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...East Timor wins formal independence under U.N. auspices. Gusmão had been elected President a month earlier...
...March-May 2006: An army revolt sparked by tensions between rival soldiers leads to riots that cause more than 150,000 people to flee their homes. An Australian-led force returns to East Timor just one year after international peacekeepers had left...
...April 9, 2007: A crowded field of candidates is expected to go to the polls, vying to be East Timor's next President...
...hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house...
...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...