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Originally Posted by waiting4something
No, I just had my timeline screwed up I thought that it happened in the early 1990's, for some reason.  How I was this far off I don't know?  I could have swore something happen there back then, but I looked and I'm dead wrong. Sorry about that. |
Actually , East Timor in particular and Indonesia in general has been a powderkeg with numerous civil wars and insurgencies ( not to mention banditry,piracy and religious strife ) for a long time.
Reports of bombings,guerilla warfare and oppression have been plentiful ever since modern media coverage started.
I wonder if the incident in the 90s tho which you refer is the student massacre -same old story,unarmed students with flowers and slogans ,armed security forces with short temper .I know that it was one of the turning points in the East Timorese war for independence in the way that it brought attention and brought East Timorese together in support of the Fretellin.
It rang a bell .