Aug 20, 2015 · The bottom two bullet points are still on my "too-read-about" list, but, being unfamiliar with Indonesian history and having never even heard of Suharto, I decided to do some research on him and his regime. Apparently in 1975, Suharto invaded East Timor and occupied the country until 1999, killing 100,000 people all in all.

Sep 30, 2013 · Admittedly Australia's lack of involvement in the invasion of East Timor is a disgrace, but when labour is in power the mice can play. Click to expand... Actually the time period I will write about is the 1961-1974 period.

Aug 27, 2014 · This is a great candidate for a forgotten war. The only place I've seen it in British media has been Ross Kemp on Gangs; he interviewed a gang member in Timor Leste about seeing the massacre of hundreds of civilians in a cemetery. Thinking he must've been far too young to remember it, I looked up its date, and was unpleasantly surprised.

East timor wasInvaded because they were not Indonesians and because they were tribals. Timor was never part of Indonesia historically. Claiming goa as notpart of India is like claiming british isles as part of scandinavaia.

Apr 8, 2009 · So in fact, Portugal did face the other european potencies, after loosing Brazil, as this country became independent in 1825, to keep the african colonies of Angola, Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique, S.Tomé e Príncipe and Cabo Verde, and also in the east Timor, Macau and some possessions in India.

May 13, 2024 · If it does, in just a year, time has probably been bought that makes the US fleet stronger enough that maybe Java and Bali and Timor are never taken. If you get to practice appeasement for two years, there's no Pacific War at all, or if there is one, the Japanese get stopped cold in the Philippines, not touching the, uh NEI (don't want to scare ...

Nov 28, 2011 · Not sure if this should go into the lounge tbh, but nonetheless. I don't know if this film is well known on these forums, but this is quite a funny scene involving some Stasi officers overhearing a joke about Erich Honecker Das Leben Der Anderen - Honecker joke - YouTube Apparently jokes...

Mar 19, 2025 · Some quotes on Caesar Hulen, it seemed, was much depressed because he had built the bridge in nine days, twenty hours, and fifteen minutes, which, according to him, was some twelve hours longer than Caesar had taken to build a similar bridge. We pointed out to him that Caesar did not build a...

Mar 21, 2025 · I hosted a Carthaginian generals tournament a few years back. I honestly struggled to find 16 challengers with enough info on them to actually justify their inclusion, and even then a couple of them (like Xanthippus) weren't even Carthaginian citizens.

Aug 8, 2021 · If correct that would make Timor a descendant of GenghisKhan, and perhaps of other Mongol rulers. And it is a fact that Timor married in 1367 Saray Mulk Khanem (c. 1341-1408), a daughter of Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur, the Chagatai Khan in 1343-c. 1346.