mawr or tee MAWR also called TimorLeste 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 ID: 684663
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East Timorese
By Yuri Slide2
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. Slide3
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. Slide4Slide5
.
Development
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.Slide6
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.Slide7
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). Slide8
Food and medical supplies that were sent for the famine were
being
taken by the Indonesian troops. Slide9
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
.Slide10
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"Slide11
In
The
End
In
1999, the East
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Timorese voted
overwhelmingly
for
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independence. That same
year
, the United
------------
Nations (UN) began
administering
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East Timor and helping it
prepare for full
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independence.
East Timor
became
independent
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on May 20, 2002.Slide12
bibliography
Robinson, Geoffrey---"East Timor."
World Book Student.
World Book, 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.
Wikipedia---Indonesian occupation of East Timor
Striving For Global Justice---East Timor: US Backed GenocideSlide13
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