Subject: LUSA: Tolerance of Pro-Jakarta
Collaborators a Must - Ramos Horta
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>11 FEV 99 - 19:30 East Timor:
Tolerance of Pro-Jakarta Collaborators a Must - Ramos Horta
Lisbon, Feb. 11 (Lusa) - An independent East Timor will need to practice "acts of
tolerance and generosity" with former collaborators, resistance leader Jose Ramos
Horta said Thursday after an audience with Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio. Ramos Horta
is the vice president and overseas representative of the Timorese National Resistance
Council (CNRT). To forgive and tolerate former collaborators with the Jakarta regime would
be the greatest act of bravery the resistance could show, he said. Ramos Horta stated that
he was not contradicting the views of East Timor Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, who wants an
international court to judge those accused of human rights violations in East Timor.
Indonesia's own military command has removed a number of high officials responsible for
criminal acts in East Timor, he added. Belo and Ramos Horta shared the 1996 Nobel Peace
Prize for their efforts to peacefully resolve the question of East Timor, the former
Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia since 1975.
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