Monday, January 08, 2007
REPLY to the commensts on "How did Alfredo Reinado get his hands on the LAW M72 rocket launcher?"
Thank you to all of you who replied to this the post "How did Alfredo Reinado get his hands on the LAW M72 rocket launcher?" Here are my answers.
Alfredo Reinado. Defending whose interests?
Thank you for alerting me that the man pictured with the Styer is Leandro Isaac and not Joe Goncalves. I have always confused these two men who belong to the same PSD party, although Leandro was later expelled. Leandro Isaac is more of a talker, brutish and a thug who throughout his time working for his Indonesian bosses was wellknown for his disrespect for women while having abused many of them. He is also wellknown for his ability to study the political atmosphere which provided him with sound judgements as to when he should dissociate himself with a group and jump on to the next thus saving himself. He quickly switched side when Suharto fell from power and became a CNRT activist. I was very much surprised when I saw Leandro Isaac next to Xanana when the later returned to Dili for the first time after the referendum. He then joined PSD because he thought with the backing of Xanana and Mario Carrascalao's supposed figure would bring PSD to power. But after serving briefly with the PSD as one of its deputies, Leandro Isaac started his courtship with Fretilin, the party in power, and began to distance himself from PSD. Later on the PSD expelled him from the party. It was obvious that Leandro Isaac may have smelled an imminent victory in the conspiracy to force Fretilin from office and quickly joined the conspirators, even going as far as leading the attack against Taur Matan Ruak's reidence.
What is wrong with picture? From L-R: Taur
Matan Ruak, Xanana Gusmao and Leandro Isaac.
Joe Goncalves on the other hand lived in Melbourne before moving on to live in Cairns. He is quieter and is PSD's English speaking spokesman. Joe Goncalves is more entrepeneurial, most notably his restaurant/nightclub based in Acait. One has to ask whether his restaurant business right next door to the government offices and the parliament building conflict with his position as a member of parliament? Still, it remains a fact that Alfredo Reinado has links to Joe Goncalves through his ex-wife in Melbourne who facilitated Reinado's legal battle to stay in Australia while he was still living in Melbourne. Alfredo Reinado regularly visits Joe Goncalves' ex-wife whenever he can during his stay in Australia. Alfredo Reinado is also a regular at nightclubs set up by Joe Goncalves and his current wife, specially the one established at Acait. Alfredo is also in friendly terms with Joe Goncalves, politically or otherwise.
The Acait building next to the government palace,
behind of which Joe Goncalves and is wife runs a
restaurant and a nightclub frequented on a regular
basis by Alfredo Reinado.
Thank you also to the poster who alerted me that Rui Lopes was never a member of UDT but was an APODETI supporter. I have always thought that his family provided the UDT with a base in Suai. Be that as it may, this does not change the fact that this man was a thug and a criminal of the same category as Joao Tavares (UDT commander during the civil war in 1975) under Indonesian occupation. The difference between Rui Lopes and Joao Tavares is that while Joao Tavares remained true to his "ideals", Rui Lopes was more of an opportunist. When he and his family relized that under an independent East Timor they woul loose their power and privileges, they quickly supported the anti-independence supporters, in this case APODETI. But when the Suharto regime was on the way down in late 1990s, and that the prospect of independence was inevitable, his support shifted to the pro-independence side, an attitude prevalent with many of East Timor's current figures like the Carrascalao family, some members of the Alkatiri family, Leandro Isaac, Tomas Goncalves, Joao Mariano Saldanha, Francisco Kalbuadi, and many others. Joao Tavares on the other hand remained true to what he had always supported. To this, Tavares deserves some credit. But Rui Lopes is the epitome of the greedy, thuggish and the ruthless criminal, the classic example of an opportunist whose only interest is himself at the expense of others. In Suai he and his family can be characterized as the local war lord or the godfather, constantly bullying the Suai community much in the same way as he and his family did during the Indonesian or the Portuguese period.
Xanana and Joao Tavaras. Too close for
comfort?
General Wiranto. Wanted?
But, isn't love beautiful?
It also remains a fact that Rui Lopes amassed his wealth serving his Indonesian military bosses during Indonesian occupation, while his mestizo family received many privileges during Portuguese colonial period which provided them with wealth and a power base. Rui Lopes headed a pro autonomy militia in Suai, the feared Laksaur militia group which was involved in the massacre at a Suai church. He was the thug who worked for the Indonesian military to keep the Suai community towing the Indonesian line.
Rui Lopes still maintains his links to the remnants of the militia groups in West Timor, where he also pays regular visit. These remnants of the militia groups are armed and are protected by top figures in the Indonesian military. They have vowed to retake East Timor back to Indonesian fold, or at least the western border regions. Not that there is any idealism behind this push to bring East Timor back to Indonesia, it is purely driven by their greed to recover their privileges lost when their Indonesian masters were defeated by the East Timorese in the referendum.
