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Timor-Leste president José Ramos-Horta who was shot three times in an assassination attempt ten days ago has regained conciousness from the drug-induced coma he was put into. He’s in a stable condition and has talked with members of his family.
During his hibernation, JRH went through a number of surgeries. Doctors of the Darwin [...]

Update @ 09:43: Added details about assassination attempts. @ 09:47 Confirmed Darwin, and that JRH is in serious condition but alive. @ 09:56 Added about Reinado. @ 10:10 Confirmed JRH moved. @10:57 I’m on NowPublic.com.
I am very saddened by the news that my former boss (and Nobel peace laureate, president of Timor-Leste and general good [...]

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I must not have read my feeds very well because i was really surprised to find this set of photos of US marines on the shores (and elsewhere) of Timor-Leste. [...]

Yup. Lu’Olo and José Ramos-Horta will face each other the second and final round of the Timor-Leste presidential elections on the 9th of May.
Would be nice to have a good commentary on the situation and some what-ifs.  What if José RH became president?  He’s a competent figure and the outside world knows of him.  He [...]

The preliminary result of the presidential election in Timor-Leste is that no candidate got over 50% of the votes, and by that, there will be a second round of voting on the 8th of May. The two who in all likelyhood will compete in the finals are prime minister José Ramos-Horta and Parliament chief Francisco [...]

Much to my surprise, the presidential elections in Timor-Leste were featured in both the newspapers we subscribe to at home (Hbl, HS). It doesn’t seem unlikely that there will be a second round (meaning no candidate got over 50% of the votes cast), and it seems equally likely that my forner boss José Ramos-Horta will [...]

I haven’t written anything about Timor-Leste lately, partly because i haven’t even had the chance to keep myself updated on the situation there. Well, in short, it’s a whole lot messier than when i was there.
Anyways, it’s news time.  UN has decided to extend the Timor-Leste mission in Timor-Leste by twelve months (the AlertNet article [...]

Update: Wikipedia is following the East Timor crisis.
The situation in Dili has deteriorated into what seems to be full chaos. I am no longer worried for my friends’ well-being. I am scared. Dili was in the main Finnish news today for the first time since the independence four years ago. It was ugly.
Since my [...]

“…what i want is the deadliest weapon — it is truth.” (Fish: Vigil)
I got a message originating from the East Timor Studies mailing list. According to it, the situation in Dili is not as peaceful as the Government would want us to know.
According to the government version, only 5 people have died, and 75 wounded. [...]

BBC has an article on post-riot Timor-Leste with some background on both what happened and a bit of insight to the Timorese political scene.
And on Pacific Magazine, José Ramos-Horta says that given the right circumstances, he might run for UN Sec-gen after all. Ramos-Horta still says that his first and foremost obligation is to his [...]