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A Brief History of Timor Leste  (http://www.gov.east-timor.org/AboutTimorleste/history.htm)
Part of the government's web site, this page contains a synopsis of East Timor's history from a local perspective.

East Timor - A Brief History  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,268557,00.html)
Part of the Guardian Unlimited netowrk's web site, this page contains a slide show about the history of violence in East Timor.

East Timor Action Network/U.S. Homepage  (http://etan.org/default.htm)
The website of ETAN, an action group devoted to the welfare of the newly independent nation.

Masters of Terror  (http://yayasanhak.minihub.org/mot/index.htm)
This web site presents information from the book Masters of terror: Indonesia's military & violence in East Timor in 1999 published by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at Australian National University. Aimed at supporting the cry for justice in East Timor, it contains a list of events as well as suspects in the 1999 destruction of East Timor.

The Obscure History of East Timor  (http://www.uc.pt/Timor/atop.html)
Part of the University of Coimbra's information service on East Timor, this web page provides information about the history of East Timor including its prehistory, colonial history and the Japanese occupation during World War II.

Timeline: East Timor  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country%5Fprofiles/1504243.stm)
Run by the British Broadcasting Corporation, this web page provides an outline of the history of East Timor from the seventeenth century until present. There are links to BBC new stories and interviews pertaining to East Timor's independence.

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