This relationship which Rui Lopes maintains with his friends in the Indonesian military, whom continue to be his financial backer in their effort to destabilise independent East Timor, and his relationship with the remnant militia groups also cover illegal activities around the border area, from gun running to drug trafficking, sandalwood smuggling, prostitution and the illegal importation of taxable goods such as fuel, tobacco and other goods.
Today Suai has become a district with the highest number of prostitutes at work. While Joao Tavares has been expelled from Maliana and Tomas Goncalves is reduced to a nobody living in Dili, Rui Lopes maintained his powerbase in Suai. Rui Lopes uses his power and influence to exploit women in Suai and is profitting from the local prostitution. He is the local Pimp.
It also remains a fact that Rui Lopes' brother, Lino Lopes, who lives in Darwin is well known for his criminal activities. The Australian police has a file on him, while one of his sons regularly spends his time in jail for activities ranging from assault with lethal weapons to drug trafficking. Lino Lopes is part of a criminal network established in the Northern Territory which involves biker gangs and other feared mafia groups. It also remains a fact that one of Rui Lopes' nephews is a drug addict who grew up in the Sydney's western suburbs and has contacts with local criminal gangs. He may have become the point of contact between the weapons thieves, Lino Lopes in Darwin and Rui Lopes in East Timor ensuring the LAW M72 ending up in Alfredo Reinado's possession.
It also remains a fact that Alfredo Reinado escaped with a number of militia convicts. Just what is his relationship with these escapees is anyone's guess. But if I were fighting for truth and justice for the East Timorese, the last thing I want to do is to help, or create a condition which, these convicted ex-militias to escape. The fact that Alfredo Reinado chose Suai and Rui Lopes' farm as his hideout is chilling. Helping ex-militias to escape and then making friends with a former militia figure who maintains links with the remnants of the militia in West Timor as well as corrupt Indonesian military officials is definitely not in the interrest of truth and justice for the East Timorese. If these militia escapees have not already crossed the border to West Timor, then they are somewhere in East Timor just waiting for the perfect moment to exact their revenge and ultimately bring East Timor to God knows where. So no prize for guessing where these ex-militia escapees may be hiding. I doubt that they have gone back their villages because they know the only welcome party that will receive them is a linch mob. But hiding in the farm of a militia friendly thug and under the protection of self declared "freedom" fighter who stole state weapons and took up arms against the state but is protected by the president himself, is not a choice worth contemplating.
Alfredo Reinado meeting his "supreme
commander" in an attempt by president
Xanana to mediate between him and
the government.
It also remains a fact that a number of LAW M72 rocket launchers were stolen from Australia's defence department. Most of them are still missing. These rocket launchers disappeared just before pictures of Alfredo Reinado bearing one of them surfaced. Coincidence? Maybe. Although the links I presented here are circumstancial, it remains of paramount importance that an investigation the origins of the M72 rocket launcher in Alfredo Reinado's possession be conducted. The PNTL and the F-FDTL don't have this type of weapon in their inventory. The Australian Defence Force in active duty in East Timor doesn't have one. The Portuguese contingent doesn't have one. Yet, LAW M72, an anti-tank weapon, is a rocket launcher designed to pierce a tank's armour and destroy it as well as its occupants. Maybe it was a leftover Indonesian military inventory. But why would the Indonesian army have an anti-tank missile in East Timor where they were the only forces that owned tanks or could even man one effectively (in case the FALINTIL guerilla stole one)? What would such weapons be of use in East Timor? The only military force in East Timor with tanks are the Australian military. Was this weapon destined against Australian armoured vehicles or APCs? Did Alfredo Reinado deliberately pose with a M72 to show the Australians of what they would come up against if they decided to arrest him? But more importantly how did he get the M72? How many M72 is in his possession?
Alfredo Reinado and the M72. How did he get it? How many does
he have? Does anyone care?
Australian APCs in East Timor. Possible targets?
A commentator also alerted me that the one pictured with Alfredo Reinado is a used one, meaning, once the cap is opened and part of the rocket extended, you cannot put it back. You have to fire it. The the type pictured with Alfredo Reinado is usually used only for training purposes. That the pictured weapon is either a used launcher without a rocket or one that is just waiting to be fired. But this is largely irrelevant. The question ought to be how Alfredo Reinado came to possess such a weapon given the possibility that it may have been brought into East Timor legally has been eliminated. Or perhaps the Alkatiri government smuggled it in to elliminate Fretilin's opponents, yet the recent independent investigations dismissed rumours of illegal weapons purchase (the so called missing containers) by the Alkatiri government.
So it remains a matter of urgency that the UN, the East Timor government and the ADF verify this particular inventory in Alfredo Reinado's arsenal, how many there are, how he got them, who supplied them, etc. How he came to be in possession of the M72 will reveal a turn to the worse in efforts to make East Timor a viable and peaceful state.
