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...becoming the priority in hiring, not judicial expertise," Soares says. "How can you build a competent civil society with limitations like these? I don't want to participate in such a system." But he's among the lucky few. Others like Avelina Gomes, whose children's school in Dili has been shuttered for a month because it is located in a no-man's land between two gang territories, can't just pick up and leave. "I'm so worried about my kids' education," says Gomes, who works as an administrative assistant at a government office. "There's no sign...
...reserves increased nearly ninefold to $351 million from the 2003-04 fiscal year to the 2005-06 fiscal year. The reserves, which are located between East Timor and Australia, are to be developed by international and Australian companies, who will hand over half the royalties to Dili. "We could have 10% growth rates and a shortage of labor in a few years," predicts Ramos-Horta. Entrepreneurs are also trying to develop East Timor's once prized coffee plantations. But all the talk of future earnings means little to Dili resident Linda Ricardo, who lined up one day last month from...
...Indonesian soldiers gun down hundreds of Timorese protesters in Dili's Santa Cruz Cemetery. Footage of the incident broadcast around the world galvanizes international opinion against the occupation...
...hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house...
...East Timor's government was determined not to leave Reinado alone. Since he escaped from Dili's prison last August, the former military police commander-jailed over a rebel attack last May that left five East Timorese soldiers dead-had been flitting from one jungle hideout to another, giving interviews to journalists in which he vented his hatred for the "communist" government, and negotiating with officials and Australian peacekeeping troops over his terms for facing justice. Then, last week, he and his men visited a police post on the border with Indonesia and left with 20 automatic rifles, along with...