[Marxism] A hot question by Lüko

[Alan Bradley]

From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" 
> But it would be very interesting to know what were
> the feelings of the Eastern Timorese and their
> leadership (if any, and if none -then, why 
> no leadership of their own under Portuguese colonial
> rule????).
>
> Anyone knows the answer, the _full_ answer I mean?

I certainly don't know the full answer, but...

The Timorese rebelled against the Portuguese in 1942
and 1959. Both revolts were rather quickly and
brutally suppressed. In the first case, at least, the
main force involved in the suppression were
pro-Portuguese (and Christian, of course) Timorese
clans.

I don't know much about the second revolt, but it
seems to have been partly inspired by a small group of
Indonesian activists. Funnily enough, it is possible
that these Indonesians were actually associated with
separatist movements in eastern Indonesia, that is,
were *anti-Indonesian*. At that point, of course, 
"anti-Indonesian" had significant overtones of "anti-communist".

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