Acrescento apenas aos comentários anteriores, o facto do Sr Longuinhos ter-se gabado, em público, perante inúmeros funcionários internacionais da UNOTIL, que MATOU várias pessoas a tiro, na sequência de um ataque ao seu veículo, no início da crise.
Brincamos com coisas sérias?
Sr. presidente: anda a gozar na cara de quem?
Vê um programa de TV australiano e entra em roda livre de acusações ... tem testemunhas oculares e ouvintes, directas, aí à porta de casa, prontas a testemunhar as declarações do Sr Longuinhos e nada faz????
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Traduções
Todas as traduções de inglês para português (e também de francês para português) são feitas pela Margarida, que conhecemos recentemente, mas que desde sempre nos ajuda.
Obrigado pela solidariedade, Margarida!
Mensagem inicial - 16 de Maio de 2006
"Apesar de frágil, Timor-Leste é uma jovem democracia em que acreditamos. É
o país que escolhemos para viver e trabalhar. Desde dia 28 de Abril muito se tem
dito sobre a situação em Timor-Leste. Boatos, rumores, alertas, declarações de
países estrangeiros, inocentes ou não, têm servido para transmitir um clima de
conflito e insegurança que não corresponde ao que vivemos. Vamos tentar
transmitir o que se passa aqui. Não o que ouvimos dizer... "
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E os funcionários internacionais da UNOTIL que fazem?!
Pactuam em silêncio?!
OURO!OURO!OURO!
Eni Starts Blacktip Development Offshore Australia
ENI 6/30/2006
URL: http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=33664
Eni has started the development of the Blacktip gas field, located in the Timor Sea approximately 110 km off the shore of Northern Australia in the Bonaparte Basin, at a water depth of some 50 meters. The Blacktip field is fully owned and operated by Eni and has recoverable reserves of 150 million boe.
Through the development of the new field, Eni further strengthens its presence in Northern Australia and in the Timor Sea, where it was recently awarded five new exploration licenses. In the same area Eni holds 12% of the gas and liquids field of Bayu Undan, whose liquids production started in 2004, and 12% of the Darwin gas liquefaction plant, whose nominal capacity is 3.5 million tons of LNG per year.
The project provides for the drilling of 2 initial development wells, the installation of a production platform, the laying of a 108-kilometer long offshore pipeline and the construction of an onshore treatment plant with a capacity of 1.3 billion cubic meters per year.
The gas drilled from Blacktip field will be mainly used to generate electricity in Darwin and other Northern Territory locations, through a 25-year Gas Sales Agreement with Power Water Corporation. Production is planned to start in 2009 at an initial annual rate of 650 million cubic meters, increasing to 1.1 billion cubic meters.
Eni has been present in Australia since 2000. Current hydrocarbon production net to Eni averages about 30,000 boe/day. Eni is also operator with a 65% interest of the offshore Woollybutt oil field, which in 2005 accounted for some 30% of Eni's production in Australia.
President Xanana Gusmao has interfered with the investigations into the distribution of arms to civilians. President Xanana Gusmao has also interfered with East Timor's legal system when he commented on the legality of FRETILIN's Congress through the show of hands method.
When an international investigation was underway, President Xanana irresponsibly assured the people through a public medium about what result they expect. In fact President Xanana acted as the judge, the jury and the prossecutor and handed his verdict during his televised speech to the nation. ABC 4Corners' Liz Jackson was his investigator. It was trial by media. So whatever results the investigation and trial of the people involved will be, in the eyes of the public they are already guilty. President Xanana ignored an important universal code that everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. So even if those involved are handed a not guilty verdict, it appears that this won't mean anything. Judge Xanana has made his verdict. Acctually, I don't see why the international investigations need to go on. a verdict has already been handed and those innocent are guilty as charged by Xanana.
President Xanana also acted as if he was the judge in handing out a verdict that FRETILIN's Congress was illegitimate. If there were any illegality, East Timor's courts should be the one to determine. That is why there is a separation of powers between the judicial, the executive and the legislative branches. But it appears that the President is doing the jobes reserved excclusively to the judges or the judicial branch. So we have a president who is also a judge. What is the President of the Court of Appeal's role in all of this? It seemes that the President has also assumed the role of the courts.
I want to hear the highest court's opinion on this and its judgement.
So what if those alleged to be involved in the armed distribution were found to be guilty? What if FRETILIN's Congress is found to be legitimate and within the law? It doesn't matter. The President has already made his judgement. Everyone is guilty.
it seems that who is trying to interfere with the justice system is fretilin which is now discussing a reestructure of the Prosecutor General's office. It is clear that they are trying to change the rules of the game to cover up the crimes commited by their PM and MI, Mr. Alkatiri and Rogerio Lobato. Also it is very plausible that in fact it was a fretilin plot to undermine democracy in Timor-Leste and it involves more people than those two.
Very shameful and revealing. Of course it should not and must not be allowed. If they continue on this path the President should seriously consider the dissolution of Parliament.
