Word: xanana
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...formal independence in 2002, the world considered the country a victory of U.N. nation-building. The U.N. chief in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was asked to duplicate his work as special envoy for Iraq (he was later tragically killed in Baghdad), and East Timor's former President Xanana Gusmão (now Prime Minister) declared that his country could be a model for other young, developing countries. Yet the billions poured into East Timor, and the thousands of aid workers who descended on tiny Dili, failed to solve the fledgling nation's critical problems. And when the world...
...members of the International Stabilization Force attempting to restore calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with the Feb. 11 attacks on President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. They slipped up the ladder, through the upper story, down the stairs and into one of the bedrooms, where they tapped the leg of a figure lying on a bed. Their prize gave a piercing girlish scream. It was not the ruthless guerrilla fighter they were hoping...
...This government won't fall because of this.' Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, Jos? Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead...
...This government won't fall because of this.' XANANA GUSMAO, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, José Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead...
...said. "Why are they scared to talk at the table, sit publicly with open dialogue? Why are they so scared that they want to kill me?" He held Ramos-Horta and Gusmão partly to blame for the Same raid. "Ramos-Horta was in the meeting with Xanana when they agreed to do this thing," he said. "What threat do I make for this nation? Which civilian do I threaten or kill? I have a right also to defend myself." He vowed never to lay down his arms. "Who does this gun belong to? It doesn't belong...