The Revolutionary Front for the Independence of Timor-Leste (FRETILIN) was barely a year old when Indonesia launched a full-scale invasion of the small Portuguese colony of East Timor (now Timor-Leste) in 1975. Over the following 24 years, FRETILIN fought a courageous armed struggle against a brutal military occupation that cost the lives of about 200,000 Timorese.
The Communist…
