Word: reinado
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...Several hours after Reinado arrived in Same, Australian troops set up a cordon of checkpoints and roadblocks around his hilltop compound. Helicopters buzzed over the town and armored personnel carriers rumbled up the roads. "They were blocking the people," says Patricino dos Reis, a resident who sympathizes with Reinado. "It shocked us that they would carry out an operation while all the people were still in the town." Reinado told journalists he would fight to the death. "If you bring all the forces and point guns at me," he warned, "I will shoot you." Gusmao and the commander...
...East Timor's government was determined not to leave Reinado alone. Since he escaped from Dili's prison last August, the former military police commander-jailed over a rebel attack last May that left five East Timorese soldiers dead-had been flitting from one jungle hideout to another, giving interviews to journalists in which he vented his hatred for the "communist" government, and negotiating with officials and Australian peacekeeping troops over his terms for facing justice. Then, last week, he and his men visited a police post on the border with Indonesia and left with 20 automatic rifles, along with...
...days later, five rebels were dead and one wounded, Reinado was still on the run, and East Timor's streets had become battlegrounds as thousands of the rebel leader's supporters staged angry protests, threw rocks and torched houses. Dili, the capital, was relatively quiet as Time went to press, but unrest triggered by the failed raid could resume with redoubled violence if Reinado is caught. Meanwhile, he continues to taunt the government, and has threatened to derail the April 9 elections-the country's first Presidential poll since independence...
...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 negotiations empty-handed. Reinado reportedly told them he would testify at a tribunal investigating the gang violence sparked by his rebellion, but only if his own men were allowed to protect him. The Attorney-General refused his demand...
...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 the heavier weapons began firing...