Ka cika wannan jumlar: Bayan juyin juya halin Carnation na shekara ta 1974, Portugal ta fara aikin kawar da mulkin mallaka kuma ta fara janyewa daga Timor Portuguese (daga baya Timor ta Gabas). 'Yan Australia sun dade suna sha'awar mulkin mallaka; al'ummar ta aika da sojoji zuwa yankin a lokacin
Yaƙin Duniya na II, da yawa daga Gabashin Timor sun yi yaƙi da Jafananci a matsayin 'yan tawaye. A watan Satumbar 1974, Whitlam ya gana da Shugaba Suharto a Indonesia kuma ya nuna cewa zai goyi bayan Indonesia idan ta haɗu da Gabashin Timor. A lokacin da ake yakin basasa, kuma a cikin yanayin da Amurka ta janye daga Indo-China, ya ji cewa hadewar Gabashin Timor a cikin Indonesia zai inganta zaman lafiyar yankin, da kuma rage hadarin motsi na Gabashin Timor FRETILIN, wanda mutane da yawa suka ji tsoron cewa kwaminisanci ne, zuwa mulki.