Word: timor
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...Guerrilla movements tend to form shaky governments; just look at the other end of the Indonesian archipelago, where East Timor is still mired in poverty and violence years after its hard-won independence. Yet Irwandi was never a gun-toting guerrilla. A veterinarian by training and a university lecturer by profession, he led a double life as an underground G.A.M. campaigner based in Banda Aceh. That, hopefully, has equipped him with the wiles to navigate Aceh's complex political and religious scene...
Xanana Gusm?o has played many roles over the years: jailed dissident opposing Indonesia's subjugation of East Timor; jungle commander leading a rebellion against an occupation army; reluctant President heading a new nation still wracked by violence and poverty. Now, at 60, Gusm?o is the subject of a documentary about his struggles to make East Timor independent and viable. Directed by Singaporean broadcast journalist Grace Phan, A Hero's Journey is a tale of forgiveness and reconciliation, and recently won Amnesty International's Movies that Matter Award. TIME's Jason Tedjasukmana talked with Gusm?o about both the real and reel...
...film you reminisce about the past. Was it easier to fight a war against the Indonesians than it is now to run the peace? It is more difficult now. The recent violence [in East Timor] reflects frustration with social change. That is why we need to prove to the people that all the suffering of the past must be honored...
...Have you forgiven the Indonesian government for its 24 years of brutal occupation of East Timor? We already did in 1999 when [East Timor's capital] Dili was still burning and we could still smell the destruction. For us [the occupation] was a historical mistake...
...independent East Timor governable after so many years of occupation and colonization? In the beginning of any process some crises are inevitable, but we have to remember that we were beginning from zero. We have to build everything. We are aware that we are not mature enough yet, but that does not mean we are not able...