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The Portuguese began to trade with the island of Timor in the early 16th century and colonized it in mid-century. Skirmishing with the Dutch in the region eventually resulted in an 1859 treaty in which Portugal ceded the western portion of the island. Imperial Japan occupied East Timor from 1942 to 1945, but Portugal resumed colonial authority after the Japanese defeat in World War II. East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. It was incorporated into Indonesia in July 1976 as the province of East Timor. An unsuccessful campaign of pacification followed over the next two decades, during which an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 individuals lost their lives. On 30 August 1999, in a UN-supervised popular referendum, an overwhelming majority of the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia. Between the referendum and the arrival of a multinational peacekeeping force in late September 1999, anti-independence Timorese militias - organized and supported by the Indonesian military - commenced a large-scale, scorched-earth campaign of retribution. The militias killed approximately 1,300 Timorese and forcibly pushed 300,000 people into West Timor as refugees. The majority of the country's infrastructure, including homes, irrigation systems, water supply systems, and schools, and nearly 100% of the country's electrical grid were destroyed. On 20 September 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. On 20 May 2002, East Timor was internationally recognized as an independent state. To be updated

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By travlinfool
May 20th 2009
Dili Dalying Asia » East Timor » Dili
Dinner on the Beach
Dinner on the Beach
A few of us eating a delicious fish dinner in Dili. Our little group consisted of an Australian, American, Nigerian, German, and a Spaniard took the photo.
In a land where ripping off the tourist often seems to be a national pastime for many touts, transport personnel, restaurant and accommodations catering to westerners, it sure was nice to find a refreshing change of pace. I stumbled upon Edwin and his L'Avalon bar/cafe/accomodations one day while simply meandering the streets of Kupang, West Timor, having already been in town three nights. His hip bar/cafe was an open air shack on the water, just off the road; he even piped in good solid tunes from his ipod, blaring out of two speakers facing the main road, and well-heard inside [View Full Entry]

travlinfool - Suzi Lee | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 12th 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=444230]

Independence Day in Timor Leste
Japanese Opera Singer
Timor Leste's Immigration Office

I wrote this blog a day ago, on Friday 20/02/2009, mostly relating to events of the previous day. My leg is healing up nicely, so don't worry. I have to admit, back home I sometimes check SMSes while driving. This is of course illegal; back home. What I do not do, however, is check my SMSes while driving a minibus jam packed with 25 people around hair-pin bends with an almost-vertical 200 m drop and only an intermittent one-foot high guardrail, on a heavily trafficked road barely wide enough for two cars. As a general rule, I would be opposed to [View Full Entry]

Drinkthewater - Daniel Gerber | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 21st 2009 | 300 Views | [diary=375526]

Random photo of Dili
Random photo of Dili
Baucau and the cities of Darebin and Yarra

Che
Che
Che Guevara seems to really popular here, I don't know why.
Most of this was written yesterday, 16 Feb 2009, or the day before All backpackers express a desire to get “off the beaten track”, which isn’t always as great an idea as it sounds, because the reason a track is beaten in the first place is because it leads to a nice or interesting place. But still, it’s an alluring dream. In my opinion, there’s two ways to get off the beaten track. One is to use your travel skills, and negotiate with locals, probably do some research on a place, maybe learn the language, etc. The other way is to [View Full Entry]

Drinkthewater - Daniel Gerber | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 17th 2009 | 357 Views | [diary=374557]

Refugee camp
Two boys
one boy

Just a quick note that I arrived in Dili yesterday. As far as I can work out, Internet is a bit unreliable, and I can't find a wireless access point. I mainly spent yesterday walking around Dili, which is quite spread out, fairly poor, and full of UN vehicles everywhere. I got bitten by lots of mosquitos already, despite taking all the precautions, but don't worry Mum I'm taking my doxy tablets :-) East Timor's very expensive compared to other SE Asian countries. They use the US Dollar as their official currency which doesn't help, and like everywhere else that uses [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 15th 2009 | 136 Views | [diary=374022]


