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...small town, it's not uncommon to see such officials dining in trendy Portuguese cafés situated near the poor and homeless squatting in tents.) Portuguese is the official language of the government, which means that most East Timorese, who speak Indonesian or the local language Tetum, cannot understand, or participate in, political discourse. The authorities have not launched effective job programs to retrain former guerrillas who fought Indonesia; for example, few ex-insurgents have been hired for the police force. Resentment among onetime fighters runs deep. On several occasions, only personal pleas to ex-guerillas from Gusm...
...Text line 161. Quate exer iustinibh ero ea faci tetum veniamc oreratue con henim zzrit aut vendrero exerilissit ad magnissi. Obore eu feu faccum iriurem quam vullaor in vel duipit aute magna feu facinim quatum iril ex et dolor si exerat ad tincinim velendit lutem zzriusto odolobor sendit. Ut am, quat lor sumsand ionsecte esequatum dolobor irit. Ut am, quat lor sumsand ionsecte...
...Text line 261. Quate exer iustinibh ero ea faci tetum veniamc oreratue con henim zzrit aut vendrero exerilissit ad magnissi. Obore eu feu faccum iriurem quam vullaor in vel duipit aute magna feu facinim quatum iril ex et dolor si exerat ad tincinim velendit lutem zzriusto odolobor sendit. Ut am, quat lor sumsand ionsecte esequatum dolobor irit...
...Text line 361. Quate exer iustinibh ero ea faci tetum veniamc oreratue con henim zzrit aut vendrero exerilissit ad magnissi. Obore eu feu faccum iriurem quam vullaor in vel duipit aute magna feu facinim quatum iril ex et dolor si exerat ad tincinim velendit lutem zzriusto odolobor sendit. Ut am, quat lor sumsand ionsecte esequatum dolobor irit. Ut am, quat lor sumsand ionsecte...
...Mozambique by making the former colonial European tongue East Timor's official language. On East Timorese passports, the country is labeled Timor-Leste, "leste" being Portuguese for "east." Many nationalists, however, prefer to call the country not by its English or Portuguese designations, but by its name in Tetum, one of the half-island's 19 local languages: Timor Lorosae. And the Indonesians, whose violent 24-year occupation is believed to have led to the deaths of up to 200,000 East Timorese, still refer to their former 27th province as Timor Timur, often shortened...