The much publicized "handover" of weapons
by Alfredo Reinado and his men under
the auspices of the ADF. Weeks later
Alfredo was arrested and imprisoned
for weapons possession.
My suspicion still lies with Rui Lopes and his networks in Australia. Could it have come through him? There is after all a possible motive behind why Rui Lopes is so keen to see the back of Fretilin and aid Fretilin's political opposition. Rui Lopes wants to re-establish his power and influence in East Timor the same way he had them under Indonesian rule. Rui Lopes wants a return of his fiefdom to facilitate his criminal activities and his powerful and privileged stance in the Suai community much like what he enjoyed under Indonesian period. Furthermore, East Timor is in a strategic location for any kind of illegal trafficking between Australia, Indonesia and Asia. A weak East Timor with corrupt officials is just the perfect set up for people like Rui Lopes and his contacts in Australia and Indonesia to establish their criminal enterprises. When you have corrupt Indonesian military officials maning the border, Rui Lopes effectively running Suai (and now with the help of his mate Alfredo Reinado), his brother Lino Lopes and his criminal networks in the Northern Territory, Rui Lopes financing some figures in the East Timorese political establishment who are potential leaders of the country, and you have the perfect blend to turn a country into a failed state run by thugs, war lords and the criminal underworld. At the same time the Indonesian military figures who never wanted to see East Timor independent from Indonesia will also feel vindicated.
It should not come as a surprise that former militia figures like Rui Lopes and Nemencio de Carvalho chose to side with the anti-government protesters to bring East Timor to a stand still for they have much to gain from this. A failed East Timor will not only to vindicate their political views and those of their former Indonesian military masters, but ultimately it would also make it a perfect ground for their criminal activity. The fact remains that Rui Lopes did not only provide the logistical and financial part int the anti-government protests, he and Nemencio de Carvalho also provided their men to boost the number of protesters, causing much of the disturbance, destruction and violence which nearly brought East Timor to its knees. A failed East Timor will usher in a state where thugs like Rui Lopes, Nemencio de Carvalho and Alfredo Reinado can establish a free reign and a powerbase for their criminal activities, linking them up to their counterparts in Indonesia, Australia and the rest of the world. Forget Rogerio Lobato. He sided with the wrong people and lost out. He is history.
I don't wanto to add to the confusion that is already is the political blamegame in East Timor. What I want is for this issue to be taken seriously and investigated. We cannot have an East Timor with a group of people threathening its stability armed to the teeth. How can we all just sit by and pretend? There is an elephant in the room but no one is talking about it, everyone is looking away. Or is there a reason why everyone is looking away instead of tackling this issue?
Thank you for your attention.
PS: I don't want to sign this post for safety reasons, for myself, my family and friends. In the end, it is the message that is relevant not the messenger.
Alfredo Reinado. Defending whose interests?
Thank you for alerting me that the man pictured with the Styer is Leandro Isaac and not Joe Goncalves. I have always confused these two men who belong to the same PSD party, although Leandro was later expelled. Leandro Isaac is more of a talker, brutish and a thug who throughout his time working for his Indonesian bosses was wellknown for his disrespect for women while having abused many of them. He is also wellknown for his ability to study the political atmosphere which provided him with sound judgements as to when he should dissociate himself with a group and jump on to the next thus saving himself. He quickly switched side when Suharto fell from power and became a CNRT activist. I was very much surprised when I saw Leandro Isaac next to Xanana when the later returned to Dili for the first time after the referendum. He then joined PSD because he thought with the backing of Xanana and Mario Carrascalao's supposed figure would bring PSD to power. But after serving briefly with the PSD as one of its deputies, Leandro Isaac started his courtship with Fretilin, the party in power, and began to distance himself from PSD. Later on the PSD expelled him from the party. It was obvious that Leandro Isaac may have smelled an imminent victory in the conspiracy to force Fretilin from office and quickly joined the conspirators, even going as far as leading the attack against Taur Matan Ruak's reidence.
What is wrong with picture? From L-R: Taur
Matan Ruak, Xanana Gusmao and Leandro Isaac.
Joe Goncalves on the other hand lived in Melbourne before moving on to live in Cairns. He is quieter and is PSD's English speaking spokesman. Joe Goncalves is more entrepeneurial, most notably his restaurant/nightclub based in Acait. One has to ask whether his restaurant business right next door to the government offices and the parliament building conflict with his position as a member of parliament? Still, it remains a fact that Alfredo Reinado has links to Joe Goncalves through his ex-wife in Melbourne who facilitated Reinado's legal battle to stay in Australia while he was still living in Melbourne. Alfredo Reinado regularly visits Joe Goncalves' ex-wife whenever he can during his stay in Australia. Alfredo Reinado is also a regular at nightclubs set up by Joe Goncalves and his current wife, specially the one established at Acait. Alfredo is also in friendly terms with Joe Goncalves, politically or otherwise.
