East Timor - Fretilin and the elections. Jim Dunn

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East Timor expert Jim Dunn discusses the election prospects of
the Fretilin party next July. East Timorese politics is best
understood by looking at the historic role of Fretilin as the
political party which declared East Timor's independence in 1975,
the event which triggered the illegal Indonesian invasion of
1975, and its role in the resistance movement against the
Indonesian occupation through the 1970s and beyond. Jim details
this history, drawing on his own experience and knowledge of the
key figures involved.