• An agreement in 1999 between the governments of Portugal and Indonesia led to a referendum on 30 August 1999 in which a majority of the people of East Timor voted for independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • East Timor voted overwhelmingly in 1999 to end 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation that left more than 170,000 dead, but the country has struggled to develop economically and about half of its 1.2 million people live in poverty. (ksl.com)
  • August 1999 saw a vote on self determination in East Timor. (globalissues.org)
  • In a referendum scheduled for the last quarter of 1999, the East Timorese people will be asked: "Do you accept the proposed special autonomy for East Timor within the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia? (socialism.com)
  • The 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis, which hit Indonesia hard, was the trigger for the 1999 referendum, in which the East Timorese voted for independence and the war for independence followed. (asiasentinel.com)
  • Australia was East Timor's saviour in 1999, leading the Interfet force which restored order in the country after the vote for independence and retribution by pro-Indonesia militias. (scmp.com)
  • Point out that in the run-up to the East Timor independence referendum in August 1999, Indonesian-backed atrocities were running at considerably higher levels than in Kosovo. (medialens.org)
  • A newly released film on East Timor in 1999 opens old wounds between Indonesia and Australia. (indonesiamatters.com)
  • Premiering at the New York International Film Festival, October 22 to 29, is the Australian documentary Timor Tour of Duty which is said to "explosively" reveal the Indonesian military's secret war against Australian and international soldiers in East Timor, after the new country voted to secede from Indonesia in 1999. (indonesiamatters.com)
  • Timor Tour of Duty is directed and produced by Melbournian Sasha Uzunov, said to be a freelance photo journalist, blogger, and amateur film maker, and who himself served in the Australian army, doing two tours in East Timor (1999 and 2001). (indonesiamatters.com)
  • Sasha Uzunov, an Australian film maker and former soldier who served in East Timor believes that the United States was the "good guy" back in 1999 when it intervened in the tiny southeast Asian land of East Timor to avert genocide at the hands of the Indonesian military. (indonesiamatters.com)
  • This paper examines the case of genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) and crimes against humanity in East Timor (1999), the resolution of both cases was resolved differently. (atlantis-press.com)
  • 1999 proved to be the most traumatic for East Timor since Indonesia's invasion and occupation in 1975, but it ended on a promising note. (etan.org)
  • In January 1999, Indonesia's President B.J. Habibie announced that the East Timorese people would be able to choose between becoming an 'autonomous' part of Indonesia or being let go. (etan.org)
  • In January 1999, Indonesia agreed to allow the East Timorese to decide whether they wanted to be an autonomous province within Indonesia or to become independent. (etan.org)
  • Indonesia invaded the country later that same year and stayed in power until 1999, when the majority of East Timorese voted for independence and the United Nations stepped in to help with the transition. (illinois.edu)
  • The Democratic Republic of East Timor (Portuguese: República Democrática de Timor-Leste, Tetum: Repúblika Demokrátika de Timór-Leste), was a state that was unilaterally proclaimed on the territory of present-day East Timor on 28 November 1975 prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor nine days later on 7 December 1975. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 7 December 1975, Indonesian forces launched a massive air and sea invasion, known as Operasi Seroja (Operation Lotus), citing the potential for a communist government, the need to develop the territory and national and regional security risks as reasons for its actions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gendercide Watch 2000 - Gendercidal massacres of males, and in at least one case of females, were prominent in the period immediately following the Indonesian invasion of December 1975. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • They were the words of Nicolau Lobato, East Timor's leader in the first terrible years of war against the Indonesian invasion of December 7, 1975. (thenation.com)
  • Since the invasion in 1975, over 200,000 East Timorese - or one in every three - have died as a result of the occupation. (socialism.com)
  • Kissinger was intimately aware of the impending invasion by Indonesia and likelihood of genocide prior in 1975. (everything2.com)
  • Richard Woolcott, the Australian Ambassador in Jakarta in 1975, was tipped off by the Indonesians that the invasion was about to take place. (medialens.org)
  • The 'private understanding' of Australian ministers at the time of the illegal invasion of East Timor clearly assisted in the subsequent carving up between Australia and Indonesia of the considerable oil and gas reserves covered by the Timor Gap Treaty, signed in 1989. (medialens.org)
