Público - 21 Novembro 2006
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O comandante das Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste, brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak, de 50 anos, admitiu ontem ao jornal australiano The Southeast Asian Times, de Darwin, candidatar-se no próximo ano à Presidência da República, como sucessor de Xanana Gusmão.
“Dediquei 31 anos de vida ao meu país. Estou preparado para fazer tudo o que ele me pedir”, respondeu aquele oficial general quando lhe perguntaram se é possível que se candidate à chefia do Estado, ele que - apesar de protestante - “tem o respeito da maior parte de uma população essencialmente católica”.
“Combati a Indonésia durante 24 anos sem ser anti-indonésio. Por que é que seria agora anti-australiano? Nunca vi um povo mais generoso do que os australianos”, disse o entrevistado ao jornalista John Loizou, esclarecendo o facto de ser crítico de alguns aspectos da intervenção que as forças militares internacionais têm tido em Timor-Leste.
“O Governo australiano tem de lidar com um novo povo e uma nova nação e terá de aprender como é que isso se faz”, sublinhou Matan Ruan, a propósito de alguns queixas de que os soldados de Camberra nem sempre se têm comportado muito bem em relação à população local.
Por outro lado, o comandante dos militares timorenses solicitou que o Parlamento de Díli efectue um inquérito à violência que este ano desestabilizou o país e que ainda domingo à noite levou à morte do brasileiro Edgar Gonçalves Brito, de 32 anos, missionário protestante da Assembleia de Deus.
Enquanto isto, o novo comandante do contingente da GNR portuguesa destacado em Timor-Leste, capitão Jorge Barradas, que substitui Gonçalo Carvalho, apresentou ontem cumprimentos ao primeiro-ministro José Ramos-Horta, no Palácio do Governo. Actualmente, encontram-se no país 142 agentes da GNR, incluindo alguns especialmente destacados para a Unidade de Protecção Pessoal de Ramos-Horta.
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terça-feira, novembro 21, 2006
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o ruak esta com sede de governar... comandar so ja nao pode... governar... nao e possivel... pensa ele que o seculo vinte e um e como o seculo vinte...
Anonymous, Terça-feira, Novembro 21, 2006 2:17:26 PM
Penso que o Sr/a anonimo ja esqueceu que o TMR era um suceso quando era o comandante das FALINTIL.
Nao vou gastar maiis tempo.
1000% APOIO TAUR MATAN RUAC
PRESIDENCIA DA REPUBLICA./
Afinal é mesmo verdade o que o Alkatiri disse sobre o Xanana (e xananistas) terem um grande medo de o Brigadeiro-General se candidatar à Presidência...
Viva o grande lider da resistencia armada da libertacao do nosso pais Timor-Leste. Viva o proximo Presidente da Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste, Taur Matan Ruak!!!!!!!
THE FOLLOWING IS AN ARTICLE FROM 2003. THE RECENT CALLS FOR INQUIRIES ARE NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ADF HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO ALLEGATIONS. LETS NOT FORGET THAT BRIG GEN RUAK KNOWS THE ADF WELL AS HE COLLABORATED WITH THEM IN 1999 DURING THAT NEW DEPLOYMENT. SOME F-FDTL VETERANS HAVE PUBLICLY SPOKEN ABOUT THEIR DISGUST WITH THE "METHODS" OF TE ADF AGAINST MILITIA. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE SAS ARE SERVING IN EAST TIMOR TODAY. THIS IS ALSO THE ARMY WHICH "KITTED OUT WITH MONEY AND A SAT PHONE" A YOUNG 14 YEAR OLD BOY SOLDIER AND INSERTED HIM INTO OECUSSI TO SPY ON THE GOINGS ON OF THE INDONESIAN ARMY AND THE MILITIA.
Amputation, execution, suicide: Timor troops accused
By Deborah Snow
June 7, 2003
Misconduct allegations against Australian troops during their 1999 deployment to East Timor included a claim of "unnecessary amputation" of a suspected militia member's arm, and suspicions about the reasons for the suicide of an Australian soldier.
These are among the claims outlined in a full list of the 19 allegations, released for the first time by the Defence Department after an investigation by the Herald.
More than half of the remaining allegations relate to controversial practices at a prisoner interrogation centre set up by some members of the elite Special Air Service regiment and army intelligence in Dili on the day two SAS troops were wounded in a militia ambush on October 6, 1999.
