In 1996 East Timorese activists Carlos Belo & Jose ramos-horta won this international prize
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Timorese Bishop and Exile Given Nobel Peace Prize - The New ...  Oct 12, 1996 ... Nobel Peace Prize for 1996 goes to the Roman Catholic Bishop of East Timor, Carlos Ximenes Belo, and Jose Ramos-Horta, an exiled ... Australia, is the principal international spokesman for the Timorese independence movement. ... by the Indonesian Government on independence activists in East Timor.
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Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - Wikipedia  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo SDB, GCL (born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with Jos Ramos-Horta, he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for ... and the UN Secretary-General, calling for a UN referendum on the future of East Timor and for international help for the East Timorese,...
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Jos Ramos-Horta - Wikipedia  Jos Manuel Ramos-Horta GCL AC is the United Nations' special Representative and Head of ... He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime ... After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was .... The Roman Catholic priest Carlos Belo of East Timor and Ramos-Horta were...
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East Timor Activists Win Peace Prize - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  October 12, 1996|By From Tribune News Services. ... East Timor, which is 80 percent Roman Catholic, is between the Indonesian island of Java and the northwestern tip ... By winning, Bishop Belo, 48, and Ramos-Horta, a 51-year-old former guerrilla, receive a $1.12 million cash prize and international acclaim. The Nobel...
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Press Release - Nobel Peace Prize 1996 - Nobelprize.org  ... Prize 1996. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jos Ramos-Horta ... Ramos-Horta has been the leading international spokesman for East Timor's cause since 1975.
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East Timor - Wikipedia  East Timor or Timor-Leste officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Portuguese: Repblica Democrtica de Timor-Leste, Tetum: Repblika Demokrtika Timr-Leste), is a sovereign state in Maritime Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor; the nearby islands of .... During World War II, the Japanese occupied Dili, and the mountainous...
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jeopardy/2787_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FUN WITH COUNTRY NAMES | Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent ... In July 2001 a cargo plane brought the salvaged parts of a U.S. spy plane back to...
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Shirin Ebadi - Wikipedia  Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her .... Pope John Paul II had been predicted to win the Peace Prize amid speculation that he was nearing death.
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East Timor - Wikipedia  East Timor or Timor-Leste officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Portuguese: ... Effective European occupation of a small part of the territory began in 1769, ... Indonesia declared East Timor its 27th province on 17 July 1976 (Timor .... The capital, largest city, and main port is Dili, and the second-largest city is the...
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History of East Timor - Wikipedia  East Timor is a country in Southeast Asia, officially known as Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. The country comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor and the nearby .... independent East Timor. The coalition between Fretilin and UDT later broke up. ..... East Timor became formally independent on 20 May 2002.
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Ernesto Zedillo | The Elders  Nelson Mandela. (1918-2013) Founder. Martti Ahtisaari. Former President of Finland; Nobel Peace Laureate and expert in international peace mediation, diplomacy and post-conflict state building. Kofi Annan. Chair of The Elders. Ela Bhatt. Lakhdar Brahimi. Gro Harlem Brundtland. Fernando H Cardoso. Jimmy Carter.
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East Timor country profile - BBC News - BBC.com  Sep 4, 2015 ... East Timor's road to independence - achieved on 20 May 2002 - was long and traumatic. ... Portuguese take the eastern half. ... 1975 - Portuguese administration withdraws to offshore island of Atauro. .... 1 Rolling out for Halloween  2 FBI chief 'may have broken law'  3 Mars warning over deep-fried bar...
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A Nobel Peace Prize for Costa Rica - The Donella Meadows Institute  That is one reason why it awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Peace to Oscar Arias ... of the award, accepted it not for himself, but for Costa Rica and all Central America. ... Thirteen years ago, when he was only 33, Oscar Arias Sanchez was his ... to take determined stands for democracy, for the environment, and for peace.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 1954 - Milestones in ...  In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the ... and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. ... military alliance, though these countries were ultimately included in the area ... that plagued the region in the post-colonial years, the SEATO defense treaty...
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The Blessed Hills of Dili - Sat, July 23 2016 - The Jakarta Post  Jul 23, 2016 ... Timor Leste separated from Indonesia in 1999 and became a new country in 2002. Interestingly, Dili, the capital, emanates a strong aura that...
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Timor-Leste | icma.org  Government house in Dili (East Timor). Formerly known as East Timor, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a relatively new country that shares the island...
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Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100 | Dissent Magazine  Mar 25, 2014 ... The poet was then Mexico's ambassador to India. ... Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, he absorbed many of the ... Also at a young age, he witnessed the first incident in what became one of ... Paz also became known for No Pasaran, or They Will Not Pass, a .... (He would win this prize in 1971.).
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Foreign relations of East Timor - Wikipedia  After the referendum on independence on 30 August 1999, East Timor became an independent ... 1.6 Mozambique; 1.7 Philippines; 1.8 Portugal; 1.9 Russia; 1.10 South Korea; 1.11 United States .... The establishment of diplomatic relations between the East Timor and the Republic of Korea began on 20 May 2002.
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East Timorese independence referendum, 1999 - Wikipedia  An independence referendum was held in East Timor on 30 August 1999. The referendum's ... The SARET would have been entitled to participate in cultural and sporting organisations where other non-state entities participate.
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TAIWAN'S LEADER WINS ITS ELECTION AND A MANDATE - The ...  Mar 24, 1996 ... By PATRICK E. TYLER MARCH 24, 1996 ... President Lee Teng-hui swept to an election victory today that exceeded all ... This island's voters gave Mr. Lee a strong mandate in their first ... "This is a proud day for all Chinese people around the world," said Martin Lee, head of Hong Kong's Democratic Party.
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Asia - Department of International Relations and Cooperation  Feb 13, 2004 ... Although the culture and traditions of the nations of East Asia are .... South Africa and North Korea established diplomatic relations on 10 August 1998. .... for co-operation in these areas between South Africa and East Timor.