The Acait building next to the government palace,
behind of which Joe Goncalves and is wife runs a
restaurant and a nightclub frequented on a regular
basis by Alfredo Reinado.
Thank you also to the poster who alerted me that Rui Lopes was never a member of UDT but was an APODETI supporter. I have always thought that his family provided the UDT with a base in Suai. Be that as it may, this does not change the fact that this man was a thug and a criminal of the same category as Joao Tavares (UDT commander during the civil war in 1975) under Indonesian occupation. The difference between Rui Lopes and Joao Tavares is that while Joao Tavares remained true to his "ideals", Rui Lopes was more of an opportunist. When he and his family relized that under an independent East Timor they woul loose their power and privileges, they quickly supported the anti-independence supporters, in this case APODETI. But when the Suharto regime was on the way down in late 1990s, and that the prospect of independence was inevitable, his support shifted to the pro-independence side, an attitude prevalent with many of East Timor's current figures like the Carrascalao family, some members of the Alkatiri family, Leandro Isaac, Tomas Goncalves, Joao Mariano Saldanha, Francisco Kalbuadi, and many others. Joao Tavares on the other hand remained true to what he had always supported. To this, Tavares deserves some credit. But Rui Lopes is the epitome of the greedy, thuggish and the ruthless criminal, the classic example of an opportunist whose only interest is himself at the expense of others. In Suai he and his family can be characterized as the local war lord or the godfather, constantly bullying the Suai community much in the same way as he and his family did during the Indonesian or the Portuguese period.
Xanana and Joao Tavaras. Too close for
comfort?
General Wiranto. Wanted?
But, isn't love beautiful?
It also remains a fact that Rui Lopes amassed his wealth serving his Indonesian military bosses during Indonesian occupation, while his mestizo family received many privileges during Portuguese colonial period which provided them with wealth and a power base. Rui Lopes headed a pro autonomy militia in Suai, the feared Laksaur militia group which was involved in the massacre at a Suai church. He was the thug who worked for the Indonesian military to keep the Suai community towing the Indonesian line.
Rui Lopes still maintains his links to the remnants of the militia groups in West Timor, where he also pays regular visit. These remnants of the militia groups are armed and are protected by top figures in the Indonesian military. They have vowed to retake East Timor back to Indonesian fold, or at least the western border regions. Not that there is any idealism behind this push to bring East Timor back to Indonesia, it is purely driven by their greed to recover their privileges lost when their Indonesian masters were defeated by the East Timorese in the referendum.
This relationship which Rui Lopes maintains with his friends in the Indonesian military, whom continue to be his financial backer in their effort to destabilise independent East Timor, and his relationship with the remnant militia groups also cover illegal activities around the border area, from gun running to drug trafficking, sandalwood smuggling, prostitution and the illegal importation of taxable goods such as fuel, tobacco and other goods.
Today Suai has become a district with the highest number of prostitutes at work. While Joao Tavares has been expelled from Maliana and Tomas Goncalves is reduced to a nobody living in Dili, Rui Lopes maintained his powerbase in Suai. Rui Lopes uses his power and influence to exploit women in Suai and is profitting from the local prostitution. He is the local Pimp.
It also remains a fact that Rui Lopes' brother, Lino Lopes, who lives in Darwin is well known for his criminal activities. The Australian police has a file on him, while one of his sons regularly spends his time in jail for activities ranging from assault with lethal weapons to drug trafficking. Lino Lopes is part of a criminal network established in the Northern Territory which involves biker gangs and other feared mafia groups. It also remains a fact that one of Rui Lopes' nephews is a drug addict who grew up in the Sydney's western suburbs and has contacts with local criminal gangs. He may have become the point of contact between the weapons thieves, Lino Lopes in Darwin and Rui Lopes in East Timor ensuring the LAW M72 ending up in Alfredo Reinado's possession.
It also remains a fact that Alfredo Reinado escaped with a number of militia convicts. Just what is his relationship with these escapees is anyone's guess. But if I were fighting for truth and justice for the East Timorese, the last thing I want to do is to help, or create a condition which, these convicted ex-militias to escape. The fact that Alfredo Reinado chose Suai and Rui Lopes' farm as his hideout is chilling. Helping ex-militias to escape and then making friends with a former militia figure who maintains links with the remnants of the militia in West Timor as well as corrupt Indonesian military officials is definitely not in the interrest of truth and justice for the East Timorese. If these militia escapees have not already crossed the border to West Timor, then they are somewhere in East Timor just waiting for the perfect moment to exact their revenge and ultimately bring East Timor to God knows where. So no prize for guessing where these ex-militia escapees may be hiding. I doubt that they have gone back their villages because they know the only welcome party that will receive them is a linch mob. But hiding in the farm of a militia friendly thug and under the protection of self declared "freedom" fighter who stole state weapons and took up arms against the state but is protected by the president himself, is not a choice worth contemplating.