Despite a 3-year army investigation that found no offences proven in relation to the treatment of detainees, the Herald has uncovered disturbing new questions about who was in charge and what occurred at the Dili interrogation centre, where prisoners were blindfolded and bound, deprived of sleep, and paraded past the bodies of two militiamen. There are also new questions about the treatment of wounded detainees.
Sources close to the inquiry are concerned that the truth has not been fully uncovered about a range of allegations, despite the marathon investigation that ended earlier this year.
One source complained that trying to question the SAS had been akin to tackling the Cosa Nostra. "It was that sort of brick wall. The regiment [SAS] is family. It does not shit on its own. They think they're above the law . . . and they're never going to be held accountable."
The army released the findings of its inquiry into the 19 allegations in April, declaring that only one claim, "misuse of deceased", had been found to be substantiated.
That allegation, which arose from the aftermath of an ambush of the SAS by suspected militia members near the East Timorese town of Suai, has led to a former senior SAS soldier being charged with kicking a dead body.
There have been unexplained delays in bringing the case to trial, despite Defence promising early last month that a date was about to be set.
Among the allegations not previously known was a claim of "inappropriate behaviour" toward exhumed bodies in the enclave of Oecussi, and use of excessive force against a militia member who tried to escape. The department says neither was proven.
The investigation also found no evidence to support an alleged summary execution by an SAS soldier of a militia member. The suicide case, of an Australian soldier soon after his return from Timor, was eventually dismissed as being due to domestic causes.
The amputation allegation concerned a militiaman nicknamed Stumpy wounded in a clash with pro-independence Fretilin fighters, whose arm was amputated because of infection. There was a question mark over the amputation and also whether the stump had been "manipulated' during interrogation.
Defence says these allegations too were shown to be groundless.
SAS reeling over allegations of torture
PM - Thursday, 3 October , 2002 00:00:00
Reporter: David Weber
MARK COLVIN: For as long as two years now, it seems, the Australian Defence Force has been under investigation over claims of torture in East Timor, but news of the investigation has only been made public today; and it's not because the Army's given itself a clean sheet.
The Defence Force says so far it's only eliminated 12 out of nearly 20 claims.
The Army has been investigating a series of allegations, including claims that the SAS mistreated prisoners, and that a trooper may have shot a militia member in the head at point-blank range.
But the Federal Opposition says the allegations harm the reputation of the SAS, and has criticised the government for allowing the investigation to go on so long.
David Weber reports.
DAVID WEBER: The Defence Minister Robert Hill says the SAS is expected to observe the rules of engagement.
Senator Hill has nothing but praise for Australia's special forces. He says the allegations about torture are no more than claims at this stage.
ROBERT HILL: The AFP, the Federal Police, have been supporting the Defence Force in those investigations and when they are complete, we would make a public statement, but I believe in the presumption of innocence and that's the way that I see it at the moment, so I presume that the parties against whom allegations are made are innocent until proven otherwise.
DAVID WEBER: Is that the same about the claim that an SAS soldier may have shot a militia member from point blank range?
ROBERT HILL: As I said, there've been some allegations made. They go back a long way, and they've been thoroughly investigated. It's a complex investigation, but it's important that it is done carefully and thoroughly. It is not yet complete, it's well advanced but not yet complete, and when it's complete we'd make a public statement so everyone knows the position and what was the outcome.
DAVID WEBER: Should specialised frontline troops like the SAS be expected to go by the rules as such?
ROBERT HILL: Yes, Australians are very, Australian forces, and the Australian Government, is very committed to our forces operating within the rules. We set rules of engagement and they strictly abide by those rules, they want those rules, those rules are also a protection for the force.
DAVID WEBER: What about the other side? I mean, the militia weren't observing the rules of war as such, they were murdering civilians and so on.
ROBERT HILL: There are often very difficult circumstances. I can easily see that, but Australian forces operate within the rules and they're proud that they do so.
DAVID WEBER: What about the United Nations role?
ROBERT HILL: The United Nations has got a broader role, and there has been some overlap in this instance, and so they're doing their business and I'm not fully briefed on the detail of that, that's not really my concern.
DAVID WEBER: A war crimes investigation team from the United Nations has exhumed the bodies of two members of the East Timor militia, who were apparently killed by the SAS in 1999.
The Defence Force team that has been investigating the allegations wants to examine those bodies.
The head of the team is Colonial Terry McCullough [phonetic].
TERRY MCCULLOUGH [phonetic]: I don't know how they were killed, and that's why we will continue with our investigations, but what I can say is that we have interviewed a lot of people when examining that particular matter, and if there was evidence that I could charge somebody, or the military could charge somebody, we would do so.