Como e feita propaganda Australiana.NT News Sunday
Na questao das estradas pode ter certa razao mas quanto ao resto????????
“CORRUPTIONS BURNS DEEP”
Opinion
‘Anyone douting the extent of corruption and the urgent need for change in East Timor should take the 10 Km drive from Dili’s Komoro international airport to the city center’
Coment By Ian Mcphedran
Corruption lies at the heart of East Timor’s political crisis. And while the demise of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri clears the way for a fresh start and a major reforms in the fledgling nation, the journey will be fraught with danger.
This week’s outbreak of hostility shows just how
volatile the situation is. Dr.Alkatiri’s fiery and provocative speech to supporters, which triggered the violence, carried a simple message for Australia and other players involved. “ I may be out of office, but I am still in town.”
And the stakes are high. The Timor Gap oil deal will swell the nations coffers by billions of dollars. Creaming off aid dollars and kickbacks from Portuguese telcos and other investors is small compared with the big league of petro dollars.
Anyone doubting the extent of corruption and the urgent need for change in East Timor should take the 10 km drive from Dili’s Komoro international airport to the city centre. More than four years after independence, and hundred of millions of dollars of aid money later, the country’s most important and busiest road is a pothole-riddled goat track. Indonesia used to claim that it spent more money on infrastructure per capita in East Timor than in any other province in the republic.
Judging by the state of the country’s road in 1999 compared with now , that claim has a ring of truth about it. Indonesia built many of the roads after several hundred years of colonial neglect by Portugal. It is ironic that it is the pro Portuguese Alkatiri who has let them fall apart again. Since Independence, Mari Alkatiri’s brother Ahmed, who has a particular dislike for Australia, has had a major chunk of the road repair contract.
The streets of Dili are broken down and winding mountain roads leading out of the capiyal have deteriorated to such an extent they become virtually impassible after rain and are downright dangerous the rest of the time. These roads are the only communication links between Dili and the outlying towns and village.
Telecommunications is another area of neglect. Even during the recent street battles in dili dozens of phone card sellers stood on the strret corners peddling vastly expensive phone time. Timor Telecom runs the phones.
Telstra didn’t bid for the contract as it was told Australia was not welcome. The work was won by a Portuguese company that had to rent satellite space from Australia. How’s that for efficience?
The result is an ineffective phone system that most ordinary East Timorese cannot afford to use. Paying $14 for a phone card is just a dream for the average person struggling to get enough to eat. All of this
inefficiency mismanagement and corruption can be traced back to 2000 and the post independence pro- Portuguese push. Decisions such as adopting Portuguese as the official language and the US dollars as the national currency have their genesis in Lisbon and in the anti-Australia Portuguese in East Timor.
The hostility towards Australia is difficult to fathom, given our role in the freeing the country from the shackles and providing vast amounts of taxpayers dollars in the form of foreign aid, troops and police.
If the party and the country’s statement, suck as President Xanana Gusmao and ex-foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta, cannot sort out the mess, Australia should not be willing to bail them out at every turn.
Once royalties from the Timor Gap oil and gas fields begin to flow, the potentially for corruption and mismanagement will grow exponentially. The dodgy pratices associated with roads and telecommunications will pale
compared with the possible misappropriations od billions of dollars in oil revenues.
Statehood carries great responsibility and so far East timor has failed to live up to its most basic elements.
Mano cocorek
Sim, de facto, o PR até tem um belo argumento para 'salvar a face'- à boa maneira indonésia - porque o mandato do Sr. Longuinhos já terminou!
Bastava-lhe usar este argumento ... nem sequer teria de 'correr riscos' perante os instintos agressivos do Sr Longuinhos!
Não vá o Sr disparar novamente numa qualquer direcção ....
O jornalista (?) australiano toca as raias do caricato: a da escolha do USD como moeda nacional de Timor Leste ter sido feita em Lisboa é de escangalhar a rir.
De facto, a escolha é da EXCLUSIVA responsabilidade do FMI, que na época controlava, no quadro da UNTAET, a área das finanças e da moeda de Timor Leste através do CPO-Central Payments Office.
“It is clear that they are trying to change the rules of the game.”
Dear anonymous you certainly have some misunderstood on your mind.
The intention is not to change de rules but apply the rules.
Longuinhos Monteiro according to the east-timorese law is an illegal General-Prosecutor and if the President Xanana doesn’t do anything about what you think about the position of the parliament? Stay quiet and say yes to the illegalities?!
Por aquilo que sei O PGR foi atacado e defendeu-se. O seu proprio guarda foi morto pelos atacantes. Nao me parece que tenha sido ele a ir procurar um combate. A constituicao salvaguarda o direito de todos os cidadaos a auto-defesa.
Pelo que o anónimo sabe e outros dizem que não o Presidente já deveria ter ordenado uma investigação à actuação do Procurador-Geral.
Ou os inquéritos são só para alguns?
E já agora o que nos sabe dizer sobre o facto de o Presidente Xanana manter em funções um Procurador-Geral de forma ilegal.
Será também legitima defesa?
