Gusmao's former enemies embrace call for peace in ETimor
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Indonesia's former armed forces chief, charged with committing atrocities in East Timor, gave a symbolic show of support for the tiny state's President Xanana Gusmao at a rare weekend meeting.
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East Timor&#039;s president has issued an appeal for calm as thousands of supporters of ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri prepared to camp out after rolling through the capital in a major show of strength.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday said it was police personnel who shot dead two activists during campaign rallies for a new party headed by former East Timor president Xanana Gusmao.
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Stone-throwing youths attacked refugee camps and torched homes in East Timor, raising tensions as thousands of supporters of ex-premier Mari Alkatiri waited outside the capital Dili.
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East Timor&#039;s President Xanana Gusmao said that Major Alfredo Reinado, the leader of about 600 renegade soldiers, was not to blame for the crisis in the tiny, impoverished country.
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Indonesian ministers and exiled rebel  leaders seeking the independence of the tsunami-devastated Aceh  province agreed with Finnish mediators on Thursday to hold  face-to-face talks about ending nearly 30 years of fighting.
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As the number of leftist activists murdered in the Philippines rises, Bishop Eliezer Pascua points to a constant among people speaking out on political matters in his country: No one feels safe.
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Senior Indonesian officials and  separatist rebels, brought together by the tsunami that ravaged  Aceh province, met for the first time in nearly two years on  Friday to try to forge a deal to end 30 years of war.
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This tropical island nation that has long been an ethnic cauldron of disagreement and violence remains one today, even in the face of a national tragedy that&#39;s seen 12,500 people perish in monster tidal waves.
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Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos,  who secured a peace deal with Muslim separatist rebels in 1996,  called for a truce on Monday to end eight days of clashes on a  remote southern island with two groups of militants.
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Kenya's political foes  discuss crucial political issues to try to end the violence which has claimed more than 1,000 lives.
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Indonesian officials and separatist  rebels, brought together by the tsunami that devastated Aceh  province, met for the first time in nearly two years on Friday  to try to forge a deal to end 30 years of war.
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BARR REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda  - Walter Emodo shudders as he recalls the day Ugandan rebels attacked his village two years ago, killing his younger brother and changing his formerly peaceful childhood forever.
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With names like "Cold Blooded Killers", "Provoke me and I'll Smash You" and "Beaten Black and Blue", East Timor's youth gangs promise mayhem on streets which not so long ago offered hope.
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Fierce gunbattles raged in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops arrived in the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As Indonesia awaits next month&#39;s formal announcement that its new president will be Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the former army general has pledged to seek an end to the bloody separatist war in Aceh province.
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Fighting between disgruntled former soldiers and the military left at least two people dead in East Timor on Tuesday, as Australia and New Zealand offered to provide troops to the tiny nation to help restore calm.