Word: xanana
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...Monday morning, it looked as though the Australian-trained soldier's belief in his abilities had been ill-founded. Reinado was gunned down outside President Jose Ramos-Horta's compound during what authorities claim was an assassination attempt on the country's President and its Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. Reinado's comrades angrily deny this and say their commander had been invited into town for a meeting when he was attacked, and that Ramos-Horta was caught in the ensuing gunfight. Whatever the truth, the incident left Ramos-Horta with gunshot wounds to the stomach and back...
...where hospital staff have characterized his situation as serious but stable. The leader of the rebel soldiers, Alfredo Reinado, was killed in a shoot-out with presidential security guards, according to an army spokesman. The spokesman confirmed that shots had also been fired at a car carrying Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, but that he had escaped unscathed...
...Clad in Australian Army battledress, toting a machine gun and surrounded by armed bodyguards, Reinado says he will never lay down his weapons: "Why? Who does this [gun] belong to? It doesn't belong to Xanana [Gusmão, the new Prime Minister] or Horta. It belongs to the people of this country." Besides, he adds, many others have illicit weapons. "What do they do about those people...
...than 150,000 fled their homes as tensions between the local police and military erupted. But last week it appeared some Timorese were still willing to make mischief to further their political ambitions. On Monday, President Jose Ramos-Horta announced the appointment as Prime Minister of former resistance fighter Xanana Gusmão, who leads a coalition made up of his own party, the National Congress for the Reconstruction of East Timor, the Timorese Social Democratic Association, the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Party. The coalition holds 37 of the Parliament's 65 seats, giving it a substantial majority...
...elections on Saturday resulted in no one party capturing a majority. Preliminary official results released on July 5th gave former ruling party Fretilin 29% of the vote, while the National Congress for the Reconstruction of East Timor (CNRT), the party newly formed by popular ex-President and independence fighter Xanana Gusmão, trailed with 24%. The split vote means that East Timor - already fractured along geographical and socioeconomic lines - will most likely be ruled by a coalition government composed of squabbling members. "We will try to find agreement," says Fernando de Araujo, whose Democratic party may be a member...