Word: timorous
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Every day, the fancy jeeps cruise past Palmira Pereira's shack on the northern coast of East Timor. Sometimes, the passengers inside the air-conditioned vehicles raise their hands in greeting, and Pereira, or one of her 10 children, waves back. But the occupants of the cars-owned by the government, the U.N. or other organizations that are helping to run this infant country, which gained independence from Indonesia in 2002-have never stopped to meet the Pereiras. If they did, they would find a family that has not eaten rice in three months because of shortages that have nearly...
...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...
...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...