Ramos-Horta Recounts Shooting

ANCHOR:
East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta has recovered from a near fatal shooting that left him in the hospital for weeks. Now, for the first time, he talks to the public about the details of the shooting. Here's more:


STORY:
President Jose Ramos-Horta spoke for the first time on Wednesday
(March 19) about the assassination attempt on his life in February, which left
him critically wounded, and called for peace in East Timor.




[Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor President]:

"I remember every detail from the moment I was shot. I remember everything, the ambulance, a very old battered ambulance. No paramedic. A Portuguese special police unit. Luckily it had a paramedic who jumped in the ambulance and gave me the first assistance. On the way to the (Dili) heliport I fell off the chair a few times because there were no (seat) belts. I remember even though I was bleeding I was holding on tight. And I was telling the driver -- go slow. But maybe he was wise because it was only a matter of minutes for me to arrive there (at the military medical centre)."




Rebel soldiers ambushed Ramos-Horta during an early morning walk on Feb.
11, and also attacked Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.




Ramos-Horta was shot several times in the attack in which rebel leader
Alfredo Reinado was killed, while Gusmao escaped unharmed in the separate
attack. Rebel soldiers blamed for the attacks escaped a siege by security
forces last week.




Ramos-Horta, who is convalescing in Darwin, said he would be returning
to East Timor in a few weeks and called for peace in his small country. 


East Timor, Asia's youngest nation has been unable to achieve stability
since its hard-won independence from Indonesia in 2002.

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[NIN992]

si taco cabana? y tu es pelirojo y activo. So do Mexico no? y tu. si si si si si es fiesta.

[azimuth901]

en serio?? pero como??

[mayikeywest]

yO SOY HORTA ESTE ES MI FAMILIA ENTONCES .

[Mafra79]

Thank God GNR are there.

[senupret]

why you did not die, ramos?

[timoreseteens]

loron paskoa maun sira tolok mak nafatin. but one thing that you didn't know that alfredo has destroyed my future in timor, i mean not just me includes other teenagers that live in timor right now hopefully you have got you're teenagers brothers and you can observe it carefully. PEACE

[slvdrbarros04]

timoreseteens can u just shut the fuck up n mind your own fucking business? please be smart n don't be blind.Peace be with u!

[slvdrbarros04]

Shut the fuck up timoreseteens! who did u think u r? u know nothing! bastard!

[timoreseteens]

now you praise him before you were in alfredo sight and you fucking pay tribute to the criminal alfredo by making him a video, make up your mind man.

[slvdrbarros04]

Long Life Big Brother!