By Monsta
December 1st 2008
Goodbye Dili!! Asia » East Timor » Dili
Lauran
Lauran
What a dead set minature cutie!
Sunday November 30, 2008 I slept for ages last night. It’s the first time since I left Boomtown I have slept through to late morning and boy was it good. The air conditioner is working like a little champ and my room was like a walk in cold room at your local BWS when the domestic staff woke me by opening the door again at around 10.30am. I’m not even fazed by the cleaning ladies anymore. I waved and invited her to join me without even opening my eyes, patting the spot beside me on that giant bed prompted a sharp [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 4th 2008 | 224 Views | [diary=351072]

Can't remember her name
Snail
Kid on the street 1

By Monsta
November 30th 2008
Rockin the Caz Bar Asia » East Timor » Dili
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Overview of the cemetery.
Saturday November 29, 2008 I wonder as I sit here in ‘One More Bar’ just how much bandwidth at any given point of the day is taken up with porn. There are two army types sitting up from me slightly to my right who think they are being subtle and yet look exactly like what they are; two randy blokes watching porn on the Internet. It’s not just ya run of the mill porn either, from what I can see of ‘skin heads’ screen it involves multiple people and animals. Yes it is creepy, heavy-duty porn that has ‘flat top’ drooling [View Full Entry]

Monsta - Monsta | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 30th 2008 | 239 Views | [diary=349821]

Flowers
Santa Cruz 2
Baby Sized.

Kebab Place crew
Kebab Place crew
From left. Me, Meags, Tav and Antonio.
Friday November 28, 2008 I deliberately didn’t do a lot today after my big one yesterday. It probably took most of the morning to write the previous bloody day up anyway. For most of the arvo I divided my time between the net café trying to upload yesterdays video and my bed catching an awesome poppy nap. Pretty boring hey and that was just what I was after. I spoke to Tezza in the earlier evening and was just about to hang up anyway when my call waiting beeps started. “OK baby, I’ll catch ya later. Much love… mwah” I said [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 29th 2008 | 175 Views | [diary=349490]

Is that meant to be prawn flavoured wine?
Just spark it up!
Errr Blazin in Dili

Howdy from Cloudland
Howdy from Cloudland
Herro!! Hahaha
Thursday November 27, 2008 Today was not boring. I still have brains on my shoe, I swear! I’ve been lost and very nearly ran out of fuel in one of the rural areas surrounding Dili. I had a Machete swung at me by a kid who…… That’s as far as I got into today’s events on my first attempt. No sooner had I typed in the word ‘who’ than my phone began to ring. I answered immediately because I had good reason to. “Hello,” it was my very newest friend Emmanuelle, “found mister.” I could have cart wheeled the whole way [View Full Entry]

Monsta - Monsta | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
5565 Words | 3 Comment(s) | 22 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 28th 2008 | 178 Views | [diary=349254]

Clouded View
The dusty Red Devil II
Road Marker

By Monsta
November 28th 2008
Just a little fun! Asia » East Timor » Dili
I'm still waiting on my Youtube upload of yesterdays video and am very bored. Just for some fun I wanted to share my blog statistics with you all. You will notice that the clear winner of all my entries is the "Dili Dally Rally" entry. It has by far the largest number of views in any one month. Second would have to be the "Be Warned Strong Language" entry with a huge lead on overall views so far. Now this is interesting to me because I believe it tells me something about you all. A bit partial to nudity and crass [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 28th 2008 | 92 Views | [diary=349284]


By Monsta
November 26th 2008
The Red Devil is Reborn!! Asia » East Timor » Dili
The Red Devil mark II
The Red Devil mark II
I'm back on a bloody scooter but loving it anyway. Dili is way in the background and I'm at the base of 'Jesus' hill.
Tuesday November 25, 2008 It’s raining cats and dogs as I write this entry, sitting on the front veranda area at City Café. Ok so there are no little fur balls named Fido, Rover, Socks and Tabby falling from the sky, just great heavy sheets of water that are cascading off roofs and quickly filling the streets. The wet is not a furious storm such as the ones I have imagined hitting Brisbane of late but rather a steady, determine effort by nature to unload as much water as possible on the little town of Dili. It’s cooled down a lot [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 26th 2008 | 231 Views | [diary=348730]

The Red Devil again.
The Red Devil and my groovy helmet.
Random Rubbish at Dili's Lovers Lane


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