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...with 32 convictions so far, and 58 indictments?involving 240 people?issued by the SCU. But more than half the accused remain at large in Indonesia. And creating a judicial system from nothing has proved a massive task. Delays, language problems and inexperienced lawyers plague the system, says Nelson Belo of the Judicial System Monitoring Programme: "Defendants don't know their rights or understand the court process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Road to Justice | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...leader and prisoner, seems willing to put that relationship above key indictments. "For us it is justice first, not development," says Yayasan HAK's de Oliveira. "Justice is not about destroying the relationship between Indonesia and East Timor but it is a fundamental need of the people." JSMP's Belo says people are pessimistic about the indictments, and feel the U.N. too has "washed its hands of them." Others are simply confused. "People feel men like this should have to take responsibility for what they did," says Sister Theresa Ward, who has been working with East Timorese since 1995. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Road to Justice | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...rioting reflects growing public frustration and anger with the many problems plaguing East Timor and the government's seeming inability to tackle them. "The people took the opportunity to let everything out?all their rage over the lack of norms and regulations in their society," says Bishop Carlos Belo, one of East Timor's most respected leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Up in Smoke | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...RESIGNED. BISHOP CARLOS BELO, 54, outspoken East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...Resistance, or CNRT, the umbrella group that campaigned for independence last year, are envious of the attention he receives. Others criticize his personalized, overly emotional approach to politics. "If people saw the way he handles meetings," says Jose Ramos-Horta, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize with Bishop Carlos Belo and represented the East Timorese cause overseas for 24 years. The more populist Gusmao has eclipsed their roles. "He screams and shouts and pounds his fist on the table--but then he smiles and jokes. He can do it because of his authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cult Of Gusmao | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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