Iniciava-se a colonização inglesa da Austrália. No começo, esta era feita apenas com o objectivo de "esvaziar" as cadeias britânicas. Os condenados, após cumprirem a sua pena em solo australiano, recebiam uma pequena parcela de terra, isso desde que não houvessem habitantes nativos nelas, aos poucos foi-se ampliando o domínio dos ex-saqueadores ingleses naquele vasto e desprotegido continente.
Talvez seja esta a explicação para a postura da imprensa australiana...
http://dn.sapo.pt/2006/06/29/internacional/planos_alkatiri_prejudicariam_territ.html
indispensável ler
Helloooo!!!!
O governo INDICA o PGR, o PR APENAS o nomeia!!!
Mas que raio, a voçes fugiu-lhes a inteligência ou então querem por um Internacional de PGR!
Quanto ao Longuinhos ter morto não sei quantos. Tenham Juizo, o ouvi dizer só serve para calúnia. Só mais uma coisa, não é por espernearem aqui que Timor vos ouve, ou será que também isso não perceberam AINDA!!!
Ainda vamos ver o Presidente a dissolver o Parlamento por este se atrever a tocar no "seu" Procurador-Geral.
O caricato da situação é que se encontrem em funções Procuradores Internacionais das Nações Unidas e nada tenham feito para repor a legalidade na Procuradoria-Geral os quais recebem ordens e instruções de um Procurador-Geral que é sustentado no cargo de forma ilegal.
O que fazem os Senhores Procuradores Internacionais em Timor-Leste?
Recebem o salário e dançam conforme a música?!
Certamente não o fariam nos seus países de origem!
E o que faz o Senhor Eduardo Lobão da Lusa?!
Omite a informação quanto à ilegalidade do Procurador-Geral porquê?!
Quais são as suas verdadeiras intenções senhor Eduardo?!
Esperemos que outros jornalistas creditados escrevam sobre a real situação da Procuradoria-Geral de Timor Leste que é demasiado grave para que se faça silêncio.
O Governo há mais de um ano que solicitou ao Presidente a substituição do Procurador-Geral e não obteve qualquer resposta.
E quanto à suspeita de corrupção que recai há muito tempo sobre o Procurador-Geral?
E se visssem a casa do Procurador-Geral? Foi com o seu salário que a construiu?
E as declarações prestadas pelo Procurador-Geral sobre processos em segredo de justiça, violando a lei?
Chama a isto espermear?!!!
O PGR está ilegal? Lol, essa é de morrer a rir! Então queriam que não houvesse PGR? pois se não nomeiam outro, este fica em funções, ou costuma ser diferente? Abandona-se o cargo porque terminou o prazo e ficamos sem PGR? Hummm!!! tou a ver, já estão alguns a trepar (se calhar na cama de alguém) para lá chegar.
O governo não tem de solicitar nada, tem de indicar um nome. E quanto a ter solicitado, NÃO ACREDITO. Parem de mentir.
Se fosse pela casa e modo de vida, e a sua relação com o salário dos Timorenses, cof..cof...!! venham de lá muitas suspeitas.
Anonimo das 10:20:37
"esperMear" ?!?!?!?
Isso vem de ejacular ou algo parecido?
O nivel está a baixar bastante... interessante este debate de "idéias"...
3 Timorese Prosecutors Accused of Corruption
A Timorese citizen and his lawyers have accused three prosecutors of involvement in corruption during a press conference on Tuesday. Prosecutor General Longuinhos Monteiro, Prosecutor Benevides Correia Barros and Prosecutor Estaqiu Guterres are alleged to have shared the amount of US$8000 which they allegedly received in return for a false document saying that the money was handed to the Ministry of Justice. According to Akui Leong, his sister had brought the money into Timor-Leste when his father became very ill, but the money was seized at the border and the family was only allowed to collect the money later. It is alleged that some of the money was given to Longuinhos Monteiro at his request at his residence and then shared between the three prosecutors. (TP, Diario Tempo)
Was seized at the border? - What does the Prosecution office as to do with borders?
Akui Leong?
the money was seized and collected later? However the Prosecuters took it? the all 8000? Gosh what a bad plot, hire a new argument writer please!
The comment written in English by Mano Cocorek, should not go without an answer! The state of the road that he mentions is not proof of corruption. The 25 years that Indonesia spent in East Timor is! About all the funds that went to East Timor! They are in the pockets of the UN workers that were earning umbelievable sums monthly. The official language in East Timor is the Portuguese and why not? In Australia where the English convicts settled after cleaning most of the Aboriginal population (and still doing it today) the language is English.
As for Australia freeing Timor from the shackles... What a load of garbage! In 1999 they waited until the flames became ashes for them to go to East Timor. As for the monetary help, they are only giving back what they and the Indonesians took from East Timor Oil during 10 years! You are a Mano-ina cocorek!
Mr Ian Mcphadran, I am assuming your australian by the way your article is written. I have one question for you. What about the 55,000 Timorese that died "BAILING OUT" your 1500 commandos in 1942. So i guess in your view a Timorese life has a price.
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