Word: horta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's behind the current violence? The Timorese have bitterly resisted the Indonesian invasion over the past 24 years, and the territory was never fully pacified. Timorese such as guerrilla leader Xanana Gusmao and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winners Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo have fought for independence throughout Indonesia's occupation. Indonesia is estimated to have killed as many as 100,000 Timorese in its failed attempts to colonize East Timor...
...Ramos-Horta also praised the United Nations as"the only institution that can address some of thepressing issues...
Speaking after Ramos-Horta, State Rep. AntonioCabral (D-New Bedford), author of House bill 4575,which would restrict investment in Indonesia,urged students to write to their staterepresentative to express concern over thesituation in East Timor and to support the bill...
Students at the event said they supportedRamos-Horta and his struggle...
...found that he had a lot more presence and hewas much more dynamic than [U.N. SecretaryGeneral] Kofi Anan [who had been praised byRamos-Horta in his speech]," he said...