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...What happens now? Most likely, nothing. With a per-capita gdp of just $478, East Timor remains one of the world's poorest nations, and wants to keep friendly ties with Indonesia, its largest trading partner. East Timor President Xanana Gusm?o has rejected CAVR's call for reparations and a war-crimes tribunal, saying he wants South African-style truth and reconciliation rather than punishment. "It's not so important to look at the figures [in the study]," he said. "It is important to look at the lessons...
...fields to the east and west of the JPDA. But first it must persuade Australia, and then the Indonesians (who occupied the territory between 1975-99), with whom sea-boundary talks are imminent. "The petroleum resources are utterly essential to East Timor," says President Xanana Gusm?o. "We desperately need funds to fix roads, to build up our schools and health system. Our international donors say ?But you have all this oil and gas. So don't ask us for more money...
...Despite the risk of alienating its closest international friend, Dili has waged a global propaganda blitz. "We slowly came to realize the bad faith Australia was showing," says Gusm?o of Australia's 2002 withdrawal from the International Court of Justice on maritime boundary disputes. "?Be realistic, it's only a dream,' Australia said about our claims. They wanted to preserve what they had secured from Indonesia when we were occupied. As if we were blind...
...fields to the east and west of the JPDA. But first it must persuade Australia, and then the Indonesians (who occupied the territory between 1975 and 1999), with whom sea-boundary talks are imminent. "The petroleum resources are utterly essential to East Timor," President Xanana Gusm?o told Time on the eve of the April 19-22 talks. "We desperately need funds to fix roads, to build up our schools and health system. Our international donors say 'But you have all this oil and gas. So don't ask us for more money...
...military chief rates the gangs as East Timor's biggest long-term security threat: "The people of Timor-Leste are justifiably concerned." If such gangs are indeed driven by hunger and poverty, President Gusm?o may be right in seeing economic development as his nation's ticket to stability. Now he must reassure his people that some delay in the quest for justice is a price worth paying for their future prosperity...