DAVID WEBER: Former SAS troopers have told PM they'd be very surprised if any of the allegations were found to be true.
They've said the rules of engagement don't change, despite the increased pressures they face. They say that despite the covert nature of some operations, they also face the same scrutiny of other arms of defence.
But the Opposition's defence spokesman, Chris Evans, wants to know more. He says the Government should act to create an inspector general for prosecutions, so that such matters are investigated independently.
CHRIS EVANS: We have a very serious allegation against the Defence Forces that ought to be reported to the Parliament.
We ought to know exactly what's occurring in terms of the investigation, we ought to have confidence in the transparency and the speed and the independence of the investigation, and as I say, at the moment all we know is what we find out by accident as a result of the media investigations. That's just not good enough.
You can't get a more serious allegation than those being made, and this is going to be a slur on our Defence Force until it's resolved, and they deserve to have it resolved as quickly as possible.
JOURNALIST: You say they're treating the matter seriously, but they're involved in investigations as well.
CHRIS EVANS: I think they are taking it seriously. I am always uncomfortable with the suggestion that serious allegations and the military behaviour be investigated solely by the military.
I think that has a sense of Caesar investigating Caesar; I don't think that's adequate. The Government have a report calling on them to have an inspector general for military prosecutions. They've failed to act on that, they will provide an independent office responsible for prosecutions of military offences, and this case highlights again the need for that inspector general's office to be established, because you have I think always some concern when people are investigating their own behaviour.
DAVID WEBER: He says it's not accepted when allegations are made against the police, who are subject to independent investigations.
MARK COLVIN: David Weber reporting.
Officer's reputation at stake after '$2 million witch-hunt'
March 10 2003
An ex-SAS intelligence man says a row over the treatment of Timorese militiamen has spawned a three-year investigation. Murray Mottram reports.
In the early days of the military intervention in East Timor, Elvis Gusmao, second-in-command of the Aitarak militia, was taken into custody by Australian troops.
When SAS intelligence officers heard of the capture of Mr Gusmao, a man they believed to have worked closely with the intelligence arm of the Indonesian special forces, they raced to the detention centre in Dili.
With Australian troops heading on to a hostile battlefield for the first time since the Vietnam War, SAS intelligence officers such as Warrant Officer Class Two Wayne Douglas were keen to interrogate Mr Gusmao to find out what sort of threats the diggers faced.
But by the time the SAS men got to the detention centre, Mr Gusmao had left the building. He had been released along with other militiamen by Australian military police and sent across the border to West Timor. The SAS officers were angry such a juicy catch had slipped through their hands, and they let the MPs know it.
Later, a gang of 24 militiamen captured near Kom were also released before they could be interrogated, leading to a complaint from the SAS on the "revolving door" policy of the military police, who were responsible for detainees.
According to Mr Douglas, who resigned from the Defence Force last year, these early clashes sowed the seeds of a feud between the two units that has run out of control into a three-year, $2 million witch-hunt by military police bureaucrats. The only charge so far, against an SAS commander accused of kicking a dead militiaman, will be heard on Friday.
Mr Douglas says he is speaking out because he fears the officer may be railroaded to justify the time and expense of the investigation. "They (the military police) have really got to stick it to this guy or they will have to answer for a fruitless exercise," Mr Douglas said. "There are no complainants, all the allegations have come from the MPs themselves but it's all just rumour and innuendo.
"The SAS are hand-picked people of integrity, whereas MPs, in my experience, are volunteers who are not going to get promoted in their own unit so they go somewhere where straightaway they are somebody. They were saying they were doing it properly (handling detainees) and everyone else was doing it wrong . . . They let Elvis Gusmao go, then the 24 from Kom, the poor old MPs couldn't take a trick. They got a rocket over it and from then on it was as if they were on the opposite team."
Mr Douglas says that judging by the way the army ran an investigation into allegations against himself of assaulting detainees, the officer has been unfairly targeted.
He could not comment on the alleged abuse of the corpse - he was 150 kilometres away in Dili at the time - but he has spoken to the accused officer and he denies any misconduct.
A Defence Force spokesman denied the military police were conducting a vendetta against the SAS. He said the investigation was initiated in late 2000 by the Chief of the Army at the time, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, who led the Timor operation, in response to "a number of allegations from a variety of sources".
