The Dili tuiduk is a Turkmen woodwind instrument.

Fairs are conducted in the park, and a wooden footbridge leading to nearby Barangay Dili can be seen ( and crossed ).

Bracks was to spend a year travelling between Melbourne and Dili helping with the establishment of Gusmão's administration, the key departments that would need to be involved, and advising on how they would be accountable and reportable to the legislature.

In November 1991, after the massacres at Santa Cruz ( near Dili, East Timor ), Kelly had supported Indonesian President Suharto and declared him to be a moderate with no alternative to his rule.

Also during the 19 years of my episcopal ministry in Dili ( 1983 – 2002 ), one of the subjects I spoke about most was that of the missions and the need to be missionaries.

He will be given a state funeral and buried at the Metinaro Heroes Cemetery in Dili.

Evans continues to be strongly criticised by many commentators – most prominently Noam Chomsky and John Pilger – for supporting Australia ’ s recognition of Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor following its military invasion in 1975, negotiating ( and celebrating ‘ replete with champagne ’) with then Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas the Timor Gap Treaty, and describing the 1991 Dili massacre as ' an aberration, not an act of state policy '.

Of Malaysian and New Zealand parentage, he was the only foreign national to be killed when Indonesian troops opened fire on a funeral procession at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili.

* 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union ( UDT ) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

** Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed at the Battle of Guté Dili by an alliance of Shewan forces under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte.

Under colonial policy, Portuguese citizenship was available to men who assimilated Portuguese language, literacy, and religion ; by 1970, 1, 200 East Timorese, largely drawn from the aristocracy, Dili residents, or larger towns, had obtained Portuguese citizenship.

“ The Nobel Lecture ,” given by The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1996, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Titular bishop of Lorium and Apostolic Administrator of Dili ( East Timor ): Oslo, December 10, 1996.

Besides the grammatical simplification involved in creolization, Tetun Dili has been greatly influenced by the vocabulary of Portuguese, the other official language of East Timor.

* Tetun 1, Tetun 2 Tetun writing courses for East Timorese university students, by Catharina Williams-van Klinken, Dili Institute of Technology

On 31 May 1976, a ' People's Assembly ' in Dili, selected by Indonesian intelligence, unanimously endorsed an ' Act of Integration ', and on 17 July, East Timor officially became the 27th province of the Republic of Indonesia.

When the latter, distraught by the killings, requested retirement in May 1977, his position was taken by Msgr da Costa Lopes, who at the age of 58 became the Apostolic Administrator of the Dili diocese, answerable directly to the Pope and responsible for the whole of East Timor.

The ' Apostolic Administrator ' ( de facto Bishop ) of the Diocese of Dili, Monsignor Martinho da Costa Lopes, began speaking out against human rights abuses by the Indonesian security forces, including rape, torture, murder, and disappearances.

In the modern era, East Timorese music has been closely associated with the independence movement ; for example, the band Dili Allstars released a song that became an anthem in the build-up to the referendum on independence in 2000, while the United Nations commissioned a song called " Hakotu Ba " ( by Lahane ) to encourage people to register to vote in the referendum.

Young Guterres was brought up by an Indonesian civil until he was sent to attend the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic school in Becora, Dili.

In 1997 with a high school certificate supposedly provided by the military he began attending the Economics Institute in Dili.

The first contact was at Dili, the capital of Portuguese Timor, where the Allies were caught by surprise.

In August, the Japanese 48th Division — commanded by Lieutenant General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi — began arriving from the Philippines and garrisoned Kupang, Dili and Malacca, relieving the Ito detachment.

They include Xavier Ray ' X Ray ' Xaneiros, based on resistance leader Xanana Gusmão ( from 2002 — 07 the country's President ), Joaquim Lobato, based on exiled leader José Ramos-Horta ( later Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and now President ), and Bill Mabbely, based on Australian journalist Roger East, who was killed by Indonesian troops in Dili on the day of the invasion.

* First Prize: " Ang Bata Nga Dili Matulog " by Macario Tiu

The Portuguese ( present in Timor from c. 1556 ) made most of their settlements in the west, where Dawan was spoken, and it was not until 1769, when the capital was moved from Lifau ( Oecussi ) to Dili that they began to promote Tetum as an inter-regional language in their colony.

By 1975, when the Indonesian troops landed in Timor, he had become the assistant to the Portuguese Bishop of Dili, Dom José Joaquim Ribeiro.

In May 2006, his government faced near-civil war conditions when approximately half of the country's security forces rebelled amidst scenes of rioting and looting in the country's capital, Dili.

It is not available outside of the Northern Territory, save for rare instances when it is sold in Dili, East Timor.

The archdiocese formally lost its status as a metropolitan see on January 1, 1975, when the Dioceses of Macau and Dili were transferred from the province of Goa.

The control of colonial administrators was largely restricted to the Dili area, and they had to rely on traditional tribal chieftains for control and influence.

The control of colonial administrators, largely restricted to Dili, had to rely on traditional tribal chieftains for control and influence.

One of his first decrees made upon his arrival in Dili was to legalise political parties in preparation for elections to a Constituent Assembly in 1976.

The Dili Massacre on 12 November 1991 was a turning point for sympathy for pro-independence East Timorese.

* Allan Nairn — Indonesian slaughter of East Timorese Dili Massacre, US backing of Haitian death squad " Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti "

The additional manpower also allowed the squadron to assume responsibility for the Dili heliport in December.

In 1988 Indonesian military intelligence detained him for his alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate President Suharto, who was to visit Dili in October.

Tour of Duty-Concert for the Troops was a concert in 1999 in Dili for the Australian troops serving with the International Force for East Timor.

With the withdrawal of the Indonesian armed forces, police and government officials from East Timor, UNAMET re-established its headquarters in Dili on 28 September.

Sievers had served as an Australian police officer attached to the United Nations during the infamous militia siege of the United Nations compound in Dili, East Timor.

At the time Gusmão was visiting friends outside of Dili and he witnessed the invasion from the hills.

This time Ross did not return to Dili, and he was evacuated to Australia on 16 July.