.cfm (2188 words)

	Asia Times: Exile returns to run East Timor
		The parliament is an interim one, to draft a constitution and prepare for independence.
		The outcome, announced in Dili by Sergio Vieira de Mello, head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), was a predominantly Fretilin government led by 52-year-old lawyer Mari Alkatiri.
		As East Timorese chief minister, Alkatiri will be a Muslim at the head of a predominantly Catholic country (Islamic leaders at the Dili mosque confirmed that he is a practising member of their congregation).
	www.atimes.com /oceania/CI21Ah02.html (1334 words)

	Starting Over In East Timor (Le Monde diplomatique)
		The mountainous district of Viqueque in the southeast of the island is not the most badly affected of the 13 districts of devastated East Timor.
		It is in their interest to bring to an end the attacks that are damaging to their image and, though designed to destabilise East Timor, are in fact likely to destabilise West Timor." The fact remains that it is not easy for the Indonesian president to bring the militiamen to heel.
		Cady is currently envisaging an administration that is "competent, transparent and independent of the political authority".
	www.etan.org /et2000b/may/7-13/14start.htm (3928 words)

	Time Line - East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A quarter of the population flees, mainly to West Timor.
		An Indonesian court subsequently jails six men for up to 20 months for the killings, earning international outrage for being too lenient.
		East Timor is to get 90% of the revenue which should amount to billions of dollars over the next twenty years.
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/timor/timor-timeline.html (745 words)

	East Timor - Dossier
		One in four East Timorese is thought to have lost his or her life in the struggle.
		With Habibie fighting for his political life, and the country racked by an ongoing political and economic crisis, the new administration began indicating that East Timor was a problem it was ready to solve.
		Independence leaders met the unexpected and extraordinary concession by their longtime adversaries with guarded optimism.
	www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/east_timor/dossier/index.html (1896 words)

	theamsterdampost.info East Timor Report ch II
		On 28 November 1975, one of the East Timorese political parties, Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETLIN) declared independence from Portugal because Portugal was considering dismantling its colonies.
		In the 1990s East Timorese resistance groups formed an umbrella organisation called the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT), while the Armed Forces of National Liberation of East Timor (FALINTIL) was engaged in armed opposition to Indonesia's presence in the territory.
		However, there were also reports that in late 1998 and early 1999, new militia groups were established in East Timor by the Indonesian authorities who reportedly portrayed the emergence of new militia groups as a spontaneous reaction against the activities of supporters of independence.
	www.xs4all.nl /~adampost/Archive/ETR/etr_003.htm (779 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: East Timor Elections -- August 29, 2001
		The election will be an important step for the half-island nation, which has been governed by a United Nations administration since it severed its ties with Jakarta.
		The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, more commonly known as Fretlin, is expected to garner the lion's share of the seats.
		East Timor's transition from Indonesian province to free nation was bloody and bitterly fought.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/august01/timor_8-29.html (434 words)

	Empire Builder - On East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		East Timorese leaders say that they are grateful to have the backing of the world's most powerful nation as they struggle to build a viable economic future and as relations with their giant neighbor, Indonesia, remain uneasy.
		For Kissinger and other senior U.S. officials in 1975, the fate of post-colonial East Timor paled in comparison to Washington's strategic interests in Indonesia, by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and an anti-Communist bastion.
		In East Timor, Portugal had begun a decolonization process, and the leftist Fretilin party — Fretilin is the Portuguese acronym for the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor — had emerged victorious from a brief civil war with its pro-Indonesian opponents" (IHT)
	dodyg.org /PermaLink,guid,fd7f6946-ecce-4233-a9d9-83bebe040498.aspx (225 words)

	East Timor Revisited
		The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 set the stage for the long, bloody, and disastrous occupation of the territory that ended only after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999.
		Besides confirming that Henry Kissinger and top advisers expected an eventual Indonesian takeover of East Timor, archival material shows that the Secretary of State fully understood that the invasion of East Timor involved the "illegal" use of U.S.-supplied military equipment because it was not used in self-defense as required by law.
		Fears that an independent East Timor could be used as a base by unfriendly governments or spur other secessionist movements in Indonesia had convinced hardliners in the military to press for annexation of the territory.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62 (3542 words)

	Asia Times: East Timor an object lesson for Tigers
		BANGKOK - Sri Lankan Tamils have every reason to feel envious of the East Timorese: While the Timorese will be savoring the end of their journey to independence on May 20, the Tamils are still many miles away from such a historic juncture.
		In East Timor, more than 200,000 people are believed to have died during the 24-year separatist struggle by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) against the Indonesian armed forces.
		This is unlike Gusmao and the East Timorese during their separatist struggle, although in the 1980s Timorese resistance leaders such as Jose Ramos Horta felt that too many governments were keen on keeping good ties with Suharto, and thus cared little about the plight of the tiny territory.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/dd18df02.html (1081 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: East Timor Elections -- August 30, 2001
		Officials with the United Nations, which has headed East Timor's transitional government since the bloody 1999 end to its 24 years as an Indonesian territory, say 93 percent of East Timorese voters headed to the polls today.
		Around 425,000 East Timorese above the age of 17 were eligible to participate in the vote.
		An estimated 250,000 fled the violence, flowing into refugee camps in neighboring West Timor.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/august01/timor_8-30.html (480 words)

	FRETILIN (Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is the flag of Fretilin (Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente - Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor), one of the revolutionary and anti-Indonesian resistence groups of post-1975 East Timor.
		Being its main and original proponent, this flag resembles the one of the Democratic Republic of East Timor.
		Like the flag of East Timor itself, I’ve seen this flag also with a dark blue stripe at the hoist, instead of fl.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/tl}fret.html (792 words)

	Timor Movements
		In contrast with other Portuguese colonies there was initially in East Timor no liberation movement or armed struggle, though there were sporadic riots or other manifestations of unrest.
		The Secretary of the CNRM Clandestine Resistance Civilian Front, Pedro Nunes (Sabalae) was captured and murderd on 1 June 1995.
		The Timor Democratic Union [UDT], a former political opponent of FRETELIN, is now an ally within the Council of the East Timorese Resistance, along with Apodeti [Timor Democratic People's Association] and KOTA [Kalibun Oan Timor Aswaen].
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/timor.htm (768 words)

	East Timor Votes - CBS News
		The vote moved East Timor nearer full nationhood after three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule, 24 years of Indonesian occupation, and two years of transitional U.N. administration.
		There was little doubt the winner would be the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, which led the country's independence struggle.
		The Indonesian army and paramilitary groups reacted to the 1999 vote by going on a rampage of murder, burning and destruction in which hundreds of civilian were killed and much of East Timor was devastated.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/08/30/world/main309067.shtml (743 words)

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		An estimated 93 per cent of the 425,000 registered electors cast votes on 30 August 2001 to choose an 88-member Constituent Assembly with the task of framing a Constitution in preparation for full independence in 2002.
		Since the withdrawal of Indonesia in the bloody aftermath of the August 1999 referendum on the status of East Timor, the territory had been governed under the auspices of the UN Transitional Administration for East Timor.
		East Timor acceded to statehood on 20 May 2002.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2369_E.htm (242 words)

	East Timor will be free!
		As a result of the economic, social and political crisis in Indonesia, the situation in East Timor is becoming worse.
		East Timor is still a main cause in the struggle to overthrow Suharto because internationally Suharto is becoming more isolated over the occupation.
		Fretilin believes these meetings are an important opportunity to discuss this proposal, because everybody engaged in the liberation of the country over the last 23 years knows that the poor and oppressed ensured the resistance continued inside East Timor.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/316/316p19.htm (1390 words)

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