President Jose Ramos Horta made a warmly greeted return to East Timor last week, two months after he was shot in an early morning encounter with rebels. By all accounts, he has made a remarkable recovery, but his country's wounds are slower to heal.
DILI: East Timor's parliament agreed yesterday to lift a state of emergency imposed following an attack on President Jose Ramos-Horta in February, parliament speaker Fernando de Araujo said. The approval came after Ramos-Horta asked parliament to lift
East Timor's president will pardon a former government minister who armed civilian hit squads during the violence that destabilised the nation in 2006. Rogerio Lobato is one of 80 criminals to be pardoned on the anniversary of East Timor's independence
EAST Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta will pardon a former government minister who armed civilian hit squads during the violence that destabilised the nation in 2006. Rogerio Lobato is one of 80 criminals to be pardoned on the anniversary of East
EAST Timor's President intends to pardon a former minister who has served just five months of a seven-year jail term for arming civilian hit squads in the troubled nation. President Jose Ramos Horta yesterday said he would pardon 80 criminals when East
The East Timorese President has alleged that soon after he was gunned down by armed rebels in early February, some people involved in the assassination attempt fled to Australia. President Jose Ramos-Horta has given a lengthy speech in the National
A former East Timor government minister jailed for inciting much of the civil unrest two years ago is to receive an official pardon. The former interior minister, Rogerio Lobato, was jailed for seven years after helping to ferment the violence that