it is hard to explain, Timor was in the past part of Portuguese territory, but my country knew he couldn't maintain those territories once the local powers try to claim them, that happen in India first, then Timor and then Macau, so once the country authorities realise that they couldn't maintain those territories, their approx changed, and they decide to disarm those territories, so if takeover by the local powers occur, we the Portuguese couldn't answer, that happen in India, and when the Indian union (Neru) decided to invade Damao,Goa,Dio the 3 Portuguese territories, they presented an army of 80000 against 1500 unarmed and without communication's soldiers lol and we lose those territories, in Timor it was worst we simply abandoned them, the army returned to the mainland and then some time later the Japanese invaded the island, and it was Australia who give them freedom again, but Indonesia never recognised them as country, and always tried to invade them, till the 90s , when finally after some massacres my country (in shame) decided to do something.
since then they are a free country, and we helped them a lot, developing the country but they are strange people lol,I say that because, we have been there building telephone lines so they could have communication's, so our technicians build the lines imagine today, tomorrow when they arrive again there's no lines any more, and this happened for a long time, so an investigation was conducted and the conclusion was that they stole the cables to build home cloth dryers