Original sentence: Falintil, the armed wing of the leftist East Timorese political party Fretilin became the major source of resistance to Indonesia's occupation, but military resistance was eventually all but eliminated.Gusmao, nicknamed Xanana by his followers, became East Timor's first president following its independence.Poet and semi-professional football goalkeeper Jose Alexandre Gusmao led 20 years of low-level insurection and diplomatic pressure against the occupation
Edited sentence: Falintil, the armed wing of the leftist East Timorese political party Fretilin emerged as the major source of resistance to Indonesia's annexation.Gusmao, nicknamed Xanana by his followers, eventually became East Timor's first president.Three years of hard-fighting and counter-insurgency tactics by Indonesian forces, who shelled villages with napalm and other munitions and displaced hundreds of thousands of East Timorese, all but wiped out Falintil, reduced to a hundred encircled fighters.Young poet and former semi-professional football goalkeeper Jose Alexandre Gusmao led a few dozen rebels through Indonesia's lines to relative safety, embarking on 20 years of low-level insurection and diplomatic pressure that eventually led to East Timor's independence