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...celebrated in the U.S. that it can be easy to forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer Eddie Adams add power to the text. An exhibit of the photos will travel around...
...Gusmao's fellow leaders in the National Council for Timorese Resistance, or CNRT, the umbrella group that campaigned for independence last year, are envious of the attention he receives. Others criticize his personalized, overly emotional approach to politics. "If people saw the way he handles meetings," says Jose Ramos-Horta, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize with Bishop Carlos Belo and represented the East Timorese cause overseas for 24 years. The more populist Gusmao has eclipsed their roles. "He screams and shouts and pounds his fist on the table--but then he smiles and jokes. He can do it because...
...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...
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...