The spokesman said the cost of the investigation into 19 allegations of unacceptable behaviour was close to $100,000, including inquiries in Australia, New Zealand, England, and East Timor and "comprehensive legal advice". The allegations were not restricted to members of the SAS.
Dave Lewis, chairman of the SAS association, which represents former members of the regiment, described the investigation as "nonsense" and said the officer charged had an umblemished, 20-year record.
The inquiry centres on a shootout between militia and the SAS after the guerillas ambushed a convoy of detainees being dispatched to West Timor on October 6, 1999.
Two SAS men accompanying the convoy were shot and wounded in the ambush near Suai. The officer who has been charged was in the vehicle behind the one carrying the two wounded men, and he is credited with shooting at least one of the two militiamen killed in the ensuing gun battle.
Mr Douglas says 10 of the 115 militiamen rounded up after the gun battle were sent to him in Dili for interrogation. Because of their physique and apparent military training, they were suspected of being Indonesian agents. When they arrived in Dili they were blindfolded and handcuffed. Mr Douglas also received the two bodies at an airfield in Dili.
Mr Douglas was allowed 72 hours to question the detainees before handing them over to the military police. He photographed the suspects for his intelligence report.
Later he went to the hospital where two wounded militiamen were being held under the watch of a military police officer. Mr Douglas says the simmering "ideological differences" over the handling of detainees spilt over when he ordered the pair to be separated and photographed them. "He (the MP) burnt up - 'How dare someone tell an MP how to take care of detainees'," he said.
In the following days, Mr Douglas became aware of gossip that he had beaten up the detainees at the airfield, had dragged the hospitalised detainees down stairs and had been taking "trophy" photos. He reported the rumours to the military police commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Grutzner, who had the New Zealand military police investigate the allegations.
The investigation findings, obtained by The Age, cleared Mr Douglas of any wrongdoing and said witnesses supported his version of events. "It appears the naming of WO2 Douglas as the person who assaulted the detainees was an incorrect amalgamation of a number of different incidents allegedly seen by MP personnel. The use of an individual's name by the MP personnel was a significant lapse in judgement..."
However, two years later, when he had returned to Australia, Mr Douglas discovered the allegations had been resurrected and he was formally interviewed by military investigators. No charges were laid.
Mr Douglas believes some MPs believed mistreatment of detainees was "institutionalised" in the SAS and have been determined to take scalps.
Xanana volta à carga contra direcção da Fretilin
Adelino Gomes, Público, 21/11/06
Segunda parte do artigo "A teoria das conspirações"
O Presidente da República de Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmão, pediu ao comité central da Fretilin (CCF) que lhe dê os nomes das personalidades estrangeiras que alegadamente abordaram oficiais superiores das Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste (FDTL) para um golpe de Estado no país, dizendo que, se os receber, denunciará "essa conspiração internacional".
O pedido do Presidente consta da segunda parte de um artigo de resposta a acusações do CCF contra a sua actuação ao longo da crise de Abril/Maio que levou a confrontações sangrentas entre forças militares e policiais e à resignação do primeiro-ministro, Mari Alkatiri.
Publicado no único diário de língua portuguesa do país, Jornal Diário Nacional de Timor-Leste, sob o título "A teoria das conspirações", o artigo deverá ter, pelo menos, uma terceira parte, anunciada pelo autor no final deste segundo texto, divulgado a semana passada.
Xanana Gusmão reage neste segundo artigo a uma "análise da situação" subscrita pelo CCF, em 29 de Outubro, na qual os principais dirigentes do partido no poder atribuem a crise que Timor-leste atravessa a um "plano bem traçado", aplicado ao longo dos últimos quatro anos com o objectivo de criar "um clima de caos e ingovernabilidade" e que passava pelo aliciamento das forças armadas para um golpe para "salvar o país" de um "governo impopular" [da Fretili]. O alegado aliciamento teria sido levado a cabo por personalidades estrangeiras e por elementos ligados à Igreja e aos partidos da oposição, segundo chegou a declarar o próprio Mari Alkatiri, citando informações que lhe haviam chegado de oficiais superiores das FDTL.
"Esforço de cooperação"
O Presidente enumera um conjunto de "muitas diferenças de postura" relativamente a Alkatiri, entre as quais o pedido de demissão do ex-ministro Rogério Lobato, a escolha do primeiro embaixador, a legislação sobre impostos e imigração, o Código Penal e, mais recentemente, a "contratação política", pela Fretilin, do Korka, um grupo de artes marciais que passou a fazer a segurança das reuniões deste partido. Apesar destas "importantíssimas" diferenças, porém, houve um "esforço de cooperação" entre os dois órgãos de soberania.
