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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/46e7a3c4-6464-4fe5-8dcc-8a02c4fb8d3a/D7102035-2A44-42DF-B597-35DE2ECE8356/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Timor&oldid=215182549" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Timor&oldid=215182549" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Timor&oldid=215182549"><P>As political parties began to form and emerge inside the country, the <A title="Indonesian military" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_military">Indonesian military</A> headed an operation that backed Apodeti, a pro-Indonesian party that encouraged divisions between the pro-independence parties of East Timor.<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since January 2008">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> This led<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since January 2008">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> to a brief civil war in 1975 as well as a series of attacks across borders. <A title="Indonesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia">Indonesia</A> alleged that the East Timorese <A title="FRETILIN" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRETILIN">FRETILIN</A> party, which received some vocal support from the <A title="People's Republic of China" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China">People's Republic of China</A>, was communist. Fearing a <A title="Communist" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist">Communist</A> <A title="Domino effect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_effect">domino effect</A> in <A title="Southeast Asia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia">Southeast Asia</A>—and in the wake of its <A title="South Vietnam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam">South Vietnam</A> campaign—the <A title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</A>,<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><A title="" href="#cite_note-10">[11]</A></SUP> along with its ally <A title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</A>, supported the pro-<A title="Western world" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world">Western</A> Indonesian government's actions. The UN Security Council had a unanimous vote for Indonesia to stop its invasion and to withdraw immediately from East Timor’s borders, and was blocked by the United States from imposing any economic sanctions or other means of enforcing this mandate.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D7102035-2A44-42DF-B597-35DE2ECE8356/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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