Passabe Subdistrict
Subdistrict of Passabe with Passabe city and Passabe river
Passabe Subdistrict is a subdistrict of the Oecusse District of East Timor, which is an enclave surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village (sulo) in the subdistrict, very near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence.
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Coordinates: 9°21′51″S 124°20′36″E / 9.36417°S 124.34333°E
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