(a)East Timor was a British colony for four centuries
(b)The European colonial rulers handed over East Timor to Indonesia in 1975
(c)The United Nations took over East Timor in 1999 to prepare it for independence
(d)East Timor finally declared its independence in Dec. 2001
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