Example sentences for: timorese

How can you use “timorese” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Jakarta Post also quoted East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta as ridiculing claims that East Timor would not be viable as a country on its own: "One does not have to be an Einstein to do slightly better than those incompetent, lazy, corrupt bastards who managed our country for 23 years.

  • In Australia, whose army is heading the peacekeeping force in East Timor, the Sydney Morning Herald led Wednesday on the discovery by Australian troops of the tortured bodies of 30 people in a well behind the home in Dili of the East Timorese independence leader Manuel Carrascalao.

  • Human rights groups claim that as many as 200,000 Timorese have been killed since Indonesia invaded and annexed the Portuguese colony in 1976.

  • In Italy, La Repubblica of Rome ran a front-page commentary by Noam Chomsky blaming the United States for the fate of the East Timorese because of its failure to withdraw support from its "Indonesian client" or to tell it that its game was up.

  • By continuing Indonesian military rule in the territory, Habibie provoked the East Timorese into overwhelmingly rejecting his offer of autonomy within Indonesia, the paper said.


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