No texto, carregado de expressões sarcásticas em relação à direcção da Fretilin eleita no último congresso e em particular aos dirigentes que viveram no estrangeiro durante a ocupação indonésia, Xanana acusa o ex-chefe do Governo de duplicidade. Alkatiri, conta, disse-lhe que desconfiava do papel de Lobato nas confrontações de 28 de Abril, mas poucos meses depois foi eleito vice-presidente da Fretilin, de que o ex-primeiro-ministro é secretário-geral. "A acusação, afinal, era falsa. Não brinquemos a acusar levianamente as pessoas", critica o Presidente timorense.
http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/noticias.asp?a=2006&m=11&d=21&uid=&id=108533&sid=11965
Xanana afirma que Fretilin vive trauma psicológico
Xanana Gusmão tem recorrido à Imprensa para criticar FRETILIN
Jornal de Notícias, 21/11/06
O Comité Central da FRETILIN "está num esta do de trauma mais psicológico do que político", considera o presidente de Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmão, em artigo publicado ontem no Jornal Diário Semanal, respondendo a mais um capítulo do documento "Análise da Situação e Perspectivas", divulgado em 29 de Outubro, pelo Comité Central do partido maioritário timorense.
Segundo a agência Lusa - que transcreve muitas das afirmações que Xanana Gusmão subscreve ao longo de cinco páginas do referido jornal -, as críticas do presidente timorense já tinham vindo a público, em outros dois textos na Imprensa, divulgados nas duas segundas-feiras anteriores.
Desta vez, Xanana Gusmão aborda pontos relacionados com a "firmeza da posição do Comando das Falintil-Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste (F-FDTL), na defesa da Constituição e das instituições democraticamente eleitas", conforme o documento da FRETILIN refere.
Assinalando que esse documento voltou a ser distribuído a 8 d e Novembro, numa iniciativa promovida pela Presidência da República (tendo em vi sta a consolidação do processo de diálogo e reconciliação nacionais), Xanana Gusmão revela que, em Maio passado, em plena crise político-militar,esteve para se realizar um encontro secreto entre o comandante das Forças Armadas, general Taur Matan Ruak, e os três majores que tinham abandonado semanas antes a cadeia de comando. Apesar de o encontro não ter chegado a realizar-se, Xanana Gusmão revela a iniciativa para responder às acusações da FRETILIN sobre pretensas movimentações para dividir e enfraquecer as Forças Armadas.
"Se isto era 'dividir as F-FDTL, enfraquecendo-as', o secretário-geral do partido [Mari Alkatiri] não informou correctamente o ilustre CCF! Porque ele sabia das iniciativas do seu ministro Ramos-Horta, às quais nós demos o nosso inteiro aval", responde Xanana Gusmão.
http://jn.sapo.pt/2006/11/21/mundo/xanana_afirma_fretilin_vive_trauma_p.html
É a 1ª vez que entro neste blog, e fiquei espantado ao ler estes comentários mesquinhos que revela a total ignorância. Não sou contra o Taur Matan Ruak, mas acho não é a pessoa p/ ser o Chefe de Estado. Para o cargo de um chefe de Estado deve ser uma pessoa culta e não um guerrilheiro. Para isso chamava o Mike Tyson p/ se candidatar.
Quanto ao Alkatiri e Rogério nem vale a pena comentar...
Transcrição por não estar on-line:
Protesto
Marcha silenciosa contra a violência em Timor-Leste
Diário de Notícias, 21/11/06
Por: Armando Rafael
Centena e meia de brasileiros residentes em Timor-Leste vão desfilar hoje numa marcha silenciosa pelas ruas de Dili, em protesto contra a violência que provocou a morte a Edgar Brito, o pastor evangélico que foi assassinado no domingo.
Nesta marcha, que vai percorrer a parte central da cidade e terminar junto à igreja de Motael, deverão participar outras comunidades de estrangeiros que vivem no país, e que têm estado a ser convocados por sms, de acordo com a Lusa.
Edgar Brito foi o primeiro estrangeiro a ser vítima dos confrontos que se têm verificado na capital timorense, tendo, aparentemente, sido atingido pela violência entre grupos rivais de jovens timorenses, quando se dirigia para sua casa.
