In August 1975, a civil war broke out between two opposing political parties in Portuguese Timor: the conservative Timorese Democratic Union and the left-leaning Revolutionary Front for an Independent
East Timor shares the island of Timor with Indonesia. The island lies to the northwest of Australia, in particular the city of Darwin.
The Banco Nacional Ultramarino building in Dili
Indonesian forces in Batugade in November 1975 with a captured Portuguese flag
Portuguese Timor was a Portuguese colony on the territory of present-day Timor-Leste from 1702 until 1975. During most of this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Dutch East Indies.
East Timorese civil war
…In August 1975, a civil war broke out between two opposing political parties in Portuguese Timor: the conservative Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the left-leaning Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin). The war took place…
Portuguese Governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima [de], who without authorisation agreed on new borders with Dutch authorities.
Group of political deportees in Timor, 1932.
Memorial to chief Evaristo de Sá Benevides.
Portuguese ceremony in Atabae (1970)