  • in particular, the role that Australia played in supporting Indonesia's brutal invasion of East Timor in 1975 and subsequent occupation. (medialens.org)
  • Suharto is himself the last survivor from the group that dreamed up the invasion of East Timor in the first place. (insideindonesia.org)
  • THE INDONESIAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF EAST TIMOR is one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. (etan.org)
  • Indonesia launched its December 7, 1975, invasion hours after President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited Indonesian dictator Suharto in Jakarta. (etan.org)
  • At the same time as formally ending the white Australia policy, Whitlam reaffirmed the former Liberal government's ties with Indonesia's dictatorial Suharto regime and actively encouraged Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. (angelfire.com)
  • But for many, Kissinger was seen as an unindicted war criminal for his role in, among other events, expanding the Vietnam War to Cambodia and Laos, supporting military coups in Chile and Argentina, green-lighting Indonesia's bloody invasion of East Timor in 1975 and turning a blind eye to Pakistan's mass atrocities during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. (ndtv.com)
  • But Brody said there would be a strong legal case on East Timor where Kissinger not only approved the invasion but ensured US weapons kept flowing to Indonesia's military. (ndtv.com)
  • Professor Fibiger has articles, book chapters, and working papers on a diverse array of topics, including the origins of neoconservatism, the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, the Mayaguez crisis of 1975, and the effects of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia. (hbs.edu)
  • Life is not easy and there are problems to solve but nobody in East Timor forgets our fight for independence, a fight which we won, after Kissinger gave the go-ahead for the bloody invasion and occupation by Indonesia in 1975. (pravda.ru)
  • The East Timorese people still clamor for justice for the grave crimes committed from the 1975 invasion of Indonesia onwards. (iidnet.org)
  • In local elections held on 13 March 1975, Fretilin and UDT emerged as the largest parties, having previously formed an alliance to campaign for independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 28 November 1975, Fretilin made a unilateral declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of East Timor with Francisco Xavier do Amaral as president and Nicolau dos Reis Lobato as prime minister. (wikipedia.org)
  • DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor's president on Monday accepted the resignation of independence hero Xanana Gusmao as prime minister ahead of an expected restructuring of the government that would make it more inclusive. (ksl.com)
  • The former guerrilla leader spearheaded East Timor's drive for independence when Indonesian rule ended in 2002. (ksl.com)
  • East Timor was a Portuguese colony until it declared independence in late 1975. (ksl.com)
  • Many of the militias were not East Timorese people themselves, but also Indonesian troops in a bid to discredit and disrupt the referendums and independence movements. (globalissues.org)
  • Migration, for instance, played an important part in the bloody independence of Timor Leste, formerly the Indonesian province of East Timor. (asiasentinel.com)
  • A dispute over how to delineate the sea boundary between the two countries has marred relations since East Timor won its independence in 2002, but most acutely in 2012, when Australia was revealed to have spied on East Timor's government by bugging its cabinet room under the pretext of renovations. (scmp.com)
  • The Role Played by the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) in the East Timorese Efforts to Achieve Independence Introduction East Timor (also called Timor-Leste in Portuguese) is a country in Southeast Asia. (bartleby.com)
  • At the end of August, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence, and the Indonesian military and its militia began to systematically displace the population and destroy the infrastructure. (etan.org)
  • The militia and military repeatedly threatened the East Timorese people that if they voted for independence, they would face death and destruction comparable to the period when Indonesia invaded in 1975, perhaps the only promise that the Indonesia military kept during the consultation. (etan.org)
  • Founded as the Commissie voor de Inlandsche School en Volkslectuur (the Commission for People's Education and Reading) in 1908 and renamed Balai Pustaka in 1917, BP changed hands in WWII when the Japanese occupied Indonesia, and again in 1949 when Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch. (illinois.edu)
  • Timor-Leste is one of the youngest countries in the world, having officially gained independence in 2002. (illinois.edu)
  • An initial treaty concerning the Bayu-Undan gas field was agreed at the time of East Timor's independence. (wsws.org)
