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According to a pamphlet distributed at the speech by representatives of the East Timor Action Network of Boston, more than 200,000 East Timorese have lost their lives in the civil war and genocide that ensued...
...Those who earned the right to this award are, in fact, the people of East Timor," he said...
Ramos-Horta also credited the Catholic Church in East Timor for the humanitarian role it played in assisting victims...
...called upon the Clinton administration to appoint a special representative to East Timor, but acknowledged that "[The Clinton] administration has done more than any other previous administration or any other country" for the East Timorese...
While admitting that "there is no comparison" between the East Timor genocide and the Holocaust, Ramos-Horta stressed that some lessons learned from the killing of European Jewry in the 1940s are applicable today...