Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Am 03/24 20:40  Roger Mills yscrifef:

> Poor Timor Leste, or Timor Lero Sae.  Does it have any hope of succeeding as
> a "country"?  About the only thing holding it together is Catholicism; maybe
> anti-Indonesianism will help, for a while.  It is not an ethnic or
> linguistic or cultural unity; pre-1975 it was one of the few areas of
> Indonesia (aside from Irian)  that still had enclaves of non-Austronesian
> languages.
>
A rather sad synopsis.  There is an ongoing interest in events occuring
East Timor in NZ among the young trendy liberal brigade, closer than
Tibet or Iraq, I suppose.  I think the number of deaths of NZ
peacekeepers in East Timor now stands at three.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

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