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Timor President pardoned his attackers

Pacific News - 25/08/2010

Ramos-Horta 23 just pardon rebels who carried out attacks in the capital, Dili, in 2008. Rebels who shot him in the back twice in February of that year.

President of the East Timorese had to undergo surgery urgently Australia.

All 23 detainees will be freed within days. Among them, one of the assailants, Marcelo Caetano, who apologized to Jose Ramos-Horta. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison last March.
These men are also victims, said Jose Ramos-Horta, justifying his actions.

According to the weekly East Timorese Tempo Semanal, "a presidential pardon that is widely criticized.
For some, it only reinforces the "culture of impunity

" that prevailed in Timor Leste. In late 2009, the government had pardoned a former leader of pro-Indonesian militias, yet the UN-appointed as responsible for the massacre of hundreds of East Timorese in a church in Suai in the south-west in 1999.


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