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Land of the Dead
Pilger, John | April 25, 1994 issue

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The article presents information on East Timor. Half of an island 300 miles north of Australia, East Timor was colonized by Portugal 450 years ago. The Portuguese partly Latinized the territory and insulated it from the upheavals of the western half of Timor, which was part of the Dutch East Indies that became Indonesia in 1949. In 1974, the old Salazarist order in Lisbon was swept aside by the "Carnation Revolution" and Europe's last great empire disintegrated virtually overnight. With the Portuguese preoccupied with events at home, the Indonesian military dictatorship of General Makam Suharto invaded East Timor the next year and has illegally and brutally occupied it ever since.

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REVOLUTIONARIES; DISSENTERS; SOEHARTO, 1921-2008; EUROPE; INDONESIA; EAST Timor
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