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The current treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS), which was signed in 2006, prevents East Timor from determining its own maritime boundary – something to which it is entitled under international law.

The military and its militias also attack and infiltrate East Timor from across the border.

It is also possible that they were Arab traders, who brought their swift dhows and the religion of Islam to the eastern islands of the Malay Archipelago (present-day Indonesia) later in the same century; they may also have been the Portuguese, who colonized Timor from 1506.

As East Timor recovers from the violence and destruction that followed its vote for independence from Indonesia in 1999, more and more stories are emerging of women like Miss Martins -- dozens, even hundreds of rapes, often involving torture and egregious humiliation.

As the former East Timor separated from Indonesia in 1999, murderous unionist mobs killed hundreds.

United Nations officials do not want to see East Timor fade from the world's attention because fighting has ended there.

In its first verdict for crimes against humanity committed when East Timor broke from Indonesia in 1999, a Timorese court sentenced 10 former pro-Indonesia militiamen to prison terms ranging from 4 to 33 years.

The horror that has descended on Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, is a flashback to 1999, when militias trying to stop the then East Timor splitting from Indonesia went on a murderous rampage.By the middle of this week, a 2,500-strong 2,500-strong force, led by Australia, was in peacekeepingg to restore calm to Dili with partial success.

1Land Area and EEZ for Pacific Island Countries according to http://www.forumsec.org/pages.cfm/about-us/our-partners/member-countries/ EEZ for Pacific Island Territories: http://www.seaaroundus.org/eez/ figures for Timor Leste from hp://dnemofgov.tI.

Anyone speak English!" FROM EAST TIMOR, SEPT.

Published and unpublished health research in Timor-Leste from 2001 to 2011 that reported objectives, methods and results were identified.