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Indonesia alleged that Fretilin was communist, and feared that an impartial East Timor would influence separatism within the archipelago. Indonesian army intelligence influenced the crack-up from the alliance involving Fretilin and UDT, which brought about a coup by the UDT on 11 August 1975 and the beginning of per month-very long civil war. Durin