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Xanana Gusmão

International Peace-Keeping Force (INTERFET) Entered East Timor

Monday Sep 20, 1999
Timor-Leste

As a result of overwhelming diplomatic pressure from the United Nations, promoted by Portugal since the late 1970s and also by the United States and Australia in the 1990s, a UN-sanctioned, Australian-led international peace-keeping force (INTERFET) entered East Timor, and Gusmão was finally released. Upon his return to his native East Timor, he began a campaign of reconciliation and rebuilding.


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