Editing Secession (section)

===East Timor===
[[File:East Timor Demo.jpg|thumb|September 1999 demonstration for [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|independence from Indonesia]]]]

The [[East Timor|Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste]] (also known as East Timor) has been described as having "seceded" from [[Indonesia]].<ref>Santosh C. Saha, ''Perspectives on contemporary ethnic conflict'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=uqYDX_4XQscC&dq=East+Timor+seceded&pg=PA63 p. 63],
Lexington Books, 2006 {{ISBN|0-7391-1085-3}}.</ref><ref>Paul D. Elliot, The East Timor Dispute, The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 27, No.{{spaces}}1 (Jan., 1978).</ref><ref>[[James J. Fox]], [[Dionísio Babo Soares]], ''Out of the ashes: destruction and reconstruction of East Timor'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=J7WljGNkcrkC&dq=East+Timor+seceded&pg=PA175 p. 175], ANU E Press, 2003, {{ISBN|0-9751229-1-6}}</ref> After [[Portuguese Timor|Portuguese sovereignty]] was terminated in 1975, [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|East Timor was occupied by Indonesia]]. However, the [[United Nations]] and the [[International Court of Justice]] refused to recognize this incorporation. Therefore, the resulting civil war and eventual 1999 East Timorese vote for complete separation are better described as an independence movement.<ref>Thomas D. Musgrave, ''Self-determination and national minorities'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=BJg6T7SqJ1gC&dq=East+Timor+seceded&pg=PR13 p. xiii], Oxford University Press, 2000 {{ISBN|0-19-829898-6}}</ref>