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Timor-Leste
Today
Timor-Leste
today is the newest nation on
earth,
and also the
world's newest democracy. As
such, it is facing monumental
challenges. The difficulties
of building a new democracy
alone are massive: Timor-Leste
has never before been fully
independent, and the process
of actually running a country
is a new one to almost all
of its politicians. In addition,
the Timorese as a nation are
still coping with the legacy
of a generation of brutal occupation
and the vicious violence of
1999 that followed their decision
to vote for independence.
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Brief History of Timor-Leste
Anthropological
investigations indicate that
the first people
to arrive in Timor, approximately
40,000 to 20,000 years BC, were
of the Vedo-Australoide type,
similar to the Vedas of Ceylon.
A second wave, which arrived
around 3000 years BC, consisted
of Melanesians, similar to those
living today in Papua New-Guinea
and some Pacific Islands.
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