East Timorese By Yuri

East Timor, «TEE mawr or tee MAWR», also called Timor-Leste, is a small country in Southeast Asia. It occupies the eastern side of the island of Timor. The island lies in the Timor Sea, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of Australia. Dili is East Timor's capital and largest city. The country's official name is the Democratic Republic of East Timor.

background East Timor owes its land, and the Indonesian land as a whole, to the fact that it was colonized by the Portuguese, not the Dutch (an agreement dividing the island between the two powers was signed in 1915). Colonial rule was replaced by the Japanese during World War II, whose hold a resistance movement. And 60,000 Timorese, or 13 percent of all the population at the time the deaths. Following the war, the East Indies which belong to Dutch said its alone as the country of Indonesia. The Portuguese, meanwhile, re-control over East Timor.

. Indonesia occupied East Timor from December 1975 to October 1999.And reported 400 Indonesian paratroopers were killed as they descended into.the city. Angkasa Magazine reports 35 dead Indonesian troops, and 122 from the Fretilin side. By the end of the year, 10,000 troops occupied Dili and another 20,000 had been deployed throughout East Timor. Development

Beginning Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism. The overthrow of a popular and briefly Fretilin-led government sparked a violent quarter-century occupation in which between approximately 100–180,000 East Timorese soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed or starved.

Indonesian soldiers in towns, particularly Dili, were reported to have indiscriminately killed civilians, including the rape and killing of women and children. The number of deaths during the occupation from famine and violence are between 90,800 and 202,600, out of a population of 823,386 (1999).

Food and medical supplies that were sent for the famine were being taken by the Indonesian troops.

The 2005 report of the UN's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) reports a figure of at least 102,800: 17,600 unlawful executions and 73,200 starvation deaths (applying the study's margin of error).CAVR did not estimate an upper limit though it speculated that this could have been as high as 183,000.

Ramos-Horta "for their work towards a just and peaceful Turning Point In 1996 East Timor was suddenly brought to world attention when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"

In The End In 1999, the East -----------Timorese voted overwhelmingly for --------independence. That same year, the United ------------Nations (UN) began administering ---------------East Timor and helping it prepare for full -------------independence. East Timor became independent ----on May 20, 2002.

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