C.N.R.T. (National Council of East Timorese Resistance)

Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by antonio martins
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• Description of the flag
• Origin of the flag
• Variation with no lettering
• Variation with full name
• Reverse of the flag

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Description of the flag

The purpose of the CNRT initiative was to produce a symbol with which all pro-independence timorese could identify, being based on the FALINTIL (guerrilla) flag instead of coming from FRETILIN (one of many political parties) symbols as the black-yellow-red did. But the flag was never widely accepted — people seemed to prefer the arrowhead from the start, and later the massive vote in FRETILIN in the timorese elections explained why. So, the CNRT flag died as CNRT’s raison d’être disappeared.
Jorge Candeias, 30 Mar 2003

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