Alfredo Reinado meeting his "supreme
commander" in an attempt by president
Xanana to mediate between him and
the government.
It also remains a fact that a number of LAW M72 rocket launchers were stolen from Australia's defence department. Most of them are still missing. These rocket launchers disappeared just before pictures of Alfredo Reinado bearing one of them surfaced. Coincidence? Maybe. Although the links I presented here are circumstancial, it remains of paramount importance that an investigation the origins of the M72 rocket launcher in Alfredo Reinado's possession be conducted. The PNTL and the F-FDTL don't have this type of weapon in their inventory. The Australian Defence Force in active duty in East Timor doesn't have one. The Portuguese contingent doesn't have one. Yet, LAW M72, an anti-tank weapon, is a rocket launcher designed to pierce a tank's armour and destroy it as well as its occupants. Maybe it was a leftover Indonesian military inventory. But why would the Indonesian army have an anti-tank missile in East Timor where they were the only forces that owned tanks or could even man one effectively (in case the FALINTIL guerilla stole one)? What would such weapons be of use in East Timor? The only military force in East Timor with tanks are the Australian military. Was this weapon destined against Australian armoured vehicles or APCs? Did Alfredo Reinado deliberately pose with a M72 to show the Australians of what they would come up against if they decided to arrest him? But more importantly how did he get the M72? How many M72 is in his possession?
Alfredo Reinado and the M72. How did he get it? How many does
he have? Does anyone care?
Australian APCs in East Timor. Possible targets?
A commentator also alerted me that the one pictured with Alfredo Reinado is a used one, meaning, once the cap is opened and part of the rocket extended, you cannot put it back. You have to fire it. The the type pictured with Alfredo Reinado is usually used only for training purposes. That the pictured weapon is either a used launcher without a rocket or one that is just waiting to be fired. But this is largely irrelevant. The question ought to be how Alfredo Reinado came to possess such a weapon given the possibility that it may have been brought into East Timor legally has been eliminated. Or perhaps the Alkatiri government smuggled it in to elliminate Fretilin's opponents, yet the recent independent investigations dismissed rumours of illegal weapons purchase (the so called missing containers) by the Alkatiri government.
So it remains a matter of urgency that the UN, the East Timor government and the ADF verify this particular inventory in Alfredo Reinado's arsenal, how many there are, how he got them, who supplied them, etc. How he came to be in possession of the M72 will reveal a turn to the worse in efforts to make East Timor a viable and peaceful state.
The much publicized "handover" of weapons
by Alfredo Reinado and his men under
the auspices of the ADF. Weeks later
Alfredo was arrested and imprisoned
for weapons possession.
My suspicion still lies with Rui Lopes and his networks in Australia. Could it have come through him? There is after all a possible motive behind why Rui Lopes is so keen to see the back of Fretilin and aid Fretilin's political opposition. Rui Lopes wants to re-establish his power and influence in East Timor the same way he had them under Indonesian rule. Rui Lopes wants a return of his fiefdom to facilitate his criminal activities and his powerful and privileged stance in the Suai community much like what he enjoyed under Indonesian period. Furthermore, East Timor is in a strategic location for any kind of illegal trafficking between Australia, Indonesia and Asia. A weak East Timor with corrupt officials is just the perfect set up for people like Rui Lopes and his contacts in Australia and Indonesia to establish their criminal enterprises. When you have corrupt Indonesian military officials maning the border, Rui Lopes effectively running Suai (and now with the help of his mate Alfredo Reinado), his brother Lino Lopes and his criminal networks in the Northern Territory, Rui Lopes financing some figures in the East Timorese political establishment who are potential leaders of the country, and you have the perfect blend to turn a country into a failed state run by thugs, war lords and the criminal underworld. At the same time the Indonesian military figures who never wanted to see East Timor independent from Indonesia will also feel vindicated.
It should not come as a surprise that former militia figures like Rui Lopes and Nemencio de Carvalho chose to side with the anti-government protesters to bring East Timor to a stand still for they have much to gain from this. A failed East Timor will not only to vindicate their political views and those of their former Indonesian military masters, but ultimately it would also make it a perfect ground for their criminal activity. The fact remains that Rui Lopes did not only provide the logistical and financial part int the anti-government protests, he and Nemencio de Carvalho also provided their men to boost the number of protesters, causing much of the disturbance, destruction and violence which nearly brought East Timor to its knees. A failed East Timor will usher in a state where thugs like Rui Lopes, Nemencio de Carvalho and Alfredo Reinado can establish a free reign and a powerbase for their criminal activities, linking them up to their counterparts in Indonesia, Australia and the rest of the world. Forget Rogerio Lobato. He sided with the wrong people and lost out. He is history.
