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Cycling: Tour begins

Cycling: Tour of East Timor began with the logistical support of UN

Cyclists in the Tour of Timor. /

September 13, 2010

Supported by the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT

), the second edition of the Tour of Timor, an international race of mountain biking , took the start Monday at the Presidential Palace in Dili, the capital of the country.

Over 360 participants from 20 countries will travel for five days around 420 km of slopes in western countries. The riders will pass through the provinces of Liquica, Bobonaro, Covalima, Ainaro, Aileu and Dili. In 2009, the first edition brought together 288 runners.
UNMIT chartered equipment for the riders and transports supplies (water, lights and generators) at each step. An ambulance was also provided by the Mission.

The race consists of over 6.5 km of coastline. Seventy four Timorese women participate in the Tour. A total of 64 women will compete. The first stage is 123 kilometers including a kilometer climb to the town of Balibo. Timor-Leste is represented by 12 local teams of four runners and the national cycling team. Many members of the Timorese police forces involved in the event.



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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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