A morte deste pastor evangélico foi já condenada pelo governo timorense, tendo o primeiro-ministro Ramos Horta expressado a sua tristeza e indignação. “Trata-se de uma notícia trágica”, frisou Ramos-Horta, num primeiro comentário à morte de Edgar Brito, que, segundo o mesmo responsável, acabou por ser “vítima de pessoas que têm muito ódio dentro de si”.
Numa reacção posterior, Ramos-Horta viria a manifestar ainda esperança de que a morte deste cidadão brasileiro pudesse levar a população timorense a reagir, ajudando a acabar com a violência, num dia em que foi descoberto um outro cadáver: o de João de Barros, membro da comissão de reconciliação comunitária e que estava desaparecido.
O que ajuda a compreender melhor o apelo lançado pelo embaixador de Portugal em Timor-Leste, instando as cinco centenas de portugueses que residem no território a evitarem zonas de risco.
A declaração de Ramos-Horta depois das autoridades de Díli terem pedido à ONU que reforçasse as medidas de segurança, de forma a que os assassinos do pastor brasileiro fossem capturados.
Neste ambiente que se vive em Dili, não surpreende que terceiro artigo de opinião do Presidente Xanana Gusmão sobre a crise timorense não tivesse suscitado, para já, grandes reacções no país,
Quem tambem deve estar a sofrer trauma psicologico e a Margarida e o bando de apoiantes do Mari. As declaracoes do Xanana estao a afectalos por isoo as criticas aumentam e tentam dividir para reinar a ultima arma e propor o Taur para Presidente
Nem pensar em candidatar o Taur para presidente ,porque se isso acontecer , a situação será ainda pior , porque o Taur é uma pessoa que fala pouco e maneja muito em armas. Ele é uma pessoa emocionante. Acreditem !
Ainda não percebeu que não são os partidos que propõem candidatos à Presidência da República mas tão somente cidadãos eleitores?
E também ainda nem percebeu que quem anda afectado é o Xanana (e os xananistas) e de tal modo que a um comunicado do CCF de 4,400 palavras ele já respondeu com 3 artigos com mais de 173,000 palavras e ainda não acabou? Quer maior sinal de perturbação do que este?
Aqueles que continuam a insistir em vir 'espreitar' este Blog só para depois causar confusão e, na ausência de capacidade de argumentação, recorrer ao insulto, pegam agora em Taur Matan Ruak.
O facto de os jornalistas terem interpretado as palavras do Brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak como admissão da possibilidade de candidatura à Presidência da República NÂO significa que ele o tenha afirmado, ou sequer sugirido tal coisa. Só quem não lê jornais é que não sabe como os jornalistas buscam as ditas 'pistas' para tornar os artigos apelativos e inovadores em conteúdo e, consequentemente, vender mais.
Este mesmo Blog, publicou ontem a referida entrevista ao 'The Southeast Asian Times' e se estas pessoas que hoje insultam e disparatam entrassem neste Blog com espírito construtivo e respeito por outros, diriam que aquilo que o Brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak afirma que é que 'Dediquei 31 anos ao meu país. Estou preparado a fazer aquilo que o país exigir de mim'.
Se se derem ao trabalho de ler as entrevistas ao Brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak ou os discursos e textos por ele escritos ao longo de muitos anos, verificarão que esta é a postura recorrente que sempre adoptou e reafirmou.
A primeira pessoa a afirmar que não é a pessoa detentora das características necessárias a um Chefe de Estado, é o próprio Brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak.
Felizmente para Timor-Leste, é um homem que se conhece bem e tem a inteligência de se esforçar por se conhecer a si próprio e aprender e esforçar-se por suplantar as suas deficiências.
Infelizmente para Timor-Leste, não existem mais pessoas com o coração, a estatura e o grau de humildade do Brigadeiro Taur Matan Ruak.
Entre as qualidades do Brigadeiro-General já aqui referidas, tais como o sentido de estado e da justiça, as suas maiores virtudes são, contudo, a sua curiosidade intelectual, a dignidade e sobretudo a honestidade.
Com o Brig-Gen como Presidente da República Timor-Leste ganharia seguramente um homem que levaria o nome do país mais longe e o tornaria mais respeitado e mais consolidado como Estado. Ganharia um Presidente em que poderia ter certeza que nunca colocaria seu interesse particular à frente do interesse colectivo.
A sua maneira humilde de ser e de estar só pode enganar os que não o conhecem suficientemente.
Verdadeiros aristocratas do coração e governantes são as pessoas que antes de tudo o resto deixam transparecer sua humildade .
Petra
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