I don't wanto to add to the confusion that is already is the political blamegame in East Timor. What I want is for this issue to be taken seriously and investigated. We cannot have an East Timor with a group of people threathening its stability armed to the teeth. How can we all just sit by and pretend? There is an elephant in the room but no one is talking about it, everyone is looking away. Or is there a reason why everyone is looking away instead of tackling this issue?
Thank you for your attention.
PS: I don't want to sign this post for safety reasons, for myself, my family and friends. In the end, it is the message that is relevant not the messenger.
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Who is not a criminal in East Timor now?
Rui Lopes, Lino Lopes, Nemesio Carvalho and Alfredo Reinado are described by the writer as criminals, thugs, Indonesian underbows, militia leaders, and etc. etc. But by seeing the actual political situation in East Timor where the officials in the government in Power like Mari Alkatiri and Rogerio Lobato forming gangsters to kill their own brothers who choose to become opponents in a free democratic country like East Timor, aren't these people more criminal than people like Rui Lopes and Alfredo Reinado? What is wrong in Nemesio's position or Lasama's position to urge people to stage a rally or a demostration. Isn't it a legal act in democracy?
Look my friend at Guine Bissau in recent days how the opponents are killed, look at the same practice in Mozambique - the country where your communist thugs like Alkatiri, Ana Pessoa (the mistress of Ramos Horta and Mari Alkatiri), Roque Rodrigues, Jose Luis Guterres come from. Guine Bissau criminal practice by the President in power to kill his opponents is just similar to what Alkatiri and Roque Rodrigues are plotting for East Timor.
Look at the stupid Guerrila Fighter - Taur Matan Ruak - who candidates himselef for presidency. Isn't Taur Matan Ruak decision to run for presidential candidacy a way to aleviate himself from his own criminal acts? And become killing his opponents after becoming to power like what the actual president of Guine Bissau is doing for his opponents?. I doutb that it wouldn't happen.
Poor East Timor - the Banana Republic in the hands of the myopic leaders.
East Timor can only survive if it becomes a protectorate of Australia like Puerto Rico to America. This option might be, at least, better if Australia does not consider the East Timorese people like Aboriginees and Papua New Guineans that they consider having lower grades than mongkeys.
Fitun Lotuk Lemorai
Rui Lopes, Lino Lopes, Nemesio Carvalho and Alfredo Reinado are described by the writer as criminals, thugs, Indonesian underbows, militia leaders, and etc. etc. But by seeing the actual political situation in East Timor where the officials in the government in Power like Mari Alkatiri and Rogerio Lobato forming gangsters to kill their own brothers who choose to become opponents in a free democratic country like East Timor, aren't these people more criminal than people like Rui Lopes and Alfredo Reinado? What is wrong in Nemesio's position or Lasama's position to urge people to stage a rally or a demostration. Isn't it a legal act in democracy?
Look my friend at Guine Bissau in recent days how the opponents are killed, look at the same practice in Mozambique - the country where your communist thugs like Alkatiri, Ana Pessoa (the mistress of Ramos Horta and Mari Alkatiri), Roque Rodrigues, Jose Luis Guterres come from. Guine Bissau criminal practice by the President in power to kill his opponents is just similar to what Alkatiri and Roque Rodrigues are plotting for East Timor.
Look at the stupid Guerrila Fighter - Taur Matan Ruak - who candidates himselef for presidency. Isn't Taur Matan Ruak decision to run for presidential candidacy a way to aleviate himself from his own criminal acts? And become killing his opponents after becoming to power like what the actual president of Guine Bissau is doing for his opponents?. I doutb that it wouldn't happen.
Poor East Timor - the Banana Republic in the hands of the myopic leaders.
East Timor can only survive if it becomes a protectorate of Australia like Puerto Rico to America. This option might be, at least, better if Australia does not consider the East Timorese people like Aboriginees and Papua New Guineans that they consider having lower grades than mongkeys.
Fitun Lotuk Lemorai
# posted by 
: 1:14 AM
: 1:14 AM
The comment above is just a lot of bull shit.
The international independent investigators did not find eny evidence of Mari Alkatiri giving orders to distribute the weapons and even less to kill his political opponents. Only in your wildest and frustrated dreams can you come up with such allegation which have been dismissed by an international panel. Yesterday even Railos denied that Alkatiri ever gave him such orders.
But apparently your good friend Alfredo Reinado, the self declared defender of truth and justice and defender of the peope (you would have to ask where he was hiding when Indonesia massacred East Timor for 25 years) wasn't very happy when he visited Ermera on Monday. Some people there (ten or less, drunk or sober, but unhappy citizens nevertheless voicing their discontent) rallied against his presence. And what did Alfredo do? He arrested a village chief and a number of other people from Aiphu and questioned them why they protested against him. This he did while a rebel soldier fighting against a supposedly dictatorial and oppressive government. Can you immagine if Alfredo had been the head or the army or even worse the head of the government? And where did Alfredo learn all this? Indonesia and then Australia. So typical.