  • The focus of the film is the disappearance of five Australian journalists who went to East Timor in 1975, just after the nation declared its independence from Portuguese colonial rule, and just as Indonesia was preparing to invade. (jpost.com)
  • In 1975, Indonesia invaded tiny, defenseless East Timor, leading to at least 200,000 deaths, over a third of the East Timorese population. (wikileaks.org)
  • During World War II, thousands of East Timorese lost their lives helping Australia forces fight against the Japanese. (globalissues.org)
  • 200,000 people are said to have been killed since 1975 -- one third of the entire East Timorese population. (globalissues.org)
  • The East Timorese have not struggled for a century against colonialism in order to become an Australian outpost. (socialism.com)
  • The report fails to explain that the agreement was struck following Australia's 'pragmatic' support of Indonesia's brutal annexation of East Timor in 1975, leading to the deaths of around 200,000 East Timorese. (medialens.org)
  • Woolcott is quoted in The Independent report as an authoritative 'analyst', with no mention of his complicit role in the deaths of 200,000 East Timorese. (medialens.org)
  • Unlike in Kosovo, there was no 'humanitarian intervention' for the East Timorese in the subsequent 24 years. (medialens.org)
  • The documentary features a re-creation of a firearm and grenade attack on Australian forces near the border with Indonesia on 14th June 2001, which many have suspected was carried out by TNI Special Forces, Kopassus, dressed up as East Timorese pro-integrationist militia. (indonesiamatters.com)
  • But equally, the East Timorese resistance cannot throw the invaders out. (insideindonesia.org)
  • In any case, a new East Timorese government can always negotiate such commercial interests - if that is the price of self-determination. (insideindonesia.org)
  • As the East Timorese recover from 24 years of occupation, some 100,000 East Timorese remain trapped in Indonesia. (etan.org)
  • and kill East Timorese church workers, political leaders and others. (etan.org)
  • East Timorese leaders are urging Canberra to speed up the negotiations over a final boundary settlement, hoping to secure a larger share of the seabed resources. (wsws.org)
  • On 30 November 1975, Fretilin caused a "Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (RDTL)" to be read out at an inauguration ceremony for Amaral as the newly appointed president. (wikipedia.org)
  • What are the current states of indicators contributing to a comprehensive view of nutrition for health and development in Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste? (who.int)
  • Following a transitional period of United Nations administration, East Timor became independent as the Democratic Republic of East Timor on 20 May 2002. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the end East Timor achieved its independency in 2002, Aristide could return to Haiti in 2012. (kontext-tv.de)
  • After years of resistance to Indonesian authorities, Timor-Leste became independent on May 20, 2002. (si.edu)
  • East Timor finally became an independent state in 2002. (dictionary.com)
  • Cambodia resolved it in judicial terms (the Khmer Rouge Tribunal), while Indonesia and Timor Leste overcame it in non-judicial terms (Commision of Truth and Friendship). (atlantis-press.com)
  • East Timor, or Timor-Leste as it is also known, is about as far off the trail running map as you can get. (irunfar.com)
  • Timor-Leste is home to 1.3 million people, who speak many local languages (Portuguese and Tetum are the official languages, and Indonesian and English are the working languages). (illinois.edu)
  • Because the country is young, Timor-Leste is still building its national library and archives. (illinois.edu)
  • A "Research Guide to Timor-Leste (East Timor)" is in production and will join the other library guides by the International and Area Studies Library early in the spring semester. (illinois.edu)
  • Not a lot of libraries have guides about Timor-Leste, so this tool aims to be really useful for researchers. (illinois.edu)
  • To get it renewed, she had to leave Indonesia, which meant crossing into Timor -Leste. (dictionary.com)
  • If Timor-Leste were your home instead of Azerbaijan you would. (ifitweremyhome.com)
  • The life expectancy at birth in Timor-Leste is 67.39 while in Azerbaijan it is 71.91. (ifitweremyhome.com)
  • The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in Timor-Leste is 38.79 while in Azerbaijan it is 26.67. (ifitweremyhome.com)
  • Much of East Timor was destroyed and at some points there were estimates from 200,000 to 300,000 refugees created with up to 600,000 people displaced. (globalissues.org)
