East Timor
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OverviewIn May 2002, after 450 years of continuous foreign occupation, East Timor became the world’s newest independent state. However, East Timor’s road to independence was long and traumatic.
The Portuguese first arrived on the island in the early 16th century and by the 1550s had occupied the eastern part. The Dutch took control of the western part, which became part of the Dutch East Indies and, after independence, Indonesia.
In 1975,...
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