Diário de Notícias, 21/12/06
O Ministério Público de Timor-Leste arquivou o processo contra o ex-primeiro-ministro Mari Alkatiri no caso da alegada distribuição de armas a civis, por falta de provas, disse fonte judicial à Lusa. A mesma agência indicou que nem a Presidência da República nem o actual chefe do Governo timorense, Ramos-Horta, quiseram comentar a decisão.
No entanto, na habitual revista de imprensa de imprensa timorense ontem distribuída em Dili pela Missão da ONU em Timor, Ramos-Horta é citado como tendo dito que nunca acreditou que Alkatiri estaria envolvido na distribuição de armas.
“Nunca acreditei e nunca acreditarei que o Dr. Alkatiri ordenou a distribuição de armas”, disse Ramos-Horta, que substituiu o líder da FRETILIN na chefia do Governo, na sequência da demissão deste no auge da crise político-militar iniciada em Abril.
Em causa estão as denúncias feitas por “Railós”, antigo comandante da guerrilha contra a ocupação da Indonésia, que acusou Alkatiri de ter ordenado ao então ministro do interior, Rogério Lobato, que distribuísse armas a civis para eliminar adversários políticos, dentro e fora da FRETILIN.
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Pergunta: o Longuinhos não desmentiu a notícia?
ResponderEliminarCaros Amigos e Companheiros de viagem neste espaço
ResponderEliminar(envio este post/comentário para os blogs ‘Timor OnLine’ e ‘TimorDeNorteASul’)…
Nesta quadra natalícia recebi como presente de um casal amigo um pequeno livro (apenas pouco mais do de quatro dezenas de páginas) de poesia escrita por um Timorense, aquando da sua diáspora em Portugal… porquanto, pelas notícias que entretanto li ele se encontra actualmente na sua terra natal Timor-Leste…
Não quero deixar de partilhar convosco algum do imenso prazer que tive ao ler o livro, enviando um dos poemas de AFONSO BUSA METAN, poema que escreveu em Lisboa em 19.abril.1999….
“””””””””””
Sangue e hipocrisia
É vermelha a dor,
vermelho o horror,
e é violenta,
lenta,
valente,
impotente,
sofrente…
E há gente que mente
no cinismo prepotente,
decorrente deste mundo
que vê Timor ir ao fundo
e diz coisas piedosas,
maneiras ardilosas
de nada fazer afinal
nesta omissão fatal
que deixa assassinos à solta
e impunes os mandantes.
Tudo como dantes.
Tudo ainda mal.”””””””””””
PS: peço desculpas (e respectiva compreensão) para esta reprodução sem a devida autorização prévia do Autor e da Editora (SUL – é uma ONG com sede em Aveiro, tendo editado em 2001 um outro livro do João Paulo Esperança), tendo assumido esta ousadia pelo prazer e gosto de partilhar convosco esta obra, com o título “Cartas da terra dos malais”, editada em Dezembro.2005.
que 2007 represente e consolide a PAZ em Timor-Leste e traga o DESENVOLVIMENTO que as suas gentes necessitam… um abraço amigo do
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Note que esta notícia é velha e já fois desmentida pelo PGR.
ResponderEliminarO processo continua (?)
27/12/2006
ResponderEliminarAlkatiri is still a suspect: Monteiro
In response to news and rumours that former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri’s case of allegations of illegal distribution of weapons had been dropped, the Prosecutor General, Longinhos Monteiro stated that there is no official announcement as yet from his office on the issue. Asked about the status of Alkatiri in this regard, Monteiro said that “so far, his status is still as a suspect and there have been no changes yet to this status.” Monteiro further stated that in case of any change, whether archiving or processing the case, the public would be notified of all the processes and arguments supporting it. (DN & STL)
http://www.unotil.org/UNMISETWebSite.nsf/cce478c23e97627349256f0a003ee127/18bebe07d7728d214925725100267004?OpenDocument
East Timor leader to receive honorary degree
ResponderEliminarWednesday, January 03, 2007
By GARY McELROY
Staff Reporter
The leader of the 21st Century's newest nation is coming to Baldwin County in January.
His name is Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao. His country, which became a brand new democratic republic on May 20, 2002, is East Timor.
It takes up the eastern half of a large island in the Indonesian archipelago a few hundred miles north of Australia.
Thomas Rosandich, president and founder of the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, will serve as Gusmao's host. Rosandich said Tuesday that the occasion will be to bestow on his friend the academy's International Honorary Doctorate on Jan. 19.
Rosandich founded the Sports Academy more than 30 years ago. A few years later, he said, he delivered the institution to "sports friendly" Mobile, after visiting other potential U.S. sites from San Diego to Miami and a half-dozen points in between.
The academy offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and is associated with nations around the world, Rosandich said.
So is Rosandich. Through a military career and as a coach and educator, he was an early proponent of the Peace Corps and helped get it
established in Southeast Asia. Over the years, he served as an American sports ambassador for the U.S. State Department in more than 40 countries, even more as head of his sports institution.
Rosandich described Gusmao as an "unusual, very charming, very interesting man" whose 30-year political struggle was very much like that of Nelson Mandela in South Africa -- public service, imprisonment by authorities for his campaigns of freedom and independence and, ultimately, the exercise of state craft as East Timor's elected leader.