  • A Regional Popular Assembly was established on 31 May 1976 which subsequently adopted a resolution calling for the formal integration of East Timor into Indonesia. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 17 July 1976, Indonesia formally annexed East Timor as the province of Timor Timur with Arnaldo dos Reis Araújo [de] as its first governor. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today the questions of peace and self-determination for East Timor are higher on the international agenda than at almost any time since 1976. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Indonesian rule over East Timor continued in defiance of the United Nations Security Council which called on Jakarta to withdraw 'without delay' in 1975 and 1976 as well as eight General Assembly Resolutions . (etan.org)
  • The eastern portion of the island of Timor, along with the enclave of Oscussu-Ambeno in West Timor. (si.edu)
  • East Timor was colonised by Portugal in the mid-16th century and administered as Portuguese Timor. (wikipedia.org)
  • This meant that in terms of international law Portuguese Timor nominally continued to exist. (wikipedia.org)
  • The two largest Indonesian obstacles to the peace process are the possible loss of face for Suharto and the Abri leadership, and the fear that any concession on East Timor would weaken them in the contest for the presidential succession. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Laminaria-Corallina was just one of several lucrative oil and gas fields that came under effective Australian control as a result of the Timor Gap Treaty signed with the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia in 1989. (wsws.org)
  • Canberra and Dili have agreed to tear up the controversial Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMats) treaty that divides future revenue from the Greater Sunrise oil and gas reserve, where an estimated US$40 billion worth of oil and gas lies beneath the Timor Sea. (scmp.com)
  • The treaty will cease to exist three months from East Timor's formal notification. (scmp.com)
  • The Timor Gap treaty was signed (the then foreign affairs ministers Gareth Evans and Ali Alatas famously clinking champagne glasses in a plane above the Timor Sea) between Australia and Indonesia in 1989. (scmp.com)
  • In the same way, self-determination will require a re-negotiation of the Timor Gap Treaty with both Indonesia and Australia. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Under the terms of the treaty, Jakarta allocated Canberra much of the seabed wealth in return for formal recognition of Indonesia's military takeover of East Timor in 1975. (wsws.org)
  • East Timor's leaders, however, refuse to recognise the 1989 treaty and insist instead that the border should be based on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). (wsws.org)
  • In 1979 Australia became the only western nation to offer de jure recognition of Indonesia's forced annexation, so the two countries could begin negotiations over the Timor Sea's resources. (scmp.com)
  • The bloody history of Western support for Indonesia's illegal annexation of East Timor in 1975 is glossed over in a recent news report by Kathy Marks in The Independent ('Australia bows to East Timor over oil and gas rights', 5 July, 2001). (medialens.org)
  • Official documents reveal that Indonesia's annexation of East Timor was supported by the West. (medialens.org)
  • On October 20, Indonesia's national assembly ratified the August 30 vote in East Timor, renouncing any claim to the territory, and the UN formally took over its administration. (etan.org)
  • Indochina, East Timor , the Shah, our brief covert support for the Khmer Rouge. (dictionary.com)
  • Australia's much needed peace-keeping was also slow going as they also have additional interests in East Timor. (globalissues.org)
  • It is important to demand that Australia's illegal Timor Sea Oil contracts be vacated and new agreements negotiated. (socialism.com)
  • The United Nations did not recognise either the self-styled "Democratic Republic" proclaimed by Fretilin or Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor and instead continued to recognise Portugal as the legal Administering Power as demonstrated by United Nations Security Council Resolution 384. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sign the petition to the United Nations to activate the international criminal justice system to prosecute crimes against humanity in East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • If the majority of the population rejects autonomy, Indonesia must, under the May 5 agreement signed with Portugal and the United Nations (UN), vacate East Timor by 1 January 2000. (socialism.com)
  • Inside an old courthouse in the dusty tropical town of Dili, an exhibition documents the history of East Timor's resistance to Indonesian occupation. (thenation.com)
  • or "Do you reject the proposed special autonomy for East Timor, leading to East Timor's separation from Indonesia? (socialism.com)
  • Under the Law of the Sea and established state practice, any negotiation over a maritime boundary is likely to establish a boundary equidistant between the two countries , which would put the majority of the Greater Sunrise oil fields within East Timor's territory. (scmp.com)
  • There are so many tracks to explore on East Timor's Atauro Island. (irunfar.com)
  • East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta both accused Canberra of taking royalties that rightly belonged to Dili. (wsws.org)
