SUMMARY

[Note to reader: this Country page primarily contains brief information about state-based violence during the period 1946-1974, and to some extent 1975-1988. For more detailed information on organized violence after 1989, please consult the specific Conflict and Dyad pages available on the left-hand side of this page. These pages contain (when applicable) more detailed information regarding all three categories of organized violence in this country from 1989 and onwards, as well as detailed information about state-based violence 1975-1988. The left-hand side menu also contains links to Actor pages for all groups involved in organized violence since 1989 in this country, as well as actors involved in state-based violence 1975-1988.]

East Timor became independent from Indonesia in 2002.

For information about the conflict over East Timor between the government of Indonesia and FRETILIN 1989-1998 see Indonesia: East Timor. The government of Indonesia was also a perpretrator of one-sided violence on the Island of East Timor during the conflict with FRETILIN.