And for people like you, the neo-colonial minded anglophiliacs, only in your twisted little mind can you even suggest that Timor would be better become a protectorate of the US and Australia. Look at what the US did in the Philippines? A toxic waste dumpsite and then a country marred with decades of dictatorship. The Philippinos finally liberated themselves from the dictatorship and also the US bases there. Good on them.
Protectorate of Australia? Like the PNGs? Like the Aborigines?
Look at all the former Anglo-Australian colonies in the South Pacific. What became of them? Is this what you want East Timor to be?
Ofcourse you do because you are like one of those people who stand to gain the most if East Timor became a protectorate of Australia or the US. Here in Australia I see many wealthy and successful Aborigines. But these people are in the small minority and claim to represent the Aborigines. In fact the vast majority of the Aboriginal communities here in Australia live in states worse than many third world countries. Yes. It would be good if Timor became a protectorate of Australia, but only good for you and not the East Timorese.
I know people like you who have a lot of miconception and preconceptions but always refuse to have some self reflection and self correction. You are probably educated in the English speaking culture and you think you are the best in the world. Look around you. All of the countries that speak English are miserable debt ridden third world countries which are continually exploited by their English speaking mentor countries like UK, USA and Australia.
Yes these people like Alkatiri and others have been living in Africa for a long time. But you also forgot that your good friend Ramos-Horta and Jose Luis Guterres have also once been Africans. Your friend Ramo-Horta actually belted a child near his Areia Branca mantion just a few days ago. So much for a Noble laureate.
You say Alkatiri and the rest brought in the worst from Africa. I say that thanks to their experience in Africa, they brought East Timor towards more independence than ever. I am proud for the fact that East Timor is among the few countries, though poor, has no debt. If these people had been corrupts and copied their friends in Africa, the first thing they would do would be to get loans from all over the place to embezzle the money. I have no doubt that Alfredo, the Australian trained soldier, or people like you, would do things like these much like your friends in the English speaking Africa and South Pacific. I am also proud of the fact that Alkatiri because of his vision negotiated successfully for East Timor's rights to the Timor Sea resources under the circumstances. And where did he learn all this? Africa? Who cares?
So the trial or Rogerio Lobato is going on and slowly truth is beginning to emmerge. In the past Railos had been interviewed by sympathetic journalists who only asked questions for their own conviniences. Now people like Railos are being grilled in a court of law and are exposing themselves of how deceitful they have been. Railos has denied that he received the order to distribute weapons directly from Alkatiri, something which he has always maintained and used in the ABC 4 Corners program to deepen the crisis in East Timor. Soon Alfredo will also have to appear in court. This proves that Railo is a layer if not working under someone's order. But I don't think he will because he is a coward, just like the way he made the surprise attack against the F-FDTL soldiers in Fatu Ahi.
The independent investigation has dismissed the allegations that the weapons distribution was for the purpose of eliminating political opponents. But the investigators also found that weeks before the crises, police weapons have been transferred to three key locations, in Ermera, Aileu and Liquisa.
What does this prove if not a planned attack to force the government out? That sections of the police force is in cahoots to stage a coup? If I was Rogerio Lobato who lost the confidence in the police force and in Paulo Martins and I discovered that the police was moving guns around, what would I do? I would exactly that. I would arm a militia to protect the government. And this is Rogerio Lobato's defense today and it is legal under East Timor's law. Unfortunately for Rogerio Lobato, he trusted a crook like Railos.
As for Taur Matan Ruak. I have nothing else to say except that this man is a living hero. For a man who spent most of his adulthood fighting an army in the bush deserves nothing but my utmost admiration. For a man his size, he stands taller than Xanana and Horta put together. This man truly has charisma that is why he was able to prevent the F-FDTL from reacting any further which could have caused much more bloodshed. Taur Matan Ruak for president and you will see East Timor finally head towards some good sense and finally independence. Under Xanana Republic, East Timor has become the example of a Banana Republic. Taur Matan Ruak for President.
Fitun Mutin
The international independent investigators did not find eny evidence of Mari Alkatiri giving orders to distribute the weapons and even less to kill his political opponents. Only in your wildest and frustrated dreams can you come up with such allegation which have been dismissed by an international panel. Yesterday even Railos denied that Alkatiri ever gave him such orders.
