Word: horta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While admitting that "there is no comparison" between the East Timor genocide and the Holocaust, Ramos-Horta stressed that some lessons learned from the killing of European Jewry in the 1940s are applicable today...
Domingos Policarpo accused Ramos-Horta of starting the civil war in East Timor and then leaving his suffering country for a life of ease elsewhere...
Policarpo also questioned Ramos-Horta's urgent request for a United Nations-sponsored national referendum for the area, saying that in the mid-1970s Ramos-Horta's party opposed the idea of such a referendum...
...Ramos-Horta and several audience members questioned the credibility of Policarpo and other hostile questioners who, they said, may be the mouthpieces of the Indonesian government...
...Ramos-Horta also gave praise to Mass. State Sen. Marc Pacheco (D-Taunton) for his efforts in sponsoring a bill in the State Assembly which ensures that state businesses do not make any investments in Indonesia or buy Indonesian products...