On 20 May 2002, rising out of a history fraught with rragedy, East Timor acceded to independence under the name of Timor Leste or Timor Lorosa’e: Sunrise Timor. This insular ethno-linguistic mosaic wedged between Southeast Asia and Oceania had been a colony of Portugal for four centuries before it was invaded by Indonesian forces in December 1975.
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