Word: gusmao
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...sympathizes with Reinado. "It shocked us that they would carry out an operation while all the people were still in the town." Reinado told journalists he would fight to the death. "If you bring all the forces and point guns at me," he warned, "I will shoot you." Gusmao and the commander of the ISF, Australian Brig. Mal Rerden, called on Reinado to turn himself in. "The purpose of this operation is not to kill anyone," said Gusmao . "It is to force them to hand in all the weapons they have and to surrender...
...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 ammunition and two-way radios. President Xanana Gusmao immediately authorized Australian troops-who make up half East Timor's 1,550-strong International Stabilization Force-to arrest...
...have him," Rerden told the press in Dili, but he denied that the raid was a failure. As for the dead rebels, they were shot because "they posed immediate threat to the lives of the ISF members involved." Gusmao said the hunt for Reinado would continue and again called on him to give himself up. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said of the rebel leader, "His continued activities are a threat to the security of East Timor, and it is preferable that that threat be neutralized. The objective is to take him into custody and that is an objective...
...Meanwhile, news of the raid sparked violent protests, including an attempt by several hundred people to mass outside the Australian embassy. Demonstrators threw rocks at cars, set tires alight, and burned down several houses, including those of the Attorney-General and relatives of Gusmao . On March 8 Gusmao declared a state of emergency and put local troops back on the streets. Hearing of the development, rebel Nelson Galucho laughed and said: "The country's been in a state of emergency since last year." His leader, he says, has vowed to "liberate" the people of East Timor...
...from constructing a viable economy to repairing lives ravaged by more than 20 years of violence and misery. None have endured more than the former members of the guerrilla group Falintil, those most responsible for liberating East Timor. For two decades these defiant fighters clung to what President Xanana Gusmao, himself a former guerrilla leader, once called the "sacred ideal" of independence. Now that they have achieved it, these same men are struggling to find a place in the country they helped create. Many are maimed and traumatized, or find themselves without a family, a home, an education...