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Falintil (or FALINTIL) originally began as the military wing of the political party FRETILIN of East Timor. It was established on 20 August 1975 in response to FRETILIN’s political conflict with the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT). The name FALINTIL is an acronym of its full name in Portuguese, ''Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste''. In English this translates as "The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor". ==Indonesian invasion== FALINTIL gained most of its initial military units when most the former Portuguese garrison forces in the territory switched allegiance to FALINTIL in August 1975, after the Portuguese withdrawal.〔Ken Conboy, Kopassus: Inside Indonesia's Special Forces, Equinox Publishing, Jakarta/Singapore, 2003, p.209-210〕 At the time of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 FALINTIL consisted of 2,500 regular troops, 7,000 who had some Portuguese military training, and 10,000 who had attended short military instruction courses, for a total of 20,000. The first commander of FALINTIL was Nicolau Lobato. Lobato was killed during a battle with the Indonesian armed forces in 1978 and Xanana Gusmão was elected as his replacement during a secret national conference in Lacluta, Viqueque in 1981.〔 This meeting also saw the formation of the Revolutionary Council of National Resistance (in Portuguese ''Conselho Revolucinario de Resistencia Nacional'' or CNNR), which was the first step in uniting the different resistance movement factions under one umbrella organisation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Falintil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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