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Some members of Fretilin do acknowledge that divisions have widened under their leadership. "Our biggest mistake was pretending we are not a traumatized people," says Minister of State Administration Ana Pessoa, who is a senior member of the ruling party. "By focusing almost exclusively on the physical reconstruction of this...
1996: East Timor independence activists José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo jointly win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
On March 3, more than five days into the siege, Reinado demanded a face-to-face meeting with officials. Soon after, East Timorese Attorney-General Longuinhos Monteiro, accompanied by Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta's personal secretary, walked up to the crossroads near the compound. But they returned from the...
Reinado's men deny shooting first, saying a machine gun in the helicopter fired into the house, forcing them outside. Ramos-Horta has claimed that one or more of the rebels fired at the approaching soldiers and were shot down. Barros and other residents say they heard pistol shots before...
One of those presidential candidates is Ramos-Horta, who says it's unfair to dismiss his country as a failed state so soon. "There is no civil war or bombs bursting on the streets," he says. "These are just growing pains of a young country." His main rival, Fernando de...