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...commander Alfredo Reinado boasted that so good were his ambush and surveillance skills that he could sneak into the bedrooms of his country's leaders. "If I want to, I can kiss them while they are sleeping," he said in a July 2007 meeting in the heart of the Timor jungle...
...Three decades ago, while some of his compatriots waged a fierce independence struggle from the jungles of East Timor, Ramos-Horta took a less violent path. The now-58-year-old, who earned a Peace Studies degree at Antioch University in the U.S., tirelessly criss-crossed the globe, campaigning for an end to Indonesia's brutal annexation of his homeland. His passionate diplomacy eventually paid off. Six years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which...
...estimated 150,000 of the nation's 1 million citizens were forced to flee their homes. Reinado was briefly jailed but escaped from prison and since then he and many of his forces have remained on the run, engaging in occasional firefights with Australian led-peacekeepers, whose East Timor mission continues six years after the country's independence...
...violence, but the court case would have had little effect given that the former army commander was still on the run. "Even after the elections, we felt like we were waiting for something bad to happen," says Marcelino Magno, chief of staff for Fernando de Araujo, East Timor's speaker of parliament. "There was a lot of tension building...
...Although the streets of Dili remained calm in the immediate hours after the attack, groups of youth loyal to Reinado vowed to gather for an anti-government rally. A government spokesman said forces were being mobilized to deal with the angry Reinado supporters. But for the people of East Timor, who know just how quickly low-level violence can escalate into widespread bloodshed, Monday was a day to stay inside. Many offices were shuttered, and NGOs warned their staff to stay home. "I don't dare go out," says one East Timorese, who works for the United Nations. "If even...