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East Timorese
adjective
- of or relating to East Timor or its inhabitants
noun
- a native or inhabitant of East Timor
Example Sentences
The child has connections to the East Timorese community in Dungannon.
"It's just a shock to the whole community, the East Timorese community, but also it's disturbing for the whole community of Dungannon," he said.
It is one of several controversies that has darkened the pontiff’s visit – another being the case of a prominent East Timorese bishop, hailed as an independence hero, who was accused of sexually abusing young boys in the country during the 1980s and 90s.
When Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975, only around 20% of East Timorese people were Catholic.
"What is undeniable, on the occasion of his death, is that millions of Argentinians, Bangladeshis, Cambodians, Chileans, East Timorese and others cannot offer their opinion on Henry Kissinger’s legacy or the world he helped create, because they died at the hands of the tyrants Kissinger enabled," Waldron and Zornick wrote.
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