Recolonization at the behest of modern western powers:
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A Babel for East Timor as language shifts to Portuguese
http://iht.com/articles/2007/07/23/asia/timor.php
Summary : The judge was speaking in Portuguese, the newly designated language of the courts, the schools and the government - a language that most people in East Timor cannot speak. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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A Babel for East Timor as language shifts to Portuguese
http://iht.com/articles/2007/07/23/asia/timor.php
Summary : The judge was speaking in Portuguese, the newly designated language of the courts, the schools and the government - a language that most people in East Timor cannot speak. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->