Acknowledgements A Note on the Name of the Country Notes on Contributors List of Figures INTRODUCTION Timor-Leste s Long Road to Independence: Outline for an Analytical Framework (Zélia Pereira & Rui Graça Feijó) PART ONE - BEFORE THE PORTUGUESE DECOLONISATION 1.While the Winds of Change Gently Blow. Timor-Leste before the Onset of the Portuguese Decolonisation, 1945-1974 (Rui Graça Feijó) 2. Elusive Colonialism in the Age of Bandung: Portugal, Timor-Leste and Indonesia, c.1947-1974 (Pedro Aires Oliveira) 3. An Undigestible Lump: Timor-Leste and the Politics of Self-determination (Brad Simpson) PART TWO - THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION ARRIVES IN TIMOR-LESTE 1. Nations of Intent: Competing Ideological Views of Nationalism in Timor-Leste, 1974-1999 (Michael Leach) 2. Looking for a Honourable Political Solution: the Comissão Nacional de Descolonização and the Fate of Timor-Leste, 1974-1976 (Zélia Pereira) 3. Canções Revolucionárias: Rhetoric, Hermeneutic and Ideology Critique (Martinho G. da Silva Gusmão) PART THREE - REACTION TO THE INDONESIAN INVASION OF TIMOR-LESTE 1. Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don t: Portugal, the UN and the Timor-Leste Issue (Zélia Pereira) 2. Reduce the Pressure on the Indonesians: Australian Timor Policy at the UN, 1975-1982 (Peter Job) 2. Our Interest Is Minimal, butâ. Britain and the Indonesian Invasion of Timor-Leste, 1975-1976 (Norrie MacQueen) PART FOUR - RESISTING THE INDONESIAN ANNEXATION OF TIMOR-LESTE 1. Return to Fronteira Norte: Rebuilding Resistance in Timor-Leste Western Districts, 1990-1995 (Edith Bowles) 2. I Follow the Screaming. The Timorese Catholic Church and the Struggle for Independence (Maria José Garrido) 3. Walking a Tightrope between the Army and the Church. Jesuit Relief during the Indonesian Occupation of Timor-Leste, 1975-1999 (Pocut Hanifah) 4. The Indonesian Genocide in Timor-Leste: Law, Politics, History (Clinton Fernandes) Index