Word: pereira
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Nearly every Thursday night, Dunster House residents Carla D. Martin ’03 and Matthew M. Pereira ’03 make the trek on foot from Dunster to ManRay’s Campus club night. Having walked the route those many nights, Martin and Pereira wished for a mode of transportation to match their fabulousness...
This past Thursday, these seniors got their wish—a white stretch limousine, provided by Lifestyle Transport, in which Martin, Pereira and their entourage of fellow Dunsterites cruised from Harvard to the door of the club...
...rejoiced at the news. Instead, a political flurry has erupted, with Gusm?o expressing his dismay about the impact such high-profile charges may have on East Timor's evolving ties with its powerful neighbor. The independence of the judicial process is clear, says Gusm?o's chief of staff, Agio Pereira, "but the President also considers the relationship with the Indonesian government to be of paramount importance for our own development." For now, the indictments remain in limbo: East Timor has no extradition treaty with Indonesia, and it's unclear whether the warrants, which must pass through the foreign ministry, will...
...Four years have passed. East Timor is peaceful and its people are getting on with the business of nation-building. Yet Pereira has not been reunited with his sons. Hasan refuses to let them go. He holds them, as he does about 50 others, in orphanages far from their birthplaces. They are part of a lost generation of East Timorese children cut adrift from their parents by civil unrest. The United Nations estimates there are 400 children like Jacinto and Marito scattered in orphanages and homes throughout Indonesia. Despite the intervention of international agencies and repeated requests from parents...
...Hasan acknowledges, he has been informed that Pereira and his wife want their sons back. "More lies," he says. He rejects all claims made on behalf of the boys' parents, alleging that documents produced by the UNHCR to prove their case are forged. Hasan does acknowledge that initial U.N. queries about Jacinto prompted him to relocate the boy to another orphanage administered by Hasan's Lemorai Foundation. A U.N. official says they believe Jacinto was moved to the remote island of Sumbawa to complicate their efforts to secure his return. "I don't understand the game the UNHCR is playing...