Word: timorously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steiner opened the proceedings by briefly narrating the history of East Timor, a former Portuguese colony north of Australia that was invaded by Indonesia...
...invasion--intended to be a "quick absorption"--is still far from complete, Steiner said. The most recent tragedy in East Timor was a massacre on November 12, 1991 in the capital city of Dilli...
...United States has de jure recognized the absorption of East Timor into Indonesia, despite U.N. resolutions to the contrary, Steiner said. The U.S. continues to provide military aid to the Indonesia government, he said...
Goodman, who was working as a journalist inEast Timor at the time of the November massacre,described her harrowing escape from the chaos...
...Yorker correspondent AllanNairn, who was with Goodman in East Timor at thetime of the massacre, called the events a"criminal policy on the part of the government ofIndonesia and the government...