HISTORY ETKIKNA - EAST TIMOR GAM TANGTHU TOMKIM IN ET PAKNA
East Timor gam tangthu (history) adingin May 20 ni pen 1702 kum pek panin gam keekte' ukkhumna nuai-ah kum zalom 16 panin 1975 kikal dong kum 273 (centuries of colonial occupation) sung a om khit zawh in kum sawm tampi sungin minam khat beisakna ding ngimna tawh kisiansuahna dingin kilom thahna (decades of genocide) a thuak khit nungin socialist revolutionary guerrilla in hangsan takin a lehdona leh leitung bup nawhna (international pressure) hang tawh kithuah in suahtakna a ngah ni uh ahi hi.
Kum zalom 16 hun lai, 1702 kum panin Portuguese gam keekte in East Timor ah gam va keek uh a, Portugal colony suak sak uh hi. A gam nitumna lam-a tuikulh gam lam teng (tu-in Indonesia gam i cih lam teng) Dutch gam keekte in gam va keek uh a, The Netherlands colony suak ahih manin gam keekte ukna nuai-ah kum 273 sung piikpeek henkol tangin East Timor na om hi. 1974 kum in Carnation Revolution kici hong piang a, tual gal tawlkhat sung hong piang ahih manin Portugal in a colony (East Timor) nusiatsan manin revolution makaih Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) in 28 November 1975 in suahtakna (independence) kingah ta hi ci-in hong tangkopih hi.
Ahi zongin tuikulh neu tuamtuam a omna gam (archipelago) sungah communist state (gam) a pian' khak ding a kihtakna hangin US tawh kigulluk in America in a nungthuap Indonesia gam-a US-backed right-wing military dictatorship (military leader Suharto makaih) in East Timor in Portugal panin suahtakna a ngah khit nung ni kua zawh in va sim in va do (invaded) hi. American huhna tawh Indonesia military dictatorship in December 7, 1975 in East Timor gam a va sim khit nungin ngongtatna leh siatna lianpi a piangsak gam ki-ukkhumna (brutal and devastating occupation) suaksak hi. Suharto' Indonesian military dictatorship in east Timor gam a ukkhum hun sungin genocide nasia mahmah piang a, milom thahna leh anna zangin gilkial dangtak in koihna (mass killings and enforced starvation) hangin East Timor gam milip 20% lom sih uh hi ci-in academic consensus in tuat hi.
Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, intellectual, poet, theoretician, revolutionary, political organizer, nationalist leh diplomat ahi Amilcar Cabral leh Cuba gam-a revolution movement in United States in galkap thahatna tawh gamdang leitang sunga gam va keek in a va ukkhumna langpang in a lehdo (anti-imperialist resistance) mite political visions leh ideologies panin tha la-in FRETILIN makaite in a makaihte un East Timor gam Indonesia in a ukkhum hun sung teng suahtakna a ngah theihna dingin guerrilla campaign tawh lehdo uh a, military wing FALINTIL in hun sawtpi mipite gupna leh thapiakna tawh galdona "protracted people's war" strategy kici hong zang uh hi.
Military wing FALINTIL makaih in Indonesian military dictatorship ukkhumna a lehdona dingin resistance movement tawh lehnan' uh a, mipite gupna (mass popular support) hong ngah hanhan uh hi. Indonesian military dictatorship ukna panin suahtakna ngah sakin a gupkhiat khitsa uh leitangte pen "liberated zones" ci-in koih uh a, hih munte ah lingko kikim lohna leh kinengniamna (inequality and oppression) nam omte khempeuh beisak ding a hanciam ban uh-ah kipawl khawmin lokhawhna panin khaici pian'sakna (organized agricultural production), health care leh popular education a om theihna dingin hanciam in mapang uh hi.
1998 kum Indonesia gam mite in US nungthuap military dictator Suharto a cimtakna uh thuak zo nawn loin mipite kiphinna leh lehdona "mass uprising" kici hong pan uh a, mass uprising in aana tawh dictator Suharto a thuneihna za panin a kitawpna (resign) dingin nawh in lawnkhia zo uh hi. Tua khitin Indonesia leh Portugal makaihna tawh UN-sponsored agreement thukimnna bangin mipi tam zaw deihna lakna (referendum) nei uh hi.30 August 1988 referendum vote khiatna clear majority (78.5%) in East Timor independence gum uh a, Indonesia gam sungah mah om autonomous province in Special Autonomous Region of East Timor (SARET) kici in om lai ding deih lo uh hi.
Referendum a kineih khitin Indonesian military-supported East Timorese pro-integration militia leh Indonesian galkapte in referendum thukhenna a thukkikna leh dawnna dingin ngongtatna (violence) leh terrorism zangin military campaign (operation) hong pan kik leuleu uh ahih manin Timorese mi 1,400 a kilom thah banah West Timor gam mi 300,000 galtai uh hi. Hih hun sungin East Timor gam-a infrastructure - innte leh lo ading tui lakna (homes, irrigation systems), water supply systems, electrical grid leh sanginnte 100% dektak kisusia hi.
Indonesian government ngongtatna zadah in Portugal, Australia, US leh gam tuamtuamte ah political activists mite in lungphona nei-in a governments un action a lakna dingin nawhna bawl uh hi. Indonesia leh Indonesian forces galkapte in East Timor gam a thuneih khumna nusiatsan khit un East Timor gam UN Security Council Resolution 1264 thukimna bangin gam 17 panin galkap 9,900 multinational military force - INTERFET (International Force for East Timor) kici 20 September 1999 in kisawl a, UN-sanctioned military force thuneihna nuai-ah hong om hi. Hih hun sungin galkapte leh Indonesia galkapte a gum thau tawite (soldiers and armed pro-Indonesian paramilitaries) in East Timor mi tul tampi a thah kik ban uh-ah East Timor gam sung buildings (inn) 80% kiim halsak uh hi.
20 September 1999 panin Australian-led peacekeeping troops galkap International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) kicite in ni nga sungin East Timor gam-a ngongtatna leh mi lom kithahna hong beisak uh hi. Tua khit October 25, 1999 in East Timor gam-a ki8-ukna leh kivaihawmna (administration) khempeuh UN in United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) kici pansan in thuneihna la hi.
14 February 2000 in INTERFET galkap kikoihte kilakhia a, UN khut sungah military command ki-ap hi. 2001 kum bei kuan in East Timor constitution gelh ding leh February 2002 ciangin constitution gelh a zo dingin constituent assembly election nei uh hi. 20 May 2002 in East Timor in suahtakna (independent) ngah in sovereign state khat suak ngawngaw a, a President dingin Xanana Gusmão in kiciamna nei hi. 27 September 2002 in UN ah East Timor gam a member in kisangin kiguang lut hi.
Agelh ~ Thang Khan Lian
Sources:
Red Fish and Wikipedia
Laibu Saal / Zomi eLibrary
