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Ballard, annexed by Seattle many years ago, maintains its culture and loyalties without much consideration for national or civic boundaries.
Separatists intensified their campaign in January when the Indonesian president announced that there would be a referendum on autonomy or independence in East Timor, but the Straits Times observed, "Amputation is out because Aceh is unquestionably a part of Indonesia, unlike the former Portuguese colony East Timor it invaded and then annexed in 1976."
Boleslaw later repelled invasions from Otto’s successor and then sought Poland’s own expansion eastward; he eventually annexed parts of present-day Ukraine.
In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.
The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.