East Timor State of Emergency

WONG:
Dili has gone quiet as shops, markets and schools are closed, and police set up roadblocks in preparation for a new spate of violence. Around 2,600 U.N. police and Australian soldiers are patrolling the East Timor capital and other cities. They fear more violence by rebel soldiers because their leader was killed in the surprise pre-dawn assault.

STORY:
East Timor's interim president, Vicente Guterres, declared a state of emergency and appealed for calm. Apparently coordinated attacks against the president and prime minister have thrown the young nation into a fresh crisis.

Guterres said that meetings and protests were banned and all citizens were advised to stay at home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. The Australian Defence Force deployed additional troops to East Timor on Tuesday to begin enforcing a two-day state of emergency. It was declared after a double assassination attempt left president Jose Ramos-Horta in hospital with triple gunshot wounds.

Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said the circumstances of the attack and its aftermath would be investigated by security forces.

President Horta remains in a critical condition in hospital.

Horta, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for waging a nonviolent struggle for independence, was shot at his home early on Monday by renegade soldiers. His bodyguard was injured and two rebel soldiers died in the shoot-out. The East Timorese government says it was a coup attempt.

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[punhada]

"AND jESUS SAID THE ONES THAT LIVE BY THE SWORD SHAL DIE BY THE SWORD" REINADINHO NAO ERA UM ANJO E MUITA GENTE MORREU POR SUA CAUSA!

So in the end Jesus was right!

[saravito]

no one was killed bastard