http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/06/16/photo-essay-of-dili-east-timor/ "All the News That's Fit to Squint" Fri, 25 May 2012 09:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/06/16/photo-essay-of-dili-east-timor/comment-page-1/#comment-4551 robert wesley-smith Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:08:19 +0000 http://www.tokyoreporter.com/?p=20515#comment-4551 East Timor got its official independence on 20th May 2002, that is 8 years ago, not 4. It got its independence fro Indonesia, under Interfet and then UN administration, on 20th September 1999. (I was there from about 10th October for 4 months full time). But I agree it is still a country of great poverty, except for the elites. East Timor got its official independence on 20th May 2002, that is 8 years ago, not 4.
It got its independence fro Indonesia, under Interfet and then UN administration, on 20th September 1999. (I was there from about 10th October for 4 months full time).
But I agree it is still a country of great poverty, except for the elites.

]]> http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/06/16/photo-essay-of-dili-east-timor/comment-page-1/#comment-4548 Anon Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:30:07 +0000 http://www.tokyoreporter.com/?p=20515#comment-4548 *Eight years, not four. *Eight years, not four.

]]> http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/06/16/photo-essay-of-dili-east-timor/comment-page-1/#comment-4546 Pvt. Irvine Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:48:28 +0000 http://www.tokyoreporter.com/?p=20515#comment-4546 If you were there a week or so later, you probably would have seen everyone decked out in 2010 World Champion Boston Celtics apparel. If you were there a week or so later, you probably would have seen everyone decked out in 2010 World Champion Boston Celtics apparel.

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