But apparently your good friend Alfredo Reinado, the self declared defender of truth and justice and defender of the peope (you would have to ask where he was hiding when Indonesia massacred East Timor for 25 years) wasn't very happy when he visited Ermera on Monday. Some people there (ten or less, drunk or sober, but unhappy citizens nevertheless voicing their discontent) rallied against his presence. And what did Alfredo do? He arrested a village chief and a number of other people from Aiphu and questioned them why they protested against him. This he did while a rebel soldier fighting against a supposedly dictatorial and oppressive government. Can you immagine if Alfredo had been the head or the army or even worse the head of the government? And where did Alfredo learn all this? Indonesia and then Australia. So typical.
And for people like you, the neo-colonial minded anglophiliacs, only in your twisted little mind can you even suggest that Timor would be better become a protectorate of the US and Australia. Look at what the US did in the Philippines? A toxic waste dumpsite and then a country marred with decades of dictatorship. The Philippinos finally liberated themselves from the dictatorship and also the US bases there. Good on them.
Protectorate of Australia? Like the PNGs? Like the Aborigines?
Look at all the former Anglo-Australian colonies in the South Pacific. What became of them? Is this what you want East Timor to be?
Ofcourse you do because you are like one of those people who stand to gain the most if East Timor became a protectorate of Australia or the US. Here in Australia I see many wealthy and successful Aborigines. But these people are in the small minority and claim to represent the Aborigines. In fact the vast majority of the Aboriginal communities here in Australia live in states worse than many third world countries. Yes. It would be good if Timor became a protectorate of Australia, but only good for you and not the East Timorese.
I know people like you who have a lot of miconception and preconceptions but always refuse to have some self reflection and self correction. You are probably educated in the English speaking culture and you think you are the best in the world. Look around you. All of the countries that speak English are miserable debt ridden third world countries which are continually exploited by their English speaking mentor countries like UK, USA and Australia.
Yes these people like Alkatiri and others have been living in Africa for a long time. But you also forgot that your good friend Ramos-Horta and Jose Luis Guterres have also once been Africans. Your friend Ramo-Horta actually belted a child near his Areia Branca mantion just a few days ago. So much for a Noble laureate.
You say Alkatiri and the rest brought in the worst from Africa. I say that thanks to their experience in Africa, they brought East Timor towards more independence than ever. I am proud for the fact that East Timor is among the few countries, though poor, has no debt. If these people had been corrupts and copied their friends in Africa, the first thing they would do would be to get loans from all over the place to embezzle the money. I have no doubt that Alfredo, the Australian trained soldier, or people like you, would do things like these much like your friends in the English speaking Africa and South Pacific. I am also proud of the fact that Alkatiri because of his vision negotiated successfully for East Timor's rights to the Timor Sea resources under the circumstances. And where did he learn all this? Africa? Who cares?
So the trial or Rogerio Lobato is going on and slowly truth is beginning to emmerge. In the past Railos had been interviewed by sympathetic journalists who only asked questions for their own conviniences. Now people like Railos are being grilled in a court of law and are exposing themselves of how deceitful they have been. Railos has denied that he received the order to distribute weapons directly from Alkatiri, something which he has always maintained and used in the ABC 4 Corners program to deepen the crisis in East Timor. Soon Alfredo will also have to appear in court. This proves that Railo is a layer if not working under someone's order. But I don't think he will because he is a coward, just like the way he made the surprise attack against the F-FDTL soldiers in Fatu Ahi.
The independent investigation has dismissed the allegations that the weapons distribution was for the purpose of eliminating political opponents. But the investigators also found that weeks before the crises, police weapons have been transferred to three key locations, in Ermera, Aileu and Liquisa.
What does this prove if not a planned attack to force the government out? That sections of the police force is in cahoots to stage a coup? If I was Rogerio Lobato who lost the confidence in the police force and in Paulo Martins and I discovered that the police was moving guns around, what would I do? I would exactly that. I would arm a militia to protect the government. And this is Rogerio Lobato's defense today and it is legal under East Timor's law. Unfortunately for Rogerio Lobato, he trusted a crook like Railos.
As for Taur Matan Ruak. I have nothing else to say except that this man is a living hero. For a man who spent most of his adulthood fighting an army in the bush deserves nothing but my utmost admiration. For a man his size, he stands taller than Xanana and Horta put together. This man truly has charisma that is why he was able to prevent the F-FDTL from reacting any further which could have caused much more bloodshed. Taur Matan Ruak for president and you will see East Timor finally head towards some good sense and finally independence. Under Xanana Republic, East Timor has become the example of a Banana Republic. Taur Matan Ruak for President.
Fitun Mutin
# posted by : 9:19 AM
: 9:19 AM
Fitum Lotuk Lemorai e obviamente um falhado ultrapassado da UDT que vive em Perth, na Australia e se calhar ate esta a fazer companhia a esposa do Reinado! E pena que os Indonesios nao te tivessem levado numa viagem de helicoptero!
Espero que tenhas planeado o teu funeral!
Espero que tenhas planeado o teu funeral!
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