  • East Timor's Foreign Minister Horta attempted to speed up negotiations during a visit to Canberra last December. (wsws.org)
  • East Timor's struggle for freedom is not yet complete. (iidnet.org)
  • East Timor has sought to abandon the agreement for years, alleging it was unfairly negotiated because of Australian espionage. (scmp.com)
  • Australian ministers are portrayed as generous in agreeing to give East Timor 90 per cent of revenues from oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, lying between Australia and East Timor to the north. (medialens.org)
  • Luke is an Australian trail runner, surfer, diver, and triathlete, who has been living in East Timor for the last two years. (irunfar.com)
  • Canberra deliberately delayed ratifying the agreement-a move that threatened the development of the Bayu-Undan field-to force East Timor to accept Australian demands for 80 percent of the Greater Sunrise field. (wsws.org)
  • After the journalists went missing, veteran Australian reporter Roger East went to East Timor to try to discover what had happened to them. (jpost.com)
  • So he brought in other characters as well, including Juliana (Bea Viegas), a woman in contemporary East Timor who met East when she was a child, and who witnessed a key incident involving the Australian. (jpost.com)
  • As the name suggests, it is located on the eastern half of the island of Timor, and also encompasses Jaco Island off the eastern tip, the island of Atauro just off the coast from the capital city of Dili, and the enclave of Oecussi in the western part of the island. (irunfar.com)
  • After a century of anti-colonial resistance, will East Timor be free at last? (socialism.com)
  • In 1975, as Portugal moved towards de-colonisation, the resistance movement Fretilin declared East Timor independent. (scmp.com)
  • East Timor was a Portuguese concern, and under NATO's own rules, Kissinger was obligated to support Portugal in defending against Indonesian aggression. (everything2.com)
  • On 11 August 1975, the UDT attempted a coup, in a bid to halt the increasing popularity of Fretilin. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 1 December 1975, Fretilin established that body. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Indonesian troops withdrew from East Timor, and a UN-backed force took control. (etan.org)
  • It was a Portuguese colony from the 1510s until Portugal withdrew in 1975. (illinois.edu)
  • However, if you look hard at the question, 'which Indonesians have interests in East Timor that cannot be negotiated? (insideindonesia.org)
  • Economically, three groups of Indonesians benefit from Timor - Abri-linked conglomerates, Indonesian beneficiaries of the Timor Gap oil and gas exploitation, and the large number of mainly poor transmigrants. (insideindonesia.org)
  • Pro-integration paramilitaries in East Timor were armed and supported by the Indonesian government and military. (globalissues.org)
  • The parties recognise the importance of providing stability and certainty for petroleum companies with interests in the Timor Sea and of continuing to provide a stable framework for petroleum operations and the development of resources in the Timor Sea," the joint statement from foreign affairs ministers Julie Bishop and Hernâni Coelho said. (scmp.com)
  • And while people are clearly poor (according to the World Bank, East Timor is Asia's poorest country and the world's twentieth poorest), the capital of this half-island territory, on the southeastern fringe of the Indonesian archipelago, seems today alive with possibilities. (thenation.com)
  • However, working people must be totally opposed to UN forces, or any other imperialist troops, being stationed in East Timor after the ballot. (socialism.com)
  • It is obvious that without economic control, such autonomy would be a very hollow gain for people of East Timor. (socialism.com)
  • Many people suggest that Indonesia will never leave East Timor, because it has too much invested. (insideindonesia.org)
  • The independent country East Timor was then occupied by Indonesian forces and tens of thousands of people had died by then. (kontext-tv.de)
  • The reports around the world are seasoned with pessimism, the mass media highlight the difficulties for the people of East Timor. (pravda.ru)
  • Horta explained that East Timor had been pressing for monthly meetings and a time limit of three to five years to resolve the border dispute. (wsws.org)
  • Horta, currently the president of East Timor and a former prime minister, was also a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. (jpost.com)
  • When Horta approached East and asked him to go to East Timor and cover events, he was a 26-year-old," says Connolly. (jpost.com)
  • East Timor is now an independent nation, officially. (globalissues.org)
  • The dispute over the Timor Sea has pre-empted and then overshadowed the short and chequered history between independent East Timor and Australia. (scmp.com)
  • An independent East Timor will necessarily pay great heed to the foreign policy concerns of its giant neighbour. (insideindonesia.org)
