East Timor election focuses on future challenges

Deutsche Welle, March 17, 2012

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The main candidates in East Timor’s presidential election are veterans from the war for independence. But that past struggle can no longer overshadow pressing issues the Southeast Asian country now faces.

 

Saturday marks the third time since gaining independence in 2002 from Indonesia that East Timor is holding presidential elections.

In 1999 the population voted in a referendum for independence but Indonesia’s military and militias continued to fight and commit acts of violence. With the ... read more

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