East Timor

Speech parts

1. East Timor - Noun

2. East Timor - Proper noun

Meaning

a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation

Examples

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. George Galloway

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

Academy of East Timor Studies, Faculty of Education & Languages, University of Western Sydney Macathur. Source: Internet

Additionally, East Timor 's independence movement never laid claim to West Timor at any time, before the Indonesian invasion or thereafter. Source: Internet

According to director Grace Phan, it's an "intimate insight into the personal transformation" of the man who helped shape and liberate East Timor. Source: Internet

All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Source: Internet

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