  • An independent East Timor will have to make cruel choices about how much of its oil and gas rights it will be willing to give up for its freedom. (insideindonesia.org)
  • East Timor is located about 680 kilometers miles northwest of Australia in maritime Southeast Asia, in the Southern Hemisphere. (irunfar.com)
  • East Timor was ruled by Portugal for about 3 centuries. (globalissues.org)
  • East Timor was then invaded by Indonesia shortly after Portugal abruptly left, in 1975. (globalissues.org)
  • East Timor was a colony of Portugal for around 400 years before being invaded by Indonesia in 1975. (irunfar.com)
  • On May 5, Indonesia and Portugal signed a UN-brokered agreement , establishing the process for an August vote in East Timor, and a UN team went to the territory to conduct the plebiscite. (etan.org)
  • Although negotiations on a permanent maritime (boundary) may take some time, legal arrangements are already in place to ensure that benefits from the development of Timor Sea petroleum resources will flow to both countries," he said. (wsws.org)
  • Australia and East Timor have agreed to begin negotiations on a permanent maritime boundary between the two countries, potentially ending years of dispute over the lucrative oil-rich Timor Gap and closing a chapter of mistrust and enmity between the two neighbours. (scmp.com)
  • He called for a halt in production in the fields until the maritime boundary had been settled and indicated that East Timor may seek repayment of the royalties. (wsws.org)
  • The governments of East Timor and Australia have each confirmed to the other their commitment to negotiate permanent maritime boundaries under the auspices of the commission. (scmp.com)
  • The conciliation is taking place behind closed doors, but, in an unprecedented move, the foreign affairs ministers of Australia and East Timor, along with the PCA, announced key developments in the negotiations on Monday. (scmp.com)
  • This May, East Timor became the world's newest nation, the first country born in the twenty-first century. (thenation.com)
  • Instead the report notes that 'relations between Australia and Indonesia are recovering their traditional warmth …as the bitter memory of East Timor fades. (medialens.org)
  • East Timor is a tiny island nation three hundred miles above Australia. (kontext-tv.de)
  • Long-running disagreements between Australia and East Timor over their maritime border and therefore control of Timor Sea oil and gas erupted again late last year, focusing on revenues from the Laminaria-Corallina fields. (wsws.org)
  • The prime minister claimed that Australia had gained $US1.2 billion in royalties while East Timor had received nothing. (wsws.org)
  • The foreign ministers of Australia and Indonesia flew over the gas fields of East Timor and had French champagne to celebrate dividing them up," Connolly says. (jpost.com)
  • East is played by Anthony LaPaglia, an actor who may be best known for his lead role in the television series Without a Trace but who has also appeared in many acclaimed films, in both Australia and the US, including Lantana and Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. (jpost.com)
  • Alarming sounds were heard over the island of Timor , one thousand three hundred and fifty-one miles away from Krakatoa. (dictionary.com)
  • Although the present may be clouded, the future promises to smile of this sleeping crocodile in the Sea of Timor, which is how popular legend explains how this island came to exist. (pravda.ru)
  • The most complex group of economic beneficiaries of the Indonesian occupation is the weakest politically: Indonesian immigrants into East Timor. (insideindonesia.org)
  • However, and in the words of President Xanana Gusmao, the historic leader of the FALINTIL guerrilla forces which resisted the might of the Indonesian army backed by its main ally, the United States of America, from the mountains of Timor, East Timor is stable and the next year will be better. (pravda.ru)
  • He told the media that if the "middle-line approach" specified by UNCLOS were adopted, East Timor would control the entire Greater Sunrise field, potentially worth billions of dollars in royalties, as well as Laminaria-Corallina. (wsws.org)
  • Perhaps a quick google search…"Violence, East Timor, TNI will give you some nice bedtime reading. (indonesiamatters.com)
  • Although Australians are more familiar with the story of the violence against East Timor than foreigners, they still aren't aware of many details. (jpost.com)
  • Attempts to prosecute those responsible for the massive destruction have been halting and the reconstruction of East Timor has barely begun. (etan.org)
  • This backgrounder, focused on Congressional action to support East Timor is an evolving document. (etan.org)
  • Well aware that East Timor desperately requires the income, the Howard government in Canberra has used delaying tactics to bully it into unfavourable agreements. (wsws.org)
  • But Connolly, who is visiting Israel for the first time and had just toured the holocaust museum at Yad Vashem the day before, is aware that East Timor is just one of many situations where "the world turned a blind eye. (jpost.com)