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Undertim (East Timor)

Uni�o Nacional Democr�tica de Resist�ncia Timorense

image by Ant�nio Martins, 11 September 2007

Description of the flag
Presentation of Undertim

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Description of the Flag

The 2007 elections official leaflet [t9l07] and the ETAN site show this flag, absent at the parliament website.
Ant�nio Martins, 11 September 2007

The flag is based on the 1999-2002 C.N.R.T. flag, with a dark blue hoist panel taking ~2/5ths of the ~3:5 flag and the remainder a horizontal triband of light blue, white and green. On the dark blue area a central circular device, yellow with wide orange rim, divided 2+2+1 by orange lines and containing on each of these five areas five things I cannot tell apart � black, black, green, red, and orange, and eight more things, red, on the border (better image needed!). This disc is surrounded by 23 five-pointed stars in a complex, vertically symmetrical arrangement. On the white stripe, the word "Undertim" in black serif capitals.
António Martins, 11 September 2007

A flag vaguely akin to the (old) CNRT�s and Falintil�s can be seen Getty photo 73737569 (Copyright: C�ndido Alves / AFP / Getty Images): it shows something like a medium blue square at the hoist with white stars surrounding a mainly yellow round emblem and at the fly three horizontal stripes, light blue over white over green with "UNDERTIM" in black serif capitals on the white area.
Ant�nio Martins, 07 April 2007

Presentation of Undertim

In the 2007.06.02 elections Undertim got 13 247 votes (3,19%), getting two of the 65 seats in the parliament.
António Martins, 11 September 2007

UNDERTIM�s leader is a former FALINTIL commander, Corn�lio Gama, better known as Eli Fohorai-Boot (L-Sete, L7). He is leader of the street gang Sagrada Familia, too. Sagrada Fam�lia had important roles in the ethnical clashes in 2006 in Timor-Leste. It is suspect of criminal actions like robbery, extortion and arson. UNDERTIM and Sagrada Fam�lia has its center in Baucau, in eastern Timor-Leste.
J. Patrick Fischer, 08 April 2007

Ramos-Horta is not member of a party, In the 2007 presidential elections, but get support by the Uni�o Nacional Democr�tica de Resist�ncia Timorense UNDERTIM (founded 2005).
J. Patrick Fischer, 06 April 2007