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Photo: Fighting for East Timor's Independence

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Fighting for East Timor's independence

During the campaign for East Timorese independence from Indonesia, supporters of the guerilla force, Freilin, march to the Sydney office of Indonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia.

A concerted campaign in support of independence for East Timor was waged in Australian cities. Achieving independence in 1999 was a bloody affair that brought the intervention of Australian troops as part of a UN deployment.

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