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Southeast Asia | |
East Timor leader in critical condition | |
2008-02-11 | |
OK, time for me to expand my sphere of attention. Can anyone provide a quick description of what this sttupid rebellion is all about? Are the "rebels" Christians or Lutherans? Is East Timor to Indonesia as Taiwan is to China?
President Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace laureate, was injured in the stomach. He was flown to a hospital in Australia in an induced coma, breathing through a ventilator, a spokesman for the company that airlifted him out of East Timor said. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped an attack on his motorcade unhurt. Army spokesman Maj. Domingos da Camara said rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his men were killed in the attack on the home of Ramos-Horta, while one of the president's guards also died. "I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed," Gusmao said. He called it a well-planned operation intended to "paralyze the government and create instability." | |
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