The sports academy, described as the largest free-standing institution of its kind in the world, is in the process of helping Gusmao and his nation build a sports program there, Rosandich said, in part through private foundations.
"It's the newest nation in the world and probably the poorest nation in the world," Rosandich said of East Timor, and Gusmao's visit is in part intended to help Rosandich help him "deliver the (sports) program in his country."
Tempered by his own international sports ties going back more than 50 years and his academy's position as "a nexus to the world," Rosandich said, it was in a position to give the kind of help East Timor needed.
Gusmao will be the fourth recipient of the academy's honorary doctorate, Rosandich said. It is a list that also includes the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Mandela, as president of South Africa.
The school has delivered athletic programs to more than 60 nations, Rosandich said. It is independent, academically accredited and nonprofit. It trains men and women who aspire to careers in sports, he said.
He said he got the idea for a United States sports academy during the Cold War, via his travels through various nations during athletic and Olympic competitions.
Rosandich said he was struck by certain eastern European countries' uses of, and applications to, the "science" of sports.
"They used sports science far better than we did in America," Rosandich said.
It was not long afterward, Rosandich said, that he began doing everything he could to make sure that would no longer be true.
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This is East Timor without Mari, without Portugueses... and hope.
ResponderEliminarEast Timor renegade Major Alfredo Reinado (C) is escorted by Australian
peacekeepers after arriving at the military headquarters to meet Brigadier
General Taur Matan Ruak in Dili December 21, 2006. An army rebel who played
a key role in the revolt that sent East Timor into chaos earlier this year
held reconciliation talks with the defence chief on Thursday on the crisis
that has beset the country and its security forces. REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca
(EAST TIMOR)
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao (R) smiles as he listens to an
unidentified organizer of the 8th Jakarta International Film Festival
(JiFest) after arriving for the premiere of a movie titlled "A Hero's
Journey" at a theater in Jakarta. The movie won the human rights award at
the festival.(AFP/Jewel Samad)
Portugal policemen escort East Timorese youths after a gang clash in Dili
December 17, 2006. A man was shot dead during a gang fight involving more
than 100 people near the Australian embassy in East Timor's capital on
Sunday, a family member said. REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca (EAST TIMOR)
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) shakes hands with his East
Timorese counterpart Xanana Gusmao at the presidential palace in Jakarta
December 16, 2006. Gusmao is in Jakarta to attend a special screening of the
feature documentary on him and his country's struggle for independence at
the Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest). REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA)
Timorese tribal warriors in Dili. East Timor is planning to cut red tape and
simplify legislation to help the poor and troubled nation attract foreign
investment and create much-needed jobs, President Xanana Gusmao
said(AFP/File/Candido Alves)
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 Feuding mobs, armed with machetes and other hand
weapons, give chase to rivals in the East Timor capital of Dili May 30,
2006. East Timor's beleaguered government was due to meet for a second day
of crisis talks on Tuesday as youth gangs loosely allied to feuding factions
of the armed forces defied international peacekeepers and torched cars and
buildings in the capital. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A member of the Australian peacekeeping troops
detains a Timorese mob member for setting houses ablaze in East Timor's
capital Dili May 28, 2006. Frightened Timorese packed churches to pray for
peace on Sunday, but gangs allied to feuding police or army units continued
to rampage through the capital, evading foreign peacekeeping troops and
torching homes and vehicles. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 A member of the Australian peacekeeping troops
detains a Timorese mob member for setting houses ablaze in East Timor's
capital Dili May 28, 2006. Frightened Timorese packed churches to pray for
peace on Sunday, but gangs allied to feuding police or army units continued
to rampage through the capital, evading foreign peacekeeping troops and
torching homes and vehicles. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao (2nd L) and Armed Forces Chief
Brigadier-General Taur Matan Ruak (2nd R) hold traditional weapons during a
ceremony marking International Human Right day in Dili December 10, 2006.
REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca (EAST TIMOR)
East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao, wearing a Santa Claus costume, gives
presents to children during the celebration of Christmas at his home in
Balibar, Dili December 23, 2006. REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca (EAST TIMOR)
Australian Prime Minister John Howard during a recent visit to Holsworthy
Barracks in Sydney. Howard has said that Australia would need to play a
major role in the region for the next 10 to 20 years to prevent instability
in countries such as Papua New Guinea, Fiji, East Timor and the Solomon
Islands.(AFP/File/Troy Bendeich)
East Timor without Mari and without portuguese is an East Timor without hope, without progress, without development, without education. Mari has stepped down long time ago and yet the violence, the deaths and the insecurity is still happening. Mari stepped down and yet more people died after that. Mari stepped down and services like Electricity are cut down. Mari stepped down and now we have a PM that spent most of his time away from the country. Mari stepped down and now we have a PM that releases documents in English only. Mari stepped down and now we have a PM that hits children, to make it worse the PM hit the child in public.
ResponderEliminarAustralian troops came and violence got bigger then ever. GNR came and Reinado was put in jail. So many australian troops out there and yet Reinado hasn't been caught.
Is East Timor really better off without Mari, the portuguese people and portuguese language?
Is East Timor in better hands now? Are we really sure that in the future the timorese children won't have to go through all this proccess over and over again?
Feel pity for all of you that think that this all "situation" happened for a good reason.